[time-nuts] Lady Heather on a Laptop

Chris Albertson albertson.chris at gmail.com
Thu Sep 27 16:22:59 UTC 2012


On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 9:07 AM, brent evers <brent.evers at gmail.com> wrote:
> If you get one with three sata ports (more than two usually comes with
> four though), plug in three drives - one for the OS and applications,
> and two data configured to run as a mirrored raid array - makes a
> cheap and easy file server..  I haven't done this but plan to (maybe
> I'll do that this weekend).
>
> I also leave an atom running with trixbox to have a small business
> voip phone system - rock solid.

You can run the NTP server, LH, your raid array and the Asterix phone
system all on the same box.  The only thing that taxes most modern
computers is the user interface that has to push a few million pixels
around on the screen.   Compared to pushing pixels, server
applications are a light load.   Well light until you have hundreds of
users connected.   Write asimple script that "cats" the output of
loading to a file every minute the look and you find you can pile on
the services and still not use much of the CPU.   The idea that you
need one computer for each function came from people using Microsoft
Windows.
>
> Very cool little systems.
>
> Brent
>
> On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 11:52 AM, gary <lists at lazygranch.com> wrote:
>> I use a dual core atom as a server. Be sure to read the user reviews on
>> Newegg regarding memory. If you try to stuff your Atom to the full 4gbytes,
>> only certain sodimms work. You can use the smallest SSDs around for this
>> purpose. I built mine with an 80gBbyte intel.
>>
>> I use win 7 pro 64 bit for software compatibility with certain programs, but
>> I would first see if Lady Heather runs under Wine if all you want to do is
>> run one program.
>>
>> Atom PCs are about the easiest to build since you can skip the CPU and heat
>> sink mounting.
>>
>> I'd look for those intel mobos that have the wide input voltage range.
>>
>> Note an old notebook running 24 and 7 will eventually cost you about what
>> the atom system costs. Also, the nice thing about the atom is the CPU clock
>> isn't fiddled (unless that has changed). I hate all the power saving
>> features in notebook PCs.
>>
>>
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Chris Albertson
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