[Sussex] It's here!!

[Geoff Teale]

Tom wrote:
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> Are you using it a server or workstation?

A workstation.. going to write some 3D programs on it, see how far I can
push it, it has more than enough CPU time to spare.  

It's been busy building itself as a Gentoo box  (4 hours from stage1 -
fastest I've experienced and only using 1CPU at that point because the boot
disk doesn't use an SMP kernel).  I need to recompile my 2.5.65 kernel when
I get home this evening to just tidy things up a little, and then it'll be
into an `emerge xfree86-drm`.
 
> Pics? :)

Yeah, once I've got it up and running under Gentoo I'll whip out the digital
camera and takes some snaps - I really had no appreciation of just how huge
the case would look sitting on my desk - it's around 20" tall, 20" deep and
about 9" wide - Dell describe this as a "mini-tower" ;)

Best of all - it has a nice front access pannel for USB, Firewire,
headphones and mic, when you open it there are four Blinkenlights that are
used to show system status - makes a lovely light show during POST!  All it
needs now are some random switches for manually adjusting the registers and
it'd be just a like a proper computer ;)

With the front panel closed it is suprisingly quiet (quieter than my old
machine) despite having 8 fans on the go.

I can also recommend the Dell Ultrsharp LCD monitors... the 18.1" 1800FP I
now have is one of the best displays I've ever seen - when I have some cash
again I might buy a second one and dual head.. ther system is just crying
out for it!

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geoff.teale at claybrook.co.uk
tealeg at member.fsf.org

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