Roy Schestowitz came up with this when s/he headbutted the keyboard a moment
ago in comp.os.linux.advocacy:
> __/ [ Jim ] on Tuesday 27 March 2007 16:46 \__
>
>> John Locke came up with this when s/he headbutted the keyboard a moment
ago
>> in comp.os.linux.advocacy:
>>
>>>>* Make your next upgrade cycle one that involves OS X... oh wait, that
>>>>requires new hardware as well... Linux is already here... and it doesn't
>>>>require a new PC... and being free, it ensures that there are no schemes
>> to
>>>>force you to buy anything.
>>>
>>> I fear that the days of the computer recyclers are numbered. I was
>>> just staring at my pile of old Super Socket 7 500MHz machines
>>> and am having second thoughts about scraping them.
>>
>> nothing wrong with my G3 Lombard... it's running Tiger and very nippy it
>> is, too.
>>
>> As for that pile of socket 7 boards... they'd make a nice little cluster.
>> Double handy if you have AT boards, they can be daisychained to a
redundant
>> power stack (ATX can be hooked up like this as well but switching dead
>> nodes out can be a bit tricky).
>
> Your house must look like a factory.
Yup.
> I know someone who had a server farm in
> his home. Not your typical Web host... William Tasso.
>
I host my own stuff as well. When my broadband is up, that is...
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The look on your face when nothing works: priceless
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