Comments | gothgeekgirl: Here we go again

gothgeekgirl

Here we go again

Feb 24, 2010 03:33

My house server is starting to fail; the graphics card died last week. Since it runs Solaris 10, it's still running, but I can't use my nice 24" flat panel monitor and I probably can't reboot it without replacing said graphics card. I am also a bit worried that even with a new graphics card, it will, like the server it replaced in late 2006, simply ( Read more... )

unix geekery, bofh, condo life, fangirl

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pir February 24 2010, 22:59:08 UTC

*snicker*

I'm surprised you haven't just given up with Solaris as a desktop... but then you always were a stubborn masochist. Just buy a Mac already and waste less time on it ;)

gothgeekgirl February 25 2010, 01:03:31 UTC

Heh. If I liked the Mac desktop I might, but I don't. It's far too fiddly for me. And if I'm going to run X, I might as well run it on top of an OS that I like. Etc. ;)

pir February 25 2010, 11:37:06 UTC

I find the Mac desktop far less fiddly than getting anything USB related reliably working with Solaris... and that's the point, OSX is a perfectly reasonable OS but I don't particularly have to like it or not since it does pretty much everything I need it to do without fucking with it.

gothgeekgirl February 26 2010, 03:53:14 UTC

Ultimately it depends on what one is and is not willing to fiddle with, I guess :) For whatever reason, and despite the USB nonsense, Solaris is one of my toys.

ladyeuthanasia February 25 2010, 01:51:14 UTC

I was going to email you about something totally off topic, like your condo management company. We need one that doesn't suck.

But we need to catch up on more than your dead motherboard fan. :)

::hugs::

martinoh February 25 2010, 09:15:06 UTC

A friend of mine introduced me to the functionally equivalent but slightly more euphonious partner to PEBCAC, which is PICNIC (Problem In Chair, Not In Computer). In the case of my home systems however, I claim to be blameless; my apathy has grown to the point where it has developed an independent existence and I can now blame it for the chewing-gum and string approach to my domestic IT.