User Feedback :: John's "cheap little mini"



And the mesh around the sides will surely keep all but the smallest of critters from
crawling inside to stay warm!
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:D
I've been "playing" with DSL for several months, and now have been bitten by the mini-ITX bug as well.  I have ordered the IDE/CF adapter from John in the past, and now just orderd the DC power supplie(s) to make my ME6000 truly silent.

Robocoastie's comment about comparing it to a C64 reminds me of my early days with my Apple II (in the spring of 1978) and how much I enjoyed computing.

Less is more, both with DSL, mini-ITX, and NOISE.  Thanks John (and all), for helping to make computing fun again.  (Oh, and ship my quiet power supply so I can dump this Damn Noisy ATX thing!)

Bob H.

P.S.  John, you should put something in your "cheap little mini" picture to show how small it actually is.
I'm not sure that this is the right place to ask, but it's the only min-itx thread I see going on the forum. If the forums gods feel it belongs elsewhere, please be my guest & move it.

I too am enamoured with the thought of a small, quite, not terribly hot box running DSL.  I'm trying to figure out what parts would go into a box, and was wondering:
   - The 3677 & 3688 cases talk about "low height" memory.  Anybody know what that means?

   -  I'm considering a DSL mini itx system that would no have it's own monitor & keyboard: it would be accessed over a network.  Is the DSL (or KNOPPIX, or Debian) kernel that's in the default distribution going to boot OK if there's no monitor or keyboard attached? One Linux book I have says that I'd need to build a kernel with special options (like serial console) to do this.

I know it's not DSL- maybe we need a mini-itx, or DSL on mini-itx, subforum.

Thanks,

Mark
hmm that's fascinating Mark, I've wondered how good the floating point is on these via cpus to determine if they'd be good for folding@home operations. If they were at least "average" at it this could be a cool way to do admin on them - thru the network. I don't know why one couldn't it shouldn't be much didn't than telnetting into it somehow.

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I found out on a mini-itx enthusiast site that they wouldn't work very well at all for f@h or other floating point intensive apps (like games). That's fine though they make great general purpose computers.
What are the physical dimentions of the box?

How hard would it be to slap a small laptop HD in that?
Is there a dual nic board like that one out there???

Brian
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