DThomasC
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I think it is to run GAD World Headquarters:
Specifically to support MiniGAD?
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Specifically to support MiniGAD?
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I have a Raspberry Pi in my garage that is my (sort of) VPN port redirection host for when I'm out of town. It replaced a Pentium something-or-other server that took up an entrire rack space in my rack. This one is powered from the USB port on one of my networking switches.
Here's my little Hadoop Cluster:
I have a very cool sort of cobbled together Linux machine that I built from the screen from a broken 17" Macbook Pro, a graphics driver for the panel that I got on Ebay, and a Raspberry Pi, all controlled with a vintage-typewriter-looking USB keyboard. Oddly enough I don't have any pictures of it. I should take some...
I love me some Raspberry Pi.
Here's my little Hadoop Cluster:
I have a very cool sort of cobbled together Linux machine that I built from the screen from a broken 17" Macbook Pro, a graphics driver for the panel that I got on Ebay, and a Raspberry Pi, all controlled with a vintage-typewriter-looking USB keyboard. Oddly enough I don't have any pictures of it. I should take some...
I love me some Raspberry Pi.
DThomasC
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I use my Raspberry Pi to play Frozen Bubble since I no longer have a proper Linux box. It seems noticeably pokey compared to an i7 equipped laptop with a solid state drive, but it's probably 1000x more computer than the first Linux box I built with a 486 processor and 1M ram. That machine would not comfortably run X Window, so I was stuck with command line only. It probably took me three days to install RedHat Linux from floppy disks. That's why I could never do IT for a living. Waiting around for software to finish installing...
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You win the Internet for not writing X Windows.
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DThomasC
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I think it is to run GAD World Headquarters:
I don't think that's GAD's... I don't see any dog hair.
AcornHouse
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In grad school, for my doctoral dissertation, I had composed a Symphony for concert band. I was using an early incarnation of Finale, a music notation program, on a Mac Classic. My printer was a simple laser printer (for ‘92). In order to print the score, it took 8+ hours. I basically set it going and went to bed, hoping nothing crashed overnight. (And, since I needed the score to be 17”x11”, each page had to be tiled on 8-1/2”x11” paper.)