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w00t.

wthww

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I got a Q650 from Mr.680x0 and I'm so pleased. It has 102mb RAM, 9.1gb Cheetah, and a KDS monitor w/ an adaptor. It runs Debian and serves the beta of my site, and home print serving. (Laserjet IIIp, anyone?) I'm soooo surprised the difference between 25 and 33mhz, and how much a difference ram makes ont hese machines.

check it out.

http://wthww.no-ip.com

 

pee-air

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Your link doesn't work. WooT! (I don't want a couple of zeros.)

I want a Q650 too. A Q650, Q605, and Q840AV are the only 68k machines on my wishlist. Once I get these three machines, I'm not snatching up anymore 68k Macintoshes. Except maybe a PowerBook 540C.

(Okay, so I'm secretly yearning for nine more Quadra 700 machines. It's been a dream of mine to build a Q700 cluster. Although, I might settle for ten Q605 Macs instead. ) [8D]

 

pee-air

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One might that a Quadra 840AV cluster would be more fun :p
True. But a Quadra 840AV cluster would consume considerably more space and not look as cute on a shelf. The Q700 and Q605 have the Q840AV beat for cuteness. And the compact sizes of the Q700 and Q605 make them more attractive from a space perspective.

The important point is that a 68k Mac cluster will be essentially useless. Since I want to do this just because I can, I'll be satisfied with the 25MHz processors of the 605's and 700's. I suppose from a practical standpoint, the 605's would be the best choice, as they are much easier to fit with RAM. i.e. 72 Pin SIMMS versus 30 pin SIMMS.

Regardless of which machine I go with, I insist that all ten machines in my cluster be identical. I do not want a mismatched cluster of different machines. That just doesn't look good.

 
I want a Q650. My IIvx is dead, so can anyone give me a Q650 mobo>

And heres a question and please pardon my language:

What the hell does woot mean?

 

wthww

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Definitions of w00t on the Web:

* The term "w00t" is a slang interjection used to express happiness or excitement, usually over the Internet. The expression is most popular on USENET posts, multiplayer computer games (especially first-person shooters), IRC chats, and instant messages, though use on the World Wide Web in the form of weblogs or in forums is by no means uncommon.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W00t

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THe link doesnt work cause I've been doing... unspecified and hidious thigns to the Q650. J/k :p . Really, I've been tryign to find another compatible 32mb stick, as the perfectionist I am I won't be happy till it says it has 136mb >.>. I'll put it back together soon as I find the other CD bracket for it.

//wthww

 

trag

Well-known member
Definitions of w00t on the Web:
* The term "w00t" is a slang interjection used to express happiness or excitement, usually over the Internet. The expression is most popular on USENET posts, multiplayer computer games (especially first-person shooters), IRC chats, and instant messages, though use on the World Wide Web in the form of weblogs or in forums is by no means uncommon.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W00t
I don't know if this is the origin...

But back in the very old days (like the late 70s or 80s) there was a series of role-playing games collectively known as "The Fantasy Trip" from a company called Meta-gaming. Meta-gaming producted Car Wars (before Steve Jackson Games) and that big tank game "Bolo"(?). This was back when Steve Jackson and Howard Thompson were partners or at least worked together. Their games were regularly advertised in the sci-fi periodical "Analog".

Anyway, one of the sentient/sub-sentient races in The Fantasy Trip (includes "Wizard", "Advanced Wizard", "Melee", "Advanced Melee" and "In the Labyrinth") was the Prootwaddle. They were described as something that looked about like a Tele-tubby (before tele-tubbies) without the head gear and with brown or natural colored fur. They had an IQ of 6 where 8 was the low-end of human-normal and would follow others around happily, joyously singing out, "Woot, woot, woot, woot, woot, woot." Somewhat like a deeper pitched guinea pig.

Meta-gaming broke up and Steve Jackson started Steve Jackson Games. "The Fantasy Trip" had copyright issues, so GURPS was created, but SJ apparently had the copyrights to Car Wars. The very active Steve Jackson Games BBS eventually grew into Illuminati Online (io.com), a major Texan ISP. And the SJ BBS was raided by the FBI in a notorious case which ultimately involved the EFF in one of its first court cases, because the FBI thought a role-playing book in the cyberpunk milieu was a cookbook for computer hacking.

The point of the last paragraph being that there was enough notoriety and connectivity from that source, for the few folks who know about prootwaddles to have spread the "Woot, woot, woot" meme into the general on-line community.

So, it may not be the source, but that's my 50 cents on the topic and my hypothesis of woot's source.

 

trag

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I'm going to feel pretty silly if it turns out that Prootwaddles ran around calling out, "Proot, proot, proot," instead of woot. Get old, memory turns to mush.

 
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