00:17 <pie__> ipxe over pxe

00:17 <pie__> genius xD

02:35 <cransom> graham never lived in a world where in order to netboot on certain nics, you had to have a physical rom chip plugged into them to enable it.

09:23 <sphalerite> oh yeah I encountered a bunch of those in the strathtech server room, didn't have a flasher to make use of them though :(

11:19 <gchristensen> I knew you could do that!

14:37 <cransom> early in life, if it wasn't an intel i82557 or similar chip (and on freebsd), it was garbage.

14:49 <gchristensen> heh

14:50 <cransom> hey, we could copy the entire contents of a cd in 60 seconds with those cards. it was a big deal.

14:51 <gchristensen> oh hello