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On Sunday 20 March 2005 11:37 pm, Martin White wrote:
i'm also a developer by trade
What languages? What kind of projects? Have you now got a steady income? (Do you fancy helping me with free software?) :-) (URL's in my sig)
Onto the opinion bit. It's becoming apparent that the shuttle pc that i have (SN41G2) is starting to get a bit long in the tooth. I've twice now had to vacuum the thing out to unclog it (from dust) and redo the thermal paste on the CPU to keep the temperatures at bay. And compiling up gentoo made it painfully obvious that the Athlon XP processor doesn't cut it quite as well as i'd like it to (even if it's quite powerful by some peoples standards!)
Don't ditch that box - stick a distribution like Debian on it that doesn't need so much effort to prepare and even less to maintain and use it on a home network for CVS, local IMAP, test machine, LDAP, DNS, all sorts of server tasks.
I'm therefore looking for something new. Would like AMD64, probably SATA. Must be NEAR SILENT if at all possible.
My problem with all such devices is that the compromises required to remove the fans mean a limited operational life, a limited upgrade path and therefore rapid obsolescence. As above, these machines can be easily recycled to run as servers but that's not why you pay the premium for near silent operation! -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.dcglug.org.uk/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/isbnsearch/ http://www.neil.williamsleesmill.me.uk/ http://www.biglumber.com/x/web?qs=0x8801094A28BCB3E3
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