Holy moly! With all this high powered hardware you could head over to Distributed Net: http://www.distributed.net/ and get the Linux client: http://www.distributed.net/download/clients.html#linux and then join the "Linux users of Minnesota" team: http://stats.distributed.net/rc5-64/tmsummary.php3?team=6533 and shut off the "Optimal Golomb Rulers" project (load-work precedence: RC5,DES,CSC,OGR=0) until they decide to show individual measurements of progress (hehe). That is, unless you already have a way to waste your extra cycles... ;-) >>> thomas at stderr.net 11/08/01 03:46PM >>> On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 02:23:04PM -0600, jima wrote: > On Thu, 8 Nov 2001, Thomas Eibner wrote: > > > Yeah, I guess it is a little cool, but I don't see why we have to hide > > computers away in awfull cabinets like the ones we can get right now. > > Why aren't there more translucent cabinets out there? Something to hang > > on the wall would be even more geeky! > > That problem (and solution) did occur to me, yes. Another possible > solution is to pop open your case at LAN parties. I've known plenty of > people to do that, even if their components aren't particularly > fancy-looking. (It was for some sort of cooling factor. I hope.) I just don't like dust coming in there, it's bad enough as it is with my case standing on the carpet here. > > So which one did you buy? Especially: does it have any nice colors! > > I bought a Soyo K7VTA-Pro with a Duron 800 processor from Tiger Direct, > and two sticks of 512mb SDRAM from buy.com. Nothing too fancy, but it's > better than what that computer has now. I'm really happy with my Abit VP6 and two pentium 3's at 1GHz yum..