68k yay!

Posted by cpbotha on August 22nd, 2001 in · 0 Comments

I bought a 68040-based Centris 650 (http://lowendmac.com/quadra/c650.shtml) through http://ibazar.nl/ for a song…

Problem solved?

Posted by cpbotha on August 7th, 2001 in · 0 Comments

Weird… I’m going to quote from a mail I sent:
In anycase, these have been some of the weirdest hardware moments I’ve ever had: it seems that an existing 32MB DIMM was right on the edge of giving up at the moment that I installed a new 128MB DIMM in the firewall and converted it to reiserfs…

Err, I was wrong.

Posted by cpbotha on August 2nd, 2001 in · 0 Comments

So the ram is fine if we can trust memtest86. Why am I still getting oopses?!..

Unstable firewall

Posted by cpbotha on August 2nd, 2001 in · 0 Comments

Well children, my firewall had gone weirdly unstable after I’d added 128MB of new PC133 ram…