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A few points.... Apple is not interested in attacking windows head on. They're starting to offer a complete alternative based on partnership with unix community. OS X is a really teriffic unix for the desktop. It makes a lot of sense partnered with Linux or BSD servers. The move to x86 makes this ev...

cRock

The WD and Seagate drives are both good. I've seen bad drives from both companies, but nothing extrodinary like the IBM deathstar. Both are good about honoring the warranty. In my opinion, the Seagates are of slightly higher quality. Seagate gets all of the details right and their experience making ...

cRock

You might want to give FreeBSD a try. It runs very nice on my Pentium 120.

cRock

I looked at the srat.c file in Linux 2.6 and it's very informative. It looks like SRAT info is queried much like ACPI info. Then it's up to the OS to match memory with CPUs and schedule process affinity and memory allocations thusly. It's actually a pretty simple system, but effective. Judging from ...

cRock

So the latest Opteron article at Ace's briefly mentions SRAT (System Resource Allocation Table). This is the heretofore mysterious mechanism AMD is using to supply NUMA info to the operating system. This is a winderful thing indeed and I was hoping someone could supply some info on the topic as I fi...

cRock

Install Gentoo. It's the most no-nonsense distro that shows a healthy respect for the traditions of the Unix world. Red Hate and other RPM based distros have wretched binary package management. The Gentoo install is painful, but if you can't accomplish it, you probably shouldn't be using Linux. You ...

cRock

The G450 is a great card for FreeBSD and Linux with extremely stable drivers. It is my first recommendation. The ATI drivers were awful in FreeBSD, but have made steady improvements. I believe they are pretty darn good now. The nvidia drivers are extremely fast, but stability is not up to par with t...

cRock

FreeBSD 5.1 has DRI support in the kernel. The Radeon 7000 should work great with fully accelerated OpenGL.

cRock

You sound like you already know your way around unix so you'll probably be much happier with FreeBSD. FreeBSD is much more professional and consistent than any of the Linux distros. Redhat and the like are unbearable with constant updates via the dreaded RPM system and associated "fun with dependenc...

cRock

I'm a big fan of windowmaker on my FreeBSD box. It has an interface similar to openstep. It looks good and runs very fast. Gnome and KDE are both pretty worthless as WMs in my opinion. Also check out an app called GKrellM. It's the best GUI system monitor around and skinnable to match whatever WM yo...

cRock

Darwin is the open source component of OS X based off of the FreeBSD 3.x branch. Many features of 4.x have now been backported to Darwin. Darwin has obviously been ported to the Power PC arch for Apple's purposes. I can't think of any good reasons to run Darwin instead of FreeBSD, unless you feel li...

cRock

FreeBSD is the jam. It's a complete OS, not just a kernel and cludge of various userland looks like Linux. FreeBSD is developed entirely in CVS so you can track the changes to the system easily and compile the entire system from source by following a few easy steps. I dare you to compile an netire l...

cRock

Linux is most certainly a unix.

It's just not a very good one!

cRock

Hmmm, the blue style is working with unix Mozilla .9.9. I guess I am blessed.

cRock

I'm still emplyeed in THE WORST JOB EVER and have been looking for a new job since Sept. I really wish I'd get laid off so I could look for a new job full time

cRock

I would get a board based on the Sis 735 chipset. Specifically, get a Leadtek 7350KDA. It should run you about $100.

cRock

The Barracuda IV is a nice drive. My only change would be to ditch the Via chipsets for a Sis 735 based board. Leadtek makes a good one. I might also dump the Live in favor of a turtle beach santa cruz (pricey)or hercules muse xl (cheap).

cRock

It's worth nothing that they moved the site to a win2k box and the site went down within a couple of hours. Long live FreeBSD!

cRock

I'm not sure that I would go with a board based on a Via chipset, but that's a personal bias. I would go with a Sis chipset and the Leadtek 7350KDA. It's a solid board with full overclocking features. I would also shy away from the Volcano HSF for overclocking. An Alpha PAL 8045 is still the king of...

cRock

I think I am the only 40 Oz drinker among TR readers. Being a 40 drinker is like being in a cult, everyone else "just doesn't get it". There is something so classy about pounding a big 40 of malt..... Getting to the point, nothing beats a cold 40 Oz. of Olde English 800 Ice. At 8% alcohol, it will s...

cRock

I've built tons of systems with Asus boards and have been pleased by their consistent quality. I also really like the Tyan board in my main workstation now. I recently tried a Leadtek Sis 735 board and was impressed by it's speed and stability. I also trust Supermicro. MSI, Epox, and Gigabyte all se...

cRock

As someone that lived in Atlanta for 5 years (just moved a few months ago), I can assure you that tanker has no clue what he's talking about. The ATL has bad traffic, but you have to be a fool to be unaware of the trouble spots which are, for the most part, easily avoided. Don't get on 285 at 6:00. ...

cRock

"Wow! I used to run FreeBSD on a 16MHz '386 box w/8MB of RAM. WTF did Apple do to screw that up?"

Answer: Aqua

cRock

I think fanless has a decent shot at working with that phatty Alpha sink. If it doesn't you can always add a fan. Would one of those funky Zalman "flower" 'sinks fit into a SV 24? That would give you fanless operation fo' sure. I would also recommend choosing a Papst fan over a Panaflow. I have both...

cRock

/var/log/XFree86.log _________________ Tyan Tiger MP | 2 x Duron 1Ghz 512 MB Crucial Reg ECC DDR | Intel Pro 100 40 GB Seagate Baracuda ATA IV | Matrox G450 Hercules Muse XL | Hauppauge WinTV Enermax "Whisper" 350 watt PS all in a Coolermaster ATC 200 running FreeBSD [ This Message was...

cRock

My policy is, basically, I pirate things that I find worthless. Does the RIAA think that I'm going to fork over $100 for my collection of MP3s feating 80s hair bands? Hell no! If I had to pay for any of that crap, I'd just as soon live without it. It's fun to have, but it's worth essentially nothing...

cRock

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cRock

I suspect that removing and then adding the TCP/IP protocol would also do the trick.

In windows, the solution is almost always some combination of reinstall and reboot

cRock

Don't skimp on the case and power supply. It's foolish to put together a nice system and then have a flaky power supply or hot case introduce instability. When it comes to a PS, 300 watts should be sufficent for your system, but more is always better. 350 would not be overkill. Buy a good brand name...

cRock

It should work. Just put the cards in ad-hoc mode and they'll see each other. On the machine with the wired NIC, enable routing + DHCP forwarding and you should be good to go.

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