[ILUG] Free SUN T2000 for sixty days - except for the Irish

[Colm MacCarthaigh]

On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 10:59:52AM -0000, Eamon O'Tuathail wrote:
> I see from www.sun.com <http://www.sun.com/>  that SUN is offering a Sun
> Fire T2000 (with the amazing 32 concurrent threaded Niagara chips) for sixty
> days for free.
> 
> That is cool, both in the heat- and the street-sense of the term. 
> 
> However, what is uncool is that if you are Irish, you need not apply. 
> 
> https://www.sun.com/secure/servers/coolthreads/tnb/qualify.jsp


See my comment on;

  http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/jonathan?entry=niagara_benchmarks#comments

for a complaint :) And then yesterday I got a nice mail from Sun telling
me that I'd have a Niagara box for testing within 2 weeks. Thanks also
to Paul Jakma for pointing me in the right directions.

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Colm MacCárthaigh                        Public Key: colm+pgp at stdlib.net