Date: 22 Jun 99 14:27:12 PDT From: Jesus Monroy <jesus.monroy@usa.net> To: Ladavac Marino <mladavac@metropolitan.at>, dwilde1@thuntek.net <dwilde1@thuntek.net> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [RE: [Announcing new distributed.net Team FreeBSD site]] Message-ID: <19990622212712.3818.qmail@nwcst291.netaddress.usa.net>
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Ladavac Marino <mladavac@metropolitan.at> 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 <kbyanc@alcnet.com> 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
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