linuxcaffe; become peripheraly involved !

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 03:04:49PM -0500, David J Patrick wrote:
> You know; phone line in one end and xDSL pppoe out the other ? 
> Speadstream ? Alcatel ? the thing that Sympatico dings you (me) 
> $10/month for ?

Oh a DSL modem with an ethernet connection on it.  Why pay $10/month
when you can buy it for $80?  And isn't sympatico overpriced to begin
with?

> yess yess HUB ! you know; USB goes in one side and more than one USB 
> comes  out the other !

I haven't personally ever needed one, although I think my farther is
likely too soon (just how he has ended up with 7 usb devices on one
system I can't imagine).

> I hope to have several webcams going, and use usb numeric keypads as  
> interfaces to the security system.

Hmm, interesting idea.

> or it's CoasterCreator (tm) !

I have run an ASUS 40x cd writer on a pentium 75 before.  It performed
pretty good, and the burnproof system took care of the hickups.  Much
better than I had imagined.  My experience with a DVR-103 (2x DVD
writer) on a pentium II 450 was much worse (close to unusable) due to a
complete lack of any buffer underrun handling.

> I'm guessing the 68k refers to Macintoshy  CPUs, but the mips draws a 
> blank.
> Yup, that's odd, alright !

68k are actually sun 3/50 and 3/60s and the mips are Decstation 5000/240
and /133's.  I meant _really_ odd old hardware.

I have Debian Sarge working fine on the Decstations, but haven't messed
with the sun's in a while.  Debian or NetBSD should work on them, as
does the SunOS 4 based Xserver software I have for them.

Lennart Sorensen
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