> As others have mentioned, it's quite adequate for my purposes,
> serving media files; the Silicon Image SATA controller works fine, I
> get excellent NFS performance from it. I don't expect to transcode
> movies with it; I have another computer for that. I kind of like
> having a piece of history
On 8 Jan 2009, at 4:32 pm, Matt Turner wrote:
I attribute this to sellers who try to hit the lottery. That
is, they
hope that a corporate server with no back up fails and someone
with
access to the company's expense account spends 7000 GBP (as I was
recently quoted for an ES
On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 08:25:38AM -0500, Brian Szymanski wrote:
> Matt Turner wrote:
> > > Right. But for some mysterious reasons, Alphas are still very expensive
> > > and
> > > if you put one on ebay, you will sell it.
> >
> > I attribute this to sellers who try to hit the lottery. That is, the
On 8 Jan 2009, at 4:32 pm, Matt Turner wrote:
I attribute this to sellers who try to hit the lottery. That is, they
hope that a corporate server with no back up fails and someone with
access to the company's expense account spends 7000 GBP (as I was
recently quoted for an ES47) to get a replace
Matt Turner wrote:
> > Right. But for some mysterious reasons, Alphas are still very expensive and
> > if you put one on ebay, you will sell it.
>
> I attribute this to sellers who try to hit the lottery. That is, they
> hope that a corporate server with no back up fails and someone with
> access t
Uwe Schindler wrote:
I have been running an Alpha XP1000 at home for the last three or four
years (ever since it was
discarded by my workplace) and it has served me well and has done all that
I asked of it (a
multimedia machine with a PVR card for recording analague television and
playback of rec
> >> The State of Alpha Linux
> >>
> >> We're all subscribed to this list because we use a dying platform.
> >
> > You think it's dying? :-P
>
> Way back, on the day that I heard that Compaq had bought DEC, I knew in my
> heart that the beginning
> of the end had arrived for Alpha. Yep, the Alpha
On Thu, 2009-01-08 at 11:32 -0500, Matt Turner wrote:
> No, I don't think this is the problem at all. jcristau, the developer
> who told me he didn't care, has at least one alpha.
>
I used to have (remote) access to an alpha. I don't anymore (other than
Debian's port machine).
Cheers,
Julien
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Oliver Falk wrote:
Matt Turner wrote:
The State of Alpha Linux
We're all subscribed to this list because we use a dying platform.
You think it's dying? :-P
Way back, on the day that I heard that Compaq had bought DEC, I knew in my heart that the beginning
of the end had arrived for Alpha.
Hi Matt!
Matt Turner wrote:
[ ... ]
We're all subscribed to this list because we use a dying platform.
You think it's dying? :-P
We do what we can to keep it going, but in recent months the State of
Alpha Linux has been deteriorating at an accelerated rate.
Let me outline some issues facing
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