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Mark, many of the application you've mentioned would be really beyond machine's capability, consider small traffic FTP or WWW server, or even a hardware firewall.
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Back up file server

CVS server

X-Terminal

Disaster recovery environment.

Network install server.
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Grab a DVB-S card and make a videorecorder of it:

http://www.linuxtv.org/vdrwiki/index.php/Main_Page
http://www.cadsoft.de/vdr/
http://www.vdr-portal.de/board/portal.php?langid=1
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I have a similar machine on my home network, and it's running quite nicely as a slave DNS server, web/JBoss development box, and rsync backup server.

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Or are the just ready for the skip?
While we're on the topic, try to be more imaginative than filling the landfill.

Try offering to neighbours, schools, charities etc.
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While we're on the topic, try to be more imaginative than filling the landfill.

Try offering to neighbours, schools, charities etc.
OK, I don't literally have a skip, what I meant was are they of ANY practical use? Funnily enough about 2 or 3 years ago I had another 8 of these PCs that got updated at work and gave all of those to my family & neighbours. I ended up being the support department for "The Free PC company". I will offer them on "Freecycle" if I don't find a use for them myself though.

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