March 12th, 2018:

	Had a bit of a scare over the weekend.  I went to the lab to dig 
out my box of Solaris media, only to find the box wet.  The contents were 
relatively unscathed, thankfully.  Well, one of my Sun Ultra 5 manuals was 
soaked, but it was a spare copy so no big loss.

Czarina, our Russian Blue cat, was blamed.  I hadn't cleaned her litter 
box in a day or two, and Russian Blues tend to be particular about their 
litter boxes being clean...  After handling the Solaris box, I noticed 
there was no urine smell.  I *did* notice an empty water bottle behind 
another box, which was the true culprit.

So after apologizing to Czarina both for blaming her for peeing on my 
Solaris stuff, and threatening to rename her "Oracle" in retaliation, I 
cleaned up the mess and wrote the evening off.

Yesterday morning was spent trying to track down mirrors of the old 
SunFreeware site.  Most of them shut down after SFW made their transition 
to UnixPackages.com and started charging for their packages, however some 
were still running as of a year or so ago.  My internet search(es) came up 
with lists of dead links, or ftp sites that no longer carry the mirrors.

After an hour of banging my head against the wall trying to find an active 
mirror, I remembered that I'd bookmarked a few of the mirrors on my old 
work laptop.  Digging the laptop out, I found I had around half a dozen 
ftp mirrors of the SunFreeware site bookmarked, none of which came up 
during my earlier search.

... aaand none of them worked.  Most were gone, and the final two were now 
devoid of SunFreeware stuff.

"Not a big deal," I thought, "I'll just build what I need from source."

Ibiblio has a bunch of Solaris/Sparc packages prebuilt, but nothing recent 
for Solaris 7 (the max my Sparc IPX and IPC can run).  I can probably get 
by with gcc 2.9.4 for what I intend to do, if not I can attempt to build a 
newer version then work off that.

Of course, I have no idea what I'm doing, so this ought to prove 
educational!

(Failing that, I may just install NetBSD...)