one free HP 9000 PA-Risc workstation

For free in Antwerp, a complete HP PA-RISC system.

workstation HP Visualize C160
terminal HP 700/RX
20 inch monitor HP A4331D
19 inch monitor HP A1097C
both original HP keyboards and mouses
SCSI disk station with disks and cdrom

This is the first 64-bit workstation sold by HP (PA-8000 cpu), 1996!



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If not too far from Antwerp, I will even deliver it (email paul.cobbaut@gmail.com).

All or nothing deal!!

AVG user32.dll question

Dear Lazyweb,

You all know about AVG accidentally erasing user32.dll on certain computers. People tell me the shops that repair this ask for Windows CD's + Product Key to fix the issue.

Is it not fixed when copying user32.dll to where it belongs ? (using a bootable cd?)

"I was there", dinosaurs and freedom: part 2 of 3

part 2 of 3: dinosaurs

People that are not up to date with the latest technologies (or gadgets) are sometimes called dinosaurs.


twitter

In other words...some people twitter, some people don't ;-)

By the way, to all my twitter followers, I promise to never twitter. Following my twitter will not bring you up to date on where I am, or what I do. I sincerely promise to not ever twitter anything useful or anything pointless. Not that i have anything against twitter...i just don't want to make the effort to type my tweets several times a day. Do i have to ? (answer in part 3 of 3 ;-)


Second Life, iphone, ipod, ...

I missed Second Life completely! I don't have an iphone, only a plain old Nokia. I don't have an ipod and only recently created my first youtube channel. Some people consider me a dinosaur!


Not a dinosaur ?

I guess i don't get off this easy...i blog, i have a website, i know things about the internet, i am on a couple of social networks. So to some people i am the opposite of a dinosaur.

Is the gap between dinosaurs and the blogging/twittering/iphoning/secondliving online community widening ?

(part 3 of 3 tomorrow)

bash history question

Typing !string executes the last command that starts with 'string'. But how do you do that when there is a space in your command line ?

paul@laika:~$ history | grep dsl | tail -5
4841 ssh dsl@172.16.122.129
4847 ssh dsl@172.16.122.129
4923 ssh dsl@172.16.122.129
4950 ssh dsl@172.16.122.129
4999 history | grep dsl | tail -5
paul@laika:~$ !'ssh dsl'
bash: !'ssh: event not found
paul@laika:~$ !"ssh dsl"
bash: !"ssh: event not found
paul@laika:~$ !ssh\ dsl
bash: !ssh\: event not found
paul@laika:~$ "!ssh dsl"
"ssh 192.168.1.38 dsl"
bash: ssh 192.168.1.38 dsl: command not found
paul@laika:~$

I want to recall the last ssh connection, based on the username i used...

EDIT: the answer is !?ssh dsl?

kilobyte vs KibiByte vs KB vs Kb vs kB vs kb...

I am glad the issue is finally resolved.

Atari st and Atari ste

Jan, a friend of mine since 1980 (damn we're getting old), has an Atari ST and an Atari STE computer. He wants to sell them, or maybe if you give him enough beer he wants to give them away. You can reach him at 03/3125127 (or just email me).


Any idea whether these 20 year old computers are worth something ?