Australium



  • I decided I wanted some extra processing power, so I found an old computer my dad had lying around (it had Windows XP with every program he could find installed - including three antivirus programs), downloaded a debian netinstall CD, burned the disk, rebooted, and a few easy steps later, I have a headless server.

    I compiled the entire go runtime and standard library for 16 different OS/architecture combinations (concurrently) and it took just over two minutes. This computer went from an abused WinXP machine that struggled to redraw the mouse cursor to a Debian server with a load average of 0.00 (15.27 while I was compiling). Right now, my Pentium 4 machine has a load average of 0.72.


    (top is australium, bottom is loads)



  • Ah, Australium: the wussiest actinide.



  • @Ben L. said:

    I decided I wanted some extra processing power... downloaded a debian netinstall CD, burned the disk, rebooted, and a few easy steps later, I have a headless server.
     

    Firstly, unetbootin. Even if the netinstall image you're after ain't in the list, you can point it at the ISO you've just downloaded. I've used it for trialing out bootable mint images.

    Secondly... you've kept the box with the grunt as a headless server and retained your ageing hardware as a desktop box, right? Wouldn't it have made more sense to do it the other way around? Unless you're frequently connecting into the server and running the processor-intensive stuff on there. My (home) headless server is a (very ageing) AMD2400 and copes with most server services I throw at it; I reserve the beefier chips for my gaming rig.



  • @Cassidy said:

    Firstly, unetbootin. Even if the netinstall image you're after ain't in the list, you can point it at the ISO you've just downloaded. I've used it for trialing out bootable mint images.

    +1

    @Cassidy said:

    Secondly... you've kept the box with the grunt as a headless server and retained your ageing hardware as a desktop box, right? Wouldn't it have made more sense to do it the other way around? Unless you're frequently connecting into the server and running the processor-intensive stuff on there. My (home) headless server is a (very ageing) AMD2400 and copes with most server services I throw at it; I reserve the beefier chips for my gaming rig.

    The P4 is a power hog. Maybe he just really hates the environment.



  • @Cassidy said:

    Firstly, unetbootin. Even if the netinstall image you're after ain't in the list, you can point it at the ISO you've just downloaded. I've used it for trialing out bootable mint images.


    This is just a one-off thing, so thanks, but it won't really help here.

    @Cassidy said:

    Secondly... you've kept the box with the grunt as a headless server and retained your ageing hardware as a desktop box, right? Wouldn't it have made more sense to do it the other way around? Unless you're frequently connecting into the server and running the processor-intensive stuff on there. My (home) headless server is a (very ageing) AMD2400 and copes with most server services I throw at it; I reserve the beefier chips for my gaming rig.


    Most of what I do is compiling and running command-line programs. This way, I don't have to open up any cases or worry about moving CPUs or GPUs.



  • @morbiuswilters said:

    Ah, Australium: the wussiest actinide.



  • @Ben L. said:

    @morbiuswilters said:
    Ah, Australium: the wussiest actinide.

    Dear God, it's an actual thing. I just thought you named your server after Australia and took the opportunity to mock the Dundees.



  • @morbiuswilters said:

    Ah, Australium: the wussiest actinide.

    I actually had to Google Australium just to make sure it was still just a fictitious element...



  • @ekolis said:

    @morbiuswilters said:
    Ah, Australium: the wussiest actinide.

    I actually had to Google Australium just to make sure it was still just a fictitious element...

    It's a real element. To make it, get some gold atoms and punch a kangaroo.



  • @ekolis said:

    @morbiuswilters said:
    Ah, Australium: the wussiest actinide.

    I actually had to Google Australium just to make sure it was still just a fictitious element...

    If you think that's weird, Google has started filtering all search results with the word "gullible" in them.



  • @Ben L. said:

    @morbiuswilters said:
    Ah, Australium: the wussiest actinide.
     

    Is that supposed to be a bar of gold?



  • @dhromed said:

    @Ben L. said:

    @morbiuswilters said:
    Ah, Australium: the wussiest actinide.
     

     

    That looks like butter to me.

    Is that supposed to be a bar of gold?

     

     



  • @Nagesh said:

    @dhromed said:

    @Ben L. said:

    @morbiuswilters said:
    Ah, Australium: the wussiest actinide.
     

     

    That looks like butter to me.

    Is that supposed to be a bar of gold?

     

     

     

    It kind of does... but why would an upper class old woman offer up a huge stick of butter in her bare hand?

     



  • @dhromed said:

    It kind of does... but why would an upper class old woman offer up a huge stick of butter in her bare hand?

    Upper class? She looks like she runs a whorehouse.



  • @blakeyrat said:

    Upper class? She looks like she runs a whorehouse.
     

    She's well-dressed and everything, like the Disney version of Cinderella's stepmom.







  • @dhromed said:

    @blakeyrat said:

    Upper class? She looks like she runs a whorehouse.
     

    She's well-dressed and everything, like the Disney version of Cinderella's stepmom.


    So she work in a worehouse then? Or did we watch completely different versions of Cinderella?



  • @serguey123 said:

    Or did we watch completely different versions of Cinderella?
     

    I like your version.

     



  • @Ben L. said:


    Oh, nice.



  • @Ben L. said:

    big image thingy

    Where is that from?  It looks like something I should read.



  • @locallunatic said:

    @Ben L. said:

    big image thingy

    Where is that from?  It looks like something I should read.



  • @Ben L. said:

    @locallunatic said:

    @Ben L. said:

    big image thingy

    Where is that from?  It looks like something I should read.

    I remember when Team Fortress was a capture-the-flag mod for Quake (and then Half-Life.) And now it's a line of comics that mock Australians? Well, okay then.



  • @morbiuswilters said:

    @Ben L. said:
    @locallunatic said:

    @Ben L. said:

    big image thingy

    Where is that from?  It looks like something I should read.

    I remember when Team Fortress was a capture-the-flag mod for Quake (and then Half-Life.) And now it's a line of comics that mock Australians? Well, okay then.

    It's a line of comics AND a game that mocks Australians. In fact, there's an Australian character and when they gave him an unlockable weapon, well…



  •  Hrm. If you substitute "Dwarf Fortress" for "Team Fortress", then Australium as a powerful new resource sounds like it could be a lot of !!FUN!!


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