[chbot] IBM Blade server, and Linux

[Richard Jones]

Well I guess Mark is only renting the server from Molten Media.

It might be mildly interesting to do some comparisons between the blade
server running 'make -24' and ice cream distributed compiler.

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On 10/01/2014 6:45 AM, "Charles Manning" <cdhmanning at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thursday 09 January 2014 14:08:21 Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
> > On Thu 09 Jan 2014 12:45:58 NZDT +1300, Mark Atherton wrote:
> > > Why don't you want it disposed of at Molten Media ?
> >
> > I don't consider a gigantic power waste when more computing power can be
> > had for much less power and a small amount of new equipment and eco-win.
>
> It isn't all about eco-xxx or we'd all just limit our lives to living in
> mud
> huts, walking around barefoot and eating three lentils a day. We'd
> certainly
> be denying ourselves robotics, electronics and other shiny distractions.
> Human curiosity surely has some value above eco-self-flagellation.
>
> Anyone firing up this server is surely doing for a bit of nostalgia and
> isn't
> going to run it for too long. I suspect that the bigger eco-disaster is
> going
> to be all the rotted dinosaur bones that need to be dug up to fuel driving
> to
> collect the machine.
>
> This kit is going to end up in the waste chain somewhere. I would think
> that
> putting it through a handler that can deal with electronics (eg. MM)  is
> preferable to throwing it in the tip.
>
>
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