I have three of the mini-ITX's in a rack that I made for $6 worth of home depot parts. I use them as diskless nodes. Total cost each is around $180, this includes board, power supply, ram, and network cable. The entire rack fits on top of one of my towers.
They take load off my desktop box by doing things like DNS, httpd, dhcpd, fetchmail, procmail, qmail, postgres, etc...
However I would like to see them move to gigabit ethernet.
Gordon Moore made his famous observation in 1965, just four years after the first planar integrated circuit was discovered. The press called it "Moore's Law" and the name has stuck. In his original paper, Moore observed an exponential growth in the number of transistors per integrated circuit and predicted that this trend would continue.
This is an excellent point. I wonder what the difference is between the amount of evironmental damage from a million mini powerplants and one super powerplant powering millions of cars. Based on economy of scale I would guess that the super plant makes less "bad stuff". Also you can regulate and clean it more easily and it's not in your neighborhood. However this doesn't really solve any problems, it just lessens the blow a bit.
Electric cars seems good on the surface and they are but I think we should be concentrating on clean burning fuels instead.
I also have no problems with DNS, HTTP, SMTP, secure POP3 other then the fact that my IP is listed as 'dynamic' (it's static) so earthlink and the others I mentioned in the post won't take mail from me. Thus I relay it through earthlink's server. Not a prob excpect that they could pull my plug legally if the traffic is too high.
A week ago I decided that it would be interesting to setup my own mail server, hell, fun even. Interesting yes, fun no. I started with sendmail and ended up with qmail.
I was so proud of my new server, it was so, well, new. I go to send out a test mail and alas earthlink would not accept it, hmm. Then I sent one to my yahoo account, nope. Hotmail? You guessed it. What's the deal I asked. Googled a bit, found that slashdot discussion (http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/03/04/13/2215207.shtm l?tid=120).
I started to realize that email is no longer a tool of the little guy. I send my mail through my earthlink server which works but now I must watch my volume (no mailing lists hosted here I'm afraid) because of my 'terms-of-service'. Something about being a little guy or something like that.
Now the last barrier is up. I wonder if ATT would put me on their list?
Choosing software based on momentum does compute if one project is doomed to a life of no support from developers. I'm not saying that gnome or kde fall into this catagory but if one project has 10x the developers and supporters and offers mostly the same functionality then I tend to perfer it.
That link is broken but I found this one:
http://evilwm.sourceforge.net/images/cap1.jpg
I don't seem to have "crawl" problems but I am a fan of going faster....I'll look into this.
I recently built a new box and got to the point where I had to go with either KDE or Gnome (not both, time was an issue). I choose KDE because it seemed that the project has more momentum.
Am I way off here? I'd love to hear slashdoters sound off on this one.
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I've received about 20 (with some variation) of these in the last few hours. Strange because SoBig ignored me for some reason.
After reading about these little cars yesturday I ran out and bought $88 worth of ZipZap stuff. The track set is really cool but you'll need two sets to make interesting tracks. The track pieces lock together so they stay in place.
The cars are charged by "pluggin" them into the controller. In about 30 sec you have a fully charged car that lasts for a full race ( ~10 min ). The other cool thing I noticed was that the cars don't get noticably slower has they use power. They just sort of die all at once.
I highly recommend these cars......
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well, they do have one PCI slot....i think you can get gigabit cards for as low as $30.
They are seperate right now. I was thinking about moving to openmosix.....
the board
power supply
ram
I have three of the mini-ITX's in a rack that I made for $6 worth of home depot parts. I use them as diskless nodes. Total cost each is around $180, this includes board, power supply, ram, and network cable. The entire rack fits on top of one of my towers.
They take load off my desktop box by doing things like DNS, httpd, dhcpd, fetchmail, procmail, qmail, postgres, etc...
However I would like to see them move to gigabit ethernet.
For the robot geeks these boards offer a lot
WOW, I had no idea....I almost hope slashdot never sends people my way one day. Not sure my server could handle it.
actually i checked my server with a outside service, i'm not a relay acording the them.
I do use smart relay through earthlinks server but i still have to watch my usage.
This is an excellent point. I wonder what the difference is between the amount of evironmental damage from a million mini powerplants and one super powerplant powering millions of cars. Based on economy of scale I would guess that the super plant makes less "bad stuff". Also you can regulate and clean it more easily and it's not in your neighborhood. However this doesn't really solve any problems, it just lessens the blow a bit.
Electric cars seems good on the surface and they are but I think we should be concentrating on clean burning fuels instead.
I also have no problems with DNS, HTTP, SMTP, secure POP3 other then the fact that my IP is listed as 'dynamic' (it's static) so earthlink and the others I mentioned in the post won't take mail from me. Thus I relay it through earthlink's server. Not a prob excpect that they could pull my plug legally if the traffic is too high.
I feel you pain.
They're just trying to sell the "no spam with our service" line better the other giants I'm afraid.
A week ago I decided that it would be interesting to setup my own mail server, hell, fun even. Interesting yes, fun no. I started with sendmail and ended up with qmail.
m l?tid=120).
I was so proud of my new server, it was so, well, new. I go to send out a test mail and alas earthlink would not accept it, hmm. Then I sent one to my yahoo account, nope. Hotmail? You guessed it. What's the deal I asked. Googled a bit, found that slashdot discussion (http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/03/04/13/2215207.sht
I started to realize that email is no longer a tool of the little guy. I send my mail through my earthlink server which works but now I must watch my volume (no mailing lists hosted here I'm afraid) because of my 'terms-of-service'. Something about being a little guy or something like that.
Now the last barrier is up. I wonder if ATT would put me on their list?
It wasn't indented to be flamebait.
Choosing software based on momentum does compute if one project is doomed to a life of no support from developers. I'm not saying that gnome or kde fall into this catagory but if one project has 10x the developers and supporters and offers mostly the same functionality then I tend to perfer it.
Nice to see a fellow rubyist!
That link is broken but I found this one: http://evilwm.sourceforge.net/images/cap1.jpg I don't seem to have "crawl" problems but I am a fan of going faster....I'll look into this.
I recently built a new box and got to the point where I had to go with either KDE or Gnome (not both, time was an issue). I choose KDE because it seemed that the project has more momentum. Am I way off here? I'd love to hear slashdoters sound off on this one.
I wonder if there is a way to follow the progress of the racers.....
Mozilla has a nice GUI building XML language called XUL. It's cross platform has support for skins and themes and such.
After reading about these little cars yesturday I ran out and bought $88 worth of ZipZap stuff. The track set is really cool but you'll need two sets to make interesting tracks. The track pieces lock together so they stay in place. The cars are charged by "pluggin" them into the controller. In about 30 sec you have a fully charged car that lasts for a full race ( ~10 min ). The other cool thing I noticed was that the cars don't get noticably slower has they use power. They just sort of die all at once. I highly recommend these cars......