[PD] call for old PC100/PC133 RAM donations
Hans-Christoph Steiner
hans at eds.org
Thu Mar 27 18:14:14 CET 2008
The machines don't need a ton. I think there are about 4 machines
with empty slots. They won't work with DIMMs bigger than 256MB (they
are old...). The Blue&White G3 might use bigger DIMMs, but I am not
sure.
.hc
On Mar 26, 2008, at 10:35 PM, bsoisoi wrote:
> By the way, its available super-cheap on ebay:
> http://search.ebay.com/search/search.dll?
> from=R40&_trksid=m37&satitle=pc133&category0=
>
> How much do you need, I'm willing to procure a few gigs from ebay
> and send them your way :) I'll check my parents house as well,
> they might have 256mb or so sitting around.
>
> Let me know. Cheers,
> ~Brandon
>
>
> On Mar 25, 2008, at 6:19 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>
>>
>> On Mar 25, 2008, at 4:08 PM, errordeveloper at gmail.com wrote:
>>> hi Hans and the list,
>>>
>>> first i have thought that i could actually send a couple of pc133
>>> sticks
>>> over, but here is only a few and in fact i think i'd rather help up
>>> with
>>> 64ish thing ..
>>> i do have machine runnig gentoo on 64-bit athlon, but it actually
>>> has pd
>>> built manualy with each update and not too many externals to it ..
>>> but i
>>> think i could set up a weekly cron job or something to actually
>>> build a
>>> pd binary, may be not all the externals.. but the vanilla source
>>> for sure :)
>>>
>>> the only thing is that i've said that pd is build manualy each time
>>> over
>>> here ..i'm not too sure, i wasn't too interested to try and build
>>> the
>>> whole set of externals with it ..may be we still could do something
>>> for
>>> just the sake of making binaries for other people ..
>>
>> Both vanilla and extended auto-builds are completely scripted. I
>> think the 64-bit issues in pd are pretty much worked out. What needs
>> to happen now is to find all of the 64-bit issues with the
>> externals. So having a extended build would be a lot more helpful.
>>
>>> as i'm gentoo based, it's slitghtly different, but still could do ..
>>> i had always considered to write a couple of ebuilds and emerge pd
>>> just a s normal, but i didn't actyually learn to write them
>>> propertly
>>> yet .. but i reckon i can sort that out really ;)
>>
>> Federico has done one:
>>
>> http://pd-overlay.sourceforge.net/
>>
>> It would also be useful to have a gentoo nightly build to work out
>> any issues with gentoo, and document its dependencies. There is a
>> wiki page too:
>>
>> http://puredata.info/docs/developer/Members/nanodust/pd-extended-
>> gentoo
>>
>> (this should be moved to http://puredata.info/docs/developer/Gentoo
>> IMHO)
>>
>> .hc
>>
>>
>>
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