On Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 10:16 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Aug 09, 2008 at 10:00:56PM -0700, Wade Curry wrote: >> Liquid cooling was mostly just an experiment for me. I had never >> done it before. But it is nice and quiet, and I am enjoying that >> quite a bit. Setting it up was a fair amount of extra hassle, >> though. > > Whoa! Timeout! This is getting way hardcore. Can't you and Andy just pay for > a big beefy Xen VM like at linode.com?
I have a Linode, but I doubt it'll do quite what Andy wants. Since he mentions a monitor resolution, it sees that he's looking for a local GUI. Granted, I can X-forward windows from my Linode, but even simple stuff (like Firefox) has really high latency. The closest datacenter housing Linodes is in Fremont. However, if he can get by with mostly command-line stuff on the remote server, I'd say it's a really good deal. I do the cheapest plan at Linode, but as Seb said there are more beefy VPSes available. Only up to 2.8GB of RAM, though, and that one can get expensive quickly. The best part about it, though, is the remote management. You can reboot the virtual server from the Web interface, and you can even SSH into the host and get tty0 at the box in case you accidentally block access from the network or something. -- Brad Beyenhof . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . http://augmentedfourth.com If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day. ~ E.B. White, writer (1899-1985) -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
