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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 1999-12-03 03:24
For those of you who may have wondered what "Sneezy the computer" looks like, I put a picture online at <B><A HREF=http://www.sneezy.org/Images/sneezy.jpg>http://www.sneezy.org/Images/sneezy.jpg</A></B>.
Not a real impressive looking machine, but it does the job!
Mark Charette@sneezy.org
Webmaster, http://www.sneezy.org
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Author: Albert
Date: 1999-12-03 05:08
Mark-
Is there a reason that it's called Sneezy? Do it make a funny noise?
:)
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Author: JennyA
Date: 1999-12-03 10:00
I always thought it was one of the Seven Dwarfs and that you had other machines named Doc, Dopey, etc (I can never remember all 7).
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Author: mad dog
Date: 1999-12-03 15:14
Doc, Dopey, Happy, Sleepy, Grumpy, Bashful, and Sneezy.org. I can also name all the Marx Brothers (including Zeppo and Gummo), the Seven Deadly Sins, Glenn Miller's sax section, and the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Sometimes I can name all the Brady Kids and on occasion even remember both the first and last names of Gilligan and all the Castaways.
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Author: Ray Swing
Date: 1999-12-03 15:26
Mark, How about tech info on "Sneezy".Processor speed, Memory Capacity, Back up method, etc.
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Author: Albert
Date: 1999-12-03 22:20
So where'd the name come from Mark?
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Author: Don Berger
Date: 1999-12-04 01:12
We are just waiting breathlessly to find out about sneezY!!'s origin! Good for you, Mad Dog re: the dwarfs, but in G M's band, who played the clar lead and was it on a big-bore Selmer? Don
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 1999-12-04 01:46
OK, OK!
About 14 years back I was tech lead in installing and doing graphics research on a bunch of (at the time) newfangled graphics workstation (Apollo DN400s if I remember right). We used internal DNS to name groups of them after different but easy to remember collections - islands, continents, movie stars, and, of course - the seven dwarfs. I got sneezy. The name stuck with me for years - whatever machine was my primary workstation was always called sneezy - even some toys I was using that were worth a half mil at the time.
I left that company and helped a friend start another. Again, my computer just _had_ to be sneezy (the boss's was grumpy, and our secretary was happy).
One more time I left a company to help a friend start another. And yet another sneezy was born. Now, around this time I happened to need some help for my son, and found "The Clarinet FAQ" on the Web, run by Victor Freyer. I got into an email conversation with Victor, and he told me he needed to move his pages off of the site he had them on. Well, my machine was on the Internet, compiling Apache is easy, so I built him a Web server and let him onto my machine - sneezy.mika.com .
Victor was getting really busy and couldn't update the pages anymore, so I took over (really easy since the server was right there on my machine). But ... it started bogging my machine down a bit too much. So I put sneezy.mika.com into full-time service as a Web server (at this time it was a DECstation 3000/600 Alpha w/ 256 Mb RAM) and started using a different machine.
The traffic started to build. It was time to get my own domain. Since sneezy.mika.com was already well-known to the clarinet community, I picked out the next best thing to keeping the same name - sneezy.org . I then bartered with a friend to get some bandwidth (Sneezy's on it _own_ T1 line :^), held a fund-raiser online to get money to buy a new box, started selling Web space for small businesses, and create a sole proprietorship (for tax purposes) called Sneezy.Org, registered in Michigan.
And that's the story. More than you probably wanted to know :^)
[update]
The saga continues.
The company that provided the free T1 changed hands, so a 768K SDSL line was installed in my home, along with a new machine (a Pentium II 350 MHz, 256K RAM, 4 10 Gb disks) to run Web services & email & DNS. The old DEC went to Ohio State as a donation, with the proviso that I can use it for secondary DNS & mail.
Whoops - the DSL provider went under. Had to switch DSL providers, at my expense.
Bought remote control power switch - I can power down the machines from anywhere there's an Internet connection.
Bought 2 new servers - one for DNS/Houskeeping/Database/Search engine, one for Web server. Old Pentium II doing fine on Email.
Incorporated as Woodwind.Org, Inc. for legal liability reasons & possible expansion in the future.
New server allocated for search & DB is getting overwhelmed by people rooting around for information ... bought new server for DB & Search.
Bought remote console management system (I can diagnose & fix most problems from any Internet connection in the world, even if machines won't boot clean!) Except for hardware problems, we're now a "lights out" setup.
Addes second DSL line for mail - viruses, spams, worms, etc. are affecting Web response now. 1.1Mb/256Kb line. Non-real-time (Mail, music downloads, etc.) will end up on the "slow" line.
Bought a new server & UPS. New server will handle web services; old web server will replace Pentium II. Old UPS will power routers, switches, other accessories.
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Author: Tim2
Date: 1999-12-04 03:26
Thanks you so much for the history. Seriously. We clarinet players know how lucky we are having "sneezy".
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Author: Rick2
Date: 1999-12-04 03:28
Looks like it's got more juice than the BBS I used to run!
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Author: Rick2
Date: 1999-12-04 03:33
What was Gilligan's other name? And Skipper? Did he have a name? Come on, spill it! This is the core dump thread!
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Author: Don Berger
Date: 1999-12-04 14:18
Thanx for the very interesting "story of your life" Mark, you are certainly aware that we regard you and sneezy highly, as a matter of fact, S.org is a multi-daily friend. Don
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 1999-12-04 14:33
Don,
I left out the 8 years as mechanical/nuclear/acoustical engineer for the USN - now _those_ were interesting!
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Author: JennyA
Date: 1999-12-04 17:30
I _knew_ it was one of the seven dwarfs!
And let me add my thanks, Mark. You do a great job and Sneezy is one of favorite places on the internet.
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Author: Willie
Date: 1999-12-05 01:17
So thtas why those nukies were so hard to track. They had a musician working the acoustics.
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Author: Hiroshi
Date: 1999-12-05 23:01
I was very impressed with the fastness the picture came up to screen. Now I understand DEC Alpha chip plus Linux plus Expertise made this happen (maybe).
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 1999-12-06 01:11
Hiroshi - the DEC Alpha was retired a year ago. It's currently a Pentium II w/ 256 Mb RAM, 4 10Gb Ultra 33 disks, and Linux.
But - it has a T1 line to itself. That makes all the difference.
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 1999-12-06 01:14
Meredith H. wrote:
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I was eagerly anticipating a photo of yourself, Mark not your computer.
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Check the main page of Sneezy (http://www.sneezy.org/clarinet/index.html) very carefully.
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Author: Meredith H.
Date: 1999-12-15 04:11
How long has your photo been there? Am I particularly unobservant or is it a reasonably recent addition?
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 1999-12-15 11:52
Meredith H. wrote:
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How long has your photo been there? Am I particularly unobservant or is it a reasonably recent addition?
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A link went in there the end of 1996 :^)
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Author: Eina Kari Rajesh
Date: 2013-12-03 18:34
Kudos! Happy reading the history of BBoard. Hope this reopens for the relatively newbies like me who would have missed the search.
EKR
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