Friday, September 20, 2002 |
15:07 - Before I forget this one...
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A couple of weeks ago, I was in the lab, trying to determine what the hell kind of CPU was being used in a piece of networking equipment that I was trying to test. I was poking through the boot messages, which printed out some obscure and esoteric lines from the chip's own ID strings about how it's a Celeron/Pentium III/Pentium III Xeon, Model 8-- evidently they can't get any more specific than that.
I got up from my chair, ready to admit defeat and find someone with more hardware guruism than I possessed, to see if they could cast Identificus Intellus and give me some kind of concrete name that would map to a chip that humans without Borg implants could write a marketing release about. Johnnie was nearby in the lab; I asked him. He looked at the screen, arched his eyebrows, shook his head.
I had another idea, though.
"I know-- I'll ask Chris. He's only been a Mac user for like a week. He probably still has some hardware knowledge."
Just one of those things I said without thinking, and would have probably forgotten immediately, but for the minute-long paroxysm that it sent Johnnie into. And when I related it to Chris, he told me I should put it in my blog.
Y'know, for safekeeping. Or something.
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