I would like to setup a raspberry pi box. Im realizing a Mac would be too much of a luxury
purchase for me. Id rather have more money for next year's vacation.
Utopian Galt wrote to All <=-
I would like to setup a raspberry pi box. Im realizing a Mac
would be too much of a luxury purchase for me. Id rather have
more money for next year's vacation.
Has anyone done a setup a bbs with raspberry pi guide?
I would like to setup a raspberry pi box. Im realizing a Mac would be too much of a luxury purchase for me. Id rather have more money for next year's vacation.
I would like to setup a raspberry pi box. Im realizing a Mac would be too much of a luxury purchase for me. Id rather have more money for next year's vacation.
Has anyone done a setup a bbs with raspberry pi guide?
I haven't, but I've heard of other sysops doing so with Synchronet. And as an aside, Raspberry Pi boards have been very hard to find at a ressonable price over the past 2-3 years due to supply chain shortages. I managed to
Yeah, I was going to suggest to Matt that the micro-allure of rPis are nice, but it's hard to beat the bang-per-buck score of a used Dell SFF desktop PC. $90 on NewEgg for a Optiplex 3050 with 8GB of RAM, a 3.7 ghz CPU and 500 GB hard drive.
You get an intel CPU, so no compile issues, good airflow and a proper SATA interface.
Yeah, they're good PCs. I'm currently using a Dell Precision that I bought on eBay about a year and a half a go, and in addition to my BBS, I'm also using it as a Plex media server, Pi-Hole (network-wide ad blocker), andBecause California has an horrible energy grid, I wanted to run a low energy usage pc.
Re: Raspberry Pi
By: Nightfox to poindexter FORTRAN on Fri Apr 28 2023 03:01 pm
Yeah, they're good PCs. I'm currently using a Dell Precision that I bou on eBay about a year and a half a go, and in addition to my BBS, I'm al using it as a Plex media server, Pi-Hole (network-wide ad blocker), andBecause California has an horrible energy grid, I wanted to run a low energy Fiscally and enviromentally sensible at the same time.
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Nightfox wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-
Yeah, they're good PCs. I'm currently using a Dell Precision that I bought on eBay about a year and a half a go
Utopian Galt wrote to Nightfox <=-
Because California has an horrible energy grid, I wanted to run a low energy usage pc. Fiscally and enviromentally sensible at the same time.
Arelor wrote to Utopian Galt <=-
Most people who replaces old working computers due to enviromental concerns have not sat down and thought it through. Most of the time it does not make finantial sense either. Even with European prices, a new machine may take more than 10 years to save enough energy to justify
the replacement.
I would like to setup a raspberry pi box. Im realizing a Mac would be too much of a luxury purchase for me. Id rather have more money for next year's vacation.
Has anyone done a setup a bbs with raspberry pi guide?
To UG's point, it would be a nice challenge to make a home network run
on a Pi - run a BBS, some home apps, maybe do some streaming, run a
small web site... the only thing that bugs me about pis was not being
able to use SATA for booting/storage. I hear that's resolved and I've
seen some interesting pi cases that hold an nvme.
Because California has an horrible energy grid, I wanted to run a low
energy Fiscally and enviromentally sensible at the same time.
I think making a new energy efficient computer is more resource intensive than keeping an old energy-inefficient computer working.
Most people who replaces old working computers due to enviromental
concerns have not sat down and thought it through.
Arelor wrote (2023-04-29):
Because California has an horrible energy grid, I wanted to run a low
energy Fiscally and enviromentally sensible at the same time.
I think making a new energy efficient computer is more resource intensiv than keeping an old energy-inefficient computer working.
Most people who replaces old working computers due to enviromental concerns have not sat down and thought it through.
Have you thought it through? I would be interested in numbers and hard facts
an old energy-inefficient computer is less resource intensive (10W -> 87kWh ould waste much more than 10W.
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This doesn't fly. Get off the consumist wheel and run your hardware
into the ground before you upgrade it if you want to feel ecogreen.
This doesn't fly. Get off the consumist wheel and run your hardware
into the ground before you upgrade it if you want to feel ecogreen.
Posting this from a 33-year-old computer, does that count as running it into the ground? :D (To be fair, though, I also have a boatload of solar panels sitting on the roof and make more power than I use from March through October. ;)
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Please, request your prize at the nearest Bearded Computer Geek office.
You have won this decade's award for keeping alive a computer
that should have died twenty years ago. XD
Please, request your prize at the nearest Bearded Computer Geek office.
Arelor wrote to Oli <=-
This doesn't fly. Get off the consumist wheel and run your hardware
into the ground before you upgrade it if you want to feel ecogreen.
Arelor wrote to Abbub <=-
Please, request your prize at the nearest Bearded Computer Geek office. You have won this decade's award for keeping alive a computer that
should have died twenty years ago. XD
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You have won this decade's award for keeping alive a computer that
should have died twenty years ago. XD
I have working each of the following: Amiga 3000, Amiga 4000, Amiga
1200, Amiga 600. %-)
How long do you plan to run your new machine? You need nearly 4 years to offset the enviromental cost of manufacturing the new device (2 if your power supplier uses ZERO renewables) and nearly 4 to offset the operational cost at European prices (which SUCK).
The are all networked, and have expansions past the base unit. Except the A4000 it's got the least amount of ram (12mb) that's not on the Accelerator card.
Tracker1 wrote to Arelor <=-
generally gets used for many years before retiring. My old i7-4790K is still being used by a friend of mine.
How long do you plan to run your new machine? You need nearly 4 years t offset the enviromental cost of manufacturing the new device (2 if your power supplier uses ZERO renewables) and nearly 4 to offset the operational cost at European prices (which SUCK).
Can't speak for GP, but for me, I ran my last NAS for about 13 years or so, ss my hardware on, and it generally gets used for many years before retiring
Just because one person isn't using a system, doesn't mean it doesn't see us e MinisForum box I'm using for storage and home-server duties today. I also
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generally gets used for many years before retiring. My old i7-4790K
is still being used by a friend of mine.
That's the CPU in my daily driver. :)
It seems quite fast enough, appears to benchmark faster than an i5 a couple of generations newer. I can't do dynamic Zoom backgrounds, but
I'm not worried about that.
Well, if your use horizon is far away then it makes sense to buy better hardware from the get go, specially if you intend to run it 24/7.
That said, desktop systems skew the maths because those run a couple of hours per day only. Most people I hear talking about upgrading hardware to cut costs or be ecogreen are talking about upgrading desktops. If you run the desktop 6 hours per day it will take you four times longer to recoup the investment.
I have working each of the following: Amiga 3000, Amiga 4000, Amiga
1200, Amiga 600. %-)
Very nice! I have an Amiga 2000 that's networked. Today I'm breaking out the *oldest* computer I have with network capabilities, which is the Commodore 64, so I can test 40-column-mode on the BBS. :D
They are all networked, and have expansions past the base unit. Except
the A4000 it's got the least amount of ram (12mb) that's not on the
Accelerator card.
Any interest in a CS MKII 060 with SCSI?
I have 2x A1200s - one towerized with BPPC and Voodoo 3, pci, etc., the other in a checkmate case with a CS 030 MKIV.
I also have an A4000 that needs to be recapped...
I sold my C=64 to go Amiga! I have been watching ebay for a C=128D to
cover both, but they either are: 1) Faulty. 2) Have bits missing.
3) Want to much for postage. 4) Don't post photo's of it working.
Any interest in a CS MKII 060 with SCSI?
Full 060? What rev 060? Is it in a socket or soldered? Ram installed?
What type of $$ are you after? Shipping wold be to Australia.
Any interest in a CS MKII 060 with SCSI? Full 060? What rev 060?Is it in a socket or soldered? Ram installed? What type of $$ are you
after? Shipping wold be to Australia.
I'm not home this week (biz trip) but can follow up this weekend. What's your email address? Or how else can I get in touch?
I sold my C=64 to go Amiga! I have been watching ebay for a C=128D to
cover both, but they either are: 1) Faulty. 2) Have bits missing.
3) Want to much for postage. 4) Don't post photo's of it working.
Yeah, I have a (non-D) C128 as well, and a 1541-II and 1581 to go along
with it. (Though, honestly, I have a UltimateII+ that takes the place of floppy > drives on both the C64 and the C128 whenever I play with them. One of my
friends has a 128D that's missing a keyboard. I believe he's been hunting
for one for eons, but they're completely unobtainable these days. I'm sure eBay Australia isn't much different than eBay USA in so far as finding a decent computer that's fully functional, honestly described, and not
charging 10x for shipping is almost impossible these days.
"Keyboard has missing key caps as seen in image. Some other keys are
known not to work as well. Internal 1571 drive known not to be
working" His got it for $900AUD.
without hitting a half dozen old computers. My 'back catalog' of old hardware to tinker with is so big that I really don't *need* anything else, so new acquisitions have to fall into the 'too good to pass over'
Yeah, I like my old computers as much as the next guy, but I do draw the line at spending more than $500 for a vintage system. (Really, I draw
the line at spending more than $150 for a system...) Though honestly
part of my reluctance is that you can't throw a rock in my basement
without hitting a half dozen old computers. My 'back catalog' of old hardware to tinker with is so big that I really don't *need* anything
else, so new acquisitions have to fall into the 'too good to pass over' category.
lol. nowadays with a little patience they'd net me a few thousand
bucks.. ah well
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