Re: Things to do with a Pentium 166MHz cpu - 32 MB of RAM - 1.5 GB disk

2011-05-18 Thread David Vasek
On Wed, 18 May 2011, David Coppa wrote: On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 12:16 PM, David Vasek wrote: On Sun, 15 May 2011, Nick Holland wrote: What dissapoints me the most, is that there don't exist USB ports and they might not even be supported, the pc is from 1998. I could use rtorrent with screen

Re: Things to do with a Pentium 166MHz cpu - 32 MB of RAM - 1.5 GB disk

2011-05-18 Thread David Vasek
On Sun, 15 May 2011, Nick Holland wrote: What dissapoints me the most, is that there don't exist USB ports and they might not even be supported, the pc is from 1998. I could use rtorrent with screen to download stuff to an external hard drive.. But I will check on that when I find the time to op

Re: Things to do with a Pentium 166MHz cpu - 32 MB of RAM - 1.5 GB disk

2011-05-17 Thread Aaron Mason
Here's an idea - have a job that continually compiles the entire system from HEAD - by the time it's done*, there's probably a new patch or ten ready, so checkout the latest patches (if any) and start over. Once you get that in place, remove the CPU fan (so there's only a heatsink), cut a hole in

Re: Things to do with a Pentium 166MHz cpu - 32 MB of RAM - 1.5 GB disk

2011-05-16 Thread Henning Brauer
* Michael Sioutis [2011-05-15 18:49]: > What else could I use it for? doorstop? monitor stand? projectile for the next IETF meeting? seriously, a dirt cheap atom will be gazillion times faster and pay for itself quickly on the power bill. -- Henning Brauer, h...@bsws.de, henn...@openbsd.org BS

Re: Things to do with a Pentium 166MHz cpu - 32 MB of RAM - 1.5 GB disk

2011-05-15 Thread Nick Holland
On 05/15/11 12:48, Michael Sioutis wrote: > Hello, > > I ressurected an old pc yesterday (specs on title) with OpenBSD 4.9 > and without X to keep it light. It > runs ridiculously well! Everything works fine except the automatic > powerdown (shutdown -hp now), which > is not supported aparently by

Re: Things to do with a Pentium 166MHz cpu - 32 MB of RAM - 1.5 GB disk

2011-05-15 Thread Sviatoslav Chagaev
On Sun, 15 May 2011 19:48:36 +0300 Michael Sioutis wrote: > Hello, > > I ressurected an old pc yesterday (specs on title) with OpenBSD 4.9 > and without X to keep it light. It > runs ridiculously well! Everything works fine except the automatic > powerdown (shutdown -hp now), which > is not supp

Re: Things to do with a Pentium 166MHz cpu - 32 MB of RAM - 1.5 GB disk

2011-05-15 Thread STeve Andre'
On 05/15/11 12:48, Michael Sioutis wrote: Hello, I ressurected an old pc yesterday (specs on title) with OpenBSD 4.9 and without X to keep it light. It runs ridiculously well! Everything works fine except the automatic powerdown (shutdown -hp now), which is not supported aparently by the mobo, a

Re: Things to do with a Pentium 166MHz cpu - 32 MB of RAM - 1.5 GB disk

2011-05-15 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Hi, On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 17:48, Michael Sioutis wrote: > What else could I use it for? Do the opposite. Think what is that that you'd liek to play with, then see if that hardware is enough. Webserver? nginx+fastcgi is light Maybe you have an old printer laying around? Maybe an XMPP server f

Re: Things to do with a Pentium 166MHz cpu - 32 MB of RAM - 1.5 GB disk

2011-05-15 Thread Matt S
You might try playing with some of OpenBSD's virtual routing capabilities. You could create a couple of VLANs and test out some of the BGP/MPLS VPN capabilities within the VLANs. To: misc@openbsd.org Sent: Sun, May 15, 2011 9:48:36 AM Subject: Things to do wi