I'm looking to do the same thing, except that my target OS is Linux. I'm hoping to use an old switch-mode Amiga power supply that I have (no fan), and one of:
Or just a Via C3 based socket 370 solution (see earlier posting for link).
Hmm, why doesn't anyone make an ATX transmeta board? Maybe I need a PCI board, with 2 or more PCI slots, and a PCI->PCI bridge chip on it, if such a thing exists...
IBM drives (or the 75GXP series at least) support delayed spin up, with a jumper-setting. The snag is that the OS, BIOS, or controller card would have to send staggered 'start unit' commands (or maybe you could do it with hdparm or similar in user space for the non-boot drive). I had a similar problem (total current exceeded PSU's paper spec, but in practice over-current protection didn't kick in), and contacted 3ware's tech support, who said they'd put it on their wish list. No idea if they've implemented it in their new firmware, but might be worth checking it out. IBM detail the AT commands needed to start the unit in the drive docs..
I think FLAC sounds better, lossless compression has got to be better, but it depends how much you care, and how high the quality of the source is, so I go for a mix of this, and lossy formats. In my experience, FLAC weighs in at about 600kbps at 44.1k/16bit, and you've got to spend a lot on playback equipment to hear the difference between lossless compression and mp3 or Ogg. I'm basing this on a listening test conducted with a pair of Linn Keilidhs, Cyrus III + PSX, and my Meridian 506.2 CD player (pretty much the nicest DAC I've heard) and plain + LAME encoded+decoded music burnt to CDR...
I'm in the process of doing a multi-room setup, but I haven't settled on which DACs to use yet.
My idea is to pipe around SPDIF on coax cable, but again, I haven't tried this out yet.
In my experience, the performance on the VIA is a bit less than the BX, but similar to the 815. The Serverworks chipsets are good, but pricey (with high memory bandwidth), and I've had problems with the onboard USB on the Serverworks LE under Linux in the past.
I've got one of these Gigabyte boards on order at the mo' for work. 66MHz/64bit PCI, for the SysKonnect Gigabit NIC, and 3ware 7810 8way IDE RAID card. Mmmmm, new toy;-)...
This would tally with our experience, 15RMAs off 25 drives in use. All of the RMAs were made in Hungary during 2000. We got IBM to replace all of the June 2000 drives, including the ones that hadn't yet failed (18 originally purchased, 12 failed). AFAIK Manufacturing of this model started in June 2k.
CERN had about 20% fail, off a few hundred installed in RAID boxes in the main computer centre, so we were less lucky than they were....
We use rdesktop with w2k server, it definitely wins (sic) for us on ease of managment - just one Windows install for multiple users. We also tried VMWare, and Win4lin. It's also usable for off-site Windows access with X11 tunneled over ssh.
Unfortunately, rdesktop only really works with the windows desktop in 256 colours at the moment, and there's no cut and paste yet, but it is improving, and certainly beats metaframe on cost....
I might have gone for VMWare lite (or whatever they call it), but we happened to have an unused w2k server license lying about (an Exchange Server that didn't last long after I started working here;-) ), so that was most of the cost already taken care of.
There's even a debian package for rdesktop (with the patches to get it to work with w2k) in Sid...
Ok, it's not that impressive, but we pretty much did it with off the shelf parts, and it was very cheap. 12x 75G 7200RPM IBM IDE drives, BX chipset board, redundant hot-swap power supplies, 1G ECC RAM, and 2x PIII-850, Kingston low-profile UDMA66 hot-swap enclosures, and 2
3Ware 6800 RAID controllers.
In an ACME 5U case, with just 16 strips of 80mm x 15mm metal (with three holes drilled in each), as the custom hardware;-)
I forget the exact cost (this was a few months ago), but it was under $10,000
Hmm, I heard something about it on BBC Radio4, I think the price was slightly over £1000. I don't think I'd buy one of these (I'm sure others will), but the other Vacuums he makes are excellent.
As a previous post stated, Dyson is a bit of a cult figure. How can you argue with the inventor of the Ballbarrow (a wheelbarrow, with a spherical wheel;-).
I can understand him going mad on patents now, as he's been ripped off in the past by other companies. Here's a brief (if biased) article. I still don't think he should have been awarded the patents he got for this machine, mind.
Ignore the dots, I had to put them in for formatting reasons (no < code>? Grrr;-).
The pots were 100Ohm - 1kOhm (set at about 500Ohm), and worked fine with Matrox Millenia, and Cirrus Logic based cards, but not with S3 based cards. The diodes are small signal diodes, and may need to be reversed depending on the monitor.
I think you really need an OR gate (take +5v from the mouse/kbd ports) to do the job properly.
You need to spend a while fiddling with xvidtune, sync timings and sync lengths, together with sync polarity. An alternative to xvidtune is Matrox's NT (and '95, I think) driver, which includes a similar utility + 100s of monitor defs to try. It is relatively easy to convert the Matrox timings to XFree86 modelines.
Matroxs seemed to work if you just wired up the H+V sync directly to the C sync, but the range of acceptable timings was reduced quite a bit. You have to trade off time farting around with hardware vs. time farting around with software;-)
When I was a poor student, and 19" monitors cost megabucks this was a great hack, not so great these days, but probably still worthwhile if you've got the time...
I'm planning on using Mission's Freeway amp, as I own two of their HiFi Amps (Cyrus2, and a Cyrus3i + PSX-R), and think they're excellent (unlike their web site).
As for speakers, maybe Mission's, but I'm going to make sure I can audition them first - I've also had Rockford-Fosgates recommended.
I have heard of plans for NXT speakers to be used as projection screens, laptop screens, and to be placed in car roofs. I think Mission are planning some proper HiFi NXT speakers.
As far as I know, NXT was originally invented as a noise cancelling technology for fighter aircraft.
Wharfdale do some wall-hanging NXTs (they look like whiteboards, and sound OK). My Linns may take up more space, but it's definitely worth it;-).
I have heard of plans for NXT speakers to be used as projection screens, laptop screens, and to be placed in car roofs. I think Mission are planning some proper HiFi NXT speakers.
Interestingly, NXT was originally invented as a noise cancelling technology for fighter aircraft.
Wharfdale do some wall-hanging NXTs (they look like whiteboards, and sound OK). My Linns may take up more space, but it's definitely worth it;-).
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Nearly perfect Crusoe board, but I need 2 PCI slots :-( - maybe I can mak Does netware definitely not run on Transmetas?
SA110 eval board - not so useful for Netware, but OK for Linux, and I'll have to use a 5v -> 3v regulator
Or just a Via C3 based socket 370 solution (see earlier posting for link).
Hmm, why doesn't anyone make an ATX transmeta board? Maybe I need a PCI board, with 2 or more PCI slots, and a PCI->PCI bridge chip on it, if such a thing exists...
Can't wait to get one of these players, to go with my DCC deck, and my eight-track ;-)
IBM drives (or the 75GXP series at least) support delayed spin up, with a jumper-setting. The snag is that the OS, BIOS, or controller card would have to send staggered 'start unit' commands (or maybe you could do it with hdparm or similar in user space for the non-boot drive). I had a similar problem (total current exceeded PSU's paper spec, but in practice over-current protection didn't kick in), and contacted 3ware's tech support, who said they'd put it on their wish list. No idea if they've implemented it in their new firmware, but might be worth checking it out. IBM detail the AT commands needed to start the unit in the drive docs..
I'm in the process of doing a multi-room setup, but I haven't settled on which DACs to use yet.
My idea is to pipe around SPDIF on coax cable, but again, I haven't tried this out yet.
In my experience, the performance on the VIA is a bit less than the BX, but similar to the 815. The Serverworks chipsets are good, but pricey (with high memory bandwidth), and I've had problems with the onboard USB on the Serverworks LE under Linux in the past. I've got one of these Gigabyte boards on order at the mo' for work. 66MHz/64bit PCI, for the SysKonnect Gigabit NIC, and 3ware 7810 8way IDE RAID card. Mmmmm, new toy ;-)...
You have run IBM's DFT on the drive, I assume? Uncorrectable error means that the drive is saying "I can't read that", as far as I know.
;-), we've sent nearly 20 of these gits back there....
Personally, I know the address of IBM's RMA centre in the Netherlands off by heart now
CERN had about 20% fail, off a few hundred installed in RAID boxes in the main computer centre, so we were less lucky than they were....
We use rdesktop with w2k server, it definitely wins (sic) for us on ease of managment - just one Windows install for multiple users. We also tried VMWare, and Win4lin. It's also usable for off-site Windows access with X11 tunneled over ssh.
Unfortunately, rdesktop only really works with the windows desktop in 256 colours at the moment, and there's no cut and paste yet, but it is improving, and certainly beats metaframe on cost....
I might have gone for VMWare lite (or whatever they call it), but we happened to have an unused w2k server license lying about (an Exchange Server that didn't last long after I started working here ;-) ), so that was most of the cost already taken care of.
There's even a debian package for rdesktop (with the patches to get it to work with w2k) in Sid...
Ok, it's not that impressive, but we pretty much did it with off the shelf parts, and it was very cheap. 12x 75G 7200RPM IBM IDE drives, BX chipset board, redundant hot-swap power supplies, 1G ECC RAM, and 2x PIII-850, Kingston low-profile UDMA66 hot-swap enclosures, and 2 3Ware 6800 RAID controllers. In an ACME 5U case, with just 16 strips of 80mm x 15mm metal (with three holes drilled in each), as the custom hardware ;-)
I forget the exact cost (this was a few months ago), but it was under $10,000
Hmm, I heard something about it on BBC Radio4, I think the price was slightly over £1000. I don't think I'd buy one of these (I'm sure others will), but the other Vacuums he makes are excellent.
;-).
As a previous post stated, Dyson is a bit of a cult figure. How can you argue with the inventor of the Ballbarrow (a wheelbarrow, with a spherical wheel
I can understand him going mad on patents now, as he's been ripped off in the past by other companies. Here's a brief (if biased) article. I still don't think he should have been awarded the patents he got for this machine, mind.
I've run a couple of Sun 1962Bs, and a 1662 like this in the past.
;-).
;-)
The major problem seems to be getting a c-sync from the h-sync + v-sync. I did this in the past by using this simple circuit:
H--+--|<|--+
...|.......|
...+--Pot--+
...........+--Csync
...+--Pot--+
...|.......|
V--+--|<|--+
Ignore the dots, I had to put them in for formatting reasons (no < code>? Grrr
The pots were 100Ohm - 1kOhm (set at about 500Ohm), and worked fine with Matrox Millenia, and Cirrus Logic based cards, but not with S3 based cards. The diodes are small signal diodes, and may need to be reversed depending on the monitor.
I think you really need an OR gate (take +5v from the mouse/kbd ports) to do the job properly.
You need to spend a while fiddling with xvidtune, sync timings and sync lengths, together with sync polarity. An alternative to xvidtune is Matrox's NT (and '95, I think) driver, which includes a similar utility + 100s of monitor defs to try. It is relatively easy to convert the Matrox timings to XFree86 modelines.
Matroxs seemed to work if you just wired up the H+V sync directly to the C sync, but the range of acceptable timings was reduced quite a bit. You have to trade off time farting around with hardware vs. time farting around with software
When I was a poor student, and 19" monitors cost megabucks this was a great hack, not so great these days, but probably still worthwhile if you've got the time...
I knew eBay was a big outfit, but they have 2 computers in the top 500 list! The other 2 servers are at AOL, and a Japanese recruitment site.
I disagree, I doubt Jeremy Paxman will allow his questions to be pre-vetted. This is the BBC after all ;-).
B-tree - as in Balanced Tree (although some people also say B-tree for Binary Tree).
As for speakers, maybe Mission's, but I'm going to make sure I can audition them first - I've also had Rockford-Fosgates recommended.
I have heard of plans for NXT speakers to be used as projection screens, laptop screens, and to be placed in car roofs. I think Mission are planning some proper HiFi NXT speakers.
;-).
As far as I know, NXT was originally invented as a noise cancelling technology for fighter aircraft.
Wharfdale do some wall-hanging NXTs (they look like whiteboards, and sound OK). My Linns may take up more space, but it's definitely worth it
I have heard of plans for NXT speakers to be used as projection screens, laptop screens, and to be placed in car roofs. I think Mission are planning some proper HiFi NXT speakers.
;-).
Interestingly, NXT was originally invented as a noise cancelling technology for fighter aircraft.
Wharfdale do some wall-hanging NXTs (they look like whiteboards, and sound OK). My Linns may take up more space, but it's definitely worth it
These were probably worth quite a lot of cash. Quad still offer service for them, I think.
;-)
I listened to an NXT + sub combo when I got my Linn Keilidhs. Can't say that I thought there was much competition
The Pentium is really an old CPU design, and dual boards had a shared L2 cache architecture (pants).
Over-clock a Celeron in a BX motherboard, or even a dual BX board, and you'll get far better performance at around the same cost.
Dual Celerons
Single Celerons O/C
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