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What to Do with a Pentium II
–by Andrew McCaskey
If you are like me, you have several old PC’s around the basement workshop – too good to throw away. I ran across a very informative thread on a site called SilentPCReview.com that might be of interest to many listeners. Silent PC Review is dedicated to reviews, news and information about quiet, low noise, noise-free and/or silent computers and components. This looks like an interesting site indeed for Podcasters..
The thread is called What do I do with an old Pentium II System ?
A series of pointers that start out with replacement of the old drives with quiet ones - and then recommends two linux distros freenas or clarkconnect to turn a system as old as a 200 Mhz pentium with 64 mb of RAM into a home server for 3-5 users – and once configured are headless/keyboardless boxes just ideal for a basement shelf. The feature that I thought especially cool was automatic spindown that puts the drives into an idle state, making things even quieter.
I’ve not checked things out – a fast scan of the docs indicate it’s not a 20 minute project, and who knows what evils lurk in the the NIC cards you might find in old hardware – but it does look interesting – so I may take some time to poke around later in the week. There is also something about USB keys which I do not understand- but looks like an interesting destination for those 32Mb USB keys as well.
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Now a really useful guide to Fixing Windows with Knoppix has appeared online, a reprint of a chapter in the book Hacking Knoppix from Scott Granneman . You might want to plan ahead, print out the chapter and put it alongside a fresh burn of Knoppix STD when you get the call.
I came across Google SMS again today- a way to pull all sorts of useful stuff from Google with the fast SMS from your cellphone.
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