Plenty for the requirements of the flash mob supercomputer:
Minimum requirements are 1.3 GHZ Pentium III/AMD equivalent or better with 256MB of RAM, a 100 Base-T network connection and a CD-ROM - laptops preferred.
If you can find a Mini-ITX motherboard that's cheap and NOT made by VIA. It's about $395 for Commell's cheapest board, and this is probably the cheapest non-VIA Mini-ITX board.
It will run ANYTHING a VIA EPIA M10000-based system will run, however, for it to be better than a pretty casemod, it must be running Windows 98, ME, 2000, or XP, with the robotics software installed.
7.23, haven't tried it with Win32 (on Monday, I'll have access to the 7.50p1/Win32 testbed (I don't run betas of Opera on my main box), just for kicks).
As soon as the title appears in the tab heading (I middle click on the link), Opera locks. I don't even have flash on this system (damn you, MandrakeSoft!), so that wouldn't be the problem. Some system details:
Pentium MMX 233 (hey, I'm cheap) 96MB RAM ~650MB swap Mandrake 9.2 Download Edition KDE 3.1.whatever comes with 9.2DE Opera 7.23 Final.518/Linux i586 ID String (fuck with those stat programs - IE6 on Linux, or Opera on Linux?): Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; X11; Linux i586) Opera 7.23 [en]
What state are you in? In Ohio, Dispatch Media Group owns the following:
The Columbus Dispatch (newspaper) 10TV WBNS (television station) 21DT WBNS (does it really count, though? It's the HDTV arm of 10TV) ONN (Ohio News Network - think CNN, except only covering Ohio) 1040AM WBNS The Fan (sports radio - might have the frequency wrong) 97.1FM WBNS (similar to 97.9 WNCI, which is a ClearChannel top 40 station, but no good morning show)
An AC replied to you, saying that you provided a link to an Opera browser killer. It's true - Opera/Linux i386 locked up, and I had to killall -TERM opera to get rid of it.
The treaty only banned meapons of wass destruction? Hmm...
BTW, I'd think the laser beam could do some significant damage. So could a huge spike at hypervelocity (a 2mm BB created an entry hole of 5mm, and an exit hole of 1.75" in a thick plate of aluminum in tests, according to a post here...)
I hate to say it, but they named themselves after the "totally unrelated" cartoon character. Of course, said character may have been a ripoff of Leon Mandrake, a stage magician.
Well, the only things on the Bigfoot are my pr0n collection and some RPMs. Should I set it so that a partition on the Seagate is/home, instead of the dual-HDD config with the Bigfoot as/home?
The only bad things I've noticed about the Bigfoot are that it's 5.25" and it's really noisy when spinning (I can easily hear it over my ridiculously noisy fans). However, my Seagate, while quiet when spinning, is NOISY AS HELL when seeking.
I did complain on his comment system about the, ahem, lack of MandrakeMove (and when I got around to it, I happened to be running it on a MandrakeMove system).
If you want reliable glass platter drives, try Toshiba laptop drives. I think my 810MB drive is glass, and it only has ~200K in bad sectors, due to the laptop being stored in a truck in the middle of August:-(... Before that, it had ZERO bad sectors.
I've had decent reliability with Maxtors (my only problem was tied into me not quite getting the IDE cable plugged in all the way), but every WD I've had has died. I have NEVER had a single problem with Seagate drives, though.
My current system has a 4.3GB Quantum (now Maxtor) Bigfoot CY as/home, and an 8.4GB Seagate (out of an old HP supermarket-grade box) as/.
What about Seagate Barracudas? They're a bit slower than the others, but they've got a three year warranty on 80GB and higher, and, from what I've heard, they're damn quiet.
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Plenty for the requirements of the flash mob supercomputer:
Minimum requirements are 1.3 GHZ Pentium III/AMD equivalent or better with 256MB of RAM, a 100 Base-T network connection and a CD-ROM - laptops preferred.
If you can find a Mini-ITX motherboard that's cheap and NOT made by VIA. It's about $395 for Commell's cheapest board, and this is probably the cheapest non-VIA Mini-ITX board.
They said preferably laptops, which have internal batteries. A 1.7GHz Centrino laptop has PLENTY of power, and damn good battery life to boot.
It will run ANYTHING a VIA EPIA M10000-based system will run, however, for it to be better than a pretty casemod, it must be running Windows 98, ME, 2000, or XP, with the robotics software installed.
And, you know, they DO sell a model that lets you run an ethernet cable to your Winbox and get even more realistic... action.
7.23, haven't tried it with Win32 (on Monday, I'll have access to the 7.50p1/Win32 testbed (I don't run betas of Opera on my main box), just for kicks).
As soon as the title appears in the tab heading (I middle click on the link), Opera locks. I don't even have flash on this system (damn you, MandrakeSoft!), so that wouldn't be the problem. Some system details:
Pentium MMX 233 (hey, I'm cheap)
96MB RAM
~650MB swap
Mandrake 9.2 Download Edition
KDE 3.1.whatever comes with 9.2DE
Opera 7.23 Final.518/Linux i586
ID String (fuck with those stat programs - IE6 on Linux, or Opera on Linux?): Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; X11; Linux i586) Opera 7.23 [en]
RTFP. He said they used the railroad tracks. I'm assuming he meant that they used the tracks as the antenna.
Also, they had to have used a SHITLOAD of power.
What state are you in? In Ohio, Dispatch Media Group owns the following:
The Columbus Dispatch (newspaper)
10TV WBNS (television station)
21DT WBNS (does it really count, though? It's the HDTV arm of 10TV)
ONN (Ohio News Network - think CNN, except only covering Ohio)
1040AM WBNS The Fan (sports radio - might have the frequency wrong)
97.1FM WBNS (similar to 97.9 WNCI, which is a ClearChannel top 40 station, but no good morning show)
I think I'm missing some stuff, too...
An AC replied to you, saying that you provided a link to an Opera browser killer. It's true - Opera/Linux i386 locked up, and I had to killall -TERM opera to get rid of it.
Fix your site.
The treaty only banned meapons of wass destruction? Hmm...
BTW, I'd think the laser beam could do some significant damage. So could a huge spike at hypervelocity (a 2mm BB created an entry hole of 5mm, and an exit hole of 1.75" in a thick plate of aluminum in tests, according to a post here...)
BZFlag? Unreal Tournament (including GOTY, 2003 AND 2004)? Armagetron?
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Someone might want to contact Leon Mandrake's eldest son, especially if Mandrake the Magician IS ripped off of Leon Mandrake:
lon_mandrake (AT) yahoo (DOT) com
Actually, I'm thinking it IS a ripoff:
Leon Mandrake
Mandrake the Magician
Of course, the old Linux Mandrake logo is obviously a ripoff of Mandrake the Magician...
THEY DIDN'T NAME THEMSELVES AFTER THE PLANT!
I hate to say it, but they named themselves after the "totally unrelated" cartoon character. Of course, said character may have been a ripoff of Leon Mandrake, a stage magician.
Of course, I know many refer to Firefox as "the browser formerly known as Firebird, which is formerly known as Phoenix"...
Of course, Tux himself is part duck... look at the beak.
Or, just read this, and try to find the part about Antarctica.
And, let's look at Babelfish's version:
For the hour, Mandrake appealed, suspending the judgement and thus preserving its mark and its domain names.
I don't know any french, but I could see why Babelfish though that l'heure was the hour...
Yeah, right. Geode has clockspeeds in the 200-300MHz range. Even a VIA C3 at any clockspeed can murder a Geode.
I'm not talking about dropped calls. I'm talking about roaming. The local covers a lot that the national doesn't cover.
Well, the only things on the Bigfoot are my pr0n collection and some RPMs. Should I set it so that a partition on the Seagate is /home, instead of the dual-HDD config with the Bigfoot as /home?
The only bad things I've noticed about the Bigfoot are that it's 5.25" and it's really noisy when spinning (I can easily hear it over my ridiculously noisy fans). However, my Seagate, while quiet when spinning, is NOISY AS HELL when seeking.
Puppy (although it was the other way, flash to live-cd), and something else (I think it was a Damn Small deriative) are both flash-capable distros.
He's got SUSE.
I did complain on his comment system about the, ahem, lack of MandrakeMove (and when I got around to it, I happened to be running it on a MandrakeMove system).
If you want reliable glass platter drives, try Toshiba laptop drives. I think my 810MB drive is glass, and it only has ~200K in bad sectors, due to the laptop being stored in a truck in the middle of August :-(... Before that, it had ZERO bad sectors.
I've had decent reliability with Maxtors (my only problem was tied into me not quite getting the IDE cable plugged in all the way), but every WD I've had has died. I have NEVER had a single problem with Seagate drives, though.
/home, and an 8.4GB Seagate (out of an old HP supermarket-grade box) as /.
My current system has a 4.3GB Quantum (now Maxtor) Bigfoot CY as
What about Seagate Barracudas? They're a bit slower than the others, but they've got a three year warranty on 80GB and higher, and, from what I've heard, they're damn quiet.