'kill' in bash script?

[rpeterson at yellowbank.com (Ron Peterson)]

Chuck Noyes wrote:

> About your new laptop...where did you get it??  I'm looking to get a very
> similar configuration.
> I priced a Dell Latitude CPx and it came to over $4200.  Gateway doesn't
> have the system I want
> (at least according to their web site).

ASL Workstations: http://www.aslab.com/.

I have the exact pricing at work, but I believe the total price came out
to
somewhere in the neighborhood of $3500.  I also (shame) had them install
NT.
They configured it to dual-boot via lilo, which is odd.  My
understanding was
that w/ NT, you had to use NT's boot loader.  I still need NT for some
of my
work (sigh).

I have nothing but good things to say about ASL.  I also bought a server
from
them some months back.  My laptop, for example, came w/ kernel 2.2.14. 
Also
NT SP6.  (and nothing but bare bones NT, not all the cruft you usually
get)
When I bought my server, I asked for the maximum amount of memory
available
for the RAID controller.  I guess this was an unusual request.  It
caused
problems.  I don't even want to think how much time they might have
spent
trying to debug this.  They intalled NT, and had the same problems. 
They
tried different memory types.  They found and applied every patch they
could
find.

They ended up reconfiguring the controller w/ the default memory
configuration.  This server has been running our office for several
months
now without a single hiccup.  (It was an AMI something or other.  I'm at
home
right now.  If anyone cares about what RAID controller this was, let me
know.)

Oh, they also gave me a different motherboard.  I wanted a motherboard
w/ an
onboard SCSI drive for my boot drives, rather than IDE.

They also sold me this laptop before they had it on their web site.  I
had
asked for a quote for their previous model, and they said "oh, by the
way, we
have this new model coming out also..."

So maybe I didn't get the amount of controller memory I wanted, but I
sure
got the service.  Hooray for ASL!!!

-Ron-
rpeterson at yellowbank.com
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