From owner-freebsd-advocacy Tue Jun 22 14:24:35 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from nwcst291.netaddress.usa.net (nwcst291.netaddress.usa.net [204.68.23.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 28ED71549F for ; Tue, 22 Jun 1999 14:24:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jesus.monroy@usa.net) Received: (qmail 3819 invoked by uid 60001); 22 Jun 1999 21:27:12 -0000 Message-ID: <19990622212712.3818.qmail@nwcst291.netaddress.usa.net> Received: from 204.68.23.36 by nwcst291 via web-mailer(M3.2.0.17) on Tue Jun 22 21:27:12 GMT 1999 Date: 22 Jun 99 14:27:12 PDT From: Jesus Monroy To: Ladavac Marino , dwilde1@thuntek.net Subject: Re: [RE: [Announcing new distributed.net Team FreeBSD site]] Cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-Mailer: USANET web-mailer (M3.2.0.17) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ladavac Marino wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Donald Wilde [SMTP:dwilde1@thuntek.net] > > Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 1999 2:22 PM > > To: Jesus Monroy > > Cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org > > Subject: Re: [Announcing new distributed.net Team FreeBSD site] > > = > > Jesus Monroy wrote: > > > = > > > Kelly Yancey wrote: > > > > > > > within about a week. Is there a way to make some > > > noize on this, rather than just addin my machines to > > > the rolls. Don, any ideas??? > > > = > > Izzat me Don you're asking? That's a pretty motley collection of > > hardware you've got there. We could write a press release, but then > > somebody's bound to point out that a single P-II can outperform your > > whole cluster -- even if it were running Neolithic Technology as an > > OS. > [ML] Outperform doing what? There's simply no way a PII would > make a better space heater than the cluster, even if it makes a Nice Tr= y > :) > = Yes, Thank you..... :-) > > The only take I could get would be something about resurrecting stuff= > > from the junkyard for useful work. > [ML] Hey, careful about junkyard! This reminds me of some > people I know who put PIII and U2W SCSI disks as file servers on 16Mbps= > TokenRing, whereas your junkyard '486 saturates it just as well. > = We'll there are still a few people that know about computing. :-) --- "I'd rather pay for my freedom than live in a bitmapped, = pop-up-happy dungeon like NT." http://www.performancecomputing.com/features/9809of1.shtml ____________________________________________________________________ Get free e-mail and a permanent address at http://www.netaddress.com/?N=3D= 1 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message