| 07:13:44 | BZFlag | I hate it when my hd fills up |
| 15:42:02 | boodle | is away: lunch |
| 17:52:47 | boodle | is back (gone 02:10:46) |
| 18:51:29 | nikos | BZFlag: Hey! |
| 18:52:57 | nikos | BZFlag: france is starting a Distributed.net team for the RC5 contest with the goal of putting together a large team of strongarm linux handhelds running the client which he has built to see if we can win. He estimates a 1 in 6000 chance with 110 ipaqs. LOL. Care to setup your miriad Tuxscreens and be able to sell them as winners of the RC5 contest? |
| 18:53:14 | nikos | :) |
| 18:55:35 | BZFlag | heh, now there's a thought. I wonder how much my power bill would be with 1200 TuxScreens cranking on rc5 |
| 18:56:10 | nikos | BZFlag: If you can figure it out maybe the team will split the bill. ;) |
| 18:56:40 | BZFlag | course the cost of power splitters and network cabling would kill me. |
| 18:57:00 | nikos | :) |
| 18:57:23 | BZFlag | let's see, how do I get 1200 ppp connections into one box? ;-) |
| 18:57:59 | nikos | I wonder how often it would need to contact the servers? |
| 19:23:37 | BZFlag | not very often, once every hour maybe? I terminal server should do fine, but still 1200 ports... wow. |
| 19:25:09 | nikos | BZFlag: Maybe you could set them to have a dialup schedule. They dialup to the internet one at a time, do there thing, then the next one goes, etc. |
| 19:26:04 | BZFlag | then I need 1200 modems. |
| 19:26:12 | nikos | BZFlag: I thought they had internal modems. |
| 19:26:35 | BZFlag | ahh... true. if we get the dsp hardware working that could work. |
| 19:26:50 | nikos | Then you just need to wire up phone lines, much cheaper. |
| 19:26:57 | BZFlag | agreed. |
| 19:27:23 | BZFlag | still need a mess of power splitters. |
| 19:27:41 | nikos | True, that sounds like the biggest problem to me. |
| 19:28:16 | nikos | Any idea what they really draw? |
| 19:28:41 | BZFlag | and they are "brick" power supplies do they I could only get like 3 to a power strip. |
| 19:29:09 | nikos | It would be better I think to rig up something to replace the bricks and supply multiple tuxs with power. |
| 19:29:35 | BZFlag | no much with the display off. comparable to the ipaq I would guess. just don't be in the room when someone calls. |
| 19:31:13 | BZFlag | power cable connects are mac serial, so could order a few connectors and make splitters perhaps. as long as they don't boot at the same time should be ok to run 4 or so off each suppply. |
| 19:31:34 | BZFlag | have to clock them to like 250Mhz or something to see how fast they can go. ;-) |
| 19:32:14 | nikos | :) |