From owner-freebsd-newbies Fri Jul 24 06:58:21 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA11047 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Fri, 24 Jul 1998 06:58:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dsinw.com (root@dsinw.com [207.149.40.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA11040 for ; Fri, 24 Jul 1998 06:58:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hamellr@direct-source.com) Received: from direct-source.com.direct-source.com (ppp75.pm3-0.pdx.dsinw.com [207.149.41.75]) by dsinw.com (8.8.8/8.7.3) with SMTP id GAA18315 for ; Fri, 24 Jul 1998 06:57:17 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 06:41:39 -0700 () From: Rick Hamell cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: More trials with FreeBSD In-Reply-To: Message-ID: X-X-Sender: hamellr@direct-source.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Ok, David's message got me to thinking. This mailing list dosen't have enough traffic! :) So, I'm going to bore you all with my latest round of FreeBSD related fun. It all started innocently enough. I noticed the extremly low price of AMD K6-233 chips, coupled with the low price of 32 meg SDRM, coupled with the fact that my Dual-P5-166 was getting seriously outdated, and the fact that a brand spanking new credit card with an untouched $2500 limit had fallen into my hands. Of course, one thing led to another, and a new processor, motherboard and memory chip all happened to appear in my parts closet. Then I found an extremly good deal on a Quantum 4.5gig SCSI hard drive. Which prompted me to upgrade my Asus SC-200 SCSI card to a brand new Ultra Wide, ASUS SC-875! Two days ago I finally had the time to put all this into my full tower case. Now, I my old Dual-Pentium motherboard had plenty of room for very large PCI cards, namely my video and network cards. The new cards did not exactly fit on the new (much smaller) motherboard. A pity. So I bought a new AGP video card, and a Kingston 40BT Network card. After installing them, I get the bright idea that this machine will still play games pretty dang well so I decide that with 4.5 gigs of hard drive space, Windows 95 would take up a very small part of that. 15 hours later, and nearly $1000 dollars more (I also bought a nice flatbed scanner...) my credit card is smoking, and I've got a very nicely running FreeBSD machine hooked up to my Pentium-90 FreeBSD modem server.... And K6-300's are looking mighty cheap this week... :) Rick PS, Anybody know if GIMP will run a HP4c Scanner? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message