Recent content by Wolf31o2

Agreed. While a single Athlon 64 chip stomps all over most P4 chips, it will seem slightly more sluggish when performing a lot of individual tasks. Going with a dual-core chip will get around this limitation. Of course, you could always jump for the SMP action and laugh at the complete lack...

There's no need to subject yourself to Windows just to do some diagnostics. If you're seeing processes on both of the CPU, then I wouldn't worry about it. The simplest thing would be to use "top" and then hit "1", which changes the top CPU view at the top of the applciation from aggregate to...

You will probably need to mount the hard drive. I would guess that it will either be /dev/hda or /dev/sda, if it is SATA. At any rate, all you'll need to do is something like the following: mkdir -p /backup mount /dev/sda1 /backup cd /backup At that point, you should see the files on...

The latest official drivers from Nvidia definitely do work, and even now have SLI support.

Don't know what the X-FI is, so I can't comment there, but Linux works perfectly fine on a 7800GTX, even 2 of them in SLI (with the latest drivers).

If you play games, you'll want a much bigger /var partition. Installing Neverwinter Nights with both expansion packs takes about 4GB in /var by itself. Installing UT2004 takes about 7GB. You regain this space once the emerge has completed, you it can take quite a lot of space when performing...

This card is supported under Gentoo Linux using the testing package rt8180. The current baselayout version in Gentoo has excellent wireless support now. In case you're wondering, baselayout is a package that provides the network scripts. On my machine, it takes 3 lines in my /etc/conf.d/net...

Well, he could also go with a PIX, as it is more powerful as a firewall than the limited capabilites of a Cisco 2600 router. There is also firewall devices, such as the Netscreen 5XP or Fortinet Fortigate 60. Personally, I use a Linux machine but that is only because I do quite a bit of...

Well, I have service with Charter Communications and I can tell you that they, in fact, do not block anything. I have a web server running just fine here. It sounds more like your issue is with your router and your port forwarding. That is where I would look to troubleshoot this problem.

Well, I have a PC-DL dual Xeon machine myself. I really am not impressed with it in any way. Then again, my 2 development machines are dual Opteron, so I think my perspective might be a bit skewed. Anyway, if you can get the CPUs for cheap, I would say go for it. You won't lose anything by...

This all makes me wonder why your compute nodes even have OS drives. Why not just PXE boot your OS completely? I mean, I'm sure you aren't running Windows on the damn thing, so you should be able to boot your minimal OS from PXE easily enough. With the clusters I've built here, we were able...

Well... Here is my work machine. This screenshot is a little old, but it is still accurate.

Since you're willing to learn, why not try out Gentoo? Gentoo is capable of installing packages via RPM, but more than likely, you will find anything you need already in the portage tree as an ebuild. Even things that are distributed as only an RPM (think ATI drivers) are in our tree. It will...

Bleh... Knoppix... ;) Of course, I should have the Gentoo LiveCD done in the next couple weeks. Since it is the first version that we have done, it will only be available from /experimental on the Gentoo mirrors. Currently, it is a full-fledged Gentoo environment, running Gnome. I am...

Well, I am running 100% Linux (Gentoo, of course) myself. My girlfriend has a single Windows box (along with a Linux box and Linux laptop), but it is Windows 2003 Server, so I think it is slightly excusable. I think the only thing keeping her from going 100% Linux is The Sims 2...