ThinkPad (and Toughbook) thread

I've been using my T60 (librebooted) for about 6 months now. I love it so much that I don't ever want to use any other hardware.
It certainly is, so what i've been building in my stairwell is a cluster computer made of all of my more botnetty computers. I've put xenserver on a bunch and I plan on doing distributed processing on them to run a bigger VM between them which I can then log in to from openXenManager on my T60 or any other device. doing this has been a really nice excercise of my linux and networking skills and I've also cleaned my room up a lot by moving all the masses of computers out of the room and hooking them into the cluster.
yes it is, but doing it this way future proofs me since i can just add extra stuff to the cluster to speed it up and get modern performance once i log in from my T60.
I'll come back later when I've done enough work to play skyrim on my cluster.
this board is totally awesome I wouldn't be doing all this crazy computer stuff without the encouragement I get to install gentoo and remove botnets :)

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Here's a pic of my cleaned up desk (laptop's on left are going to be added to the cluster once I implement the head node, still experimenting with how to distribute the processing). Second pic is the xen server right now. At the bottom is a hp proliant g7 and my gaming desktop which I put a kaby lake i7 in yesterday. I don't really need to worry about botnet IME if I'm going to run it as a cluster since each individual piece of hardware doesnt see the full code being executed.

good idea, i bet it sux a lot of power tho

yeah i worried about that. I can turn off each of the xen servers from openxenmanager though. I've been trying to figure out a way to turn them on remotely too though since I'll probably want to do that when I'm at uni (im doing network security, so doing all this is really nice practical knowledge). I think I'll probably be able to manage them once i have the head node configured. I'll probably use a raspberry pi for the head node. I still haven't quite figured out how to use raspberry pis properly, i only just got this one last christmas. anyway I'm having a lot of fun with this WIP supercomputer lol. I don't want to end up like pic related so I think the best way to downsize is to put everything together into one big powerful thing and have a nice neat place to control it all from while it buzzes away in the stairwell.

famous last words

My favorite generation of thinkpads, i love it user

Huh, so you were serious after all. Interesting. And on second look, that pic looks like it's really her boob's shadow on the T61's left side bezel.

Any use for the TPM coprocessor? Or disable in BIOS (can be either disabled but still being detected in the OS and requiring a driver, or disabled completely so it's invisible to OS)?

Damn, still no sign of my ThinkPad parts I ordered.

Starting to think DHL Paket and Pakchen are two completely different things, and that Paket is faster than Pakchen.