On my slot-1 systems, I simply remove the retention clip hardware altogether. The only thing holding my processors in place is friction. I have issues with 66mhz FSB on one of my motherboards. I have no manuals for any of my motherboards; they are all pieces of "junk" I've acquired from random places.

The connection I use for my OS drive is fast enough by a factor of four (the DDR slots).

Airflow isn’t great in this 1999 case. No case exhaust fan, only a Zalman PSU (80mm) doing the exhausting, plus an 80mm intake fan. That's more than enough airflow. My slot-1 workstations rely only on the PSU 80mm fan for exhaust, undervolted to 5v (because it's way too noisy at 12v). My slot-1 f...

I like using a post-it because it's a simple nonpermanent change, but it takes a crazy number of layers of paper to block the light. Instead, I simply turn the sticky part of the post-it into an aluminum foil "band-aid". Cut the post-it so it's a rectangular strip. In the center, stick a small squar...

I think it's a moot point. Even with a normal sized heatsink, no fan is necessary. With that large heatsink, no fan should be needed even if you overclock.

On my slot-1 processors, I simply remove the CPU fan.

I'm still contemplating the different possible approaches. Using nfs is pretty straightforward for me since I already have an nfs file server, but nbd may offer some compelling advantages. Network Block Device, unlike nfs, is a block device (like an NAS). As such, file caching works like a local dri...

You're welcome! The speed is really addicting...I can't go back to waiting around for a program to open. I'm already thinking of another improvement on the scheme. Currently, excess stuff is simply deleted from the image, but there's still a LOT of not entirely essential stuff left in the image. I'm...

I've created a new and improved version of this how-to. The new method is far more elegant and has much better performance. The original version was too complex, using two installs and requiring three reboots whenever making changes to the OS. The new version has only one install and only requires t...

By the way, I've been refining this technique, and have figured out an elegant simplification that only involves one OS install on one partition. I'm not sure when I'll have the time to hammer down all the details and redo my how-to. The basic idea is to just have one OS install, and for the script ...

Post the contents of your /etc/fstab here. My first guess is that there's some partition of your hard drive mounted--maybe swap.

Why would we not do this? Because it's far too important that environmentalists are ALWAYS wrong. The powers that be desperately want a repeat of the 1970's proving that environmentalism is disastrous to the economy and the 1980's proving that free market fundamentalism is good for the economy. The...

jhhoffma wrote:At that price........Candles FTW!!!!

At that price.....brail!

My feeling on consumer grade gear is that I'd rather have two consumer grade servers, with incremental backups from the "live" server to the "backup server", than one enterprise grade server. For my purposes, some risk of downtime is acceptable. For many businesses, this risk is not acceptable.

No, putting them all under a single NFS share is not an acceptable security solution. That would mean that all nfs client workstations would have full read/write access to everything in that share, including no_root_squash. What I have now is that each workstation only has full no_root_squash access...

I wasn't really referring to problems configuring NFS in any Linux distro, but rather the fact that they break the NFS protocol in their implementation. The NFS standard indicates that you can only have one NFS share per local file system. For example, sharing both /home and /opt (if / is mounted a...

One thing to consider is how much RAM you want. Since you mention "RAW" image processing, I'm guessing you're dealing with pretty high resolution digital photos. Obviously, the more RAM the better! Unfortunately, the cheaper Intel motherboards seem to have disappointing RAM limitations, compared to ...

Debian Stable is as good if not better in those regards. I've never had any problems configuring nfs in Debian (this includes working with Macs, which have...umm..."interesting" deviations from BSD). One nice thing about Linux is that there are really good Linux LiveCDs, if for some reason your serv...

I have several pets. The floor is definitely more prone to dust and debris. My solution is to use a simple stand to elevate my computers off the floor a bit.

Isn't it obvious? It's just plain cooler that way.

My file server is a 333mhz Slot-1 Celeron (Pentium II era). The bottleneck is the network. I have a spare 550mhz Pentium III which I could put on that motherboard instead...but why? It would just mean a little more power consumption and heat generation.

Microsoft got where it is by constantly fighting "back" against the little guy. They fight rough, and they fight criminal (convicted fair and square, and then let off with a slap on the wrist). Microsoft's main weapon is simple vendor lock-in. Apple isn't a threat. Even if their products didn't pric...

I've daisy-chained three 40mm fans in series, it was a get-down-and-dirty-with-a-soldering-iron though, it works just fine so long as you have fans which can start at <~4V. Aside from the fact that all three are running different speeds and you won't know what the last two are... That is not correc...

Why would you want to run them in series? The voltage (and hence) speed would drop with each fan in the link. You wouldn't really know what any of the fans were doing at any given time (except the first). Running a couple fans in series is sometimes done by us, specifically to reduce the voltage an...

I mostly buy CPUs and mobos from TigerDirect and Fry's (although, in the last year or so Fry's no longer seems to offer their good CPU/Mobo deals online). I get a lot of computer hardware from NewEgg, but so far I haven't found CPU/mobo deals on NewEgg which measure up in price, compared to CPU/mobo...

Prescott and any Prescott successors had to die, to nip this BTX disaster in the bud. The only way that was ever going to happen would be if Intel felt seriously threatened by AMD and dramatically reversed course (which, thankfully, they did). You give AMD way too much credit. Even without AMD Athl...

There was very strong pro-AMD atmosphere before Intel released Core-processors. AFAIR, it wasn't so pro-AMD but rather very anti-Prescott Yes, indeed. Prescott and netburst wasn't just a bad CPU choice for us, but it was also threatening our choices for motherboards and computer cases. The presumed...

If it's a socket 370 processor, there's a very good chance that all you need to do is remove the CPU fan. I've had three socket 370 processors, two 466mhz Celerons and an 800mhz Pentium III. They had puny stock heatsinks, but I went ahead and simply removed the fan because they were spare machines a...

I think his idea is to make a DIY UPS from base components, not to modify an existing UPS.

I want to use two seperate harddrives and maybe even operating systems for school and play. If I suspend them would I be able to tell the difference between a 3,5 or 2,5 inch disk? They don't have to be silent but shouldn't produce high-pitched whining noise. Yes, there's a very noticeable differen...

The cheapest smallest least powerful adapter I've found is 600milliamps at Walmart. It's easily powerful enough to power two 120mm fans (which should be all you need).