Re: West Highschool Robotics

At 11:40 PM 12/28/2004 -0800, you wrote:
>On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 04:15:39PM -0900, Keeper Nott wrote:
> > Hey all. I'm a member of West Highschool's Robotics team and right now
> > were trying to put together a linux server. I know the most about
> > computers, linux, and I am lead programmer and so I have been given the
> > responsibility of setting up the linux box. We finally got some stuff
> > together and we do have a box, but its got a processor running at about
> > 133 hertz, about 32 megs of ram, and not much else. We really need a box
> > that can support our needs.
>Greetings from an alum of East High's FIRST program, and ex-server admin
>for that team. (I done gone and graduated, see)
>
>Anyway, I think you underestimate a 133 machine. Our server ran full
>web, ftp, squid (to get around irritating district firewalls),
>phpBB, NFS, and Samba on a 200mhz box with 32 megs of ram. It was a bit
>tight, but a carefully-worded debian install was enough.

Tight? I do that plus dns, pop, smtp on 25mhz. I almost wet my pants the
first time I saw a 3.4GHz box compile apache!!! ;)

I've got 64MB PC133 dimm you can have when you pickup the other equipment.

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Received on Wed Dec 29 09:32:24 2004