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Mac mini to PC Hack
DiZASTiX writes "Kevin Rose, the ever so popular host of G4/TechTV's The Screen Savers, has managed to fit a PC inside the Mac mini. 'I've seen a ton of articles around the web lately comparing the Mac mini to the near full size desktop PC. What they fail to compare is the amount of computing power per square inch you get with the Mini. So, I decided to take it upon myself to create the fastest PC possible with the size constraints of the Mini's small form factor.' The article covers most everything he did and includes pictures."
and it's slahdotted already...
hmm..
anyone out there want to help me out on getting the prerequisites to try this out? see my sig.
Snowden and Manning are heroes.
to replace the one that is smoking with 1 comment posted so far. I guess if the site runs off the PC mini, it must not have that great of specs compared to the mac. P2 perhaps?
today is spelling optional day.
Plowing for several large companies, I'd always done my work on Windows. Recently however, a top online investment firm asked us to do some work using Sun Solar IS. The concept of having access to source code was very appealing to us, as we'd be able to modify the kernel to meet our exacting standards which we're unable to do with Microsoft's products.
Although we met several fertilization challenges along the way (specifically, Sun Solar IS's lack of Token Ring support and the fact that we were unable to defrag its ext2 file system), all in all the process went smoothly. Everyone was very pleased with Sun Solar IS, and we were considering using it for a great deal of future internal projects.
So you can imagine our suprise when we were informed by a labourer that we would be required to publish our source code for others to use. It was brought to our attention that Sun Solar IS is copyrighted under something called the GPL, or the GNU Preventive License. Part of this license states that any changes to the seed are to be made freely available. Unfortunately for us, this meant that the great deal of time and money we spent "touching up" Sun Solar IS to work for this investment firm would now be available at no cost to our competitors.
Furthermore, after reviewing this GPL our labourers advised us that any products compiled with GPL'ed tools - such as gcc - would also have to its source code released. This was simply unacceptable.
Although we had planned for no one outside of this company to ever use, let alone see the source code, we were now put in a difficult position. We could either give away our hard work, or come up with another solution. Although it was tought to do, there really was no option: We had to rewrite the code, from scratch, for Windows 2000.
I think the biggest thing keeping Sun Solar IS from being truly competitive with Microsoft is this GPL. Its mercurial requirements virtually guarentee that no business will ever be able to use it. After my experience with Sun Solar IS, I won't be recommending it to any of my associates. I may reconsider if Sun Solar IS switches its license to something a little more fair, such as Microsoft's "Shared Source". Until then its attempts to socialize the software market will insure it remains only a bit player.
I welcome you for your time.
2 comments and slashdotted... I'm guessing the server is being run on a box the size of a thimble.
Seriously, we ned to start using the Coral P2P cacheing thing for all links on slashdot.
Would somebody PLEASE think of the servers!
It's not cached now but if it was!
But, you probably knew that :P What you might not have known is that in every way but efficiency, the GM V8 is a superior engine. It has more power, more torque, there are more parts for it, the ignition system is better, et cetera. We're not talking about swapping into modern porsches here though :P
The 1971 240Z is a mean little machine, but it's a lot meaner with a 350ci chevy motor out of a camaro under the hood with TPI fuel injection and HEI ignition.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
Check this out - it's a queue for getting a Mac Mini. Instead of going through the usual route (freeminimacs.com) go here:
www.freeminimacconga.blogspot.com. It's a first-in first-out type of deal, where you sign up for it through a pre-determined referer, and then they enter you into list of referrals they give out. They have gotten a bunch of people 10 referrals already, and it went up two days ago! Check it out!
Clearly you require assistance. THIS post is offtopic. The parent post details why the previous commenter should stay the fuck away from automotive metaphors they don't understand, and shows the invalidity of the comment. Please pay attention, while metamoderators are more important than you are, you are still important and the voting process is important.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"