RE: OT: What OS

["James Hoye" <james.hoye@xxxxxxx>]

> Given the prices of memory now 256Mb really is the minimum you should
be
> looking at with XP. The main difference you'll notice is that there's
so
> much less swapping so apps load much quicker. Actually James H
will
> testify to the fact that I've got some very quiet and blisteringly
fast
> SCSI drives in my desktop. Now that I've got 512Mb and have flipped
the
> switch in the registry so the kernel doesn't page, apps load
instantly.

The fluid bearing drive is OK.  The aluminium case with blue LEDs
steals it
for me though :D
The whole machine is very quiet - unless you are thrashing the older
disk
which isn't nearly as quiet.

> Managed to sneak that server into the house yet James?

Yup - managed to get all THREE in - under the auspice of building one
decent
machine for work purposes.  I put the P3 MOBO into the medium sized
case -
would like to rackmount it, but that would need a 4U case :(

It's happily running RH7.2 blisteringly fast with a 60GB drive that I
had
<cough/> spare.  This will probably become my main server at
some future
point in time.....

For anyone wanting a sexy 1U rackmount server, Chris Bond (and others)
are
looking at micro ITX boards (170mm square) with everything integrated
onboard (including SP/DIF) running the VIA C3-800 CPUs.  Chris reckons
on
being able to build a 1U rackmount server for around the 350 quid mark.

James H

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