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Old 23rd June 2011
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Originally Posted by Randux View Post
They're too good to die.
Absolutely. As soon as I expand my infrastructure at home a bit, I plan on getting a few more (hopefully bigger) ultrasparcs. The biggest fault with an ultrasparc is that they outlive their "obsolete" stage...I mean, they make awesome home firewalls and servers, but no one is going to use an Ultra5 in a corporate environment anymore even if it can still do the job (that's how I got mine for free...sysadmin saw it was a 400 MHz box and granted me dibs before he tossed it).

This server will probably outlive my wife's brand new Windows 7 machine, and the server is already 10+ years old. Wouldn't surprise me a bit.
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