{"id":2847,"date":"2010-09-03T22:21:50","date_gmt":"2010-09-04T05:21:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/?p=2847"},"modified":"2010-09-03T22:21:50","modified_gmt":"2010-09-04T05:21:50","slug":"bye-bye-fate-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/bye-bye-fate-machine\/","title":{"rendered":"Bye Bye FATE Machine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the computer that performed the lion&#8217;s share of FATE cycles for the past 1.5 years before Mans put a <a href=\"http:\/\/fate.ffmpeg.org\/\">new continuous integration system<\/a> into service. I&#8217;ve now decided to let the machine go. I can&#8217;t get over how odd this feels since this thing is <strong>technically the best machine I own<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/shuttle-sn37p2v2.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Shuttle SN37P2 v2 machine\" width=\"350\" height=\"277\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2848\" srcset=\"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/shuttle-sn37p2v2.jpg 350w, https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/shuttle-sn37p2v2-300x237.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a small form factor Shuttle PC (SD37P2 v2); Core 2 Duo 2.13 GHz; 2 GB RAM; 400 GB SATA HD; equipped with the only consistently functional optical drive in my house (<a href=\"http:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/optical-drive-value-proposition\/\">uh oh<\/a>). I used it as my primary desktop from <a href=\"http:\/\/games.multimedia.cx\/new-computer-night\/\">March 2007<\/a> &#8211; November 2008, at which point <a href=\"http:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/32-bit-shuffling\/\">I repurposed it for FATE cycles<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As mentioned, the craziest part is that this is technically the best computer in my house. My <a href=\"http:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/i-really-like-my-new-eeepc\/\">new EeePC 1201PN<\/a> isn&#8217;t at quite the same level; <a href=\"http:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/eee-pc-multimedia\/\">my old EeePC<\/a> can&#8217;t touch it, of course; <a href=\"http:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/64-bit-builds-are-a-go\/\">the Mac Mini<\/a> has a little more RAM but doesn&#8217;t stack up in nearly all other areas. But the Shuttle just isn&#8217;t seeing that much use since <a href=\"http:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/usurper-of-fate\/\">the usurpation<\/a>. I had it running automated backup duty for multimedia.cx but that&#8217;s easy enough to move to another, lower-powered system.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe the prognosticators are correct and the PC industry has matured to the point where raw computing power simply doesn&#8217;t matter anymore. I fancy myself as someone who knows how to put CPU power to work but even I don&#8217;t know what to do with the computing capacity I purchased over 3 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Where will the Shuttle go? A good home, I trust&#8211; I know a family that just arrived in the country and could use a computer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Shuttle SD37P2 v2 is a great computer but I just don&#8221;t need that much power anymore<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fate-server"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2847"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2854,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2847\/revisions\/2854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}