[EN] What do you do with your siduction system?

[dibl]

We use our computers ... for something.  Games?  Video production?  Music Production?  Skype with family and friends? MythTV?  Political activities?

My hobby is genealogy, and I use some Windows software, on a VMware Win 7 VM, to build my genealogy database and a web site that now is over 2,000 HTML pages.

German speakers -- click on the "Surname Index" tab and look for "M" > "Munzinger" or "T" > "Triem" to see some Pfälzischer genealogy.

Or, click on "Images" and then "Munzinger" or "Wendel" to see some German roots of my American family.

This is a desktop tower computer that I built in 2010. It is an Intel i7-950, on an Asus P6X58D-E mainboard, in a Corsair 600T tower case, with a Venomous X CPU cooler.  To get reasonable speed from the Windows VM, I overclock the CPU to 4.2GHz.

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don@imerabox:~$ infobash -v3
Host/Kernel/OS  "imerabox" running Linux 3.3-4.towo.1-siduction-amd64 x86_64 [ aptosid 2011-02 Ἡμέρα - kde-lite - (201107131633) ]
CPU Info        8x Intel Core i7 950 @ 8192 KB cache flags( sse3 ht nx lm vmx ) clocked at [ 4216.581 MHz ]
Videocard       NVIDIA GF100 [GeForce GTX 480]  X.Org 1.11.4  [ 1920x1200@50.0hz ]
Network cards   Marvell 88E8056 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller, at port: d800
Processes 278 | Uptime 1day | Memory 1338.5/5966.5MB | HDD OCZ-REVODRIVE,OCZ-REVODRIVE,KINGSTON SS100S2,WDC WD1002FAEX-0,WDC WD1002FAEX-0 Size 2136GB (3%used) | GLX Renderer GeForce GTX 480/PCIe/SSE2 | GLX Version 4.2.0 NVIDIA 295.40 | Client Shell | Infobash v3.37


Tell us about YOUR siduction system, and what you do with it.

[cryptosteve]

Hi dibl,
I use my installation primary for some office stuff, listening music (last.fm-profile), handling my fotos and surfing the web.

My hardware is a Lenovo Thinkpad T500 ...

[devil]

siduction for me is productive installs on a desktop and 2 notebooks. The desktop generates money as it allows me to work as a tech writer and columnist for german magazines on the topics of linux and hard-/software in general and web-politics.

All 3 machines are used to build and test siduction images.

The desktop is also used privately for all needs (office, multimedia and Skype.

I have 3 browsers running on the desktop at all times, with ~200 - 300 tabs open (this is my way of bookmarking things, work on them, close tabs, new ones appear. all important and often used tabs are pinned)

siduction does not limit me with all this in any way. I use a mixture of CLI/GUI that has become my workflow over time.

greetz
devil

[axel668]

Nothing fancy here ...using Siduction on my home laptop mainly for surfing, emails, IM and the usual "computer stuff" like writing letters and doing my tax ("Steuersparerklärung" runs pretty good with WINE). Some occasional gaming, too (pysolfc, crawl-tiles, ...) and once in a while watching a video when all TVs are occupied by Wife & Kids. Oh sometimes I dial in remotely to my work PC using Citrix Receiver for Linux.

Apart from that "productive" use I play around with my system a lot, like e.g. installing Openbox on Siduction XFCE

[reddark]

Games? -- yes
Video production? -- yes
Music Production? -- yes
Skype with friends? -- yes
MythTV? -- no
Political activities? -- yes
and linux-tests -- yes

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System:    Host: laptop1 Kernel: 3.3-4.towo.1-siduction-amd64 x86_64 (64 bit, gcc: 4.6.3)
           Desktop: KDE 4.7.4 (Qt 4.7.4) Distro: aptosid 2010-02 Κῆρες - kde-lite - (201009132215)
Machine:   System: Hewlett-Packard product: HP 625
           Mobo: Hewlett-Packard model: 1475 version: KBC Version 72.12
           Bios: Hewlett-Packard version: 68DVA Ver. F.20 date: 09/15/2011
CPU:       Dual core AMD Athlon II P320 (-MCP-) cache: 1024 KB flags: (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 sse4a svm) bmips: 8379
           Clock Speeds: 1: 800.00 MHz 2: 800.00 MHz
Graphics:  Card: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI RS880M [Mobility Radeon HD 4200 Series] bus-ID: 01:05.0
           X.Org: 1.11.4 driver: fglrx Resolution: 1366x768@59.6hz
           GLX Renderer: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4200 Series GLX Version: 3.3.11631 - CPC Direct Rendering: Yes
Network:   Card-1: Realtek RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller
           driver: r8169 ver: 2.3LK-NAPI port: 2000 bus-ID: 02:00.0
           IF: eth0 state: down mac: 1c:c1:de:b8:30:ec
           Card-2: Broadcom BCM4313 802.11b/g/n Wireless LAN Controller driver: bcma-pci-bridge bus-ID: 03:00.0
           IF: wlan0 state: up mac: 70:f3:95:b9:75:6c
Drives:    HDD Total Size: 320.1GB (76.8% used) 1: Hitachi_HTS54503
Info:      Processes: 157 Uptime: 21:02 Memory: 1082.3/5718.6MB Runlevel: 5 Gcc sys: 4.6.3 Client: Shell inxi: 1.7.29

no more infos from me ... my english is to bad

[brummer]

I'm usually
make music
develop open source (audio)application
browse the web
check/write mails

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inxi -v3
System:    Host box Kernel 3.0.1-rt11 i686 (32 bit gcc 4.6.1)
           Desktop LXDE (Openbox 3.5.0) Distro Debian GNU/Linux wheezy/sid
Machine:   System Hewlett-Packard product hp workstation version x2100/2600
           Mobo Hewlett-Packard model HP WMTA System Board version A03 Bios Phoenix version JG.W1.04US date 07/26/2002
CPU:       Single core Intel Pentium 4 CPU (-UP-) cache 512 KB flags (sse sse2) bmips 5185.04 clocked at 2592.524 MHz
Graphics:  Card: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI Radeon R200 QH [Radeon 8500] bus-ID: 01:00.0
           X.Org 1.11.4 drivers ati,radeon Resolution 1024x768@75.1hz
           GLX Renderer Mesa X11 GLX Version 2.1 Mesa 7.11.2 Direct Rendering Yes
Network:   Card Intel 82801BA/BAM/CA/CAM Ethernet Controller driver e100 v: 3.5.24-k2-NAPI port 5000 bus-ID: 02:08.0
           IF: eth0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: 00:30:6e:26:c4:6d
Drives:    HDD Total Size: 58.1GB (8.4% used) 1: IC35L060AVV207
           2: IBM
Info:      Processes 117 Uptime 5:48 Memory 328.6/2026.3MB Runlevel 5 Client Shell

[hinto]

I develop C++/Java applications (Through JNI).  I use siduction as a vm host for Win7 (for C++) and siduction for my Java development/debugging.
-Hinto

[dibl]

make music
develop open source (audio)application

@brummer, I see you have a RT kernel.  I have a couple of questions:

1. Where did you get it, or did you compile it yourself?

2. I have read that the recent ver. 3+ Linux kernels are close enough to the RT kernels that a person cannot hear a latency.  Is this not true?

[brummer]

@dibl

1.) yea, I always use self compiled kernels

2.) and I use always rt-kernels. I didn't have use a non rt kernel for several years now, so I cant say if it is necessary or if it brings a performance boost to me. But, the rt-kernel project have always served me well, and brings a lot nice features into the mainline kernel. I will follow the project as long they push out patches and report them back what I get. They are still going on to move the rt-patch piece for piece into the mainline kernel to improve the overall performance.

Anyhow, many musicians didn't use a rt-kernel any-more, because the 3.* mainline kernel is rt-ready and good enough for high performance use, that`s true.

[dibl]

Thank you brummer.

I have used audacity to record vinyl records from a turntable, but I don't know very much about audio on the computer.

[clubex]

Until recently I produced the village magazine on my siduction (formally sidux/aptosid) machine. I also managed the village hall network from my machine.

Unfortunately due to ill health (COPD) and age I've passed these roles onto someone younger and in better health. So now I'm just an ordinary computer user, keeping in touch with whats left of my family and contributing to the few forums I belong to plus any odd interest which takes my fancy.

I could install Debian stable and be a really ordinary user but that would be like death for me. I'll stick to siduction and continue to enjoy the cutting edge, edginess of sid.

[vilde]

The desktop is also used privately for all needs (office, multimedia and Skype.

So you use Skype on siduction devil? I could read that somebody else also does that. I thought Skype was one of the most bad programs to have on your computer, is it ok to use Skype, no risks?

[devil]

Well, women can make you do things you would otherwise not do
Skype is based on a proprietary protocol. That said, Skype is known to be quite safe in general.
At the moment there is a exploit though(M$ is working to fix it): http://skype-open-source.blogspot.de/2012/04/skype-user-ip-address-disclosure.html

greetz
devil

[vilde]

Well, women can make you do things you would otherwise not do Smile

Hmmm... the devil has his weakness also  :wink:

[hinto]

The Devil and the Farmer's Wife
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isRKq4LzvCY

-H