Re: faketty-0.02 Bells!

[Zoltan B. <zb...@fr...>]

Hi,

Hugo Vanwoerkom =EDrta:
> --- Fredrik Tolf <fr...@do...> wrote:
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>>On Wed, 2005-09-14 at 07:21 -0700, Hugo Vanwoerkom
>>wrote:
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>>>We got bells!!! So when my internet cafe (called
>>>Faketty Koffeety) starts up its 12 tubes I hear 12
>>
>>Would you mind sharing how you managed to cram 12
>>video cards into one
>>computer?
>>
>>Fredrik Tolf
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> Actually I was jesting. Badly, I guess :-(
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> But if I did it I would buy:
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> 1 matrox g450 AGP dualhead:
> http://www.buy.com/retail/product.asp?sku=3D10401969&SearchEngine=3DDea=
lTime&SearchTerm=3D10401969&Type=3DPE&Category=3DComp&Gad=3D0&dcaid=3D158=
91
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> 5 matrox g550 PCI dual head:
> http://www.overstock.com/cgi-bin/d2.cgi?PAGE=3DPRODUCT&PROD_ID=3D931103=
&cid=3D44344&fp=3DF#
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> giving me 12 monitors.

How about the Appian Xentera GT 8? It's a PCI card,
containing 4 Radeon 9000 cores, each can drive
2 monitors, so 8 monitors per card. They also
have AGP and PCIe models, too but only with two cores,
called Xentera GT 4. So 1 AGP (two seats) and 5 PCI
(four seats) cards, 22 people in total, each one
can use dual monitor setup. :->
http://www.appian.com

At this point I would be afraid of the PCI bandwidth
and not having King Arthur's round table... :-)

> I now have an epox ep8vtai mobo with 5 PCI slots, so
> it would all fit. I have 1 GB of memory. May be buy 2
> 1GB cards instead to get 2GB.
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> Then 4 7-port USB hubs for my 4 usb ports:
> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=3DN82E16817111971
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> I plug the keyboards/mice into there.
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> Voil=E1! Debian Linux 2.6.12 would have no problems with
> it. A cable Internet hookup I guess. Mobo has an
> ethernet connection onboard.
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> [OT] from here on!
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> What stops me from doing it: it would be a Debian
> Linux only shop and I am fearful of the crowd I see in
> Internet Cafes nowadays and the pervasive M$
> advertizing that equates a computer with M$ products.
> A case in point: my old alma mater has about 100 PC's
> hooked up for its 1300 students. No attempt at all to
> go open source: each one has a M$ sticker that they
> paid their dues. You would think that an academic
> institution of higher learning would espouse some sort
> of critical attitude: zip.
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> Nobody even ever tried an opensource solution for
> thesis.
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> End [OT]

A friend of mine wrote his dissertation about setting up a secure
web-server with Debian GNU/Linux, and although the local LUG
cheered him, the teachers couldn't really appreciate his work,
since they didn't knew (about) Linux.

Best regards,
Zolt=E1n B=F6sz=F6rm=E9nyi