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Jan 9, 2007, 01:06 PM
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DriverHeaven Newbie
Join Date: Dec 2006
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Uses for old Xbox (s).
Now that the xbox 360 is out what is everyone doing with their old xbox(s). My xbox has been running XBMC (xbox media center) for a couples years thanks to the a software mod. I know that various flavors of Linux run on the xbox. Someone could collect old xboxes and build a cheap computing grid. What are your plans for your old xbox?
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Jan 9, 2007, 01:40 PM
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Burned
Join Date: May 2002
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hey the first post you made without a link to your forum in it. nice one.
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Jan 9, 2007, 01:56 PM
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I Have lovely Breasts
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: In the closet...
Posts: 5,394
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I use XBMC on mine. thats what I've always done with it. Its been my media center for ages.
too bad it chokes on HD content...sometimes it does alright but some HD content is just way beyond it. |
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Jan 9, 2007, 02:05 PM
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Burned
Join Date: May 2002
Posts: 29,664
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yeah the little P3 has a hard time with that.
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Jan 9, 2007, 02:36 PM
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I Have lovely Breasts
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: In the closet...
Posts: 5,394
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yea I know. I understand. its still disapointing.
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Jan 9, 2007, 04:06 PM
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F.U.B.A.R.
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i still use mine for its intended purposes
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Jan 9, 2007, 07:28 PM
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-DH Resident Uber Poster-
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Riverside, CA (right next to the f*ckin train)
Posts: 6,625
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I'll probably take mine out to the desert once the 360's price goes down.
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Jan 9, 2007, 07:36 PM
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I Have lovely Breasts
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: In the closet...
Posts: 5,394
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Quote:
 I still play battlefront 2 on it (and that probably wont chance soon since its not compatible with the 360) |
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Jan 9, 2007, 10:56 PM
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Delete Me
Join Date: Mar 2004
Posts: 14,676
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i remember some guy getting mosix running on a cluster of xboxes...i'l try and find the link
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Jan 10, 2007, 12:40 AM
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I Have lovely Breasts
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: In the closet...
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whats mosix?
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Jan 10, 2007, 10:50 AM
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DriverHeaven Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Georgia, USA
Posts: 817
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Quote:
From mosix.com MOSIX is a super operating system for Linux clusters and organizational Grids, that provides system-wide services and a Single-System Image (SSI). In a MOSIX Grid/Cluster there is no need to modify or link applications with any library, copy files or login to remote nodes, or even assign processes to different nodes - it is all done automatically. Just fork and forget, like in an SMP. MOSIX supports dynamic configurations, ranging from partitioning of a cluster among several users to a virtual organizational Grid with several clusters, like our campus Grid. |
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Jan 10, 2007, 01:11 PM
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Delete Me
Join Date: Mar 2004
Posts: 14,676
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mosix is a distributed operating system.
It works under the same theory as Folding@Home, but instead of being an app, it's the OS |
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Jan 10, 2007, 01:40 PM
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DriverHeaven Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Posts: 596
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Don't know if this is illegal but anyways, heh.
Got somebody modded my xbox and put bunch of stuff in the hard drive. Now I have windows media, Nintendo (include nes, and snes) and Genesis games. Mostly it;s hard to find nes and snes game nowday, so I thought it would be okay. |
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Jan 10, 2007, 01:50 PM
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I Have lovely Breasts
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: In the closet...
Posts: 5,394
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oh wow...thats really cool.
You know what else would be cool? A beowulf cluster of xboxes. I know there was one of ipods back in the day but an xbox one would KICK ASS |
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