Should we Start the Slow Computer Race Again?

[TC]

Well since Chawken took his with him to Nova Star I was thinking maybe we should start this race over too. I've got the new "member" signed up if anyone wants to do this again. Just use the email address "ocsetiteam@charter.net" Now what should it be called - the federation or the collective?

[TC]

PS - for now I named the new member "Team_Race"

[TC]

bump

[Sir-Epix]

Spare CPU cycles never hurt...even if they are slow. As I post this I am running SETI on a P200MMX. Plus a complition is always fun...just make sure you get recruits first.

[dugans]

If any one else wants to go in, my dual 400 is down right now (I wrecked Linux!!!!) so I'll toss that in on a team.

[deez]

I have an old 486 laptop I'd like to get crunching...but it has Win 3.1 on it

I guess I could pull the drive and install Linux....any ideas

[dugans]

I have to reinstall RedHat 7.2 on the duallie: ran well, but I screwed it up trying to get Samba running!

RH7.2 ran great on the thing.

Anybody in for taking TC on?

I'll set up a team, or someone else can and I'll join!

[TC]

Isn't Basher's slow team still around?

[Basher]

yep

[dugans]

Hey HEY!

You in for some more slow pc races?

We should try to get close to parity on the teams to start with, eh?

or not!

I just figure this will be my only chance to catch up to/ pass TC :D
so I'll be on the other team!

Sorry TC: its tough to be #1!:burn:

[TC]

Well seeing as how I have nothing slow enough to participate I won't be contributing units to it.

[dugans]

Ok, I guess thats one dream I'll have to give up!!:D

I'll be reinstalling the os on my duallie sometime today, in between doing holiday stuff- I'll check in here before starting Seti up and if no one else has started a new antique pc team, I will!

:beer:

[dugans]

No responses yet, so I set up "slowteamoc@yahoo.com" for an email account.

The dual 400 is running with Redhat 7.2 and crunching 2 wus right now.

Any body joining?
Is your slow team the Target, Basher? If it is, I'll need some HELP! 48 wu worth !!!!!

I resurrected The Collective btw.:D

[TC]

Okay I can let my ancient P2 450 crunch for my slow team. If I had an extra case handy I could get the old ppro 200 going too.

Anyway my team's name is "TC'sTurtleTeam" and to crunch for me (duh who else would you crunch for) just use "ocsetiteam@charter.net" :)

[dugans]

:D Sweet!

Basher's team is still going- the Federation, with 48 wu
Dugans' team just started- the Collective, with 0:(
And TC's team has started-TC'sTurtleTeam, with 0 ?

And they're off!

[dugans]

New update:
Federation= 48
Tc'sTurtleTeam= 1
New Collective= 0

[lonewolf1983]

ROFL

*chortle*

:D

[TC]

Smokin baby :burn:

[lennytiger]

i have a 286 but i think win95 is pushin' it too far!!

[SpeeDj]

LOL Once I get some of the antiquated hardware back I can take a peek and see what I have to contribute, anyone know a way to make Seti work just off a floppy with no os ? Someway to get it to send through a nic card ? Just wondering if that is possible, anyone had any luck with this or no ?

J

[Godfodda]

I've been trying to get 1 of my 486s up for a while and I think I'm *finally* about to get it going. Trying a format this time. Damned old machines... I forgot how much... erm... fun... they were. :D

[JigPu]

Originally posted by SpeeDj
LOL Once I get some of the antiquated hardware back I can take a peek and see what I have to contribute, anyone know a way to make Seti work just off a floppy with no os ? Someway to get it to send through a nic card ? Just wondering if that is possible, anyone had any luck with this or no ?

J
Well, SETIGate (my caching program) can transmit and recieve WUs over a network. Basicly, you set up SETI on each computer to use a proxy server and then SETIGate acts as the proxy. Sounds like it would work great. Only one machine needed to download WUs, and all the machines feeding off of that one system. (Too bad I don't enough about networking to know "what" I'm spouting, but trust me, my spouting is correct. :D )

Also, try finding linux-on-a-floppy (not on a stick :D), and see if any of them leave enough room for the 541k needed for SETI. (just checked the size of SETI and all it's related files... might get bigger as the result file grows...). I had one that would load linux into a ramdrive so that you wouldn't have to deal with the slow floppy drive after boot. See if you can find any like that. I don't even WANT to know how much slower SETI runs on a floppy. :eek:

JigPu

[dugans]

Okay, this race is screamin' now!

Federation- still holding steady in the lead with 48 (I think we've got him on the run though!)

Tc'sTurtleTeam- 3

New Collective- 2 .................Must fully Assimilate Linux.......Tweak!

<edit>
The New Collective has assimilated all unnecessary services.

Will now proceed to assimilate all wu, one at a time.

[TC]

My team kicks a** :D

[dugans]

newest update:
Federation- holding firm @ 48

Tc'sTurtleTeam- 4

New Collective- 4

NC says " While assimilating a K6-2 450 we had an explosion: failed and unit is dead"

[dugans]

New screaming fast cruncher: Intel Pentium w/MMX 166@266.
Beware!

[lennytiger]

got my imac at 400mhz

[dugans]

Xmas Evening Update:

The Federation- 48 and holding steady in the lead
The New Collective- 6 and trying to assimilate more antique cpus
TCsTurtleTeam- 5 But Do NOT count them out!


A note: Linux is working great on the older stuff, and if you know command-line can install on very little space

[hallen]

How do you think an AMD 386DX40 running NT 3.51 will do?

[hallen]

Picture of the above

[lennytiger]

that 386 looks good

[hallen]

4 socketed cache chips plus a tag chip for 128kb l2 cache. I think I have a 486 with chips that can double that to 256kb
I ought to fill the Math coprocessor socket too, for SETI. AMD 40Mz coprocessor is going to be tough to find. Anyone here got one?

[lennytiger]

you know if i were still in england I had an old 386 running a proxy server for my dsl, and I'm sure that had an AMD math coprocessor, i don't need it all that box did was supply net access to everyone over a linux floppy!!

[hallen]

Cyrix 387DX-33 might O/C but the shipping is an outrageous $8.80 here:

http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1311970557

Classifieds here are more reasonable:

http://forums.overclockers.ws/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=53711

linux floppy!!

Sounds like a job for the Duracell bunny.

[dugans]

Update on the Race:

Federation- 48 wu A comfortable lead, but you only have a few weeks before we catch up!
New Collective- 11 wu slowly making up ground
TCsTurtleTeam-8 wu but it ain't over 'till its over!

When is this race over anyway? First team to 1000?

[TC]

Originally posted by rogerdugans
Update on the Race:

Federation- 48 wu A comfortable lead, but you only have a few weeks before we catch up!
New Collective- 11 wu slowly making up ground
TCsTurtleTeam-8 wu but it ain't over 'till its over!

When is this race over anyway? First team to 1000? 9 to be precise at 19:49 -5 GMT.

first one to 500 I'd say at this rate.

[dugans]

500 it is then!

Anybody joining up yet?

Come on folks, hitch your old box up and Join a Team!

[TC]

Okay I was forced to bring my 200 Ppro back to life - should average 1 unit every 20 hours or so. Eat that :D

[dugans]

Originally posted by SpeeDj
LOL Once I get some of the antiquated hardware back I can take a peek and see what I have to contribute, anyone know a way to make Seti work just off a floppy with no os ? Someway to get it to send through a nic card ? Just wondering if that is possible, anyone had any luck with this or no ?

J

Just found this in another thread http://plaza.powersurfr.com/dan.mckay/dlssseti.htm

Don't know if you are still looking, or if anyone else is...;)

[TC]

Watch out - the Turtle just added an antiquated P3 600 :D

[dugans]

Cool! :D
I noticed you were slipping behind a little......:D

Stats update:

Federation- 48 Is anybody there?

New Collective- 16 The borg machine is looking through trash heaps for old hardware to rebuild!

TC'sTurtleTeam- 13 But they've pulled out a secret weapon! 600 massive mhz of P3 to counter the New Collective's charge!

[Lancelot]

I could add a genuine i486DX2-66 as a 24/7 Seti box.
-edit- Lol, yeah I just went through my attick and found two old Compaq 486DX2 boxes, 20Megs of SIMM, a Vesa local bus mainboard and vidcard, a working 240MB IDE HDD, an old 14" monitor and I decided to build the team a Win95 Rig just for fun and old times sake!

[lennytiger]

the 400Mhz iMac is still going

[rogerdugans]

Slow Races Update:

The Federation- 48 wu Is the Federation waiting for us to catch up?;)
The New Collective- 22 failed in an attempt to resurrect an old MAC
TC'sTurtleTeam-20 Seem to be creeping back up!

Has anybody started another team? People joining up?



*note: I almost bought a $39 deal today: 233mhz cpu/mobo combo. Decided against it- it was a CYRIX!:beer:

[TC]

Originally posted by rogerdugans
Slow Races Update:

The Federation- 48 wu Is the Federation waiting for us to catch up?;) I say we sand bag just like the toadies and blow past the fed :D

[rogerdugans]

Originally posted by TC
I say we sand bag just like the toadies and blow past the fed :D

I like the idea.......but I can't: I've got linux on the two pcs that are going, and I haven't got any clue how to set up caching! I can barely do linux as it is! :p

I still don't even have VNC on those things, ALTHOUGH: I just got the answer for that in another thread, so I may do that later.:D

[TC]

Originally posted by rogerdugans


I like the idea.......but I can't: I've got linux on the two pcs that are going, and I haven't got any clue how to set up caching! I can barely do linux as it is! :p

I still don't even have VNC on those things, ALTHOUGH: I just got the answer for that in another thread, so I may do that later.:D *nix can be a bit** if you haven't played around with it much. I need to get off my butt and learn it better. Should be taking a night class in that after I finish ccna.

[rogerdugans]

Slow Team Race Update

Federation= 48, no change. And nothing from Basher.........:p
New Collective= 27, Did somebody join? A few people???
TC'sTurtleTeam=22, C'mon TC! Gotta recruit some help over there!



***Update on my fight with VNC in Linux: ITS WORKING! Thanks to some help from Chaim79 just about walking me through it, one machine is good to go, and I'll be doing the other tomorrow.***

[Basher]

I don't have anything to run on the team :(

[hallen]

Originally posted by Basher
I don't have anything to run on the team :(

Why not this?

http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1315151215

[rogerdugans]

The first Slow Team Update of 2002!

The Federation- 48 Needs some crunchers!

The New Collective- 31
166@266 was down for VNC installationproblems. While
down an AMD K6-2 450@500 was assimilated!
Up and running.

Tc's Turtle Team- 29 Made up some ground.........

[BrainLifter]

I've got a K6-2 333 waiting.... I just need a HD, vid card, mobo, keyboard, ok... _all_ I have is a chip... lol ;)

[e_storm]

well guys, once I get my 166mhz Cyrix running, I'm in...

might take me a week or so, but I'll crunch on that 1.