Text 5724, 55 rader
Skriven 2006-04-17 20:48:12 av Maurice Kinal (1:140/13.1)
   Kommentar till text 5722 av WAYNE CHIRNSIDE (1:123/140)
Ärende: new guy in Linux
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Hey WAYNE!

Apr 17 16:26 06, WAYNE CHIRNSIDE wrote to MAURICE KINAL:

 WC> I window shop specifications on the internet first, a good candidate
 WC> appears to be a Belkins card offering available at Comp USA.

Could be.  Promise and ULi ones seem to have some problems wrt ide interfaces,
especially newer ones.

 WC> Yeah, not really happy with longevity here but for bulk static 
 WC> storage
 WC> they're hard to beat.

I doubt that.  A good hd beats them hands down everytime on all aspects of
storage/archiving/retrieval/whatever.  Even a hd on usb is vastly more reliable
then either a CD or DVD could ever hope to be in terms of reliablity.  As for
convenience, I'd suggest flash disks are vastly better, albiet a tad more
expensive, especially for read/writing although there is a limit to writes. 
For sure for longevity flash disks are VASTLY superior.  Also for the price of
a burner a decent sized flash disk can be had.

 ->> For sure.  You just need to work out the actual streaming part.  :-)

 WC> If I trip over a discarded unit with SFX power supply I'll revive the
 WC> H.P., still have a 64 and 32 Meg DIMM for it.

I think the neighbour might have one.  Beats me if it works or not and
considering the age I wouldn't count on it.  Wouldn't be worth the shipping
cost.

 ->> My neighbour did a little experiment with apache that worked across 
 ->> the board with mp3's.  I imagine it could work with mpegs too.

 WC> I went to Charles Angelich's Dosghost web site and ran some
 WC> streaming MP3's with no difficulty with Konqueror and an audio
 WC> application.

Sounds good.  I'd say the Gateway could handle high resolution movies if
properly formatted.  mpeg4 with mp3 stereo sound works great here.  However I
still need to test that on a 350 k6-2 with a Matrox g200 pci card using mga_vid
on the console before I am happy that it is completely doable and desirable. 
;-)

Offhand I think it is and will try it as soon as I get my hands on a few needed
items wrt a super-7 motherboards (unused) I happen to have handy.  I was
thinking of building a cluster with them using ide flash disks instead of
harddrives.  I have to find a proper power supply for that as well but getting
one going should be doable for this particular experiment.

Life is good,
Maurice

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