On Sat, 2007-02-17 at 14:54 +0100, Joe Hart wrote: > Still, I have a old Celeron 600mhz with 16MB acting as a server running > Sarge. It works fine. The computer was heading to the dump and I > thought I could rescue it and put it to some use. It does not have a > GUI, and doesn't need one.
I cringe when I see good working hardware being thrown away. My old company has a whole army of Pentium 100 machines doing Firewall duty at their clients. Heck, I've used a 486 for just that - ok, it was 56k dialup with only two PCs in the network, but still... When I moved house I bit my lip and put old my old 486/P-I/P-II machines on the pavement. I don't know if whoever took them sold them for scrap metal or gave them to the neigbour's kid, but it sure was sad letting them go. But in my current job I've become much more aware of power issues, and where I would usually use a couple of machines to test stuff that needed a couple of machines, I'm now more inclined to get one strong box and use virtual machines. One of my friends bought a secondhand 486 because he needs something with a serial port to connect to some control system. I saw on the net a little linux computer that consists pretty much of a network card and a serial port. www.picolinux.com I think. I thought that would probably do the job too and almost certainly cost much less to run in the long run. And it's quiet :-) Hans -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
