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[wormpaul]

I got on my PC: Windows XP

And the best one so far:

Windows 95 (that was just good)

[Danny252]

I have a 2.4 GHz processor and 1028 MB RAM.. dosbox runs like a charm here :P

[Mucman]

FreeBSD user here... Have 8 machines at home running FreeBSD. I have built over 30 machines but I don't do it anymore. I can't keep up with what's going on in the hardware world and I wouldn't have a clue what the best bang for the buck components are anymore.

[Danny252]

8??!! what do you possibly use them ALL for?

[SixApes]

REAPER

I hate Microsoft and Windows, but I'm forced into using it. I have Windows XP Professional for playing games, Mandrake 10.0 because Linux is best and Windows 98 in VMware for playing older windows games that just won't run in XP (somebody must make a "winbox"

They do have a winbox.... its called Cedega. It runs everything flawlessly with minor hacks to the master config file. Even runs Morrowind. with no loss of framerate.

[Reaper]

I have cedega (ex-winex), but i meant a winbox that would run in Windows XP. Cedega is for linux only.

[quatroking]

I have Windows ME, it play really good dosgames.(exept Commander Keen)

WINDOWSI 98 ISI DA BESTI!
(Stopid italisch guy next me)

[Mucman]

Originally posted by Danny252@Jan 22 2005, 11:26 PM
8??!! what do you possibly use them ALL for?

4 Servers
Top Right = Firewall/NAT
Bottom Left = NFS/DHCP/DNS (200GB of storage for backups/home directories/10,000 mp3s)
Top Left = DNS ( for redundancy)
Bottom Right = Web server

Music Player Daemon
This machine is located in a closet to the right of the entrance. It outputs the audio to the speakers that
are mounted near the ceiling. The machine is controlled by a web interface located on the web server.
The web interface controls a process called MPD which loads mp3s off of the file server and plays them.
I can control the music from any machine at with a web browser at home.

I have two laptops. One is a Dell 600m which is my main workstation. The other is an old IBM P100 which
I use to play old DOS games, and control the music server. Both laptops connect using 802.11b.

Lastly I have about 5-6 extra machines. One I am using to play with MythTV, and another is a test computer for OpenBSD 3.6 to replace my current router box.

So as you can see... I only directly interact with 2 of those machines.

[Rogue]

Can you tell me more about that Music Player Daemon??

I have couple of computers that I might use for simillar thing. I also like to do simillar thing you have done.

Do you more preffer OpenBSD over FreeBSD? :blink:

[Mucman]

Originally posted by Anubis@Jan 24 2005, 01:20 AM
Can you tell me more about that Music Player Daemon??

I have couple of computers that I might use for simillar thing. I also like to do simillar thing you have done.

Do you more preffer OpenBSD over FreeBSD? :blink:

Here's and article I wrote, but it's a little outdated now. It's all in the ports tree under musicpd. The Official Website will probably explains things better than I can.

The essence of MPD is that it is a process that can be controlled remotely to play music. Configuration of it was telling it where your files are located ('/mnt/mp3' in my case), and that's about it! It indexes all of your music and it is ready to handle requests. That's where the php web interface comes in. Instead of telnetting to the box it is much nicer to use a GUI (especially when guests want to play with it). I am currently using phpmp and it handles everything nicely. The web server can obviouslly run on the same box as MPD, but I have things seperated just for experience purposes.

And about BSD... I like all the BSDs. I use FreeBSD because it's a little more leading edge with newer hardware support. I like OpenBSD for firewalls and servers where security matters above all else. NetBSD is something I have just recently tried out and I love it for its clean design but I don't know much about it yet.

Hope that helps!