Imagine, 16 Gigs of RAM, Quad-core, 4 x 1 Terabyte drives, 768 MB SLI Video Cards, 2 x 24 Inch flat panels, with this hardware, what would you have? My current dream workstation. I have been wanting to buy a new computer/laptop/workstation for the past year, money right now is a little tight so its out of the question, but I still like to spec out what is out there now.
I am looking to replace all the crape PCs I currently have with one monstrous machine. The way I think about it is if I had this workstation with enough power to virtualize all my other desktops I would be in business.
Now, is this practical...I have right now 6 desktops each one below 1 Ghz, I have one laptop at 1.6 Ghz all are rather old and slow, but I did not spend anything for them except the laptop. Now if I spend $2,000 - $4,000, I could replace them all and still have expandability.
I love virtualization and with that kind of machine I could have as many as I needed and wanted and still be able to do some serious computing.
I am going to have to break out the old calculator and see if it is financially in my best interest.
Any thoughts would be huge.
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Sunday, February 17, 2008
Monday, December 31, 2007
PodGet
Podcasts are a huge part of my life. Since, I do commute to work and I like to listen to music while driving podcasts are a life saver. Its also how I get up to date on a great deal of my tech news.
That being said, I am always looking for a new and better way to get these podcasts. I started out using bashpodder. It was a good way to get podcasts but lacked some features. I then went to using graphical tools those were a bust because I wanted something I could schedule and was easy to configure.
Roll in podget. Its very easy and simple to use and does the job I want.
A huge plus is it is already in the debian repos.
Installing is a snap. I run Ubuntu 7.10 so to install podget was simply:
$sudo aptitude install podget
Once installed there is a first time run interaction, which creates ~/.podget .
The ~/.podget file is where all the default configuration files are for podget. Two files are stored there podgetrc and serverlist. Podgetrc is the configuration file for the script. This allows you to adjust were podcasts will be stored where logfiles should be stored and other settings.
NOTE: I had to change up the variable most_recent due to podget downloading all podcasts. This controls how far back podget will try and download by default set to most_recent=0. I set mine to most_recent=2.
The serverlist file is where all the RSS feeds are stored. It is a very simple syntax of . That is correct categories. Which is a feature I really like.
Following the documentation and several sites that had some podget info. on them I set it up in cron.
$ crontab -e
15 04,16 * * * /usr/bin/podget -s
This allows for podget to run at 4:15 and 16:15.
Anyway, here are a few links I found helpful. Enjoy podget.
That being said, I am always looking for a new and better way to get these podcasts. I started out using bashpodder. It was a good way to get podcasts but lacked some features. I then went to using graphical tools those were a bust because I wanted something I could schedule and was easy to configure.
Roll in podget. Its very easy and simple to use and does the job I want.
A huge plus is it is already in the debian repos.
Installing is a snap. I run Ubuntu 7.10 so to install podget was simply:
$sudo aptitude install podget
Once installed there is a first time run interaction, which creates ~/.podget .
The ~/.podget file is where all the default configuration files are for podget. Two files are stored there podgetrc and serverlist. Podgetrc is the configuration file for the script. This allows you to adjust were podcasts will be stored where logfiles should be stored and other settings.
NOTE: I had to change up the variable most_recent due to podget downloading all podcasts. This controls how far back podget will try and download by default set to most_recent=0. I set mine to most_recent=2.
The serverlist file is where all the RSS feeds are stored. It is a very simple syntax of
Following the documentation and several sites that had some podget info. on them I set it up in cron.
$ crontab -e
15 04,16 * * * /usr/bin/podget -s
This allows for podget to run at 4:15 and 16:15.
Anyway, here are a few links I found helpful. Enjoy podget.
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