RE: [slim] Building a house server?

2005-04-20 Thread Chris Brooking
ultiple disc access isn't such a strain on the CPU. Chris -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 20 April 2005 07:45 To: discuss@lists.slimdevices.com Subject: RE: [slim] Building a house server? If you are planning

RE: [slim] Building a house server?

2005-04-19 Thread CMaskelyne
losses as a result of any viruses being passed on. -Original Message- From: Bob Fish [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 19 April 2005 14:07 To: Slim Devices Discussion Subject: Re: [slim] Building a house server? I run mine on a PIII 400 with 512M ram and a 250G drive. Runs Fedora Core.

Re: [slim] Building a house server?

2005-04-19 Thread Damon Riley
I'm apparently in the minority, but I'm running Libranet GNU/Linux (a Debian distro) on a Pentium II (yes, that's Pentium Two). I did beef up the memory and put in a fat hard drive and it runs fine. The drop-outs I hear are usually wireless telephone vs. wireless network. As long as I connec

Re: [slim] Building a house server?

2005-04-19 Thread Bob Fish
I run mine on a PIII 400 with 512M ram and a 250G drive. Runs Fedora Core. Talking with Orb on 18 Apr 2005 at 4:45 about "[slim] Building a house server?" we discussed: > > What do people recommend for a basic house server? > I could get my hands on an old (very cheap)

Re: [slim] Building a house server?

2005-04-18 Thread Jim Dibb
Hi Michael, I'll look into my exact setup when I get home, but I believe the spamassassin problem is due to a bug of some kind. On a heavy day, I don't get more than 20 messages to my home email. I use gmail for the lists I'm on. But basically something pops them from verizon, then procmail, the

Re: [slim] Building a house server?

2005-04-18 Thread Michael Peters
On Mon, 2005-04-18 at 08:29 -0400, Jim Dibb wrote: > The only time I really have a problem is when the SpamAssassin daemon > goes crazy and chews up the whole CPU. That happens from time to time > and I don't know why. How do you filter? My "utility box" that does everything - fetchmail pops,

Re: [slim] Building a house server?

2005-04-18 Thread thnmnt
> > What do people recommend for a basic house server? > i'm using an old Dell PIII 600 with 512MB RAM. i uninstalled win98 and put Mandrake 10 on it (i'm a linux newbie and had it running in about 30 minutes) installing slimserver from the RPM took another 15 minutes and then figuring out all t

Re: [slim] Building a house server?

2005-04-18 Thread Oliver Laumann
> What do people recommend for a basic house server? I'm using an old notebook computer as our house server, because it has a very low power consumption (approx. 10 watts when the disk is powered down and slightly more when the SlimServer software is streaming data). Our house server currently is

Re: [slim] Building a house server?

2005-04-18 Thread Jim Dibb
> On Mon, 18 Apr 2005 04:45:54 -0700, Orb > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > What do people recommend for a basic house server? > > I could get my hands on an old (very cheap) Pentium 3, 600 MHz, 256mb > > ram pc. I have a 200gb drive where my music is stored which would live > > in the house serv

Re: [slim] Building a house server?

2005-04-18 Thread Michael Herger
On Mon, 18 Apr 2005 04:45:54 -0700, Orb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What do people recommend for a basic house server? I could get my hands on an old (very cheap) Pentium 3, 600 MHz, 256mb ram pc. I have a 200gb drive where my music is stored which would live in the house server. Would a machine

[slim] Building a house server?

2005-04-18 Thread Orb
What do people recommend for a basic house server? I could get my hands on an old (very cheap) Pentium 3, 600 MHz, 256mb ram pc. I have a 200gb drive where my music is stored which would live in the house server. Would a machine of this (old) spec be good enough to cope with slimserver, file sha