The only thing I can recall Matrox cards really being reccomended for recently is dual outputs. I know other people make them, but apparently the Matrox's can be found pretty cheap, and work.
I've got a couple old single-outputs scavenged from university trash, and they seem to be one of the less-compatible cards I've got.
The S3 card I've got has had compatibiity issues too.
You're making the mistake of assuming common sense. The setup you described is of your typical college student...not your typical slashdot reader. Another post on this thread had a student cramming something like 10 computers in his dorm room, with an unkown amount of displays. Admittedly, he had never dared to turn them all on at once.
I would imagine that a lot of slashdot reading dorm dwellers have come very very close to blowing fuse or tripping a breaker in their dorm.
I had roughly the same idea about a year ago at my school, and wondered about the feasability. I have literally got stacks of old P1's that I've scavenged from junk at my school.
Last I checked, a Beowulf was possible to run on P1's, but not with as many options. Anyone out there who can tell me more, or what these Purdue machines are made of?
I'm helping to adminstrate a cluster here in Youngstown, Ohio thats partially funded by the Ohio Supercomputer Center. As a result of the few things I've picked up, I've gotten it into my head that I'm building a P1 cluster of my own, at home, over the summer.
One of the OSC guys has a small(4-5 machines) P2 cluster in his office...its really not extremely difficult...except that I'm using P1's(cause i can get them for far less money). OSC has fairly well automated the install process for anything 686 and above. Using 586's means having to do most things manually. And before someone points it out, yes i'm aware i'm not gonna get a whole lotta power here...i'm doing it as a learning experience, right now noone is going to let me serup a cluster all on my own, so this is the best way for me to learn it i think.
Incidentally, one of the things i want to try next is getting GUI desktop-type programs to distribute across my P1 cluster. The idea is to take all of these old systems, and get comparable functionality out of them as you get from your typical desktop computer. I really hare seeing how many systems end up tossed in the trash, i feel like something like this could prove helpful in eliminating some waste.
Of course it could also just be a lot of hard work for nothing. Guess i'll find out this summer!
I agree with you that a lot of things have evolved onward, past the whole image thing. But that doesn't mean everyone has.
I was in Columbus yesterday flyering for my show there, and I saw a couple hundred spikey-haired, leather-jacketed "punk rockers"
In any big city around here(ESPECIALLY Pittsburgh!) being a spikey-haired drunk punk is sort of this tradition. Nearly everyone seems to go through this phase at some point, and noone stays for long. So you always have these guys around...but its an everchanging cast. Go to Casualties show, you'll see what I'm talking about. I saw them 3 times in a year once, and saw different kids outfitted in punk gear at each show...hardly any familiar faces.
In summation...fashion is silly.
hahahahaha.
I forgot about Wayne/Jayne County and the Backstreet Boys.
Do you think those guys know that their name came from a transexual/transvestite punk rocker from the Bowery? It has to be a joke put on by that frightening overweight homosexual Lou Pearlman who spawned the Backstreet Boys, Nsync, LFO, and god knows how many others.
I can't believe you referenced the Great Kat. Thats just amazing. I can honestly say that it never occured to me that someday i would see the Great Kat linked on slashdot!
that may be true, but none of it changes the fact that Ywngie Malmsteen is and was a horrible songwriter.
When it comes to being a musician, there are really two skills: Being highly skilled on your instrument, and being highly skilled at writing for it. I'll still take good songwriting over musicianship anyday...a good songwriter can always find some guy whos spent years practicing his Lydian modes to play a complicated piece he wrote.
Look at classical music: Beethoven, Mozart, etc. They were all musicians in their own right, but we know them as COMPOSERS, because that is where their talent mainly lay. It is much more difficult to compose intricate, moving pieces of music involving a whole orchestra then it is to play reverse arpeggios on one guitar.
i don't think you've actually heard power metal then.
Power metal bands then to be from europe(especially scandinavia!) and for the most part write sogns about "swords and sorcery". Think Manowar, Blind Guardian, Hammerfall, etc. Some people are really into it, for the most part its very cheesy metal, and certainly not a damn thing like hardcore.
However, all the newer breed of metal-influenced hardcore(Hatebreed is the best example) seems to just be metal without the solos. Perhaps thats what you meant?
its pretty widely adknowledged that Mclaren was responsible for destroying the NY Dolls. I couldn're read your comment and not throw that in.
I mean he DID manage them, but it was at the tail-end of their career, none of the Dolls really liked him, or wanted him as their manager, and he changed their image so drastically it managed them so badly it caused some of them to slip even deeper into drugs, breaking up the band, and eventually leading to the overdose of Johnny Thunders.
I mean christ, he took them from wearing heavy makeup and looking sort of like-street-glam rockers to dressed as communists in matching red outfits. Politisicm certainly didn't fit the dolls.
I guess in the Sex Pistols he found 4 guys that were willing to go along with whatever preposterous ideas he had. I wouldn't say he neccesarily managed them all that well either...Mclaren always seemed to me as a sniveling little right-place-at-the-right-time kind of guy.
you're from columbus? I was just down there at the Queers show on monday passing out flyers for our show there next week(we're called The Conceited)
It is so odd seeing people discuss punk rock on this website.
From what I can remember, there are a whole series of RJ connectors, used for many different applications. I know this because I tried borrowing an RJ-45 crimper from a Proffessor in the Optics lab, and he had an assortment of crimpers for varied RJ connectors, none of which were RJ-11 or RJ-45. I'm not sure what their specific uses are, but they most defintely exist.
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The only thing I can recall Matrox cards really being reccomended for recently is dual outputs. I know other people make them, but apparently the Matrox's can be found pretty cheap, and work. I've got a couple old single-outputs scavenged from university trash, and they seem to be one of the less-compatible cards I've got. The S3 card I've got has had compatibiity issues too.
You're making the mistake of assuming common sense. The setup you described is of your typical college student...not your typical slashdot reader. Another post on this thread had a student cramming something like 10 computers in his dorm room, with an unkown amount of displays. Admittedly, he had never dared to turn them all on at once. I would imagine that a lot of slashdot reading dorm dwellers have come very very close to blowing fuse or tripping a breaker in their dorm.
Does anyone have the exact specs on these things?
I had roughly the same idea about a year ago at my school, and wondered about the feasability. I have literally got stacks of old P1's that I've scavenged from junk at my school.
Last I checked, a Beowulf was possible to run on P1's, but not with as many options. Anyone out there who can tell me more, or what these Purdue machines are made of?
I'm helping to adminstrate a cluster here in Youngstown, Ohio thats partially funded by the Ohio Supercomputer Center. As a result of the few things I've picked up, I've gotten it into my head that I'm building a P1 cluster of my own, at home, over the summer. One of the OSC guys has a small(4-5 machines) P2 cluster in his office...its really not extremely difficult...except that I'm using P1's(cause i can get them for far less money). OSC has fairly well automated the install process for anything 686 and above. Using 586's means having to do most things manually. And before someone points it out, yes i'm aware i'm not gonna get a whole lotta power here...i'm doing it as a learning experience, right now noone is going to let me serup a cluster all on my own, so this is the best way for me to learn it i think. Incidentally, one of the things i want to try next is getting GUI desktop-type programs to distribute across my P1 cluster. The idea is to take all of these old systems, and get comparable functionality out of them as you get from your typical desktop computer. I really hare seeing how many systems end up tossed in the trash, i feel like something like this could prove helpful in eliminating some waste. Of course it could also just be a lot of hard work for nothing. Guess i'll find out this summer!
I agree with you that a lot of things have evolved onward, past the whole image thing. But that doesn't mean everyone has. I was in Columbus yesterday flyering for my show there, and I saw a couple hundred spikey-haired, leather-jacketed "punk rockers" In any big city around here(ESPECIALLY Pittsburgh!) being a spikey-haired drunk punk is sort of this tradition. Nearly everyone seems to go through this phase at some point, and noone stays for long. So you always have these guys around...but its an everchanging cast. Go to Casualties show, you'll see what I'm talking about. I saw them 3 times in a year once, and saw different kids outfitted in punk gear at each show...hardly any familiar faces. In summation...fashion is silly.
hahahahaha. I forgot about Wayne/Jayne County and the Backstreet Boys. Do you think those guys know that their name came from a transexual/transvestite punk rocker from the Bowery? It has to be a joke put on by that frightening overweight homosexual Lou Pearlman who spawned the Backstreet Boys, Nsync, LFO, and god knows how many others.
wow. references on this thread to both the Great Kat and Ian Stuart. thats just too much. I've officially seen everything.
I can't believe you referenced the Great Kat. Thats just amazing. I can honestly say that it never occured to me that someday i would see the Great Kat linked on slashdot!
that may be true, but none of it changes the fact that Ywngie Malmsteen is and was a horrible songwriter. When it comes to being a musician, there are really two skills: Being highly skilled on your instrument, and being highly skilled at writing for it. I'll still take good songwriting over musicianship anyday...a good songwriter can always find some guy whos spent years practicing his Lydian modes to play a complicated piece he wrote. Look at classical music: Beethoven, Mozart, etc. They were all musicians in their own right, but we know them as COMPOSERS, because that is where their talent mainly lay. It is much more difficult to compose intricate, moving pieces of music involving a whole orchestra then it is to play reverse arpeggios on one guitar.
i don't think you've actually heard power metal then. Power metal bands then to be from europe(especially scandinavia!) and for the most part write sogns about "swords and sorcery". Think Manowar, Blind Guardian, Hammerfall, etc. Some people are really into it, for the most part its very cheesy metal, and certainly not a damn thing like hardcore. However, all the newer breed of metal-influenced hardcore(Hatebreed is the best example) seems to just be metal without the solos. Perhaps thats what you meant?
its pretty widely adknowledged that Mclaren was responsible for destroying the NY Dolls. I couldn're read your comment and not throw that in. I mean he DID manage them, but it was at the tail-end of their career, none of the Dolls really liked him, or wanted him as their manager, and he changed their image so drastically it managed them so badly it caused some of them to slip even deeper into drugs, breaking up the band, and eventually leading to the overdose of Johnny Thunders. I mean christ, he took them from wearing heavy makeup and looking sort of like-street-glam rockers to dressed as communists in matching red outfits. Politisicm certainly didn't fit the dolls. I guess in the Sex Pistols he found 4 guys that were willing to go along with whatever preposterous ideas he had. I wouldn't say he neccesarily managed them all that well either...Mclaren always seemed to me as a sniveling little right-place-at-the-right-time kind of guy.
you're from columbus? I was just down there at the Queers show on monday passing out flyers for our show there next week(we're called The Conceited) It is so odd seeing people discuss punk rock on this website.
From what I can remember, there are a whole series of RJ connectors, used for many different applications. I know this because I tried borrowing an RJ-45 crimper from a Proffessor in the Optics lab, and he had an assortment of crimpers for varied RJ connectors, none of which were RJ-11 or RJ-45. I'm not sure what their specific uses are, but they most defintely exist.