babis Posted January 26, 2003 Share Posted January 26, 2003 it happens that I have a pII 450, 256ram, cdrw, ethernet, soundcard, video card, (flat moniter but the power cord is missing, in other words no monitor for this comp)and I was debating what to do with it... sell it? hmm.. use it? but what would i do.... any suggestions? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sedative Posted January 26, 2003 Share Posted January 26, 2003 Learn Linux or BSD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tinker Posted January 26, 2003 Share Posted January 26, 2003 How big is the HDD? If you have a home network or are thinking of installing one you could use it as you back up file server. I have a system of this nature. What with the falling prices on HDDs you could set it up just to store important files one and if and when you have to clean install on any of the other computers on the network all you have to do is transfer the files from the file server ( or at least that is what I call it ). You can use any OS to do this because you will not be using the system for every day use......... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zipp51 Posted January 26, 2003 Share Posted January 26, 2003 Donate it to a needy individual or organization. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robertson Posted January 26, 2003 Share Posted January 26, 2003 Tinker has a good idea.Maybe you play any games set it up as a decicated server or a web server for web sites?Who knows? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FthrJACK Posted January 26, 2003 Share Posted January 26, 2003 i would set it up as a file server, print server, and just for general web browsing.i know its a pain in the a** when the girlfriend wants to come in and go on the net and i have to get off (i do have 3 machines but i dont always have the network setup)Whats even more annoying is if im playing a game and she prints something from the networked PC. the printers connected to this machine and its like having HUGE lag. so the other machine should have the printer, either that or get a small print server to go with my hub (which ive hopefully got in this auction, wont find out for another week )thats what id use it for anyway, whack a big hard disk or 3 in it and use it for file storage and a secondary inet PC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gamehead200 Posted January 26, 2003 Share Posted January 26, 2003 Sell it on eBay and make some money... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
techguy21801 Posted January 26, 2003 Share Posted January 26, 2003 use it as a tester machine. i have something similar and because it has isa's i use it for that purpose Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robertson Posted January 26, 2003 Share Posted January 26, 2003 Babis, ship it me over if you dont find anything else to do with it seriously i could do with that extra machine How much would u want for it? In GBP sterling? £££££££££££££££££££££££££££ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
babis Posted January 26, 2003 Author Share Posted January 26, 2003 thanks guys... I was actually going to give it away, but it looks like s***... (i was thinking of donating it to my dept. at college) I like the print server idea... it does p*** me off when I'm using the comp and next thing i know it starts choking (due to printing).. I'll look into that.. escpecially since i just bought me a new printer (hp psc 950)thanks again .. really appreciate it..oh.. it has 12GB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drewdatrip Posted January 27, 2003 Share Posted January 27, 2003 you could alwast tyrn it into a routher/firewall..that have linux oSes specifcally made for being the best hardware firewalls...=Drew Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gamehead200 Posted January 27, 2003 Share Posted January 27, 2003 techguy and Drew have some good points...Change it into a test machine for Betas and stuff like that...Or install Windows OR Linux on it and use it as a router, or just install Linux to make it a firewall... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zivan56 Posted January 27, 2003 Share Posted January 27, 2003 You can do alot with that computer, I have a AMD k6-2 450Mhz with 120mb ram, 10GB HD, CDROM, and it runs my firewall, web server, cvs server, ftp server, and SETI. With yours I could imagine you could do alot more with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gamehead200 Posted January 28, 2003 Share Posted January 28, 2003 zivan56, just out of curiosity, what 'plug number' is that server of yours connected to on your router (if you have one)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zivan56 Posted January 28, 2003 Share Posted January 28, 2003 If you mean the RJ45 jacks then it is the 2nd one. I have an SMC7004ABR which I strong reccommend you don't buy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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