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do the calculations and see if you can afford the extra HD space. if not, grab a $75 drive (~15GB) and that should be plenty for both the interim 256kbps files as well as a crapload of archives :) -- Rahul

fractal, I agree totally. For some applications, SMP is great, but for others where the current working data sets run into the Megs, the CPU caches just can't keep the CPUs well fed. Of course, testing the app out would be the best way to see how will this specific app works. The EV6 bus will...

more compressed stream means more CPU power. What I'd do is stream a 256kbps encoding in real time, and then re-compress it to 96 or whatever as a low priority process. Just make sure you don't do this on a system that needs lots of drive activity while it's doing this. -- Rahul

lame should be fine. find it on www.freshmeat.net gogo is a MMX/3dnow optimized patch to an older version of lame. use that if lame is too slow. gogo's algorithm may not be as good as the latest lame's but it'll be way faster. -- Rahul

Get an old Mac. They put out white noise to make the whine of the fans/drives seem like it's not there. I guess it worked ok, but noise like that doesn't really bother me. -- Rahul

A CPU that's over 400MHz and on a 100MHz FSB should be plenty. Give it 128MB of RAM so that it has space for buffering, just in case. -- Rahul

I see your point, bodony, but the KLAT2's FNN topology helps get around some of the bandwith problems. It's not perfect, but for some types of processing (ones involving extremely large data sets), the bus locking in SMP becomes a real problem. As I said, SMP may or may not be a win, and the...

/me dons flame-proof underwear Ah... poo on me! :mad: At least OGR is actually useful! We're rocking quite fine in OGR even without you guys, but more is better, of course ;) Golomb Rulers r00lz j00!!! !! /me puts his normal undies back on and puts the h4x0r keyboard away -- Rahul

From what I've seen, the articles in most of the mags are either paraphrases of a HOWTO or some sort of opinion/editorial. I find sites like www.gnome.org, linuxdoc.org, and linuxtoday.com to be more useful. Just my 2.5 cents... -- Rahul

Oh... I thought "host headers" were something to do with customizing the response headers or something... guess not... :P -- Rahul

if you use DRI, your frame rates will be faster than in Windows. DRI project -- Rahul

SSI? .htaccess? mod_perl? custom apache module? I think one of those will do what you're asking for... Then again, I'm not quite sure what you're asking for...

Linux Documentation Project Linux.com XFree86 Google's Linux search engine and lots, lots more... -- Rahul

The point of a cluster is to get around the bus locking that SMP does. Profile your code on both SMP and non-SMP systems and see if there is really that much of a benefit. Some applications can run well in SMP, but many cannot cope with it well. Check the KLAT2 article here in the tech library...

Any DEC tulip based card (or clone) is supported on all platforms known to man (ok... almost all ;)). A Netgear FA310TX should cost no more than $20 and it has 10/100 and duplex autosensing that really works. -- Rahul

you can't do 100 Mbit/s ethernet via a crossover cable, IIRC. also, you can't add a third computer.

Monitor bandwidth is massive... 1280x1024x32 would be quite normal for such a setup, and that's a whopping 5 GB/sec. That's way too much for a wireless connection, and even if there is tech to do that, it won't be affordable for the home (or techie) market for a long, long time. Networking/phone...

Yeah, the connectors I was referring to are the ones on the card. From some of the docs, it seems that they may be electrically connected (effectively a 50 to 68 pin adapter on the board). It seems that you need to adjust the termination depending on what's connected to the internal 50 pin...

If being upgradeable was important, then why don't consumer stereo systems have upgradeable DSPs on a card? Why don't microwaves have replaceable microwave-generating-doohickeys? The bottom line is that the average consumer couldn't care less for opening up an appliance and fiddling with it...

Ever hear of plastic surgery? ;) -- Rahul