Take a look at the auctions and find a cheap transceiver. If you have ancient AUI hardware, then you probably wouldn't mind used transceivers either. They'll run you about $10 or so a piece, which is about what 10baseT netcards run at swap meets, etc. If you are in the Dallas, TX area, take a look at first saturday (www.1stsat.com), but the things happen in most big cities.
Look for old stuff that no-one wants, but are still useful -- unlike AUI cards. If you are looking for it for a sun machine, I can sympathize with you, though.
linux's SMP support at over two processors is immature in the least, so there is a considerable performance hit. I think that the mindcraft guys put the wrong line in for the amount of memory on the linux machine (append mem = 1000M or something similar instead of 1024M), some of the background programs running under linux were performing tasks that NT doesn't really ever bother with, and the configuration files were set wrong for samba.
On the other hand, the NT machine was very well-tweaked by a team of technicians who are used to dealing with NT-based (biased?) studies. The tcp/ip stack, as well as some features on the network card were also adjusted differently on the two setups. The NT raid support is also considerably more mature. All in all, it wasn't really too fair.
Linux would kill NT on a 16mb p100 or so, because all of the hardware would be well-supported, the SMP-issues wouldn't exist, the raid issue would probably not be there on a p100, and NT does not run very well at all on an older machine. You really need at LEAST 32M to make nt tolerable. More is better. Linux is fine for a number of things on 16.
Uhhm..I got this in freshman biology. The figures were off on the threshold potential, though. The voltage I got was -59 mV, but your response took all the fun out of it. Now, if they used a spliced set of cow-optic-nerves, it would be spiffy.
Grr.. I wish the people my age werent script-kids
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It's kind of painful having grown up in Lubbock with daemon roach underground (a bbs of CDC fame), and recalling posts that were immature, boastful, and at times raunchy, but part of a community, and then I realize that there isn't really much of a place to do the same now. The places that spawned bored adolescents such as death veggie do not exist now. All that's left is either the more reserved and on-topic places like/., and junior-high-child-frequented 2600ish places. There's no place left to rant, be amused, amuse someone, and learn to play with computers.
Kevin, if you're feeling at all upset about the scriptkiddies, chastise your underlings...in public, if possible. BO's not much more than an annoying prank.
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Not a lot of reason to with only one mouse button :P
Actually, macs can be really nice at times, like when I need a good clean print of a postscript file.
Take a look at the auctions and find a cheap transceiver. If you have ancient AUI hardware, then you probably wouldn't mind used transceivers either. They'll run you about $10 or so a piece, which is about what 10baseT netcards run at swap meets, etc. If you are in the Dallas, TX area, take a look at first saturday (www.1stsat.com), but the things happen in most big cities.
Look for old stuff that no-one wants, but are still useful -- unlike AUI cards. If you are looking for it for a sun machine, I can sympathize with you, though.
linux's SMP support at over two processors is immature in the least, so there is a considerable performance hit. I think that the mindcraft guys put the wrong line in for the amount of memory on the linux machine (append mem = 1000M or something similar instead of 1024M), some of the background programs running under linux were performing tasks that NT doesn't really ever bother with, and the configuration files were set wrong for samba.
On the other hand, the NT machine was very well-tweaked by a team of technicians who are used to dealing with NT-based (biased?) studies. The tcp/ip stack, as well as some features on the network card were also adjusted differently on the two setups. The NT raid support is also considerably more mature. All in all, it wasn't really too fair.
Linux would kill NT on a 16mb p100 or so, because all of the hardware would be well-supported, the SMP-issues wouldn't exist, the raid issue would probably not be there on a p100, and NT does not run very well at all on an older machine. You really need at LEAST 32M to make nt tolerable. More is better. Linux is fine for a number of things on 16.
Uhhm..I got this in freshman biology. The figures were off on the threshold potential, though. The voltage I got was -59 mV, but your response took all the fun out of it. Now, if they used a spliced set of cow-optic-nerves, it would be spiffy.
It's kind of painful having grown up in Lubbock with daemon roach underground (a bbs of CDC fame), and recalling posts that were immature, boastful, and at times raunchy, but part of a community, and then I realize that there isn't really much of a place to do the same now. The places that spawned bored adolescents such as death veggie do not exist now. All that's left is either the more reserved and on-topic places like /., and junior-high-child-frequented 2600ish places. There's no place left to rant, be amused, amuse someone, and learn to play with computers.
Kevin, if you're feeling at all upset about the scriptkiddies, chastise your underlings...in public, if possible. BO's not much more than an annoying prank.