I don't know what happened, but I found this weird guy sitting at my
machine (snicker).
In all seriousness, Paul, you've really struck a chord in my heart. I
am a full-fledged dumpster diver. I feel it is an honest to God shame
when people chuck valuable processing for the sake of newer technology
when it's all going to repeat again in a couple of years. What's wrong
with Beowulf clusters? What wrong with P2P processing? I don't understand.
I've got an HP closet at home that I plan to populate with 486
motherboards and make a Beowulf cluster someday. Maybe if P2P
processing progresses, I'll do that instead, but for now, I'm
accumulating as my girlfriend is leaving (oops!).
If enough folks are interested, maybe we could pool together and make a
mass junk raffle for SLUG? Anymore junk out there?
Mario
Paul M Foster wrote:
>Well, I was throwing some trash in the dumpster at the office, and I
>looked in and noticed a couple of PCs sitting in the bottom of the
>dumpster. I spent a long time trying to decide whether to jump in and
>take a look. (I felt like such a scuz, dumpster-diving for PCs later.)
>
>Anyway, turns out someone had thrown (emphasis on the word "thrown")
>seven PCs in the dumpster, which I retrieved. All 486's, some working,
>some not. Only two hard drives in the bunch, and a couple of NIC cards.
>Some with memory, some without. I've got 72 and 30 pin SIMMs out the
>butt, so they can be populated. Couple have VESA Local Bus video cards.
>
>Probably, most of these can be made to work, but I'm not sure what they
>would be good for. Yes, I know they're all good for firewalls, but one
>only needs so many firewalls. I'm wondering if they have enough
>horsepower for fileservers with large hard drives. Anyone have
>experience with this?
>
>Doubtless, I won't need all these, so some lucky SLUGs may be able to
>buy some for a modest sum. (I'm kidding! Any of these I get rid of will
>be given away or raffled.)
>
>Anyway, comments are welcome.
>
>Paul
>
>
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