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Topic: John's "cheap little mini", questions about title

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Posted: Oct. 22 2004,22:04

And the mesh around the sides will surely keep all but the smallest of critters from
crawling inside to stay warm!
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Posted: Oct. 25 2004,17:55

I've been "playing" with DSL for several months, and now have been bitten by the mini-ITX bug as well. I have ordered the IDE/CF adapter from John in the past, and now just orderd the DC power supplie(s) to make my ME6000 truly silent.

Robocoastie's comment about comparing it to a C64 reminds me of my early days with my Apple II (in the spring of 1978) and how much I enjoyed computing.

Less is more, both with DSL, mini-ITX, and NOISE. Thanks John (and all), for helping to make computing fun again. (Oh, and ship my quiet power supply so I can dump this Damn Noisy ATX thing!)

Bob H.

P.S. John, you should put something in your "cheap little mini" picture to show how small it actually is.

msuho

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Posted: Oct. 25 2004,19:03

I'm not sure that this is the right place to ask, but it's the only min-itx thread I see going on the forum. If the forums gods feel it belongs elsewhere, please be my guest & move it.

I too am enamoured with the thought of a small, quite, not terribly hot box running DSL. I'm trying to figure out what parts would go into a box, and was wondering:
- The 3677 & 3688 cases talk about "low height" memory. Anybody know what that means?

- I'm considering a DSL mini itx system that would no have it's own monitor & keyboard: it would be accessed over a network. Is the DSL (or KNOPPIX, or Debian) kernel that's in the default distribution going to boot OK if there's no monitor or keyboard attached? One Linux book I have says that I'd need to build a kernel with special options (like serial console) to do this.

I know it's not DSL- maybe we need a mini-itx, or DSL on mini-itx, subforum.

Thanks,

Mark

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Posted: Oct. 25 2004,21:34

hmm that's fascinating Mark, I've wondered how good the floating point is on these via cpus to determine if they'd be good for folding@home operations. If they were at least "average" at it this could be a cool way to do admin on them - thru the network. I don't know why one couldn't it shouldn't be much didn't than telnetting into it somehow.

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I found out on a mini-itx enthusiast site that they wouldn't work very well at all for f@h or other floating point intensive apps (like games). That's fine though they make great general purpose computers.

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Posted: Oct. 26 2004,14:24

What are the physical dimentions of the box?

How hard would it be to slap a small laptop HD in that?
Is there a dual nic board like that one out there???

Brian
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