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Skriven 2008-11-17 20:30:33 av Russell Tiedt (5:7105/1)
  Kommentar till text 11927 av Maurice Kinal (1:261/38)
Ärende: when it rains ...
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Hello Maurice.

17 Nov 08 00:49, you wrote to me:

 MK> I understand what you're striving for but if life lengthening is the
 MK> goal then storing away the additional 1.5G of ram for when the current
 MK> 512N decides to pack it in might be a better idea.  Also you have to
 MK> consider stashing away spare cpu's, motherboards, etc.  My best guess
 MK> is it probably isn't worth it given the newer stuff is getting cheaper
 MK> than the old stuff you're trying to save.  Having said that, I
 MK> unfortunetly can relate to your cause.  I still have regrets about
 MK> some of the stuff I retired, especially the P3's.  The only trouble
 MK> with those were all the crappy motherboards supporting those fine
 MK> cpu's. I could say EXACTLY the same about modern AMD's.  The cpu's are
 MK> nice, it is the garbage chipsets/motherboards supporting them that
 MK> aren't worth the material they're made of.  I honestly feel sorry for
 MK> AMD.  Oh well.

Well, generally boards, last here, quiet awhile, unless, the power grid goes 
haywire, then they die suddenly ...

I don't have space to stash too much stuff, so usually, I build myself a 
decent "solid" system, and donate the otherstuff to those who need it more 
than myself ... , as far as regrets go, about the only systems I have regrets 
about where a 486 DX 33 that died suddenly on me, and that board you gave me, 
I liked that one particularly ... , but the power buggered it up ... :-((

The 486 was not working "properly", and I pressed the board, or was it the 
memory, and it just went "ZAP" and it was gone ... :-(( , only the HDD 
survived that one ...

AMD have gotten scarce around here off late ...

 MK> Understood.  Apply my above comments to the above quote.  I liked P3's
 MK> WAY better than p4's but unfortunetly the motherboards required to
 MK> support them aren't doable.  Also brand new dual channel ram is
 MK> cheaper and easier to come by than ye ol' pc133, used or not.

Yeah, well, memory for that board is still currently available here, even if 
it is 15 - 20 Rands a Gig. more expensive, than current memory ...

Also, as I am starting to feel that it is working reliably, I think I am going 
to move the BBS over to it, and retire the current system, which locks up on 
the odd occasion, a hardware problem I have yet to find ... , tho it will not 
be "dedicated" to the BBS as the current box is ... , 128M RAM is enough, but 
the 6Gig. HDD is also limiting the current BBS box ...

 MK> The only shiney spot cpu-wise here is the X3220 and would buy another
 MK> one.  However three Atom 230's with motherboards are cheaper than just
 MK> the X3220 so there is that to consider.  Hm.  I wonder if a cluster of
 MK> Atom's could keep up or even surpass the Xeon.  I sort of doubt it but
 MK> you never know for sure until attempted.  :::evil grin:::  Maybe some
 MK> day but I am not going to hold my breath on that one.

I really wouldn't mind myself ... <VVBG>

 >> My current favourite for browsing is FireFox

 MK> I've heard that said much around these parts, even/especially from the
 MK> MS crowd.

Well, it makes life so much "easier" if you switch from Linux to MS-WINDOWS, 
and the browser/e-mail client are identical ...

 >> Will see how that pans out

 MK> You are demonstrating wisdom.

Really .... <grin>

 >> If I had the money, I'd be very tempted to get one of those

 MK> Very inexpensive comparitively speaking.  Heck even the new 330's are
 MK> only a few dollars more and definetly have better associated chips
 MK> (onboard ethernet for sure) than the 230's.  For what the Xeon with
 MK> board, ram, etc. costs I could probably put together ten Atom 330
 MK> systems! Talk about backups eh?

A mate of mine has a 2Gig. Asus EEE-PC and I am impressed, also suprised that 
he bought a Linux box, but all he uses it for, is to transfer his photo's from 
his camera's CF-Disk, to his external, USB drive, and from  there to PhotoShop 
on WINXP, after explaining a few things to him, he was up and away ... , he is 
a very good amateur photographer ...

Could put the BBS on there, and use USB drives for the msgbase and file base, 
and take up very little space here ... <grin> , and I most times ssh to the 
BBS anyhow, so the little keyboard would not hamper me anyway ... <VBG>

 MK> ttylinux is the right answer to the above.  An 8M ttylinux ramdisk is
 MK> far more attractive than 100's of megs of Debian!  No stinkin' Python
 MK> either!!!  ;-)

Well, I am going to try put the Debian "Business Card" install onto a 100M ZIP 
Drive, and if it fits, then I can make it 60M - 80M easily, but that is still 
more than ttylinux, but will be "quicker" to get off the ground ... <grin>, 
once I get it working like I want, then it would be a short step to making my 
own custom ttylinux, and building it on there ... , sort one step at a time 
... <grin>

 MK> For what it's worth, you and your wife definetly have all the moral
 MK> support I am able to offer.

Many thanks, just come from visiting her, and if nothing untoward happens 
tonight, she should come home tomorrow, but while I was there, her heartbeat 
spiked twice from a reasonable 88-96 to a high of 135-138 ... , while it was 
beating irregular ... , probably have to drink pills every day to control that 
... <sigh>

The crowning glory to-day, is that the car's ignition started packing in ... 
:-(((

You know anybody, I can send Murphy to visit, so he can leave me alone awhile 
... <VVBG>

Russell

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