Question for the crack rack builders

[GeoffS]

I'm still a WinDoze kinda guy... I know that i need to invest the time to get an understanding of the various flavors of Unix... but there just doesn't seem be enough hours in a day! So many unasslaminated potenetial herd members... so few hours 🙂

 

[divide by zero]

Geoffs,

How often do you have to reboot those WinDoze nodes?
That would be one of the reasons why I would prefer
to use some small *nix distro.

/0

 

[TwoFace]

Another bump, I just remembered another kind of software that does somewhat the same thing as VNC, but just over INet and for winblows boxes 😉

Buddyhelp is a nice thing, don't know if you guys were already using this or not, but I've found it to be quite useful whenever I needed to help someone with windows, and I wasn't close by...

With love and respect your fellow TA member

Two-Face

 

[divide by zero]

How much time does VNC steal from RC5 on the linux or windows nodes?

 

[GeoffS]

divide_by_zero-

(1) I've only had to reboot because of overclocking lockups.
(2) I haven't notice VNC to steal any time. The server portion that sits on the remote PC just seems to listen for a request which you initiate from your main machine. After you are finished poking around, shut down the connection and it goes back to listening mode.

Geoff

 

[divide by zero]

Ahhh, but the downside to VNC is that you need a harddisk.

Goeff, what is the smallest harddrive you are using for Windoze
and what version of Windoze?

 

[GeoffS]

I currently have a pair of machines using a couple of spare SCSI 4g drives that I had lying around. I think you can manage Win98 on 2gig, and Win95 on less than that.

Is there a significant cracking rate difference between the Klinux and Win9x clients?