[ from the how-many-computers-does-jcm-have? dept. ]
Picked up another SPARCstation 5, from Biggles. At the moment she is running Debian Woody, which means I now have Woody running on three different architectures (Intel, SPARC, Power PC). Soon I will add another SCSI SCA disk and shove Amoeba on there as well as getting another couple of SPARCs to complete the cluster. I am getting a PICSTART this week hopefully, in order to program the larger 40pin USB models. I like this growing collection of pizza boxes – especially now I don’t have to dual boot Solaris and Debian 
Scary news! jok and I were humming the theme music from Super Mario Bros and it occured to us that in not too distant a future, CS undergrads will come in to departments like ours without knowing the joy of a NES, Spectrum, BBC, whatever. In not too long from now, most CS undergrads especailly here will have never used anything other than a Windows PC from perhaps Windows 95 onwards. It really is disgusting – particularly that there is little encouragement to do anything about it once they get on to a degree. Perhaps, like smoking, advertising or similarly promoting Windows products should be banned now to protect the sanity of myself and others
Thanks to various friends, I am ill but recovering at the moment. Today I shall try to get done what I can but from tommorrow I must make a determined effort to get this project to a milestone by the end of the month.
Jon.