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BenignVanilla wrote: "john rutz" wrote in message .... I plan to switch OS's when someone delivers a way for me to harnes my entire network. I have 6 or 7 machines always running, and if I could harness all 7 to compile video, or compile code, I'd switch tomorrow. BV. hmmm do youu mean use linux for the network? I had three puters networked on suse linux neat thing is suse can even read/copy windows partition |
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"jr" wrote in message ... BenignVanilla wrote: "john rutz" wrote in message .... I plan to switch OS's when someone delivers a way for me to harnes my entire network. I have 6 or 7 machines always running, and if I could harness all 7 to compile video, or compile code, I'd switch tomorrow. BV. hmmm do youu mean use linux for the network? I had three puters networked on suse linux neat thing is suse can even read/copy windows partition I design/build client server apps for a living. I have a 100baseT network in the house, with several servers, and clients so I closely replicate environments I work in for customers. My frustration, admitedly among others, is that often my windows machines are just sitting there. If I am compiling some code, or rendering some home videos, I'd love to be able to configure all machines on my network to allow ticks to be doled out to other machines that ask for them. Use the processors. BV. |
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"Cybe R. Wizard" Cybe_R_Wizard@WizardsTower wrote in message news:20031114205707.1ea70fed.Cybe_R_Wizard@Wizards Tower... Cybe R. Wizard -impressed that Snooze used Linux /before/ the version 1 release! Completely unintentionally too! I think I started with 0.99pl?? but i forget the patch level number. Funny story how I go introduced to linux. Sameer |
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On Sun, 16 Nov 2003 08:30:42 GMT "Snooze" wrote: "Cybe R. Wizard" Cybe_R_Wizard@WizardsTower wrote in message news:20031114205707.1ea70fed.Cybe_R_Wizard@Wizards Tower... Cybe R. Wizard -impressed that Snooze used Linux /before/ the version 1 release! Completely unintentionally too! I think I started with 0.99pl?? but i forget the patch level number. Funny story how I go introduced to linux. Sameer Since this is still OT, share? Cybe R. Wizard -- Unofficial "Wizard of Odds," A.H.P. Original PORG "Water Wizard," R.P. "Wize(ned) Wizard," A.P.F-P-Y. Barely Tolerated Wizard, A.J.L & A.A.L |
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"BenignVanilla" wrote in message ...
My frustration, admitedly among others, is that often my windows machines are just sitting there. If I am compiling some code, or rendering some home videos, I'd love to be able to configure all machines on my network to allow ticks to be doled out to other machines that ask for them. Use the processors. I just discovered the convenience of removable hard drives. Sure, I could partition the 40Gig drive, but switching drives *feels* a safer thing to do. Especially since the last dual boot drive went bad in the other OS, and the problem ate the one habitually used. Or, so it seemed at the time. (smacksmacksmack Backup! smacksmacksmack Backup!!) Isn't that SETI network software meant for that sort of thing? Haven't paid much attention to it, but I have not noticed any mention of "Linux only". |
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"Cybe R. Wizard" Cybe_R_Wizard@WizardsTower wrote in message news:20031116095449.3ad685b5.Cybe_R_Wizard@Wizards Tower... On Sun, 16 Nov 2003 08:30:42 GMT "Snooze" wrote: Completely unintentionally too! I think I started with 0.99pl?? but i forget the patch level number. Funny story how I go introduced to linux. Since this is still OT, share? Somewhere in the fall of freshmen year or summer post high school graduation, I got a 540mb hard drive as a replacement for the 40mb hard drive I had in my 386. At the time I had ms-dos 3.3 installed on the computer, but dos at the time couldn't access a partition greater then 33mb. A buddy of mine, had a 486, and a larger hard drive, so I went to his house, and we copied all of my hard drive to his system using laplink (an all night task). Afterwards using the linux fdisk, and the format that came with ms-dos 5.0, we were able to partition the disk into two 220mb partitions. First we rebuilt the dos side, then my friend showed me this cd, that installed this program called linux onto the computer. So he installed it for me. At the time I had never even heard of linux or unix, but since it was a computer program, and I suddenly had more disk space then I ever knew what to do with, why not? Anyways he showed me how to boot into linux or dos using LILO. I went into linux a few times, but I kept getting stuck in ed or vi, although at the time I didn't know it was vi. But I knew that hitting control-alt-delete when I got a screen full of ~ fixed the problem. At the time I thought linux was a dos program, because all the dos commands sort of worked. Slowly over time I started to learn how to navigate around in linux, and learned enough to mess up the install to the point it where didn't boot. Eventually another friend of mine reinstalled slackware on my system, and showed me how to do things like recompile the kernel. On a 386, you start the kernel recompile at breakfast time, and it might be finished by dinner time. I think the kernel was around 1.2.x by the time I was familiar with the way things worked. Sameer |
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