On 24 Aug 2004 18:36:33 +0100 Martin <inkubus@interalpha.co.uk> wrote: > > > This machine is just going to be > > used for web/mysql/e-mail, so I don't have any use for the graphics > > card installed. For that matter, I plan on avoiding installing > > Xwindows, for security reasons. > > For web/mysql/e-mail you are probably going to need high throughput > and good disk access / I/O rather than floating point performance. > Even if you could use a graphics card like this (and TBH I doubt the > Ultra 3D can be used in this way) then you wouldn't really help as the > work load isn't FP intensive. Yea, I thought it kinda sounded like a hairbrained idea, but thought I would ask to see what the experts thought. It's still fun to play with the Sun even over a serial console, just doing it's basic web/e-mail/mysql stuff. :-) Thanks, Jacob -- GnuPG Key: 1024D/16377135 Random .signature #54: If Bill Gates had a nickel for every time Windows crashed... Oh wait, he does.
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