> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of dene maxwell > Sent: Wednesday, December 28, 2005 10:07 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [Flightgear-users] Optimum Hardware Platform. > > Hi all, > I have approval from "she that must be obeyed" to get a > dedicated FG PC. I'm in the process of finishing the spec to > give to my selected PC builder. I would appreciate your guys > comment on it's suitability for FG 099. I intend running Win > 98se as my primary OS but as can be seen have allowed enough > room on the system partition for dual boot should I choose > (but that's a different topic) > > Ø Motherboard > § PIII or P4 > § 500Mhz + processor speed > § 512Mbytes system RAM plus > § AGP or PCI-E slot for video card > Ø Video > § 512Mbyte Nvidia graphics card (interface to suit m/board) > Ø Storage > § 40Gbyte plus 7200rpm HDD configured as 10/15/15 partitions > (System/Program/Data) > § at least 40x CD-ROM > § FDD > Ø Interfaces > § 100/10BaseT NIC ( so I can access downloads on the > other pcs and print > to a network printer) > § PS2 Mouse port > § PS2 Keyboard port > § at least one USB port > Ø Miscellaneous > § 2 way- Keyboard/Mouse/Screen switch (make best use > of limited space and > I won't be flying while editing etc.) > § 16 bit sound card with speakers (lowest spec available is OK) > > > Cheers > Dene >
I'll let everyone else tell you about how you should be using some other OS, other hardware, or whatever. Let me say a word about KVM (keyboard/video/mouse) switches. IOGEAR. They have a two-computer set-up where you press the SCROLL LOCK button twice quickly and it switches to the other computer. I use two computers at home, and when I'm not at home, I find myself hitting SCROLL LOCK all the time, and there is no second computer. It makes switching to the other computer VERY easy. I'm not sure about combining two speaker outputs into one set of speakers. Don't know if one would feedback into the other computer and cause a problem, so I don't do it. Anyone else do this? Bill ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_idv37&alloc_id865&op=click _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-users
