With plenty of RAM (>=256MB and more if you can), and a fast hard disk with space for swap you will be fine.
Or at the least it will be a cheap reliable workstation.
I gave my girlfriend a iBook 300 (clamshell with 284MB ram, and I put in an 18GB hd), setup 2 grandmothers with iMac's @ 333 and 233MHz, and I have an iBook 600 (with an 80GB I put in -- that was a pain).
The graphics aren't the fastest (never look at a new machine running Quartz Extreme -- you can never go back;).
But they run great (10.2.6), are stable and secure, and most importantly I never get calls about them.
I would love to get something together in Knoxville, but I'm not sure who posted it (big_drew or should be timothy because of the non-italics).
Either case please feel free to call me (Jeb) at 368-5322, email at (jebc at c4solutions.net), or get more contact info at my company's website.
Always love to hear from some slashdotters in the area, and if you ever get bored (or for the picnic) we have a kegerator (sp?) at our office that we are always at downtown.
Actually you don't pay Microsoft for a product, when you shell out however much, say $175, for Win2k, you get the right to only run the software in the manner they tell you (no support). With RedHat, the product is free, as in cost and freedom, but if YOU choose you can pay for support, which might be $60, and they are good.
The Bud commercials have been pretty good, esp the one with "What are you doing?," "Just watching the market, drinkin' an import" and "Hey Jimmy, pick up the cordless." Just shows that you have a sense of humor when you can make fun of yourself.
BTW--anyone else notice that it is no longer the Budwieser blimp, it's the Budwieser.com blimp. I think they missed that bandwagon by a year.
Get Licq-ssl. It uses the regular servers to loacte each other, but when it talks to another Licq-ssl client, it encrypts messages going across. Uses openssl.
check out www.mosix.org --for linux only as it is a kernel patch. But it does all those things transparently, and for most cpu intensive programs. I run it on my network with one dual 667 PIII w/ 256MB ram and several pentium workstations w/ 32 or 48MB ram, and it is awesome.
You can rip cd's, compile, and gimp filters, all at once on a workstation. Sort of like smp and fork and forget. Pretty efficient, just have fast ethernet.
And they are working on network memory and network filesystems to go with the cpu portion.
Only problem is that all hosts have to be trusted to execute processes as root, so don't run it on your firewall.
The site notes that the Athlon core was the.25 die size and 650 Mhz. Now AMD was selling these 650 cores underclocked at 500MHz, because it was cheaper than going back and making 500 Mhz cores. Pricewatch lists Athlon 500 at ~130, 650's at ~150-160, and 700's at ~190. I think that whoever did this bought Athlon 500's (with the 650 core), took 10 minutes of soldering to undo the underclocking by AMD and overclock it a little to 700, and instantly got over $60 profit per chip (probably more if they got the 500's in bulk). I don't think anyone would take the time to solder a 650 into a 700. Also, I would be very pissed because the guy wanted a 700 because of the.18 die size, which is more overclockable than the.25 of the 650 core.
How can Lucas say that DVD is an untested medium, while he also is pushing theatres to upgrade to all digital projection of movies? So DVD's, which have been around awhile and are a household name, are untested, but theatres receiving their movies from digital satellites or digital copies from mail or web is tested (and must be secure)--Riiiiiight. It seems that Lucas's definition of untested technology is something that takes power and control out of his hands.
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Can you share those twitter users you follow? That seems like an interesting data point.
I think I might have the same problem. My screen will sometimes have lines and sometimes be totally out of sync.
Opening and closing it sometimes fixes the problem.
If you find anything out, please email me.
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With plenty of RAM (>=256MB and more if you can), and a fast hard disk with space for swap you will be fine.
;).
Or at the least it will be a cheap reliable workstation.
I gave my girlfriend a iBook 300 (clamshell with 284MB ram, and I put in an 18GB hd), setup 2 grandmothers with iMac's @ 333 and 233MHz, and I have an iBook 600 (with an 80GB I put in -- that was a pain).
The graphics aren't the fastest (never look at a new machine running Quartz Extreme -- you can never go back
But they run great (10.2.6), are stable and secure, and most importantly I never get calls about them.
I would love to get something together in Knoxville, but I'm not sure who posted it (big_drew or should be timothy because of the non-italics).
Either case please feel free to call me (Jeb) at 368-5322, email at (jebc at c4solutions.net), or get more contact info at my company's website.
Always love to hear from some slashdotters in the area, and if you ever get bored (or for the picnic) we have a kegerator (sp?) at our office that we are always at downtown.
Actually you don't pay Microsoft for a product, when you shell out however much, say $175, for Win2k, you get the right to only run the software in the manner they tell you (no support). With RedHat, the product is free, as in cost and freedom, but if YOU choose you can pay for support, which might be $60, and they are good.
The Bud commercials have been pretty good, esp the one with "What are you doing?," "Just watching the market, drinkin' an import" and "Hey Jimmy, pick up the cordless." Just shows that you have a sense of humor when you can make fun of yourself. BTW--anyone else notice that it is no longer the Budwieser blimp, it's the Budwieser.com blimp. I think they missed that bandwagon by a year.
Get Licq-ssl. It uses the regular servers to loacte each other, but when it talks to another Licq-ssl client, it encrypts messages going across. Uses openssl.
check out www.mosix.org --for linux only as it is a kernel patch. But it does all those things transparently, and for most cpu intensive programs. I run it on my network with one dual 667 PIII w/ 256MB ram and several pentium workstations w/ 32 or 48MB ram, and it is awesome. You can rip cd's, compile, and gimp filters, all at once on a workstation. Sort of like smp and fork and forget. Pretty efficient, just have fast ethernet. And they are working on network memory and network filesystems to go with the cpu portion. Only problem is that all hosts have to be trusted to execute processes as root, so don't run it on your firewall.
The site notes that the Athlon core was the .25 die size and 650 Mhz. Now AMD was selling these 650 cores underclocked at 500MHz, because it was cheaper than going back and making 500 Mhz cores. Pricewatch lists Athlon 500 at ~130, 650's at ~150-160, and 700's at ~190. I think that whoever did this bought Athlon 500's (with the 650 core), took 10 minutes of soldering to undo the underclocking by AMD and overclock it a little to 700, and instantly got over $60 profit per chip (probably more if they got the 500's in bulk). I don't think anyone would take the time to solder a 650 into a 700. Also, I would be very pissed because the guy wanted a 700 because of the .18 die size, which is more overclockable than the .25 of the 650 core.
How can Lucas say that DVD is an untested medium, while he also is pushing theatres to upgrade to all digital projection of movies? So DVD's, which have been around awhile and are a household name, are untested, but theatres receiving their movies from digital satellites or digital copies from mail or web is tested (and must be secure)--Riiiiiight. It seems that Lucas's definition of untested technology is something that takes power and control out of his hands.