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Thank you to everyone who submitted his or her entries on the HP xw4600 Workstation giveaway. It was quite difficult to pick the winner as many entries are very good and interesting; unfortunately, there can be only one winner. So without any further ado, the winner is Trojanowicz Tomasz from Florida. Trojanowicz plans to use the prize to develop an advanced shoutbox that utilize visual usability with modern web 2.0 interaction and API to allow 3rd-party webapp integration. The project will be called Momo and to be released as an open source application. Congratulation to Trojanowicz and we hope to see his project in the near future. We will be running another big giveaway from HP, so check back tomorrow. We would like to thank HP for sponsoring this giveaway and everyone for taking part in it.
16 Responses to “SlashGear HP xw4600 Workstation Giveaway – and the winner is …”
NanoEntity December 11, 2008
Woot :) Cant believe I won, I’m so happy!
Thank you
+2Daniel Lim December 11, 2008
Congrat! Don’t put that Quadro on ebay now :) and be sure to return for more HP Giveaways!!!
+2Dakota AKA Missingyes December 11, 2008
What the… a SHOUTBOX? How the hell does that envision the true power of the workstation?
-5Well, there goes my Christmas hopes.
NanoEntity December 11, 2008
I wont ebay it, I will use it for sure :) my pc so old, this is just amazing x-mas present :)
+2Justin Sol December 11, 2008
[quote]What the… a SHOUTBOX? How the hell does that envision the true power of the workstation?
Well, there goes my Christmas hopes.[/quote]
Don’t be a sore loser man. Congratulation to the winner, I did not win but surely enjoy the run. keep it coming slashgear guys
+4Justin Sol December 11, 2008
and coming from a development circle, i can understand why the winner was picked. look at his diagram, the shoutbox is planned to handle massive amount of workload. LAMP itself takes a lot of processing power when stress testing web applications.
+4Theta December 11, 2008
Congrats Nano, and good luck to everyone on the next giveaway.
+2missingyes December 11, 2008
[quote comment="56489"][quote]What the… a SHOUTBOX? How the hell does that envision the true power of the workstation?
Well, there goes my Christmas hopes.[/quote]
Don’t be a sore loser man. Congratulation to the winner, I did not win but surely enjoy the run. keep it coming slashgear guys[/quote]
It’s still only basic PHP code that is undermining the true power of the machine.
-3Why is it that someone removed/disabled my account here on Slashgear?
Why did he win versus the other designs? What did he have that I didn’t?
Ewdison Then December 11, 2008
Missingyes, what do you mean someone disabled your account on SlashGear? Unless you were spamming, we don’t remove anyone’s account.
Second, we are fighting the misconception of workstation, you said, basic PHP code is undermining the true power of the machine; but have you ever think about what power the code’s data end? The focus point is NOT the PHP code, but the MySQL usage on this project which this workstation does very well showing threading. and from PERSONAL experience, PHP based application can be resources intensive.
Why when someone mentioned Workstation it automatically thought as graphics design machine and gfx? why can’t it be devel server where user can use to stress test an application.
Like justin said, move on. we have have many prizes to give away. This is not the only giveaway we’ll be having.
good luck on the next one
+3nulledme December 11, 2008
[quote]Why did he win versus the other designs? What did he have that I didn’t?[/quote]
they dont have to answer your questions, it’s their giveaway, their decision, and their money. from what ive seen, you are the only one that have problem with the winner. grow up and move out of your moms basement
+2missingyes December 11, 2008
[quote comment="56526"]Missingyes, what do you mean someone disabled your account on SlashGear? Unless you were spamming, we don’t remove anyone’s account.
Second, we are fighting the misconception of workstation, you said, basic PHP code is undermining the true power of the machine; but have you ever think about what power the code’s data end? The focus point is NOT the PHP code, but the MySQL usage on this project which this workstation does very well showing threading. and from PERSONAL experience, PHP based application can be resources intensive.[/quote]
1: Tried to log in and it said my account doesn’t exist.
2: http://i33.tinypic.com/16lb71z.png – my Pentium III on my server runs XP SP3 + MySQL + Apache just fine, even with prime95 in the background.
-3Ewdison Then December 11, 2008
That is odd, banned user have their posts removed, your post is still in the forum. I’ll check on that
and Yes, LAMP runs fine on any decent hardware BUT you CANNOT do stress tests of high traffic thread on that kind of machine, especially when it comes to chat tools where query could go as high as 500 queries/second. See, misconception, how can you develop a robust application if you don’t know how well it handles server load.
Trust me, 500 insert and queries in a second (like phpmychat is being used in one of my community) a P3 would not last more than 5 minutes.
+3nerddna December 11, 2008
[quote comment="56532"]
2: http://i33.tinypic.com/16lb71z.png – my Pentium III on my server runs XP SP3 + MySQL + Apache just fine, even with prime95 in the background.[/quote]
two words
shut up
come on he won, so what move on be a good sport
i do agree with on this one but still he got the host’s more interested than any of us so it is his win
and you belong to the first robotic’s team(291 owns all*fact*) just like i do and we are good sports and don’t behave like this
you are a disgrace to the first robotics team
+3n3r0droid December 11, 2008
For pete sake missingyes, you are really missing your brain. you didnt win, whatever you said wont change the fact tat you will not get the prize. are you an idiot?
+3nerddna December 11, 2008
missingyes be a good sport
i think first robotics must have thought you this like it has to me
better luck next time
+2Ewdison Then December 11, 2008
Let’s not start insulting people guys. Missingyes, a little reference for you about why some app development needs high end machine for stress testing
http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/
MySQl server could run with little resources, but how well it handles data inserts and etc during operation is a different story
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