Comments on: Humans generating energy – BEST IDEA EVER! http://moderntoil.com/?p=591 Technology, Life, & Work Mon, 25 Nov 2019 19:44:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Steve http://moderntoil.com/?p=591#comment-910 Steve Mon, 29 Dec 2008 17:47:05 +0000 http://www.richandtom.com/?p=126#comment-910 Wow, excellent mod. Short, sweet, to the point. None of those extras. I dig the work logs too. Its always fun to see how you get the end product. I suggest you check out http://www.wizdforums.co.uk/ if you're into modding. They've got some excellent work logs over there. That pfSense box is overkill, though. I'm sure it screams. Wow, excellent mod. Short, sweet, to the point. None of those extras. I dig the work logs too. Its always fun to see how you get the end product. I suggest you check out http://www.wizdforums.co.uk/ if you’re into modding. They’ve got some excellent work logs over there.

That pfSense box is overkill, though. I’m sure it screams.

]]> By: Rich http://moderntoil.com/?p=591#comment-909 Rich Mon, 29 Dec 2008 15:44:49 +0000 http://www.richandtom.com/?p=126#comment-909 Funny you should mention pfSense, since I implemented it to replace my cisco router, sonicwall firewall, and dlink NAT router about 2 months ago: http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,12270.0.html http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,12640.0.html I'm running 3 intel NIC's (WAN-cable, OPT1-routable ip's, and LAN-natted private), and yes, it effing *ROCKS*. I even have load-balancing with failover setup for my web servers :) We run Xenserver here at work, but I went with vmware at home. No doubt there's power to be gained with the hypervisor running on bare-metal, but I'm running 4 servers atop the host OS, and it's been screamin along without difficulty for 4+ months. In fact, the server you're accessing right now to view this page is virtualized, and ohh. . you're routing through pfSense as well (on both ends!) -Rich Funny you should mention pfSense, since I implemented it to replace my cisco router, sonicwall firewall, and dlink NAT router about 2 months ago:

http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,12270.0.html
http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,12640.0.html

I’m running 3 intel NIC’s (WAN-cable, OPT1-routable ip’s, and LAN-natted private), and yes, it effing *ROCKS*. I even have load-balancing with failover setup for my web servers :)

We run Xenserver here at work, but I went with vmware at home. No doubt there’s power to be gained with the hypervisor running on bare-metal, but I’m running 4 servers atop the host OS, and it’s been screamin along without difficulty for 4+ months. In fact, the server you’re accessing right now to view this page is virtualized, and ohh. . you’re routing through pfSense as well (on both ends!)

-Rich

]]> By: Steve http://moderntoil.com/?p=591#comment-908 Steve Mon, 29 Dec 2008 15:08:00 +0000 http://www.richandtom.com/?p=126#comment-908 There is also the addition of power generating floors being tested in Japan's subways near the ticket booths. Simply by walking on the floor between the dividers people can produce enough power for the ticket booths. The idea also seems to be gaining ground at MIT and other such illustrious places of higher learning. I can't wait until 30 minutes on my drum set can power my home servers and workstations for the day. ;P Speaking of workstations and home servers... Rich: First, XenServer (t3h sh1t.) for free virtualization at home. They claim "10 minutes to Xen(read Zen)" and they are not kidding. Second, pfSense is a Free BSD disti for network gateways, packet filtering, and flow control. I've got pfSense running on a 450Mhz Pentium III with 192Mb of PC133 and two Ethernet cards. pfSense is FAST. Stripped down and does exactly what you want. It even has a DNS relay built in which allows you to send certain domains to the void or create local domain aliases for your servers and/or machines. It is way better than relying on WINS. I highly recommend it. There is also the addition of power generating floors being tested in Japan’s subways near the ticket booths. Simply by walking on the floor between the dividers people can produce enough power for the ticket booths.

The idea also seems to be gaining ground at MIT and other such illustrious places of higher learning.

I can’t wait until 30 minutes on my drum set can power my home servers and workstations for the day. ;P

Speaking of workstations and home servers… Rich: First, XenServer (t3h sh1t.) for free virtualization at home. They claim “10 minutes to Xen(read Zen)” and they are not kidding. Second, pfSense is a Free BSD disti for network gateways, packet filtering, and flow control.

I’ve got pfSense running on a 450Mhz Pentium III with 192Mb of PC133 and two Ethernet cards. pfSense is FAST. Stripped down and does exactly what you want. It even has a DNS relay built in which allows you to send certain domains to the void or create local domain aliases for your servers and/or machines. It is way better than relying on WINS. I highly recommend it.

]]> By: Tom http://moderntoil.com/?p=591#comment-907 Tom Sat, 13 Dec 2008 14:38:00 +0000 http://www.richandtom.com/?p=126#comment-907 ya know...that´s kind of a no brainer. the great "no duh" moments in life. ya know…that´s kind of a no brainer. the great “no duh” moments in life.

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