From: /m 

On Sat, 10 Jun 2006 11:31:31 -0400, "Geo"  wrote:

>pig
>feature sets (the reason your hardware is rated so highly)


btw, along those lines... one of the things I'm doing this weekend is
upgrading an internal-use department server.  The server supplies bug
tracking (Bugzilla), wikis (MediaWiki), forums (phpBB), process monitoring
(homegrown scripts), database server, web server, mail server, plus some
other miscellaneous services, for a team of around 20 people.  It's been
running FreebSD 4.11 as the OS.  It has been getting a little slow lately. 
The 233MHz Pentium II CPU and ~190MB of memory are starting to be a little
on the light side.

I'm replacing the kit with an old Compaq desktop that no one wanted because
it cannot run current Windows stuff: 1GHz Pentium 4, 384MB memory.  It has
more than enough horse power for the task as this department server.   I've
been performance testing it here and I'm quite
surprised how fast it is.

Makes me wonder just how much money is wasted buying hardware to support
these new bloated Microsoft operating systems?

 /m

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