October 23rd, 2015:

	So, I finally set wifi up on my Raspberry Pi.  It took me a while 
to find the time, but as soon as I found myself with a bit of free time, I 
pounced!  The setup was simple (a little editing of my .wpa-supplicant 
file) and I had the Pi online in no time.

	The Pi serves as a way to get Sigrid, my Model 4P, online.  I 
typically SSH into my SDF account for everything, although I'm slowly 
starting to set the Pi up so I can do everything natively (web, usenet, 
mail, gopher, etc) without using SDF.

	Of course, I'm also setting Sigrid up so I don't have to use the 
Pi to do anything but communicate.  But that's a story for The 4P Diaries.

	In other news, my Sparcserver 20 is toast.  It developed a 
motherboard issue that I can't be arsed to troubleshoot.  As I have a 
substantial amount of money and time invested in the machine, I'm in the 
hunt for a new motherboard.  Hoping to track one down (inexpensively) in 
the new year.

	While the SS20 may be history, Slam's old Sparc IPC, long since 
given up for dead, is fully functional!  Well, that may be a tad 
optimistic, but it powers up and I'm able to access the IDPROM via serial 
console.  The IPC (hereafter known as Robusto) has a dead NVRAM chip, 24Mb 
RAM, and a hard drive of unknown size and content.  I vaguely remember 
Slam fighting to install a particular OS on the thing, but that was over a 
decade ago and memory is short.

	I'll likely fool with Robusto this weekend, should I find the 
time.  The first task will be to reprogram the IDPROM so I can at least 
get the IPC to boot.  After that, I'll be able to tell which OS (if any) 
is on the machine.  If nothing, I'll hunt down a few 30-pin SIMMs to 
expand the memory (48Mb max), then attempt to install an OS.  Will 
probably try Solaris 2.6 first or, failing that, *BSD.

	After *that*, I'll have to figure out a use for the machine..