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| Thread ID: 84646 | 2007-11-13 11:51:00 | What Operating System do you use? | MaXimus (13013) | PC World Chat |
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| 611268 | 2007-11-14 02:39:00 | Looks like most here have far too many computers. Win XP Pro Win XP Pro win xp pro |
jermsie (6820) | ||
| 611269 | 2007-11-14 03:07:00 | XP pro *3 vista tablet open BSD *2 solaris 8 solaris 10 HPUX and thats not counting the hand-helds or routers..... |
robsonde (120) | ||
| 611270 | 2007-11-14 03:46:00 | Ubuntu 7.10, with XP Pro as a dual boot option, which I never use Windows Server 2003 - For deploying OSs A m0n0wall router with comically low specs (Celly 333, 64MB, 2GB) My family: XP Home XP Pro |
george12 (7) | ||
| 611271 | 2007-11-14 07:03:00 | This computer - XP Home Gaming Computer - XP Pro Laptop - Xp Pro Did have Media Center MMC, but installed Xp Pro overtop, Also had Server 2003 too. |
radium (8645) | ||
| 611272 | 2007-11-14 08:56:00 | Looks like most here have far too many computers. Win XP Pro Win XP Pro As she says - "too many computers" It's certainly not that I want to take any of your babies away from you real geeks/experts. But you should realise you're intimidating us ordinary people who have only one. And if it's elderly - like mine - we may be too ashamed of our poor offerings to post. However, I'll bite the bullet & say XP Home. |
Laura (43) | ||
| 611273 | 2007-11-14 09:15:00 | As she says - "too many computers" It's certainly not that I want to take any of your babies away from you real geeks/experts. But you should realise you're intimidating us ordinary people who have only one. And if it's elderly - like mine - we may be too ashamed of our poor offerings to post. However, I'll bite the bullet & say XP Home. I'm not sure how we're intimidating you. I see where you're coming from but I mean some of us need that many computers. Since we have a genuine need, we have them, its not to show off or anything, atleast not in most cases. I'd love to have just one actually, far less work to do and hardly anything to maintain. Count yourself lucky! |
beeswax34 (63) | ||
| 611274 | 2007-11-14 10:16:00 | Why do people need more than one computer? I have one, and I don't see why I would need any more. I could do with a laptop though. |
george12 (7) | ||
| 611275 | 2007-11-14 12:45:00 | Why do people need more than one computer? I have one, and I don't see why I would need any more. I could do with a laptop though.Some functions simply divide better among multiple machines. For instance: The media PC doesn't belong in the same box as the fileserver (IO bottlenecks) or the PABX (cpu bottlenecks). The desktop isn't left on 24/7, so it can't be the media PC either. The fileserver doesn't belong on the same machine as a personal desktop (shut down at night), family PC (useless OS) or laptop (frequently disconnected from net). The desktop isn't portable, hence the laptop. The web/mail/subversion server rightfully belongs on a high-speed datacentre connection rather than a home DSL line, so that's another machine (VM though). Family PC & personal desktop shouldn't be the same machine (too many people wanting to use it at the same time). Firewall/Router requires a separate box due to the need for three dedicated NICs and a different OS (pfSense embedded). Testing machines should be separate from main machines to facilitate quick hassle-free messing with the OS. Two of them in case there is a need to run two test jobs at once, or if one machine is currently in a 'destroyed' state. Backup server should be on a separate box to provide hot-failover capabilities in case of server failure, and to prevent IO bottlenecks. That said, fileservers are excellent for running all kinds of other small tasks that aren't resource-intensive. This may include things such as ldap, radius, local mysql (for stuff not related to the main webserver), kerberos, slave transcoder for media PC (niced to 15 or so), distcc, tftp & netboot stuff, http/socks proxy & cache, torrents and development webserver. I will admit that these aren't all, strictly speaking, needed - but I suffer from that common affliction of doing geeky things with every piece of gear I can get my hands on, just because I can. Some of these things are actually useful :rolleyes:. It's also surprising just how much it doesn't cost - I have spent no more than approx $2.5k on computer gear in the last 6 years (excluding the family PC, I don't have anything to do with that unless it needs fixing!). |
Erayd (23) | ||
| 611276 | 2007-11-14 13:22:00 | Actually this brings to mind that most wonderful of engineers' mottos: "If it ain't broke, it doesn't have enough features yet." :D :thumbs: |
Erayd (23) | ||
| 611277 | 2007-11-14 17:05:00 | As she says - "too many computers" ... And if it's elderly - like mine - we may be too ashamed of our poor offerings to post. However, I'll bite the bullet & say XP Home.The minimum age of any of my computers is approx 4 years. Why do people need more than one computer? I have one, and I don't see why I would need any more. I could do with a laptop though.My partner and I have one each, then I was given a Presario, which was converted to a cheap server. As for the laptop, that was bought for a course I did quite a few years back |
Myth (110) | ||
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