RE: OT How many Boxen?

2002-06-01 Thread Zoki, mailinglist account
-Message d'origine- De : [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]De la part de Kurt Wall Envoye : mardi 28 mai 2002 23:18 Objet : OT How many Boxen? I was just curious how many and what kind of boxen people have on their home networks. For example, I have an AMD 1200 running

Re: OT How many Boxen?

2002-05-30 Thread Tom Wilson
On Wednesday 29 May 2002 10:20 am, Kurt Wall voice rose above the ones in my head and declared: I was just curious how many and what kind of boxen people have on their home networks. For example, I have an AMD 1200 running Windows (yeah, whatever), a Pentium II running a heavily-modified

Re: OT How many Boxen?

2002-05-29 Thread Klaus-Peter Schrage
Am Dienstag, 28. Mai 2002 23:17 schrieb Kurt Wall: I was just curious how many and what kind of boxen people have on their home networks. For example, I have an AMD 1200 running Windows (yeah, whatever), a Pentium II running a heavily-modified Slackware 8.0, a Pentium III running an equally

RE: OT How many Boxen?

2002-05-29 Thread kbb0927
These are all homebrew except the laptops Celeron 900 Rackmount w/SuSE 7.3 - fileserver Chicony MP-978 laptop w/K6-300 - WinME/SuSE 7.3 Compaq Armada M700 w/PIII-850 - WinXP Home/SuSE 8.0/RH 7.3 Celeron 850 - WinXP Pro/SuSE 8/SuSE 7.3/RH 7.2/COL 3.1 AMD K6-366 - Win98SE (son's) Celeron 700 -

Re: OT How many Boxen?

2002-05-29 Thread John Voigt
On 05/28/2002 04:17 PM, Kurt Wall wrote: I was just curious how many and what kind of boxen people have on their home networks. 1 i486/33 - Slackware 7.1 1 Compq Presario Laptop (AMD K6/2-233) - COL2.3 1 Dell Pent.IV/1.8G - SuSE 7.3/ WinXP ('cause it came with it) 1 Homebrew AMD K6/2-333 -

Re: OT How many Boxen?

2002-05-29 Thread Michael Hipp
It's a great idea. Except I sit right in the middle of 516 acres. So it is more than 1km to my nearest neighbor. I couldn't reach a single one of them with any ordinary wireless stuff. Michael On Tuesday 28 May 2002 11:47 pm, Keith Morse wrote: On Tue, 28 May 2002, Michael Hipp wrote:

Re: OT How many Boxen?

2002-05-29 Thread rplummer
In order of size, but size isn't everything :) 1. AMD 350 running Caldera eD2.4 as webserver 2. Toshiba Sattellite Celeron 4?? running Win98SE 3. AMD 450 Win98SE and Libranet 2.0 4. AMD Duron 800 Win98SE Graphics and Webdesign 5. AMD 1800+ Win98SE, Libranet2.0, Elx pre-gold, Redmond (lycoris),

Re: OT How many Boxen?

2002-05-29 Thread David A. Bandel
On Wed, 29 May 2002 08:53:10 -0500 begin Michael Hipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] spewed forth: It's a great idea. Except I sit right in the middle of 516 acres. So it is more than 1km to my nearest neighbor. I couldn't reach a single one of them with any ordinary wireless stuff. Guess that's how you

Re: OT How many Boxen?

2002-05-29 Thread Michael Hipp
Hmm. Is this 802.11a/b stuff? I'd like to know more. Line of sight would take some work here in the hills trees of Arkansas. But who knows. Michael On Wednesday 29 May 2002 10:37 am, David A. Bandel wrote: On Wed, 29 May 2002 08:53:10 -0500 begin Michael Hipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] spewed

Re: OT How many Boxen?

2002-05-29 Thread David A. Bandel
On Wed, 29 May 2002 11:29:55 -0500 begin Michael Hipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] spewed forth: Hmm. Is this 802.11a/b stuff? I'd like to know more. Line of sight would take some work here in the hills trees of Arkansas. But who knows. Yep, simple ol' Orinoco cards w/ adapters, LMR-400 cable, and

Re: OT How many Boxen?

2002-05-29 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
I've got a few: 1. My wife's PIII-450 running Win Me (she loves it, and it keeps her occupied and happy, so what the hell). Purchased from Pionex by way of a QVC daily special value. 2. My laptop (occasionally), and old P-150 from WinBook, dual booting Win98 and RH. I use it rarely

Re: OT How many Boxen?

2002-05-29 Thread Matthew Carpenter
1 Celeron 300-450 running COLS3.1 with Multimedia packages from COLW 1 P133 running SuSE 7.1 1 Cyrix 6x86 P120+ running MDK 8.1 (COL3.1.x stiffed this box) 1 Cyrix 6x86 P166+ running Win98 (wife) 1 P150 running MDK 8.0 1 Compaq Armada7800 400MHz running COLW3.1.1 1 PII-400 running MDK 8.1 2 P200

Re: OT How many Boxen?

2002-05-29 Thread Matthew Carpenter
How is the Gaming Edition anyway? On Tue, 28 May 2002 19:12:16 -0400 Tim Wunder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * An AMD K6-450 with Mandrake Gaming Edition (8.1) ___ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users

Re: OT How many Boxen?

2002-05-29 Thread Michael Hipp
This might be the way to scatter recording webcams around the farm. What kind of amp and high gain antennas are you using? Does antenna height matter as long as it is line-of-sight? On Wed, 29 May 2002 12:56:07 -0500 David A. Bandel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 29 May 2002 11:29:55 -0500

Re: OT How many Boxen?

2002-05-29 Thread Tim Wunder
My son loves it. It comes with the Sims, which runs flawlessly. And he even got a Windows Racing game to run (can't remember which one off hand -- need for speed?), On Wednesday 29 May 2002 12:23 pm, Matthew Carpenter wrote: How is the Gaming Edition anyway? On Tue, 28 May 2002 19:12:16

Re: OT How many Boxen?

2002-05-29 Thread Keith Morse
On Wed, 29 May 2002, Michael Hipp wrote: This might be the way to scatter recording webcams around the farm. What kind of amp and high gain antennas are you using? Does antenna height matter as long as it is line-of-sight? I hold off on using amps unless strictly necessary. for the

Re: OT How many Boxen?

2002-05-29 Thread Kurt Wall
Scribbling feverishly on May 29, [EMAIL PROTECTED] managed to emit: Toshiba Libretto 100CT - WinME (wife's) What's the processor in this one? Kurt -- The man who sets out to carry a cat by its tail learns something that will always be useful and which never will grow dim or doubtful.

Re: OT How many Boxen?

2002-05-29 Thread Andrew Mathews
Michael Hippo wrote: Overall I'm reasonably happy with it. It works much better than I thought it would. It is the *only* affordable broadband out here in the stix. Costs $60US/month and speeds often exceed 1Mbps. Cost was $650US to get it installed. (I had 128k ISDN for 4 years before

Re: OT How many Boxen?

2002-05-29 Thread David A. Bandel
On Wed, 29 May 2002 17:29:20 -0500 begin Michael Hipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] spewed forth: This might be the way to scatter recording webcams around the farm. What kind of amp and high gain antennas are you using? Does antenna height matter as long as it is line-of-sight? I'm using a 500mW amp

Re: OT How many Boxen?

2002-05-29 Thread Kurt Wall
Scribbling feverishly on May 28, Andrew Mathews managed to emit: Kurt Wall wrote: Scribbling feverishly on May 28, Andrew Mathews managed to emit: snip As I wrote in another post, some of us are overachievers. Clearly, the one who dies with the most MIPS, wins. You get the Lifetime

Re: OT How many Boxen?

2002-05-29 Thread Michael Hipp
Yes, you could do that. It wouldn't even have to be that extreme. Usually if you stop using the link for a full clock hour the FAP will go away. So you could probably do something like start the download at :05 after, stop it at :55 and resume it an hour later at :05. But I'm just guessing as I

Re: OT How many Boxen?

2002-05-29 Thread M.W.Chang
late reply Abit BP6 (single C300A450MHz), 128M RAM, Voodoo Banshee, COL 3.1 workstation, broadband sharing, seti@home, learning tool now tyring to test COL 3.1.1 on a PIII700@933MHz, 512M RAM, GF2-MX400 Kurt Wall wrote: I was just curious how many and what kind of boxen people have on their

Re: OT How many Boxen?

2002-05-29 Thread Keith Morse
On Wed, 29 May 2002, Kurt Wall wrote: My boss and friend has you all beat: http://vonhagen.org/collection.html Judas Priest, He needs a 500KW Generator just to power all that stuff. ___ Linux-users mailing list -

Re: OT How many Boxen?

2002-05-28 Thread Federico Voges
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, 1 Pentium 200MMX running COL eServer 2.3.1 with some mods (ie: newer apache/php versions). This is my server/gw. 1 Pentium 200MMX running COL eServer 2.3.1 with a custom kernel and related packages (binutils, lilo, etc). Test server (currently

Re: OT How many Boxen?

2002-05-28 Thread Aaron Grewell
1 Duron-700 w/WinXP Lycoris 1 Athlon-900 w/Win98 COL3.1 1 486-133 w/RH7.2 1 486-100 w/LRP Oxygen (soon to be Gibraltar) 1 P-90 w/Win95 (new acquisition, soon to be RH) 1 Sun Ultra-1 w/Solaris 8 2 Ataris on loan while I try to retrieve their data and convert into a usable format 2 CP/M boxen

Re: OT How many Boxen?

2002-05-28 Thread Net Llama!
On 28 May 2002, Aaron Grewell wrote: On Tue, 2002-05-28 at 14:21, Net Llama! wrote: 1 PII-400 running COL-2.4 1 PIII-1Ghz running heavily modified COL-3.1.1 (also has windoze 98) 1 PIII-1Ghz running heavily modified RH-7.3 1 PII-400 running FreeSCO 1 PIII-433 (laptop) running RH-7.2

Re: OT How many Boxen?

2002-05-28 Thread Aaron Grewell
On Tue, 2002-05-28 at 14:21, Net Llama! wrote: 1 PII-400 running COL-2.4 1 PIII-1Ghz running heavily modified COL-3.1.1 (also has windoze 98) 1 PIII-1Ghz running heavily modified RH-7.3 1 PII-400 running FreeSCO 1 PIII-433 (laptop) running RH-7.2 1 PII-333 (laptop) running RH-6.2 1 Mac

Re: OT How many Boxen?

2002-05-28 Thread Aaron Grewell
OS5? Whoa. I've never even *seen* anything older than 6.0.8. This is a Mac Classic, ya know, 1984 and all that. No, its not on the network, but it does run, with its 40MB drive. Yeah, I just missed all the older Mac stuff. I had an XT w/a NEC V-20 for 12MHz of Turbo Power! It even

Re: OT How many Boxen?

2002-05-28 Thread Randy Donohoe
I was just curious how many and what kind of boxen people have on their home networks. For example, I have an AMD 1200 running Windows (yeah, whatever), a Pentium II running a heavily-modified Slackware 8.0, a Pentium III running an equally heavily-modified Slackware 8.0, and a Sparc5

RE: OT How many Boxen?

2002-05-28 Thread Condon Thomas A KPWA
I was just curious how many and what kind of boxen people have on their home networks. For example, I have an AMD 1200 running Windows (yeah, Pentium I 120 running SuSE 8.0 sharing disk space. Celleron 600 running SuSE 8.0 LC III running Mac OS 6.5 Acer Extensa 394T running Winders 95 (and

RE: OT How many Boxen?

2002-05-28 Thread Condon Thomas A KPWA
On Tue, 2002-05-28 at 14:21, Net Llama! wrote: 1 PII-400 running COL-2.4 1 PIII-1Ghz running heavily modified COL-3.1.1 (also has windoze 98) 1 PIII-1Ghz running heavily modified RH-7.3 1 PII-400 running FreeSCO 1 PIII-433 (laptop) running RH-7.2 1 PII-333 (laptop) running RH-6.2

Re: OT How many Boxen?

2002-05-28 Thread Michael Hipp
P-166 ColW 3.1.1 P4 1.7GHz Gentoo P4 1.7GHz Win2k P3-500 Win98 All connecting to the Hughes 2-way satellite Unnetworked (kid's machines): K6-333 Win98 K6-300 Win98 Plus whatever I might be working on for clients. On Tuesday 28 May 2002 04:17 pm, Kurt Wall wrote: I was just curious how many

RE: OT How many Boxen?

2002-05-28 Thread Aaron Grewell
OS5? Whoa. I've never even *seen* anything older than 6.0.8. Whippersnapper! I didn't count my original Mac sitting on the shelf in the garage. I seem to recall an OS version of 4.x! I admit it, I don't go that far back with the Mac. The only reason I saw 6.0.8 was that we were

Re: OT How many Boxen?

2002-05-28 Thread Myles Green
On May 28, 2002 03:17 pm, Kurt Wall wrote: I was just curious how many and what kind of boxen people have on their home networks. For example, I have an AMD 1200 running Windows (yeah, whatever), a Pentium II running a heavily-modified Slackware 8.0, a Pentium III running an equally

Re: OT How many Boxen?

2002-05-28 Thread Tim Wunder
On Tuesday 28 May 2002 05:17 pm, Kurt Wall wrote: I was just curious how many and what kind of boxen people have on their home networks. For example, I have an AMD 1200 running Windows (yeah, whatever), a Pentium II running a heavily-modified Slackware 8.0, a Pentium III running an equally

Re: OT How many Boxen?

2002-05-28 Thread Kurt Wall
Scribbling feverishly on May 28, Tim Wunder managed to emit: [...] BTW, Have you tried, or are you planning to try Slack 8.1? When it's released, yes. Kurt -- Mandrell: You know what I think? Doctor: Ah, ah that's a catch question. With a brain your size you don't think, right?

Re: OT How many Boxen?

2002-05-28 Thread James McDonald
On Wed, 29 May 2002 07:17, you wrote: I was just curious how many and what kind of boxen people have on their home networks. snip Kurt Umm, 1 AMD 1.3Ghz { Windows XP, Redhat 7.2 (haven't needed to boot to windows lately can do everything with open source... damn waste of money) } 1 P100 {

Re: OT How many Boxen?

2002-05-28 Thread Andrew Mathews
Kurt Wall wrote: I was just curious how many and what kind of boxen people have on their home networks. For example, I have an AMD 1200 running Windows (yeah, whatever), a Pentium II running a heavily-modified Slackware 8.0, a Pentium III running an equally heavily-modified Slackware 8.0, and

Re: OT How many Boxen?

2002-05-28 Thread William F. Day
2.2.20-1tr i586 8:10pm up 13 days, 19:24, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 - Original Message - From: Jerry McBride [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2002 7:21 PM Subject: Re: OT How many Boxen? On Tue, 28 May 2002 17:17:38 -0400 Kurt Wall [EMAIL

Re: OT How many Boxen?

2002-05-28 Thread Kurt Wall
Scribbling feverishly on May 28, Jerry McBride managed to emit: On Tue, 28 May 2002 17:17:38 -0400 Kurt Wall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was just curious how many and what kind of boxen people have on their home networks... Well, to start with... the server is a clone sporting a soyo

Re: OT How many Boxen?

2002-05-28 Thread Kurt Wall
Scribbling feverishly on May 28, Andrew Mathews managed to emit: Oh boy. That's like asking a grandparent to talk about their grandchildren! You're welcome. :-) But, you asked. 1 Pentium Pro single 333mhz overdrive running SGI kernel/RedHat 7.2 1 Pentium Pro dual 333mhz overdrive running

Re: OT How many Boxen?

2002-05-28 Thread Andrew Mathews
Michael Hipp wrote: P-166 ColW 3.1.1 P4 1.7GHz Gentoo P4 1.7GHz Win2k P3-500 Win98 All connecting to the Hughes 2-way satellite snip Gotta ask, how's the satellite connection? Fast? Slow? Latency? I know they don't support anything but MS USB (or didn't). Did you have to gateway

Re: OT How many Boxen?

2002-05-28 Thread Net Llama!
Odd categorization scheme you got there. Kurt Wall wrote: Meanwhile, I've been keeping a tally. What I have so far: VA Linux 1221: 1 Its dual PIII 1Ghz, if you want to be accurate. It's clear that some of us are serious overachievers. ;-) Everyone needs a hobby :) --

Re: OT How many Boxen?

2002-05-28 Thread Keith Antoine
On Wednesday 29 May 2002 07:17 am, you wrote: I was just curious how many and what kind of boxen people have on their home networks. For example, I have an AMD 1200 running Windows (yeah, whatever), a Pentium II running a heavily-modified Slackware 8.0, a Pentium III running an equally

Re: OT How many Boxen?

2002-05-28 Thread Alan Jackson
On Tue, 28 May 2002 17:17:38 -0400 Kurt Wall wrote: I was just curious how many and what kind of boxen people have on their home networks. For example, I have an AMD 1200 running Windows (yeah, whatever), a Pentium II running a heavily-modified Slackware 8.0, a Pentium III running an equally

Re: OT How many Boxen?

2002-05-28 Thread Andrew Mathews
Kurt Wall wrote: Scribbling feverishly on May 28, Andrew Mathews managed to emit: snip As I wrote in another post, some of us are overachievers. Clearly, the one who dies with the most MIPS, wins. You get the Lifetime Achievement award for being able to keep track of SGI's ever-changing

Re: OT How many Boxen?

2002-05-28 Thread Alan Jackson
On Tue, 28 May 2002 15:52:14 -0700 Condon Thomas A KPWA wrote: 1 Mac Classic running OS5 OS5? Whoa. I've never even *seen* anything older than 6.0.8. Whippersnapper! I didn't count my original Mac sitting on the shelf in the garage. I seem to recall an OS version of 4.x!

Re: OT How many Boxen?

2002-05-28 Thread Keith Morse
On Tue, 28 May 2002, Andrew Mathews wrote: Oh boy. That's like asking a grandparent to talk about their grandchildren! But, you asked. 1 Pentium Pro single 333mhz overdrive running SGI kernel/RedHat 7.2 1 Pentium Pro dual 333mhz overdrive running SGI kernel/RedHat 7.2 1 Dual PIII 800

Re: OT How many Boxen?

2002-05-28 Thread Bob Raymond
Kurt Wall wrote: I was just curious how many and what kind of boxen people have on their home networks. For example, I have an AMD 1200 running Windows (yeah, whatever), a Pentium II running a heavily-modified Slackware 8.0, a Pentium III running an equally heavily-modified Slackware 8.0, and a

Re: OT How many Boxen?

2002-05-28 Thread Michael Hipp
Overall I'm reasonably happy with it. It works much better than I thought it would. It is the *only* affordable broadband out here in the stix. Costs $60US/month and speeds often exceed 1Mbps. Cost was $650US to get it installed. (I had 128k ISDN for 4 years before that at $190US/month.) It

Re: OT How many Boxen?

2002-05-28 Thread Keith Morse
On Tue, 28 May 2002, Michael Hipp wrote: [snippage] If I could get a landline (cable, DSL), I'd take it in a NY minute. But the Sat is a lifesaver otherwise. Silly thought here. Get a business level T-1. And here's the way to justify it. Get into cahoots with 20 neighbors and act as

Re: OT How many Boxen?

2002-05-28 Thread Kurt Wall
Scribbling feverishly on May 28, Keith Morse managed to emit: On Tue, 28 May 2002, Andrew Mathews wrote: Oh boy. That's like asking a grandparent to talk about their grandchildren! But, you asked. 1 Pentium Pro single 333mhz overdrive running SGI kernel/RedHat 7.2 1 Pentium Pro dual