Fri Jun 14 21:57:03 2002
Decisions, decisions.
Fri Jun 14 23:13:17 2002
maybe sell on agora?
Fri Jun 14 23:41:18 2002
So which relic of antediluvian technology should I buy to use it up, an eMac or a Sun Blade?
Blargh. Neither.
Sell it on the Agora, or build a renderfarm of computers using it. I'd go for the former -- it makes money instead of spending it.
Sat Jun 15 03:07:28 2002
Sat Jun 15 04:00:24 2002
from Imitation Gruel posted at 6:41 pm on June 14, 2002Hmmm, details, please?
Sell it on the Agora, or build a renderfarm of computers using it. I'd go for the former -- it makes money instead of spending it.
Sat Jun 15 04:08:23 2002
Hmmm, details, please?
Well, depending on how much RAM you have, you could build a distributed-computing renderfarm of cheap Duron machines, and use the RAM in them.
[code]Cheap Duron -- $x
+ Cheap heavily integrated Duron motherboard -- $y
+ DRAM -- not much apiece
------------
several cheap systems[/code]
Sat Jun 15 04:32:08 2002
I actually do still have two machines in which I could use this RAM (everything else being too old, too new, or too small), but I'm bored and am now inclined for something completely different.
So . . .
Emac
or
Blade 100
or
Something else that's off the beaten track, non x86, and takes 168-pin SDRAM.
There's always the odd [URL=http://www.chaltech.com/products.php] ATX ARM board[/URL], but it's a bit pricey and not very useful.
(Rather like Sun and Apple, then?)
(Edited by longmarch at 11:35 pm on June 14, 2002)
Sat Jun 15 05:37:00 2002
Sat Jun 15 05:56:47 2002
On the one hand, the eMac could be marginally useful. But it's from Apple, a company I utterly despise. I would hate to recommend it.
On the other hand, the Blade 100 could also be marginally useful. However, it's also a colossal ripoff. And Sun isn't exactly peachy-keen either.
I'm stuck between sharp rusty knives and more sharp rusty knives.
Sat Jun 15 13:28:13 2002
A) The Blade 100 requires ECC RAM, but most of my spare 168-pin is non-ECC, fruit of a series of shady streetcorner deals made with indigent RAM peddlers.
and
B) Macs are somewhat picky about generic RAM, and most of my spare DIMMs were made by the three hands of a drab and anonymous ramtroll in the back-alley memory collectives of a nameless city in grayest Elbonia.
jdsmith575:
B. might be a problem for your sister's Mac. As I understood it at the time, an OpenFirmware upgrade caused a lot of Mac RAM, mostly generic or of otherwise dubious repute, to be ignored by the upgraded machine.
Imitation Gruel:
Despite A. and B., I might still be wierd enough to go through with this. If it helps you choose your advice, I wouldn't be paying full price for the Sun. More like $750 USD.
I still need to decide what to do with all this RAM. Now that the RAM market has fallen again, it's almost worthless, but could still be useful, so perhaps I should keep it for now.
Sun Jun 16 19:28:11 2002
I guess I'll recommend that option, although it hurts to do so. Your call.
Mon Jun 17 10:27:40 2002
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Mon Jun 17 13:46:08 2002