I'm surprised no other comments (well, that I saw) picked up on that. While it's not impossible for a 486MHz machine to have shipped with those specs, it sounds more like a late high-end 486 system- especially the video. Well, I guess all of it actually. 486MHz would have been K6-2/3 (overclocked) or (overclocked) P2 or P3, and most of those systems shipped with hard drives over 1gb, and more than 32MB RAM. I think not having a CD-ROM and especially NO USB points toward it being actually a 80486...
If it's a 486 CPU, even if it's something 'nice' like a DX4, it's probably not worth it. Unless you really have a very good reason... Redhat 6 or earlier works pretty well, I used to have a really decent Redhat 6 server setup on a P100 with 64 MB RAM but considering how cheap you could get other hardware for, unless it's for some proof of concept of the re usability of hardware from past eras, it's really going to be a pain.
Actually RIT is great for general geekery. For a while though we nearly had 2 different groups almost competing for who could hold the best campus LAN. One of them ended up having a LAN party about every 2 weeks for most of the year, giving out insane prizes, until it ran their budget into the ground. So now electronic gaming society only has LANs once in a while, and we have RITfest twice a year which has been consistently pretty big and usually pretty fun. EGS still meets once a week (with an occasional special event or tournament) for console gaming. And then of course theres RWAG for D&D and tabletop... and we have a Go club, and Anime club is actually the largest club on campus. And we have an OC3 (although thats for the whole school). So yeah, yay for geeks and gamers!
ive had a few awful samsung drives.. one started out as 800mb but after a few months it ended up being like 300 because of bad sectors.. that was a few years ago though. never had a seagate drive fail and i still have a few of the huge 20mb ones around that probably still work..
on 75 and 60 GXPs? you got majorly lucky.. ive had like 3 of them and everyone has had issues ive had about 6 replacements maybe more, finally got a 180gxp which seems to be holding up but it still makes interesting noises sometimes..
it looks like it would be alot easier to clean than individual systems... i have genesis, playstation, dreamcast and n64 and it gets annoying cleaning them all...
Canon definitely makes a solid camera, I used 3 GL1s for a few years when my school bought 3 of them for use for student video classes.. someone even signed one out and brought it on a 3-day ski trip to vermont when it was -30 degrees and they still survived (and the footage looked good) the same person also ended up bringing one on their vacation to hawaii (after all that theyre not allowed to take out those cameras anymore) There are a few problems with the GL1 though mostly with audio, anything loud will distort using the built in mic because the auto gain can't turn the gain down low enough, this usually happened during concerts and such but it got pretty annoying. They fixed that on the GL2,which also provides a manual gain control. When I get the money I'll probably buy a GL2 since i think the XL1 is a little excesive for what I need but theyre definitely good cameras.
I'm definitely a collector.. but I constantly feel this desire to have more and it just won't stop.. I have probably around 60 systems and alot of it is old but some of it is pretty neat like my TRS-80 model II (mmm 8" disks) and the PCjr and a Kaypro IIx and pretty much everything I have works also. Have 10 computers on in this room right now, 12 are plugged in... although my parents are starting to not like it very much and dust is unmanagable to clean off that much stuff I'll gladly take more.. except if anyone wants to buy a small stack of working dot matrix printers I have a bunch that I don't use.. maybe ill take advantage of the officemax thing for them..
cowon IAudio 4- sexy, multicolor backlight, really good sound. too bad I cant afford one. really want it though ill take it over the ipod any day, even though its almost as expensive. and it has all the srs and other junk anyway, not that youd need it since it sounds good without it
I'm sort of a csh member.. I applied.. and did the packet.. and showed up for house meetings.. dont know if there was anything else i was suppossed to do since i never asked anyone about that.. its always funny to see rit people on slashdot though for some reason.. i dont think there were many csh experiments quite like that this year
i wouldnt exactly say transmeta chips are blazing.. my friend had a 600mhz tm5600 based laptop that had been marketed as 'gigapro' without any sort of actual note of the clock speed and the performance was not really near that of a comparable 600mhz cpu from amd or intel.. he endedup selling it for the price he bought it for and got an A64 emachines with a radeon m9600.. bit better for games;)
sounds like a neat thing to try.. not really sure if it's incredibly practical.. or if anyone would care after the initial 'wow' and 'hey thats kinda cool; thing wears off
the market share thing is really strange... I keep seeing more and more and more macs out there (especially powerbooks).. most of the linux market share has to be in servers. I'm at RIT and I think about half the people I see now have apple laptops, its really insane. even the members of the Computer Science House (special interest housing) about half have mac laptops, despite most also having desktops running windows or linux or windows and linux.. Apple's market share definitely is not decreasing at least.
i have a 1.3 acer tm800 centrino.. definitely gets warm but its still not too bad even after running united devices for a night.. pentium M kicks some serious 455.. its almost faster than my athlon xp 2400 and thats a 500 mhz difference
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I'm surprised no other comments (well, that I saw) picked up on that. While it's not impossible for a 486MHz machine to have shipped with those specs, it sounds more like a late high-end 486 system- especially the video. Well, I guess all of it actually. 486MHz would have been K6-2/3 (overclocked) or (overclocked) P2 or P3, and most of those systems shipped with hard drives over 1gb, and more than 32MB RAM. I think not having a CD-ROM and especially NO USB points toward it being actually a 80486... If it's a 486 CPU, even if it's something 'nice' like a DX4, it's probably not worth it. Unless you really have a very good reason... Redhat 6 or earlier works pretty well, I used to have a really decent Redhat 6 server setup on a P100 with 64 MB RAM but considering how cheap you could get other hardware for, unless it's for some proof of concept of the re usability of hardware from past eras, it's really going to be a pain.
Actually RIT is great for general geekery. For a while though we nearly had 2 different groups almost competing for who could hold the best campus LAN. One of them ended up having a LAN party about every 2 weeks for most of the year, giving out insane prizes, until it ran their budget into the ground. So now electronic gaming society only has LANs once in a while, and we have RITfest twice a year which has been consistently pretty big and usually pretty fun. EGS still meets once a week (with an occasional special event or tournament) for console gaming. And then of course theres RWAG for D&D and tabletop... and we have a Go club, and Anime club is actually the largest club on campus. And we have an OC3 (although thats for the whole school). So yeah, yay for geeks and gamers!
top quality.. couldnt agree more (shenmue shenmue shenmue) mmmm dreamcast.....
bashbashbashbash just fun to say. wonder if theyll be updating the cs systems at school, or if they ever really update the cs systems at school...
thats what real alternative is for.. small...works well.. makes realmedia a format that one can actually withstand using
ive had a few awful samsung drives.. one started out as 800mb but after a few months it ended up being like 300 because of bad sectors.. that was a few years ago though. never had a seagate drive fail and i still have a few of the huge 20mb ones around that probably still work..
on 75 and 60 GXPs? you got majorly lucky.. ive had like 3 of them and everyone has had issues ive had about 6 replacements maybe more, finally got a 180gxp which seems to be holding up but it still makes interesting noises sometimes..
it looks like it would be alot easier to clean than individual systems... i have genesis, playstation, dreamcast and n64 and it gets annoying cleaning them all...
far cry was the first of the new generation of games... too bad it wasnt quite as innovative as i had hoped aside from graphics.. yay GF4 4200
Canon definitely makes a solid camera, I used 3 GL1s for a few years when my school bought 3 of them for use for student video classes.. someone even signed one out and brought it on a 3-day ski trip to vermont when it was -30 degrees and they still survived (and the footage looked good) the same person also ended up bringing one on their vacation to hawaii (after all that theyre not allowed to take out those cameras anymore) There are a few problems with the GL1 though mostly with audio, anything loud will distort using the built in mic because the auto gain can't turn the gain down low enough, this usually happened during concerts and such but it got pretty annoying. They fixed that on the GL2,which also provides a manual gain control. When I get the money I'll probably buy a GL2 since i think the XL1 is a little excesive for what I need but theyre definitely good cameras.
heck yes!!! we had a computer recycling day at school this year and I picked up a few systems, as much as they would let me take...
I'm definitely a collector.. but I constantly feel this desire to have more and it just won't stop.. I have probably around 60 systems and alot of it is old but some of it is pretty neat like my TRS-80 model II (mmm 8" disks) and the PCjr and a Kaypro IIx and pretty much everything I have works also. Have 10 computers on in this room right now, 12 are plugged in... although my parents are starting to not like it very much and dust is unmanagable to clean off that much stuff I'll gladly take more.. except if anyone wants to buy a small stack of working dot matrix printers I have a bunch that I don't use.. maybe ill take advantage of the officemax thing for them..
cowon IAudio 4- sexy, multicolor backlight, really good sound. too bad I cant afford one. really want it though ill take it over the ipod any day, even though its almost as expensive. and it has all the srs and other junk anyway, not that youd need it since it sounds good without it
I'm sort of a csh member.. I applied.. and did the packet.. and showed up for house meetings.. dont know if there was anything else i was suppossed to do since i never asked anyone about that.. its always funny to see rit people on slashdot though for some reason.. i dont think there were many csh experiments quite like that this year
he she is pretty hot.. (im 18 though) i dont think shes that young looking
i wouldnt exactly say transmeta chips are blazing.. my friend had a 600mhz tm5600 based laptop that had been marketed as 'gigapro' without any sort of actual note of the clock speed and the performance was not really near that of a comparable 600mhz cpu from amd or intel.. he endedup selling it for the price he bought it for and got an A64 emachines with a radeon m9600.. bit better for games ;)
sounds like a neat thing to try.. not really sure if it's incredibly practical.. or if anyone would care after the initial 'wow' and 'hey thats kinda cool; thing wears off
who the heck is spamming like that????????????? I guess its time to ban anonymous coward.....
the market share thing is really strange... I keep seeing more and more and more macs out there (especially powerbooks).. most of the linux market share has to be in servers. I'm at RIT and I think about half the people I see now have apple laptops, its really insane. even the members of the Computer Science House (special interest housing) about half have mac laptops, despite most also having desktops running windows or linux or windows and linux.. Apple's market share definitely is not decreasing at least.
thats story not storey right?
seems like Takedown II would be about them.. definitely mitnick-like. Free Kevin Mitnick! Oh wait, he's already free.
wow...that sux0rs
i have a 1.3 acer tm800 centrino.. definitely gets warm but its still not too bad even after running united devices for a night.. pentium M kicks some serious 455.. its almost faster than my athlon xp 2400 and thats a 500 mhz difference
china definitely has some serious security.. although i know alot of people managed to find some way of getting around the 'great firewall of china'
yeah we should slashdot her somehow...