Emilml Posted August 23, 2006 Share Posted August 23, 2006 Well i got a old computer specs: 1000mhz 128mb sdrram 40 or 20 gb of hd "think its 40" A floppy drive!!! Cdrom drive Network card Modem Very old gfx card, as I remember it can run the old cs and half-life so anyone got a suggestion of what i can do whit it "Better than my friends proposal of sitting on it" ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted August 23, 2006 Share Posted August 23, 2006 Some kinda extra linux box or a server? Just up the ram a bit and you can make it a perfectly viable headless server for mp3's etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wetelectric Posted August 23, 2006 Share Posted August 23, 2006 cpu? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emilml Posted August 23, 2006 Author Share Posted August 23, 2006 its on 1000mhz :p the first thing i told in the topic :p or its actualy 999mhz caous something happend so now its 999mhz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metatron Posted August 23, 2006 Share Posted August 23, 2006 MAME Box, File server, Firewall, NAS, web server, Terminal Server, Router, Honeypot, Virus lab, Asterisk server, Audio/Video Server, Chat Server, FTP Server, IRC Servers, Groupware Server, Mail Server. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emilml Posted August 23, 2006 Author Share Posted August 23, 2006 i think i got some ideas now thx guys :p Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparda Posted August 23, 2006 Share Posted August 23, 2006 1GHz is plent of CPU for a PVR of some nature, would be best running MythTV of course. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PoyBoy Posted August 23, 2006 Share Posted August 23, 2006 set it up as a private proxy and charge noobs at your school to use it!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rFayjW98ciLoNQLDZmFRKD Posted August 23, 2006 Share Posted August 23, 2006 set it up as a private proxy and charge noobs at your school to use it!! $ $ ./ _/ "I saw the software required windows 95 or above, so I switch to linux!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PoyBoy Posted August 24, 2006 Share Posted August 24, 2006 i'm considering trying it, but Im not to keen on getting kicked off the computer system at my school. That would royal suck. :evil: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anyedie Posted August 24, 2006 Share Posted August 24, 2006 mml, im acutally looking for a computer like that to set up a file/proxy server. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PoyBoy Posted August 24, 2006 Share Posted August 24, 2006 Proxy is easy as shit. just download PHProxy and copy everythig into your www folder, deleting the standard index.html Go to localhost to see that its is working, and if it is, set the server up with your ip/dyndns file server is easy in windows, at least go to the wiki and get the HFS usb toolkit app. You can set this up as a file server with a web interface However, HFS isnt exactly the most robust server app Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Famicoman Posted August 24, 2006 Share Posted August 24, 2006 I freaking hate how there are topics like this where a 1Ghz machine is considered crap. The best machine in my house is less than that. A crap machine is a freaking Pentium 100Mhz with 30 Mbs of RAM, and a 1.2GB Hard Drive. </vent> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uber_tom Posted August 24, 2006 Share Posted August 24, 2006 I'd just use it to f**k about with. Play with different OS's see how many you can get on there, see how fast you can clock it or stick dos/win 3.1 on there and see if you can get any 32bit programme other than hearts to run with the win32 dlls. That'd be the best hack ever, i will forever worship anyone who can get a 32bit app running on 3.1 with the win32 dlls, (not including hearts of course. and without any decompiling or code changes to the app). oh wait its says 1000mhz, i read 100 mhz. it won't be all that much fun to play with. eBay it to some sukka. PC for sale with cd-rom drive and keyboard, will run windows XP, complete with cheap flimsy mouse shaped like a cute animal of some sort $1000. Also my definition of a crap machine would be 286 or less, i think i could handle a 286 as long as it had a harddrive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SomeoneE1se Posted August 24, 2006 Share Posted August 24, 2006 I freaking hate how there are topics like this where a 1Ghz machine is considered crap. The best machine in my house is less than that. A crap machine is a freaking Pentium 100Mhz with 30 Mbs of RAM, and a 1.2GB Hard Drive.</vent> that's becsaue they are didn't you know as soon as 2.60GHz came out 2.599999999999GHz became crap... didn't you get the memo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PoyBoy Posted August 24, 2006 Share Posted August 24, 2006 i hear you famicoman, untill six months ago when i got the money to build my computer from working, the best comp we had was a celeron 533 mhz with 64 megs of ram. Runescape sucked ass when I was addicted a few years ago!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Famicoman Posted August 24, 2006 Share Posted August 24, 2006 Finally, someone to feel my pain. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wetelectric Posted August 24, 2006 Share Posted August 24, 2006 its on 1000mhz :p the first thing i told in the topic :por its actualy 999mhz caous something happend so now its 999mhz er... p1 p2? k7? ....but meh u got ur answer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moonlit Posted August 24, 2006 Share Posted August 24, 2006 It's a 1GHz so it's likely either a; Athlon, Duron, PIII or Celeron... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harmo777 Posted August 24, 2006 Share Posted August 24, 2006 wow this really puts my PC in perspective (its really really Crap(although i already knew that)) 400mhz 384mbram 8mb Video card 10gb drive (although i hav a 250gb External drive) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted August 24, 2006 Share Posted August 24, 2006 Put the ram up to 1GB and you'll have an ace server. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metatron Posted August 24, 2006 Share Posted August 24, 2006 I have a load of Pentium II 400MHz Compaq Armada 7400 Laptops with 256MB of memory, 6GB Harddrive’s, floppy drives and no NIC’s. All I did was stick in cheap ($4) knockoff Orinoco classic gold cards I got in Hong Kong and use a PCMCIA NIC to do network installs of either Debian or Slackware and set up Fluxbox on each of them. They have most of the tools you find in BackTrack, plus a few different ones and are used by friends that come over and just want to use a computer and I give a few of them away every so often (I have 18 left). Load time is under 10 seconds and they are very responsive with around 3 hours of battery life, make no noise and are light. (Just because something is old doesn’t mean it is shit.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt {Undead} Posted August 27, 2006 Share Posted August 27, 2006 metatron how did you manage to get loads of laptops, did you just take them off people who didnt want them anymore? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SomeoneE1se Posted August 27, 2006 Share Posted August 27, 2006 and will you sell me a few i could always use a few more laptops? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PoyBoy Posted August 27, 2006 Share Posted August 27, 2006 /desperately wants a laptop that will run linux. (I have a 66mhz pentium laptop that weighs about 8 lbs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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