[geeks] Ideas

[Andrew Weiss]

Too bad you probably care about speed.  I'm finding this 8100/80AV that 
I made my cable router is an excellent computer... (Hacked Yellowdog 
2.0 install and I'm compiling 2.4.20 tonight... 2.4.6 right now... then 
going to upgrade to YDL 2.3 later)  I find myself wondering why I 
haven't done anything with it until now... and of course feeling the 
itch to go get some other newer machines... mmmm 9500/9600... ...or my 
personal fave... ANS 700.  My first attempt at a free cable router was 
the Quadra 840 AV... that went...badly... I had it up and running, but 
it was only 8 % reliable at getting a DHCP address... and was so slow 
it was painful. (Debian 2.2r3)...I thoroughly hate 68k's right 
now...though I'm sure the 68060 is nice...still CISCish.

feel the POWER...<Homer> mmm POWER </Homer> ... and yes I did buy the 
watch so everyone can laugh.

Andrew

On Wednesday, December 11, 2002, at 08:42  AM, vance at neurotica.com 
wrote:

> I am going to try my hand at building a silent computer.  I'm taking
> ideas.  I need floating-point, and ethernet or PCI, and I'd like to 
> have
> built-in sound, and a serial console.  The system will not have a 
> floppy,
> CD-ROM, or HDD, and I was thinking of putting it in a 1U rackmount box.
>
> Peace...  Sridhar
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