[rescue] Bigger Iron at Home (was: SNMP, Baby!)

Joshua Boyd jdboyd at ohno.mrbill.net
Tue Nov 11 10:48:25 CST 2003


On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 11:38:35AM -0500, Sheldon T. Hall wrote:

> So ... what _am_ I going to do with it?  I'm not much on graphics, and it
> doesn't have a framebuffer, anyway.  It's only 10baseT, so massive
> fileserving would seem unlikely.  I know some of you guys have _big_ stuff
> at home, and I'm not just talking McGuire and his Cray.  I need a story
> here, so give me some ideas, and, while you're at it, some real-life
> examples of what you do with your BigStuffAtHome.

Database serving?

Get an FDDI board for it, and find a way to bridge between FDDI and
FastE?

Pick up a computationally expensive hobby?

Use it as a compiler farm?



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