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

2011-05-16 Thread STeve Andre'
On 05/16/11 03:49, Nuno MagalhC#es wrote: Hi, On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 19:47, Peter Hessler wrote: We want dmesgs from *everything*. B You may have something interesting, even if its old. I assume you don't include VM's dmesg in that ;-) The low-power-when-idle is nifty but CPUs aren't always

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

2011-05-16 Thread Peter Hessler
On 2011 May 16 (Mon) at 08:49:39 +0100 (+0100), Nuno Magalhces wrote: :On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 19:47, Peter Hessler wrote: :> :> We want dmesgs from *everything*. B You may have something interesting, :> even if its old. : :I assume you don't include VM's dmesg in that ;-) : Yes, we want them fro

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

2011-05-16 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Hi, On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 19:47, Peter Hessler wrote: > > We want dmesgs from *everything*. B You may have something interesting, > even if its old. I assume you don't include VM's dmesg in that ;-) The low-power-when-idle is nifty but CPUs aren't always idle and mine spikes after halt. The

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

2011-05-15 Thread Peter Hessler
On 2011 May 15 (Sun) at 18:36:47 + (+), Kevin Chadwick wrote: :Would I be right that's there's little point in sending dmesgs from :very ancient machines. We want dmesgs from *everything*. You may have something interesting, even if its old. -- He's the kind of guy, that, well, if you w

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

2011-05-15 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Sun, 15 May 2011 18:36:47 + Kevin Chadwick wrote: > p.s. I've just got a neat 366mhz 64meg laptop from '99, Oh yeah, old linux debian boot disks work on it but the new ones don't. Fails at edd and again later on.

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

2011-05-15 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Sun, 15 May 2011 18:36:47 + Kevin Chadwick wrote: > p.s. I've just got a neat 366mhz 64meg laptop from '99, li-ion battery No intel cpu management mode either :-)

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

2011-05-15 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Sun, 15 May 2011 19:48:36 +0300 Michael Sioutis wrote: > What else could I use it for? A dedicated system to admin your servers/network from. p.s. I've just got a neat 366mhz 64meg laptop from '99, li-ion battery still works!!!, halts, usb works, apm works, acpi of course doesn't and has flop

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

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

2011-05-15 Thread Michael Sioutis
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, anyway, don't care about that. I currently h