Re: welcome to the new guys

my server closet actually helps keep my apartment warm
in the winter :) Thanks for the pointer though, I didn't realize
the prices had gotten that low (even though still need separate ps).

On Mar 11, 2004, at 1:56 PM, andrey mirtchovski wrote:

>> re: ituner
>>
>> One thing that I find rather interesting, is that at almost any
>> time, you can get celeron 2GHz w/ a 40MB hard drive from
>> Dell's Small Business store for ~$250, with free shipping.
>>
>> Granted it is nice to have a small form factor system and have lots
>> of them in a rack, but I often end up finding it hard to justify
>> anything
>> else. Its even cheaper than buying a used machine. Any thoughts ?
>>
>> cheers,
>
> ituner now sells P4/Celeron cards in mini-itx form factor for $185...
> the real problem people are having with those machines is noise.  i'll
> happily sacrifice a few megahertz for a really quiet machine that
> doesn't make the room feel like a tropical rainforest (heat).
>
> especially with Plan 9, where i can get all the computing power i want
> by cpu-ing somewhere else :)
>
> then again running slower hardware isn't a terrible performance hit.
> even my slow vmware session at home rarely feels sluggish with plan9
> -- it's neat how it feels about as smooth at 500mhz as it does at 3ghz
> (i know you know this, i just like saying it ;)
>
> andrey
>
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