Sunday, June 26, 2005
Saturday, June 25, 2005
Oxymoron: Power Supply.
Power: The term used for the product of voltage and current. It is measured in watts.
Supply: provide or furnish with; "We provided the room with an electrical heater"
A power supply doesn't provide one watt, volt or amp. it's a transformer. it takes houshould current and converts it to 12 volts at x amps.
Power supply my ass. I've got 50 of the things laying about. and 500 different things they'd be hooked to if they supplied power. I wonder if 300 watts is enough to power the well? or maybe I'll have to combine a few to get enough wattage.
Power: The term used for the product of voltage and current. It is measured in watts.
Supply: provide or furnish with; "We provided the room with an electrical heater"
A power supply doesn't provide one watt, volt or amp. it's a transformer. it takes houshould current and converts it to 12 volts at x amps.
Power supply my ass. I've got 50 of the things laying about. and 500 different things they'd be hooked to if they supplied power. I wonder if 300 watts is enough to power the well? or maybe I'll have to combine a few to get enough wattage.
Oh yeah, I guess I should mention I switched from SuSE to Gentoo 3 or 4 months back. I still reccomend SuSE for a user who doesn't want the level of control a "source" distro, such as Gentoo offers. I especially advise against installing RedFat.
I had planned to transition over to PPC, and went to Gentoo for that reason. However, since Stevie is gonna be making Macs with Intel chips in them, I'm staying with AMD. guess I'll spend my money somewhere else (RAID ;-) )
I had planned to transition over to PPC, and went to Gentoo for that reason. However, since Stevie is gonna be making Macs with Intel chips in them, I'm staying with AMD. guess I'll spend my money somewhere else (RAID ;-) )
6 months. maybe I should update this more often.
This is currently being written on a 'doze machine (not mine, do I look stupid enough to not install Linux?). I was running a duron 600, but was given a 800 chip. turns out the 800 was bad, and, being the considerate chip it is, fried my board.
Fortuantly, besides regular backups, I always do both a Stage 4 backup and a backup of /home. so I'm fairly safe if my drives are also fucked.
A fortnight from now, I should have a new board & chip. AMD, of course. I own an Pentium, but didn't (and won't) pay for that crap. Gonna also pickup a 6-700 watt transformer, as I'll be increasing my SCSI count to 9. 7 drives + tape + cdr.
This is currently being written on a 'doze machine (not mine, do I look stupid enough to not install Linux?). I was running a duron 600, but was given a 800 chip. turns out the 800 was bad, and, being the considerate chip it is, fried my board.
Fortuantly, besides regular backups, I always do both a Stage 4 backup and a backup of /home. so I'm fairly safe if my drives are also fucked.
A fortnight from now, I should have a new board & chip. AMD, of course. I own an Pentium, but didn't (and won't) pay for that crap. Gonna also pickup a 6-700 watt transformer, as I'll be increasing my SCSI count to 9. 7 drives + tape + cdr.
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