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Or you can aspire to ultimate slackdom. Using VNC, you don't even have to have a KVM. Just run the servers without anything other than power and network cables. Then they aren't even limited to cable distance. You can reach ultimate slackdom through the Internet. You can be in your server room, or in your house in your underwear. The servers don't care. :)



With Linux, that's available by default.:D
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not as much crunching power though...



No worries. Do what you can. Do you remember the TV show Battlestar Gallactica? The "ragtag fleet" or ships trying to find Earth?

I have a "ragtag fleet" of computers, working on Folding. Some crappy old workstations, 200 mhz, 266s, 300s, 350s, 450s, a 667, some dual 650 servers, etc. I have a few fast (2+ ghz) boxes, but most of mine are old clunkers just chugging away.

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Here, the systems I use most of the time (in my room, I'm not including my Novell server, printer, and other things such as scanner and VCR and 2 laptops)

Those 2 things on top of the PC's are the Router and Palm Pilot craddle, and the pic of my 4 port KVM switch.

Geeky huh? :P
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PC 001.jpg

PC 002.jpg

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Dilbert quotes:

Dogbert : "I'm going back to my old job as a network systems administrator"
Dilbert : "Why?"
Dogbert : "I'm attracted by the potential for reckless abuse of power"
- Hmmm.. pow-er


"I have forgotten my password. I humbly beg for assistance."
"I have no time for boring administrative tasks, you fool! I'm too busy upgrading the network."
"You could have given me a new password in the time it took to belittle me."
"Yeah, but which option would give me job satisfaction?"
- Dogbert the Sysadmin & Asok
Speed Racer
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not as much crunching power though...



No worries. Do what you can. Do you remember the TV show Battlestar Gallactica? The "ragtag fleet" or ships trying to find Earth?



Viola! I now have a Dual 800 MHz P-III Redhat box on the job. I guess my name shows up as soon as I've crunched one block?

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I would have more computers in my home (my DZ camper) but I don't have very much space. :|



I know what you mean, I have a Win2K server and a Linux machine stuffed in my closet, no room to put it, I need a bigger apartment. [:/]
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Another dilbert strip...

Dilbert to his boss: We need to upgrade our PC operating systems, so we can have a stable environment for applications.

Think of it as a form of taxation by an evil shadow government.


Boss: Shadow governament.... Thats ridiculous.

Bosses computer:"SHUT UP AND PAY ME!"

Matt

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Dogbert calling a Square-Dance:

"Slap your partner in the face
Write bad checks all over the place
Flirt with strangers - annoy your spouse
Get a divorce and lose your house...uh..doh-si-doh."

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Blade servers or rackmounts, young Jedi. Then the force will be with you.



Actually, I had one of those, a dual processor 200Mhz, I bought it at a computer show here in NJ, I used it for a couple of months and sold it to a friend, I needed more power. I just paid $250.
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I would have more computers in my home (my DZ camper) but I don't have very much space.



Blade servers or rackmounts, young Jedi. Then the force will be with you. ;)



What he said...:D
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Currently have 1500 desktops and about 1000 servers and although the servers are neat the desktops are sometimes all over the place. What machines are those in the Pic any way??



You're ratio of servers to desktops is kinda... weird.

Not really, our company is a finacial institution, so most are Application/Dbase/development servers.
We no longer look after the SUN kit (which I didnt include)just became to much so couldn't even tell you what systems they are running there, I know they have just purchased 2 monster SUN servers about $3mil each, but not sure what they are yet, havn't seen them.

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I picked up 7 dual 650mhz SCSI RAID rackmounts for $100 each. You got to love it when biotech .bombs go bust and have as-is firesales. B|



Sounds like a Beowulf cluster in the making >:(

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I'd like to move to a 2 bedroom apartment and have a basement and 2 full time jobs, because between tech stuff and skydiving my money doesn't stay long in my wallet. :)
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I guess my name shows up as soon as I've crunched one block?



Yep. Once again, welcome to the club.




Thanks. Any Solaris versions on the horizon?



There are distros of Linux that run on Solaris systems, and I'm confident that the Folding Initiative has been ported to Linux, because SETI@home was.
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I guess my name shows up as soon as I've crunched one block?



Yep. Once again, welcome to the club.




Thanks. Any Solaris versions on the horizon?



There are distros of Linux that run on Solaris systems, and I'm confident that the Folding Initiative has been ported to Linux, because SETI@home was.



Yes, I'm running it now on Redhat. That doesnt mean that it will run on Linux running on a Sun box. the software still have to written for the 64 bit sparc instruction set.

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