Robocoastie
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Posted: Oct. 10 2004,05:05 |
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Got the box Friday afternoon. The video card turned out to be useless because Matrox made them for some kind of touch screens so they have a funky connector I've never seen before for video /shrug no biggie though. So I just pulled out a Xabre (newer sis3d card) agp from my computer parts closet and modified it and the case to fit with my trusty tin snips  . Then stuck in DSL and booted her up - 2 tuxes popped up (very cool btw) and DSL is indeed fast with it. HDD install failed though, perhaps I had scsi calls set up wrong, but no matter because I decided to make it a print server as well as 2nd computer and setting up SAMBA manually was driving me mad.
Undeterred I stuck Yoper on it and wow it was equally fast even using KDE 3.3 they really did some very cool work with that distro to make it so snappy. Alas samba drove me just as crazy, so tried my trusty Xandros 2.5 Deluxe, file sharing worked much easier due to XandrosFM automating that but print sharing was an entirely other matter.
So... with little choice I had to stick my spare WinXP Pro on it. This isn't *nix's fault at all I just need to get an up to date samba book and learn it like I did XFree86 and the basics of Linux. In the mean time I had to have a solution.
In WinXP-Pro using overclockers.com team's one click script Folding@Home is running CPU1 at 50%cpu load with an estimated time to be done with its work unit in 9 days 10 hours and 40 minutes. CPU2 at 100% cpu load is estimated at 4-13-36 at its current work load. Not snappy by any means but might as well put it to work.
Speaking of hardware/performance like this how well do via's itx/cpu solutions that the DSL site sells peform for distributed apps? I read recently that via will be shipping a dual processor board/cpu combo in November, any plans on having those available to purchase? I may just build a DSL with it.
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