New machine
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No, this is not a post boasting about some powerful specs on a development machine. If at all I have a machine with lowest specs and good for the job I want out of it: a web server and source control server. Special thanks to John Drescher for pointing out a machine[^] for $200. The ACER Aspire Revo[^] has Intel Atom and NVIDIA Ion and it is quite and surprisingly pretty fast even with all the junk ware it came up with. Now the only thing I need is to get rid of the pre-installed XP and install Ubuntu Server with Subversion and LAMP. (Unless someone suggests something better). The machine is very quiet and consumes very low power that I can leave it running without worries.
Neat little computer. I bet a lot of people are going to confuse that with a router. ;P
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No, this is not a post boasting about some powerful specs on a development machine. If at all I have a machine with lowest specs and good for the job I want out of it: a web server and source control server. Special thanks to John Drescher for pointing out a machine[^] for $200. The ACER Aspire Revo[^] has Intel Atom and NVIDIA Ion and it is quite and surprisingly pretty fast even with all the junk ware it came up with. Now the only thing I need is to get rid of the pre-installed XP and install Ubuntu Server with Subversion and LAMP. (Unless someone suggests something better). The machine is very quiet and consumes very low power that I can leave it running without worries.
I love that kind of setup. I have a buch of these little buggers running my home network: ASRock ION 330[^]. I have two more of them with BluRay drives Running Weven Media Center. I particularily love them because A) they take on Win2K8 without hassle, B) they support 4GB RAM, C) they are 64bit dual core (Atom 330), and D) they pull about 27-30 watts under load. One of them is running Win2K8/Exchange 2010 smoothly. And they're almost free! [edit] One of the Weven Media Center ones is standing on top of this sweetness - clickety[^] - although I didn't pay anywhere CLOSE to that price for it. That's another beautiful part of the ASRock's above - they have two SATA connectors internally, but only one of them is in use by the internal drive. [/edit] //L
modified on Thursday, February 4, 2010 11:22 AM
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I love that kind of setup. I have a buch of these little buggers running my home network: ASRock ION 330[^]. I have two more of them with BluRay drives Running Weven Media Center. I particularily love them because A) they take on Win2K8 without hassle, B) they support 4GB RAM, C) they are 64bit dual core (Atom 330), and D) they pull about 27-30 watts under load. One of them is running Win2K8/Exchange 2010 smoothly. And they're almost free! [edit] One of the Weven Media Center ones is standing on top of this sweetness - clickety[^] - although I didn't pay anywhere CLOSE to that price for it. That's another beautiful part of the ASRock's above - they have two SATA connectors internally, but only one of them is in use by the internal drive. [/edit] //L
modified on Thursday, February 4, 2010 11:22 AM
I've got one of the ASRock ION 330s on order for use as a media centre. Glad to hear a positive report!
I hope you realise that hamsters are very creative when it comes to revenge. - Elaine
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I've got one of the ASRock ION 330s on order for use as a media centre. Glad to hear a positive report!
I hope you realise that hamsters are very creative when it comes to revenge. - Elaine
It is bloody marvellous for that use as well - virtually no sound coming from it, and loaded with all the right solutions. 7.1 audio over the HDMI cable, 6 USB ports for external storage (I think the MB has connectors for four more, iirc) and gigabit ethernet. The only downside i found was the lack of eSATA (in spite of it being a possibility with this MB, the contoller can handle four SATA channels), but I solved this by cutting a slit for a SATA cable using a dremel multitool. As a result I have 5TB of storage on that little bugger, all virtually completely silent and with 3Gbps data transfer rate. :) [edit] I had a look, and it seems the new version of this does indeed sport an eSATA port. Makes my only drawback void! [/edit] //L
modified on Thursday, February 4, 2010 11:52 AM
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No, this is not a post boasting about some powerful specs on a development machine. If at all I have a machine with lowest specs and good for the job I want out of it: a web server and source control server. Special thanks to John Drescher for pointing out a machine[^] for $200. The ACER Aspire Revo[^] has Intel Atom and NVIDIA Ion and it is quite and surprisingly pretty fast even with all the junk ware it came up with. Now the only thing I need is to get rid of the pre-installed XP and install Ubuntu Server with Subversion and LAMP. (Unless someone suggests something better). The machine is very quiet and consumes very low power that I can leave it running without worries.
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Just came across http://www.ewayco.com/[^]. Got some even cheaper stuff and quite a wide selection of stuff.
I doubt it. If it isn't intuitive then we need to fix it. - Chris Maunder
I will be a little nervous giving my credit card number to that site.
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I will be a little nervous giving my credit card number to that site.
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No, this is not a post boasting about some powerful specs on a development machine. If at all I have a machine with lowest specs and good for the job I want out of it: a web server and source control server. Special thanks to John Drescher for pointing out a machine[^] for $200. The ACER Aspire Revo[^] has Intel Atom and NVIDIA Ion and it is quite and surprisingly pretty fast even with all the junk ware it came up with. Now the only thing I need is to get rid of the pre-installed XP and install Ubuntu Server with Subversion and LAMP. (Unless someone suggests something better). The machine is very quiet and consumes very low power that I can leave it running without worries.
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Looks more like a POS machine.
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No, this is not a post boasting about some powerful specs on a development machine. If at all I have a machine with lowest specs and good for the job I want out of it: a web server and source control server. Special thanks to John Drescher for pointing out a machine[^] for $200. The ACER Aspire Revo[^] has Intel Atom and NVIDIA Ion and it is quite and surprisingly pretty fast even with all the junk ware it came up with. Now the only thing I need is to get rid of the pre-installed XP and install Ubuntu Server with Subversion and LAMP. (Unless someone suggests something better). The machine is very quiet and consumes very low power that I can leave it running without worries.
just put plain old debian stable with apache + mysql + php on it nd it'll rock :)
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