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Diskless Computing

Monday, November 13th, 2006

Following up on the dev box upgrade article, I’ll try to describe the process of blind luck and educated guesswork that enabled my network to support “fat clients”.
My dev box had a conflict. I needed memory bandwidth and processing power, but I didn’t need local storage. Ever since a near miss on [...]

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Dev Computer Upgrade

Monday, November 13th, 2006

My project for this past weekend was to get my development machine up and running, after being in a state of ‘upgrade’ since pretty much July.
The old box was 2nd generation Pentium IV (mpga 478, 400fsb) 1.6ghz, with a gigabyte of rambus and a tired old pata hard disk. The machine served well [...]

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Iced Pelt

Friday, September 23rd, 2005

the peltier module sandwiched between two 1/4″ thick plates of pure copper. The hot-side plate is liquid cooled by a pump and radiator setup
the ice is condensation from the air, collected over the course about about an hour and a half. The pelt was being supplied from the 5v rail of the PSU [...]

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