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pentium wrote: then gave it 12000 volts

I did something similar with a couple of mini-EATs

I put Windows 10 on a NetBurst machine tonight.

...dear God.

vishnu wrote: I work with high voltage for a living, and I've seen a lot of funky HV power supplies, but what the H E double toothpicks is that and wherever did you get it?

Oil burning furnaces have a nice transformer that sits on top and generates a few thousand volts for the arc gap.

itsvince725 wrote: I put Windows 10 on a NetBurst machine tonight.

I'm trying to eat, here.

itsvince725 wrote: I put Windows 10 on a NetBurst machine tonight.

Masochist.

I'd rather use a PIII to a Netburst machine any day simply because the latter at least consumes power in accordance with it's performance. A Netburst just sucks power and will sit there crunching it for longer than necessary. A G4S at 1.5GHz ran circles around my P4 3GHz especially in the media metrics (altivec probably)

Raion-Fox wrote: A G4S at 1.5GHz ran circles around my P4 3GHz

OrangeBox, IBM PC, P4@3Ghz, 2Gb of ram


LittleCube, MacMini-G4, PPC7447@1.5Ghz, 2Gb of ram


Both these machines used the same hard drive, external box. USB2.
Both with 2.6.39 linux kernel, also the userland was configured with the same profile.
They used the same version of gcc, binutils, and glibc.

So, mr.LittleCube/Hz is 2X mr.OrangeBox/Hz

Raion-Fox wrote:

itsvince725 wrote: I put Windows 10 on a NetBurst machine tonight.

Masochist.

I'd rather use a PIII to a Netburst machine any day simply because the latter at least consumes power in accordance with it's performance.

I happen to have one here (a ProLiant DL380 G2 w/2x 1.4 GHz Pentium III-S) and I had to install Windows XP on it to be able to run a firmware upgrade via SCSI for an older Tandberg StorageLoader. It was the only "true" i386 machine with room for a SCSI controller available to me then (and still now).

Y888099 wrote: So, mr LittleCube/Hz is 2X mr OrangeBox/Hz

Impressive result! I didn't knew those PPC74xx have that much juice in them.
Sorry, no comparable results available. But I could do a openssl speed -elapsed on OpenBSD 6.1 tomorrow as a start.

Regarding Netburst, there were a few later systems with Netburst CPUs (Xeon 7000 and 7100 series) that had cool features, like memory mirroring and/or memory hot-plug. I think of the ProLiant DL580 G3 and G4 , later systems (like the G5) no longer supported memory hot-plug. Sadly the mechanics of those hot-plug memory modules (each of them takes four DDR2 DIMMs) are bugged: it's sometimes terribly hard to unlock them and how cool is hot-plug if you can't get the module in question out of the machine?

I personally think when it comes down to it that Nehalem and up are still quite usable but below that is at best questionable in it's usability for x86, I do have a P4 era box but it has a Pentium M, so it at least consumes a reasonable amount of power.

johnnym wrote: Impressive result!

Also bought a cluster of mac-mini! Two are PPC-G4, two are x86-i2. They are stacked together as tower, with glue layer between them. A lan switch on the top, with five ports 10/100/1000 auto sensing, and they all join the lan through NFS.

PPC-nodes are useful and faster when you want to test 'stages' without the need of passing through qemu-ppc.

Unfortunately there is no mac-mini/MIPS

Raion-Fox wrote:

itsvince725 wrote: I put Windows 10 on a NetBurst machine tonight.

Masochist.

I'd rather use a PIII to a Netburst machine any day simply because the latter at least consumes power in accordance with it's performance. A Netburst just sucks power and will sit there crunching it for longer than necessary. A G4S at 1.5GHz ran circles around my P4 3GHz especially in the media metrics (altivec probably)

To be fair, it's a 3.4GHz Presler Pentium D so it's just about the best NetBurst CPU you can possibly find. And with 4GB of RAM it's surprisingly quick!

(Re)built current Debian 8 and Debian 9 Linux kernels for MIPS based Cobalt machines using my xw9400, two changed root environments and QEMU user mode emulation. Both work well with my first Qube 2 (not tested with RaQs yet, but I assume they will also work there).

I've finally set up my man-cave again after moving house last Monday. It's quite a faf when you have 16 things to plug in around your desk, including 4 systems (5 if you count my work's laptop dock), 3 monitors, 2 KVMs, a sound system, a wireless range extender, a gigabit switch, a NAS, etc. etc - all whilst keeping the wife happy about the tidy and hidden routing of cables etc.

Still, it does mean my Indigo2 and Fuel are back out of the garage and are set up and working again, so that's good!

Trippynet wrote: I've finally set up my man-cave again after moving house last Monday. It's quite a faf when you have 16 things to plug in around your desk, including 4 systems (5 if you count my work's laptop dock), 3 monitors, 2 KVMs, a sound system, a wireless range extender, a gigabit switch, a NAS, etc. etc - all whilst keeping the wife happy about the tidy and hidden routing of cables etc.

Still, it does mean my Indigo2 and Fuel are back out of the garage and are set up and working again, so that's good!

I bet it was enjoyable though. and now you feel productive.

My wife has suggested she goes and takes the kids down to Devon in the next month or so and spend a few days with her parents (who are holidaying down there). Leaving me alone with the dogs.

I have two/three days to re-do my office.. it's like the film Hall Pass without the sex..

Felt very productive! My old room was a bit of a mess as more and more things had been added over time. Always nice to have a clean slate, spend a good few hours setting everything up, have it all working properly at the end, and a happy wife who still sees a tidy room

Cutting my hair. And wife's hair (on her request). Now we both have shaved heads

guardian452 wrote: Cutting my hair. And wife's hair (on her request). Now we both have shaved heads

I spoke of doing this with every single partner I've had.
Maybe I'll manage to go for it this time, thanks for the inspiration!

I'm still fighting with EagleCad, trying to design the footprint of a molex-connector for a slimfilm keyboard

I have already soldered the original connector, and measured it, so the component library is 90% ready, but I still have no idea of the part number, and it seems there are too many unused pins, which is odd.

It's a 15x18 matrix, on two connectors with a pitch of 1mm, why the connecotor B uses just 14 of 18 pins? We have 2 pins used for the Capslk's led, 12 pins used for the Key-matrix.

Why didn't the use two connectors of 15 pins each?

Does it make sense? I have already reversed the keyboard map, it seems all the keys are present, including meta keys (arrows, shift, option, ctrl, enter, etc), but I have the feeling there is still something missing.

I think it will take me busy for a while

I just gave up on Warframe - the Mastery Rank Level 8 test is a parkour thing I cannot seem to pass, no matter what I try. #NotFitEnough2Play