Re: LILO and Zone Alarm

[Rick Stevens <rstevens vitalstream com>]

mylar wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-05-25 at 20:56, Rick Stevens wrote:
>
> > mylar wrote:
> >
> > > On Tue, 2004-05-25 at 12:40, Rick Stevens wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > > Jo
> > > >
> > > > 6.1?  That's over three years dead!  Why are you still running that?
> > >
> > >
> > > And you _really_ should think about updating your Linux.  6.1 is
> > >
> > >
> > > > ancient, creaky, full of security holes and not supported anymore by
> > > > anyone.  Heck, it's still a 2.2 kernel even!  Fedora Core 2 is using
> > > > the 2.6 kernel.
> > > > ------------------------
> > >
> > > Believe it or not I still have an old 166 mhz machine still running
> > > Redhat 6.0!!! It's still used to provide backup on demand dialup service
> > > and dns service to a few machines on a home network. I've patched the
> > > heck out of it and firewalled it as best I can via ipchains. Dial on
> > > demand service is still provided by the "diald" daemon. It's an oldie
> > > but serves it's purpose.
> >
> > And I have an Alpha machine with 5.2.  It's more historic than anything
> > else.  I love having to boot "milo" from a floppy to get it to run.
> >
> > That and my MicroVAX II and MicroVAX 3100/10e running VAX/VMS.  Oh, 
> > yeah!  Ancient technology!  Gotta love it!  (now, where did I put those
> > old 9-track tapes of mine...?)
>
>
> Yeah, I started with an early version of Redhat (2.0 I think) running
> one of the early monolithic  1.X kernels on that 166 Pentium. I
> gradually upgraded to redhat 3.0 then 5.2 then 6.0  where it's stayed
> since.
>
> Way back when I was pretty adepts in running the Vax systems we had in
> college and I was interested in acquiring a MicroVAX running Vax/VMS for
> my at home computing interests. Unfortunately as a  college student I
> couldn't afford such fancy high end computing equipment.
>
> I'd still like to acquire a PDP-11

I've got an old MicroPDP-11 (well, LSI-11) at home that runs (gulp!)
RSTS/E, RSX-11M/Plus, and RT-11/XM.  And somewhere in the deep, deep
recesses of my horde is a (get ready!) PDP-8!  Yes, a 12-bit computer!
Weird! I dunno if it works now or not.  It did when I mothballed it
20-odd years ago.  I had WPS-8 on it (a three-user word processor).

Ah, memories! ;-)
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