Yeah its slow, but very low power, I mean, I used to use an K6-3 400 as a server, but my electricity meter was wizzing past fast, so I switched to the motherboard (had a spare one sitting in a cupboard anyway) and the meter slowed down a lot. Much better.
Yes it's slow, but if I can run Smoothwall 2 on a 486 100 with 16Mb RAM, it should run just fine on the EPIA motherboard. Though, said 486 has no fan anywhere apart from the PSU, even then the PSU automatically adjusts the fan depending on how hot the PSU is despite being ancient and coming with the 486. Works well, though the web interface is a bit slow especially if parsing the logs.
Oh yeah the EPIA motherboard is bloody tiny too;)
Fastest EPIA motherboard without a fan is 600MHz I think, but you can get a 1.2GHz EPIA board with a fansink - even tho I'm sure the fan is very quiet.
My 2 year old Linksys cable/DSL router even has a MAC address spoofing feature built in so I assume MAC address security are easily bypassed.
http://www.networklab.co.uk/cmodem/linksys.html
Do a "Find" on that page for "MAC Cloning".
Although I'd guess it's best to have as much security enabled on your WAP as possible - MAC filters, WEP, and disable SSID broadcasting, and to go even further, use a VPN tunnel through the WAP.
(Disclaimer, I'm typing this at work after nearly being run over by a repomobile in a Laguna)
Yeah it is really annoying cycling in cities - there's a few cycle routes here in Bristol, luckily I live near the river so I can use the river's path to cycle to work (part of the cycle route anyway) - it adds one mile on to my route distance but keeps me away from evil cars.
Anyway, the problem with cycling on pavements (sorry, sidewalks) is that it is illegal in the UK to cycle on pavements, and the pavements are usually too busy for me to cycle on - don't want to run down peds like cars trying not to run down cyclists.
Going to Holland was just fantastic - was visiting my car and motorbike mad petrolhead mate (2 cars and 3 motorbikes) who absouetly loves driving but we took bicycles everywhere whenever we wanted to go somewhere locally - cyclepaths on every road, considerate cars. Just lovely. City centres (downtown) were always full of parked bikes - rows and rows of them. Strange sight. Didn't wear helmets, felt safe enough, in the UK, I won't go out on my bike without one.
But then again in Holland its all flat, flat enough to calibrate your ruler with, while in Bristol, lots of steep hills.
Compared to the UK where you dice with death each time you go out - I normally near get run down 3 times a day, avoid car doors opening in front of me once a week, and avoid peds who steps in front of me 2 times a week. And 60% of my route is on cyclepaths that's completely off-road.
What I'd love to see is to see mandatory cyclepaths built when new roads are built - and I mean cyclepaths completely seperate to the road and the pavement not the hastily painted white lines on the road that drivers ignore anyway. That'd never happen anyway.
Though, there was an existing 40gig (or something) drive already in the system, being used as a boot drive - downloading the latest BIOS from Dell's website didn't help, so had to get him to buy a new IDE controller. Co-worker only needed the drive for storing movies.
Also apparently you need an ATA133 controller to see more than 137 GB - I had that problem when I put in a 200GB drive into a co-worker's computer, the BIOS would only see the first 137GB, so I had to get him to buy an ATA133 controller to see the rest of the 200GB. Just as well, he wanted those upgrades as he's a filmmaker, and ATA133 would help a little over ATA66 the computer has.
http://www.mail-archive.com/xfree86@xfree86.org/ms g12464.html
Here's the bit:
- the first time X is started it takes a very long time to initialize; not only is it much slower than w/o mga_hal, it also seems to initialize each head several times.
I've a G550 btw.
Are the Matrox drivers opensource or closed? I agree with you, the drivers should be open.
There's a problem with the Matrox drivers - they take a long time start up X - with the nVidia drivers, X starts up quickly, but with the Matrox, takes ages (around 20 seconds) and my monitors makes some noises/flickers on screen before I see any graphics.
Deaf people would find videophones much better than audiophones - after all, we can't use audiophones. Before recently, I always thought videophones were gimmicks, until I trialled IP videophones with a co-worker from home, and was really impressed, and really want one although they cost well over 600. Big revelation for me - I never loved the phone due to the minicom (TTY to you Americans) until I tried out the videophone. My view has changed a lot towards phones.
I'm quite surprised to read that trimonitor/trihead is difficult because I find it's actually quite easy - I've got a dualhead Matrox G550 card, and a TNT2 PCI card with 3 monitors and am able to have 3 desktops, and even tried a 3rd TNT2 card to get 4 screens, but the computer kept crashing which I suspect due to the excessive power usage of the 3 graphic cards.
I used to have a Geforce 3 and 2 TNT2 cards but as I said, the computer kept crashing after 5 to 15 mins of trimonitor usage.
Talking about 3 monitors - I can't really find anywhere how to set up games such as Quake 3 et al on trimonitors - I've seen pictures of Quake3 being played on 3 montiors - but how?
Though I do realise the TNT2 card is woefully inadequate for decent 3D gaming - though it is possible to get fairly decent PCI graphics cards and use that for the 2 side monitors, and the good graphics card for the middle monitor. But of course, that needs a wedge of cash to do so.
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I'm using a 533MHz fanless EPIA 5000 motherboard as a server. Fine, its not an Intel CPU, but it does x86 code just fine.
Yeah its slow, but very low power, I mean, I used to use an K6-3 400 as a server, but my electricity meter was wizzing past fast, so I switched to the motherboard (had a spare one sitting in a cupboard anyway) and the meter slowed down a lot. Much better.
Yes it's slow, but if I can run Smoothwall 2 on a 486 100 with 16Mb RAM, it should run just fine on the EPIA motherboard. Though, said 486 has no fan anywhere apart from the PSU, even then the PSU automatically adjusts the fan depending on how hot the PSU is despite being ancient and coming with the 486. Works well, though the web interface is a bit slow especially if parsing the logs.
Oh yeah the EPIA motherboard is bloody tiny too ;)
Fastest EPIA motherboard without a fan is 600MHz I think, but you can get a 1.2GHz EPIA board with a fansink - even tho I'm sure the fan is very quiet.
From the TV Licensing website, it is:
Colour TV licence is GBP121
Black and white TV licence GBP40.50
Over 75's get it for free
Blind people get a 50% discount
My 2 year old Linksys cable/DSL router even has a MAC address spoofing feature built in so I assume MAC address security are easily bypassed. http://www.networklab.co.uk/cmodem/linksys.html Do a "Find" on that page for "MAC Cloning". Although I'd guess it's best to have as much security enabled on your WAP as possible - MAC filters, WEP, and disable SSID broadcasting, and to go even further, use a VPN tunnel through the WAP.
(Disclaimer, I'm typing this at work after nearly being run over by a repomobile in a Laguna)
Yeah it is really annoying cycling in cities - there's a few cycle routes here in Bristol, luckily I live near the river so I can use the river's path to cycle to work (part of the cycle route anyway) - it adds one mile on to my route distance but keeps me away from evil cars.
Anyway, the problem with cycling on pavements (sorry, sidewalks) is that it is illegal in the UK to cycle on pavements, and the pavements are usually too busy for me to cycle on - don't want to run down peds like cars trying not to run down cyclists.
Going to Holland was just fantastic - was visiting my car and motorbike mad petrolhead mate (2 cars and 3 motorbikes) who absouetly loves driving but we took bicycles everywhere whenever we wanted to go somewhere locally - cyclepaths on every road, considerate cars. Just lovely. City centres (downtown) were always full of parked bikes - rows and rows of them. Strange sight. Didn't wear helmets, felt safe enough, in the UK, I won't go out on my bike without one.
But then again in Holland its all flat, flat enough to calibrate your ruler with, while in Bristol, lots of steep hills.
Compared to the UK where you dice with death each time you go out - I normally near get run down 3 times a day, avoid car doors opening in front of me once a week, and avoid peds who steps in front of me 2 times a week. And 60% of my route is on cyclepaths that's completely off-road.
What I'd love to see is to see mandatory cyclepaths built when new roads are built - and I mean cyclepaths completely seperate to the road and the pavement not the hastily painted white lines on the road that drivers ignore anyway. That'd never happen anyway.
[/rant over]Uh, yes...
Here, here, and here.Though, there was an existing 40gig (or something) drive already in the system, being used as a boot drive - downloading the latest BIOS from Dell's website didn't help, so had to get him to buy a new IDE controller. Co-worker only needed the drive for storing movies.
Also apparently you need an ATA133 controller to see more than 137 GB - I had that problem when I put in a 200GB drive into a co-worker's computer, the BIOS would only see the first 137GB, so I had to get him to buy an ATA133 controller to see the rest of the 200GB. Just as well, he wanted those upgrades as he's a filmmaker, and ATA133 would help a little over ATA66 the computer has.
http://www.mail-archive.com/xfree86@xfree86.org/ms g12464.html
Here's the bit:
- the first time X is started it takes a very long time to initialize; not only is it much slower than w/o mga_hal, it also seems to initialize each head several times.
I've a G550 btw.
Are the Matrox drivers opensource or closed? I agree with you, the drivers should be open.
There's a problem with the Matrox drivers - they take a long time start up X - with the nVidia drivers, X starts up quickly, but with the Matrox, takes ages (around 20 seconds) and my monitors makes some noises/flickers on screen before I see any graphics.
Deaf people would find videophones much better than audiophones - after all, we can't use audiophones. Before recently, I always thought videophones were gimmicks, until I trialled IP videophones with a co-worker from home, and was really impressed, and really want one although they cost well over 600. Big revelation for me - I never loved the phone due to the minicom (TTY to you Americans) until I tried out the videophone. My view has changed a lot towards phones.
I'm quite surprised to read that trimonitor/trihead is difficult because I find it's actually quite easy - I've got a dualhead Matrox G550 card, and a TNT2 PCI card with 3 monitors and am able to have 3 desktops, and even tried a 3rd TNT2 card to get 4 screens, but the computer kept crashing which I suspect due to the excessive power usage of the 3 graphic cards.
I used to have a Geforce 3 and 2 TNT2 cards but as I said, the computer kept crashing after 5 to 15 mins of trimonitor usage.
Talking about 3 monitors - I can't really find anywhere how to set up games such as Quake 3 et al on trimonitors - I've seen pictures of Quake3 being played on 3 montiors - but how?
Though I do realise the TNT2 card is woefully inadequate for decent 3D gaming - though it is possible to get fairly decent PCI graphics cards and use that for the 2 side monitors, and the good graphics card for the middle monitor. But of course, that needs a wedge of cash to do so.