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 MK> Hey Wayne!

 > Except for moving north, all but the tower must go.

 MK> Yeah it's hard to find a decent case these days.

 > I finally found a significant use for two monitors on a single
 > Linux installation.
 > Learning *nix.

 MK> Interesting idea.  Best idea I've heard for two monitors.  Usually the
 MK> second monitor is for farming out things like movies, tv, or simular
 MK> silliness.

It's most likely the only way I'm going to get back up to speed on this.

 > 6000 as a package with CPU and fan for $165 U.S.

 MK> Pretty good deal.

 > Then as a joke installing it in the 1998 IBM Aptiva tower.

 MK> Why would that be a joke?  Like I said above, decent cases are hard to
 MK> fine these days.  Most of what I see readily available is for the neon
 MK> light crowd who are as a rule clueless as to what is good.

The IBM tower is heavy guage steel and perfectly laid out for
upgrade as it has the ideal spot for an upgraded power suppply.

 MK> Personally I prefer the steel 4U rackmount cases.

 MK> BTW the latest eeepc build is sitting at ~550M.  I have a simular one

What is eeepc? 

 MK> for pure 64 bit but haven't finished yet.  I plan to have a package
 MK> list by the end of the week and put it on the ftp site instead of
 MK> posting it. It is getting way too long.  Something I've started playing
 MK> with on the xeon (soon the atom) and the eeepc;

Well I'm steering away from the Atom after some investigation
and the Xeon is well beyond my requirements.

By the time you've polished your 64 bit Linux I may have my system
upgraded to 64 bit dual core Athelon. 

 MK> [drm] DAC-6: set mode 1280x1024 1b
 MK> Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 160x64 [drm] fb0:
 MK> inteldrmfb frame buffer device

 MK> On the eeepc mode is 800x480 on bootup.  Got it working on the
 MK> terminals with fbi for jpegs, pngs, etc. as well as for pdfs and ps
 MK> with the fbgs shell wrapper to ghostscript.  

I'll have to look into fbi. 

 MK> Also put it into the
 MK> links.cfg so that it will farm out graphics to fbi on the fly.  

Yes, Yes. Yes. Yes, Yes!
Knoppix 4.0 actually did that and I loved getting the local weather radar
from the command line links.

I'd be VERY interested in this!

 MK> mplayer
 MK> doesn't like it ... yet.  However mplayer works great on xorg with the
 MK> intel graphics driver so now I have to use that if I ever care, which I
 MK> don't but what the heck eh?  I figure it'll all start working on a fb
 MK> terminal by the new year if not sooner.  Looks to me that at least 915
 MK> chipsets are required for this as well as onboard graphics.  Needs work
 MK> but I figure it'll happen.

Quite an undertaking.

 MK> Still haven't seen any usb3.0 cards.  I see the driver in the kernel
 MK> for it.

I look for them regularly and am so far equally disappointed.

It'd be great if Biostar modifies it's mothrboard for USB 3.0 by the
time I can actually afford to buy it however I could just as easily
get along with an upgrade USB card.

... Now using  Linux Slackware 12.2
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