beakmyn Posted March 17, 2009 Share Posted March 17, 2009 I made this back before everyone started coming out with digital picture frames and decided to revamp it into something new. http://www.flickr.com/photos/9762454@N04/3363046870/ It's a Digital Hinote VP575 laptop - small and quiet no fans needed. 166 MHz Pentium 2 GB Hard drive 80MB RAM - runs at about 75MB usage, jumps up to 96MB used when using VNC or updating picture. Ethernet right now since there's no wifi at work :( I'm thinking about Gives the basics of time, calendar, weather forecast. Background changes each hour. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dr0p Posted March 17, 2009 Share Posted March 17, 2009 That was a really nice idea actually :3 Personally though I wouldn't be running Windows, uses too much resources. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silentknight329 Posted March 18, 2009 Share Posted March 18, 2009 that is deadly.. i'm setting my system up like that RIGHT NOW!!! thats how cool it is lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shonen Posted March 18, 2009 Share Posted March 18, 2009 I love it, it blows all over the prefab shit you buy in stores. Very nice and you were ahead of the times creating that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beakmyn Posted March 18, 2009 Author Share Posted March 18, 2009 That was a really nice idea actually :3 Personally though I wouldn't be running Windows, uses too much resources. Yes it is but I also tried various other installs. With Linux the plan was to run conky forecast. Some things you have to keep in mind this is "ancient hardware". There is no USB. ubuntu CLI - failed 3/4 way through no matter what I tried Damn Small Linux - Could not get Perl's dependencies to compile. In fact I have to boot using fb800x600 noacpi noapm nomce noddc nousb noscsi Puppy Linux - wouldn't boot Also, there were issues with the PCMCIA ethernet card(s) I'm using and the wireless card Various implementations of nLite XP, 2000 with service packs no boot Win98Se runs great but Rainmeter won't run on Win98SE Windows 2000 - didn't work as well So, I am forced to settle with XP, although I've gone through and removed all extra software and disabled most services. All in all I'd say that only using 75MB of RAM right now is pretty damn good on system resources. John's Background switcher actually uses the most memory ~20MB since it uses .Net. Otherwise with just XP running I'm using about 30-40 MB of RAM XP, Rainmeter, John's Background switcher, TightVNC, bbdeleted BTW, if anybody does want to make an actual picture frame, here's a howto I did a few years back using Damn Small Linux. Watch the links, either me or ISP has deleted this page 3 times so I just grabbed a copy from webarchive and put it back up I need to remove webarchive's redirects in the hyperlinks. http://www.frontiernet.net/~pictureframe/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dr0p Posted March 18, 2009 Share Posted March 18, 2009 I personally would have tried Gentoo, but you might not have wanted to deal with the compiling times on that processor? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beakmyn Posted March 18, 2009 Author Share Posted March 18, 2009 I personally would have tried Gentoo, but you might not have wanted to deal with the compiling times on that processor? Actually I tried Gentoo on this machine once. It took over a week to compile X! If I can find a lightweight distro that can meet the perl dependencies then I'll go with linux and Xorg. But for now it's XP. I'd like to get back to a damn small frugal install since I make everything read only at boot and not have to worry about when the power goes out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dr0p Posted March 18, 2009 Share Posted March 18, 2009 Actually I tried Gentoo on this machine once. It took over a week to compile X! If I can find a lightweight distro that can meet the perl dependencies then I'll go with linux and Xorg. But for now it's XP. I'd like to get back to a damn small frugal install since I make everything read only at boot and not have to worry about when the power goes out. I was gonna recommend Arch linux (basically the binary form of Gentoo), but I don't suppose that processor has i686 support does it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beakmyn Posted March 20, 2009 Author Share Posted March 20, 2009 I was gonna recommend Arch linux (basically the binary form of Gentoo), but I don't suppose that processor has i686 support does it? Ah no. It's an original Pentium 166Mhz processor. I don't even think it has MMX. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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