We'd use a run of the mill data acquisition card (MEI, Axiom, choose you're evil). These cards use basic TTL I/O, so we'd hook it up to an opt-relay, and could switch on/off computers, servos, and PLC's... The axiom and MEI had nice C libraries... The only problem is I think the smallest I/O batch they came in was 25 per card. But the cards weren't that expensive at the time....
I know this is crap that you can get on every other site out there, but what would be the possibility of real-time chat? I know this would take more cpu/bandwidth, but as lame as it is, I've spent way to much time sitting around reading chat messages going by in a chat room... I'm not a very vocal person and don't speak my mind much... But I do like to just sit there an eve's drop, etc... I would like to think that having threaded discussions would promote better responses, as people would have to think before they write, but sometimes it really doesn't seem to make a difference. I also know that it's easy to get into a flame war in live-chat, as this they don't have the time to think before they write or to cool off... But that's part of the net, dealing with all the other wacko's and a-holes out there and enjoying yourself.... With/.'s traffic and people in every timezone you can think of (and some of us geeks who just never sleep...) I think it'd be rockin 24/7.... Something to consider for the future....
At work we've got a couple Sun Ultra 5's (233 Mhz w/ 256M RAM). Each of the Suns serve about 125k+ dynamic pages a day; running 8 copies of NS Enterprise, Informix, and Cold Fusion and they've still got room to grow. They're not as rock solid as I'd like (have to reboot about every 2 weeks) but alot better then our NT boxes(2-3 times a week).
We just gathered together some Linux boxes last week; P200s, and did some UNIX benchmarks on them and the suns. On overall system performance, the Suns only came out slightly better, but on fpu, they were about double the Linux. But what do you expect when you compare new high end systems to an old box. You buy a decent PII or AMD, and put 256M of RAM and a fast SCSI drive in it, you'll be hard pressed to find enough traffic to max it out.
I used to live in Lynchburg VA. My apartment wasn't that far from Falwell and Liberty U. And you want to see a bunch of fucked up individuals, you go there. Not a bit of free thought or expression.
It's a shame cause alot of the people who go to Liberty are very nice and decent. Alot of them only go there cause it's the only place there parents will let them. But Jerry and a small minority of the screwed up students make that town a living hell. You can'g go anywhere without being scared of someone drilling you about you're religious orientation; and damning you if you don't follow theirs. Hell they even interefere with public schooling. 2 years ago, a bunch of LU students and that guy that runs Operation Rescue went to the local high school, E.C. Glass, at the beginning of the day when all the school buses were arriving. They started mingling with the students trying to convert them. When the teachers started asking them to leave, the LU students told them that they were all going to hell for not spreading the word of God. The teachers had a hard time keeping them out, cause they looked just like reg students; couldn't tell who was LU and who was high school. They finally crossed the line when they told all the handicap kids that God had made them that way because they'd done something wrong. A bunch of cops had to called out to pull them off school grounds and prevent them from returning. My wife and I left that town because of them.
BTW; I've lived alot of places, and I've know a lot of gay men and women, and Lynchburg had the LARGEST proportion of gay people then anywhere else that I've know. Two of my best friends were gay. I was amazed at how many people were 'secret' gays there. Hey Jerry, you think the world's such a bad and dirty place. Look how nasty and perverted your town is!
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We'd use a run of the mill data acquisition card (MEI, Axiom, choose you're evil). These cards use basic TTL I/O, so we'd hook it up to an opt-relay, and could switch on/off computers, servos, and PLC's... The axiom and MEI had nice C libraries... The only problem is I think the smallest I/O batch they came in was 25 per card. But the cards weren't that expensive at the time....
Jeremy
At work we've got a couple Sun Ultra 5's (233 Mhz w/ 256M RAM). Each of the Suns serve about 125k+ dynamic pages a day; running 8 copies of NS Enterprise, Informix, and Cold Fusion and they've still got room to grow. They're not as rock solid as I'd like (have to reboot about every 2 weeks) but alot better then our NT boxes(2-3 times a week).
We just gathered together some Linux boxes last week; P200s, and did some UNIX benchmarks on them and the suns. On overall system performance, the Suns only came out slightly better, but on fpu, they were about double the Linux. But what do you expect when you compare new high end systems to an old box. You buy a decent PII or AMD, and put 256M of RAM and a fast SCSI drive in it, you'll be hard pressed to find enough traffic to max it out.
Jeremy Phillips
I used to live in Lynchburg VA. My apartment wasn't that far from Falwell and Liberty U. And you want to see a bunch of fucked up individuals, you go there. Not a bit of free thought or expression.
It's a shame cause alot of the people who go to Liberty are very nice and decent. Alot of them only go there cause it's the only place there parents will let them. But Jerry and a small minority of the screwed up students make that town a living hell. You can'g go anywhere without being scared of someone drilling you about you're religious orientation; and damning you if you don't follow theirs. Hell they even interefere with public schooling. 2 years ago, a bunch of LU students and that guy that runs Operation Rescue went to the local high school, E.C. Glass, at the beginning of the day when all the school buses were arriving. They started mingling with the students trying to convert them. When the teachers started asking them to leave, the LU students told them that they were all going to hell for not spreading the word of God. The teachers had a hard time keeping them out, cause they looked just like reg students; couldn't tell who was LU and who was high school. They finally crossed the line when they told all the handicap kids that God had made them that way because they'd done something wrong. A bunch of cops had to called out to pull them off school grounds and prevent them from returning. My wife and I left that town because of them.
BTW; I've lived alot of places, and I've know a lot of gay men and women, and Lynchburg had the LARGEST proportion of gay people then anywhere else that I've know. Two of my best friends were gay. I was amazed at how many people were 'secret' gays there. Hey Jerry, you think the world's such a bad and dirty place. Look how nasty and perverted your town is!
J Phillips