jasong
04-23-2005, 03:00 PM
Guys, I'm not even sure where to begin on questions, so I suppose I'll ramble a bit and maybe you can figure out where to give the advice.
Because of my brain disorder, I live with my parents and basically only have a medium-sized bedroom to put things into when I purchase them. Add to that the fact that since I get help from the State government and if you even take a few baby-steps from what is normally considered dirt-poor they snatch the rug out from under you until you're back to being poor. When you put those two things together, you get someone who knows the importance of money but has no incentive whatsoever to plan for the long-term(at least at the moment). The biggest issue is medication(who pays for it), which makes it preferable to only work part-time, since the government looks at it's bottom line the way most chess programs look at a chess game(only caring what will happen in the short-term). Solution: Keep your net worth low and eat out a bunch when it goes up.
Because of this, everytime my bank account gets up around $800-$1,000, I get an itch to make a major purchase. I'm hoping that when I get my new job, wherever it is, it'll happen a lot more.
Okay, here's my question. I'm hoping to get a job that pays significantly more money and I want to build a farm. At the moment, I have one Windows machine in my bedroom. But since Windows charges per computer, I'm hoping to either get a retail(Right word?) Linux distro that'll handle all my Windows files and maybe I can learn about compiling. Or...I'm wanting to start a Linux cluster that can interface with my Windows machine, with the Windows machine as either a server, or both sharing an Internet connection with each other. How the new computers will get on the Internet is another concern.
Because of my brain disorder, I live with my parents and basically only have a medium-sized bedroom to put things into when I purchase them. Add to that the fact that since I get help from the State government and if you even take a few baby-steps from what is normally considered dirt-poor they snatch the rug out from under you until you're back to being poor. When you put those two things together, you get someone who knows the importance of money but has no incentive whatsoever to plan for the long-term(at least at the moment). The biggest issue is medication(who pays for it), which makes it preferable to only work part-time, since the government looks at it's bottom line the way most chess programs look at a chess game(only caring what will happen in the short-term). Solution: Keep your net worth low and eat out a bunch when it goes up.
Because of this, everytime my bank account gets up around $800-$1,000, I get an itch to make a major purchase. I'm hoping that when I get my new job, wherever it is, it'll happen a lot more.
Okay, here's my question. I'm hoping to get a job that pays significantly more money and I want to build a farm. At the moment, I have one Windows machine in my bedroom. But since Windows charges per computer, I'm hoping to either get a retail(Right word?) Linux distro that'll handle all my Windows files and maybe I can learn about compiling. Or...I'm wanting to start a Linux cluster that can interface with my Windows machine, with the Windows machine as either a server, or both sharing an Internet connection with each other. How the new computers will get on the Internet is another concern.