No 64bit, no raid, no fancy gui...... If you bought a typewriter off craigslist you could take the money you save and pay someone to translate youtube videos into ascii art and make a flip book
I'm just jokin around On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 3:23 PM, Dante Lanznaster <[email protected]> wrote: > Interesting view of the market. > Are you going to the meeting Saturday? > > > On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 11:53 AM, Michael Sokolov < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Hello again, >> >> Thanks for all the recommendations. >> >> It was reassuring to hear that older hardware will work fine, but I need >> to clarify something: due to my general dislike of the pee sea (PC) >> architecture, I have absolutely no, zero, zip, nada PC hardware already >> on hand, all our existing hardware is VAX, Sun SPARC or mainframe gear, >> nothing even remotely PC-compatible. Therefore, whether I go with new >> or used, either way I have to buy that PC or the complete set of parts >> for it somewhere. (The only exception is that we do already have a >> good Viewsonic monitor with PeeCee video input and PS/2 kbd & mouse >> which we intend to use for this workstation.) >> >> Which brings me to the following: if anyone on this list has any old PC >> hardware which meets the specs that have been discussed and which they >> would be willing to sell to us for a price less than what we would have >> to pay at a store for a new low-end system, let's talk. >> >> Chris Penn <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > A different strategy could be to build a box for speed. The functions >> > you mention are pretty basic and can be done on a windows machine, so >> > I say make a box that can do them waaaaay faster. >> > [...] >> > Maybe a decent video card for compiz if >> > she wishes she had a Mac. >> >> Comparison with Weenzone/Mac is completely irrelevant in this case >> because the intended user of the workstation in question is my >> girlfriend who has already been required to give all that stuff up as a >> condition for our relationship. >> >> I have a policy that anyone who receives financial and/or emotional >> support from me (spouse, child, whoever) is required to use only those >> computing technologies which I approve on ethical grounds. Weendoze and >> MacOS are on the black list of prohibited stuff and so are GNOME, KDE >> and most definitely compiz or whatever the hell that is. If the >> spouse/child/whoever wishes to use Weendoze, MacOS, GNOME, KDE or compiz >> or whatever, they are more than welcome to do so, but in that case they >> must find some other place to live and some other means of support. >> >> > and a gigbit NIC. >> >> Completely useless given that our office network is strictly 10 Mbps >> (true coaxial Ethernet in the data centre, 10BaseT going out to the >> cubicles). The outside Internet connection is SDSL @ 384 kbps serving >> as an ARPANET replacement. >> >> > You gonna go 64bit? >> >> I would really prefer not to, just to make my sysadmin job easier. I >> hate admining modern Linux on pee seas as it is, I don't need the extra >> complication of however-in-hell does that Intel 64-bit stuff work... >> >> > [recommendations regarding software RAID] >> >> Completely unnecessary because the PC in question will never have >> anything of any value stored on it. If the HDD goes up in smoke, we >> throw it out, stick a new one in there and reinstall Slackware. All >> valuable information is stored only on the mainframe. >> >> > [OpenOffice stuff] >> >> We won't be using OO either, the company policy requires that all TPS >> reports be written in vi on the UNIX mainframe. >> >> As I've said, we need to put this PeeCee together to do web (Firefox), >> MP3s and video, stuff which absolutely positively cannot be done on the >> mainframe. Anything that can be done on the mainframe, regardless of >> how un-modern and user-unfriendly it is, is done on the mainframe. >> >> MS >> _______________________________________________ >> LinuxUsers mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers >> > > > _______________________________________________ > LinuxUsers mailing list > [email protected] > http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers > > -- Peter Manis (678) 269-7979
