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gull
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response 159 of 547:
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Apr 29 13:05 UTC 2003 |
I got an IBM USB keyboard at Staples a while back. I don't remember how
much I paid for it, though. It's nice, but fairly large because it has
a lot of 'extra' buttons that you wouldn't need for Grex's console.
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keesan
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response 160 of 547:
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Apr 29 13:16 UTC 2003 |
Doesn't Leeron sell USB keyboards?
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steve
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response 161 of 547:
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Apr 29 13:29 UTC 2003 |
Mary, you want to slow things down? I don't, more than they already
have been.
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mary
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response 162 of 547:
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Apr 29 13:39 UTC 2003 |
It is indeed *Sunday*, the 18th.
Nope, I don't want to slow this down.
I'll be frank, STeve. Staff should be making decisions
regarding Grex, not any one person. I don't see it as
a given that this project rests in your hands just
because you see it that way.
If the consensus among staff is that the project is best
given to you, great. I'm looking for that consensus.
It wouldn't take a face to face for that to happen.
I'm sorry you can't make any of the planned meeting dates.
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steve
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response 163 of 547:
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Apr 29 13:39 UTC 2003 |
I wished I'd remembered the date for Dayton a little better. We will
be leaving for home in the early afternoon, so its still possible to
make the next gen meeting, depending on when in the evening it is. When
is it?
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mary
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response 164 of 547:
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Apr 29 13:40 UTC 2003 |
STeve, will you be available for the next board meeting,
this coming Tuesday evening?
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steve
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response 165 of 547:
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Apr 29 13:42 UTC 2003 |
Well, as I said I think we can make that. It's important and its
alawys better to leaver earlier than later. I'd like to get the
components we have and start building what we have.
Can I do that or are we going to have a meeting about it? I'd
like to get them either tonight if I'm back in town early enough,
or tomorrow.
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steve
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response 166 of 547:
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Apr 29 13:43 UTC 2003 |
Yes, I can make that. I hope we don't delay things a week.
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aruba
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response 167 of 547:
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Apr 29 20:56 UTC 2003 |
I received mail from NewEgg, letting me know that they got our check. So
hopefully they'll be able to ship our disks this week. I also checked on
our memory order, and it did indeed ship today.
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aruba
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response 168 of 547:
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Apr 30 14:11 UTC 2003 |
Looks like the motherboards we got from Leeron aren't quite the right ones.
(There are a lot of different versions of this board, with different
options. And everyone seems to have different model numbers for the
different versions, making it all very confusing.)
Leeron is looking into exchanging them right away, so this shouldn't slow us
down too much.
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aruba
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response 169 of 547:
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Apr 30 19:38 UTC 2003 |
Leeron's going to ship us new motherboards - they should arrive Friday.
NewEgg's waiting for our check to clear, which should take 3-5 days. Our
memory left Salt Lake City sometime yesterday, so it should be in the
midwest by now.
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aruba
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response 170 of 547:
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Apr 30 20:51 UTC 2003 |
Indeed, when I got home I found that the memory arrived this afternoon. So
now we're just waiting on disks and replacement motherboards.
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other
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response 171 of 547:
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May 1 22:10 UTC 2003 |
Of the three places I know of that I should or want to be on the evening
of Sunday 18 May, the one that wins is "on a plane from Denver."
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aruba
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response 172 of 547:
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May 2 21:48 UTC 2003 |
Leeron certainly is as good as his word - the replacement motherboards
arrived just now, and they appear to be just what we need. Thanks Leeron!
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aruba
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response 173 of 547:
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May 3 21:53 UTC 2003 |
Today I bought two extra Antec fans at CompUSA, for $15.99 apiece.
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aruba
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response 174 of 547:
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May 4 21:33 UTC 2003 |
Today, janc, dang, danr and I got together and began assembling Next Grex.
All went well, and NextGrex is currently running an infinite memory test.
(Since it doesn't have any hard disks yet, there's not too much else it can
do.)
Jan's going to make up a web page describing everything we did. But
basically, we
- Installed the CPU in the motherboard. Since cooling is an issue, I
decided to spen $14.99 for a tube of "Arctic Silver" thermal grease, which
goes between the CPU and the heatsink. All the web pages I looked at said
it works much better than the stuff which came already attached to the
heatsink.
- Installed the two extra fans I bought yesterday.
- Installed the CDRW in the case. This is very easy in our fancy case -
just screw some little plastic runners on the drive, and it slides in the
bay right from the front.
- Likewise with the floppy drive.
- Installed the port template which came with the motherboard on the back
of the case.
- Screwed the motherboard into the case.
- Put the memory in.
- Connected lots of power wires to the motherboard, drives, and all the
fans. Connected the USB ports on the front of the case, and firewire
ports on the back. Also the wires for the power switches, speaker, and
LEDs on the front of the case.
- Installed the SCSI card.
dang had brought a video card with him, and we put that in, plugged in a
monitor and keyboard, and booted it up. dang set the processor speed in
the BIOS, and set the system to boot from CD. He put in a copy of Linux
he had on CD and we successfully booted from it. It recognized all the
hardware we had installed.
So, all in all, very successful. Hopefully by next weekend the disks and
OS will have arrived, and we can take the next step.
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cross
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response 175 of 547:
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May 4 22:11 UTC 2003 |
Wonderful. Sounds great!
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steve
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response 176 of 547:
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May 4 23:54 UTC 2003 |
This response has been erased.
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steve
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response 177 of 547:
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May 4 23:56 UTC 2003 |
Is the CPU a retail or OEM unit? If it was retail, the usage of heat sink
compound has voided the warranty. For an OEM CPU, it isn't quite clear to me
what is what.
There is an article on this at http://www.xtremetek.com/info/index.php?i
d=14&page=1
that talks about this.
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steve
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response 178 of 547:
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May 5 00:06 UTC 2003 |
I'm glad to hear that it booted up and is running the memory test. Booting
from a CD at least partly proves that the ide controller works, and that the
CD works, too.
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steve
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response 179 of 547:
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May 5 01:02 UTC 2003 |
Wasn't the ide disk purchased? Seems one might be able to boot from
that. But the booting from the cd should indicate that the onboard
ide controller is OK.
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aruba
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response 180 of 547:
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May 5 03:27 UTC 2003 |
The hard disks haven't arrived yet, because NewEgg needs our check to
clear before they will mail us anything.
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aruba
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response 181 of 547:
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May 5 03:39 UTC 2003 |
Re #177: That's an interesting article. Based on it and the other things I
read on the web, I think using the fancy thermal compound was the right
thing to do.
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janc
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response 182 of 547:
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May 5 03:58 UTC 2003 |
First draft of a web page on the system construction is at
http://www.unixpapa.com/newgrex/
Some mediocre photos are included. This needs more work before it becomes
a staff notes page.
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aruba
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response 183 of 547:
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May 5 17:02 UTC 2003 |
When I left home this morning, NextGrex had run 15 cycles of the memory test
(it takes about 67 minutes per cycle), with no memory errors.
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