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.
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.
I have been in IT for around 7 years now and have benefited greatly from Open Source as well as free commercial offerings like Vmware Server that allow me to setup virtual environments and get some hands on time with different OS's and software.
I am starting a new job in a few weeks which has... (5 Replies)
Hello
Today I had a beautiful test to write some commands using Ubuntu, now I want to make sure of my answers to be reassured, if I had a mistake please correct me
List all files details under ubuntu Desktop.
my answer:
cd Desktop |ls -l
Navigate to your Desktop directory and... (7 Replies)
Hi all,
is it okay for US-III+ running at 1200 MHZ to excced 75° C on sun fire 880
here's the output when i ran prtdiag -v on sunfire 880 running solaris10
bash-3.00# prtdiag -v
System Configuration: Sun Microsystems sun4u Sun Fire 880
System clock frequency: 150 MHz
Memory size: 8192... (2 Replies)
Does Anyone has installed open solaris on a its own hardaware as Pentium or Celeron ? If yes, how it is working? does it needs further drivers?
Thank you and greetings from Italy ? :D (8 Replies)
I don't know a lot of the world of Linux, but i want to start with an old machine; did someone knows if i can install Linux in a computer with a processor Pentium (not celeron) @ 133 Mhz, 98Mb in RAM (PC100) and 3Gb Hard Drive?
a friend tell me about Ubuntu and openSUSE, but I don't know if... (5 Replies)
Hi
I have been trying to install SCO OS 5.0.6 on my home PC Which has P-IV 1.7Ghz Processor 128 MB DDR ram, 20 GB HDD . However the system do boots from the cd shows the boot: prompt ............. there when i press enter key the process of loading starts but soon after that the screen goes... (3 Replies)
Haw Can I install a solaris in my own pc at home
I have try but every time it is just boot to windows
what should I do about it so I can Have it at my home pc
thanks
All The best . . . . . .
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