For this, I need about fourteen or fifteen meters, quarter inch phone plug on one end, and phono (RCA) plug on the other (though of course, I can use an adaptor on one end...) What I've got there now is a short cable with those ends, and the quarter inch end is plugged into an extension cable that's not quite long enough.
Then there's the thing I need a handful of short video cables for, but you already know about that.
As for making 386/486 boxen work in parallel, you're right. At some point I'll run out of small single tasks on my LAN to assign to tiny machines, and will want to gang them together to make something capable of doing something larger. Not sure how well that'll work for what I most want crunchons for right now though: music editing/mixing. It's the real-time capture aspects of that job that give me pause.
(It did occur to me that with sufficient CPU horsepower and enough sound cards, I could make a digital mixer with a virtual patch bay and just do everything except pressing "play" on the tape deck or CD player on a computer screen. But if I were handed a system capable of handling that right now, I've got a list of other jobs I'd want it to do.)
<voice="mad scientist">Need. More. Power.</voice>
Ideally I'd want a graphics workstation, a music workstation, and two general-computing displays (could be mere X terminals, more likely Windows boxes like I use now -- mostly just doing UI for machines downstairs in either case) on my desk. Oh, yeah, and a bigger desk. And a pony. (Whoops, no, I'm allergic to horses.)
A while back when I was kvetching about screen real-estate, someone on Elbows suggested a modern Mac with PCI slots, six dual-VGA cards, and twelve flat-panel monitors, tiled. MacOS would simply join the twelve displays into One Huge Screen, and the only things running on that Mac would be VNC and X, displaying windows from all the other machines in the house. But I keep forgetting to buy a lottery ticket.
o/~ ... if I were a wealthy fan...o/~
How long of what cable do you need? RCA ends? Co-ax?
Brek-ke-ke-kex, ko-ax, ko-ax...
Re: o/~ ... if I were a wealthy fan...o/~
Then there's the thing I need a handful of short video cables for, but you already know about that.
As for making 386/486 boxen work in parallel, you're right. At some point I'll run out of small single tasks on my LAN to assign to tiny machines, and will want to gang them together to make something capable of doing something larger. Not sure how well that'll work for what I most want crunchons for right now though: music editing/mixing. It's the real-time capture aspects of that job that give me pause.
(It did occur to me that with sufficient CPU horsepower and enough sound cards, I could make a digital mixer with a virtual patch bay and just do everything except pressing "play" on the tape deck or CD player on a computer screen. But if I were handed a system capable of handling that right now, I've got a list of other jobs I'd want it to do.)
<voice="mad scientist">Need. More. Power.</voice>
Ideally I'd want a graphics workstation, a music workstation, and two general-computing displays (could be mere X terminals, more likely Windows boxes like I use now -- mostly just doing UI for machines downstairs in either case) on my desk. Oh, yeah, and a bigger desk.
And a pony.(Whoops, no, I'm allergic to horses.)A while back when I was kvetching about screen real-estate, someone on Elbows suggested a modern Mac with PCI slots, six dual-VGA cards, and twelve flat-panel monitors, tiled. MacOS would simply join the twelve displays into One Huge Screen, and the only things running on that Mac would be VNC and X, displaying windows from all the other machines in the house. But I keep forgetting to buy a lottery ticket.