Comments on: Things to do with an old computer http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/09/14/things-to-do-with-an-old-computer/ K.Mandla's blog of Linux experiences Mon, 11 Feb 2013 18:19:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Case in point: A 133Mhz photo frame « Motho ke motho ka botho http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/09/14/things-to-do-with-an-old-computer/#comment-48385 Sun, 06 Mar 2011 13:23:26 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/09/14/things-to-do-with-an-old-computer/#comment-48385 [...] I had taken on one of the more intensive projects — not a huge task of course, but there are others on my list that are more obvious, and easier to wrangle. Such as [...]

]]> By: K.Mandla http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/09/14/things-to-do-with-an-old-computer/#comment-48005 Wed, 09 Feb 2011 21:30:16 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/09/14/things-to-do-with-an-old-computer/#comment-48005 Thanks, I wasn’t aware of that; I haven’t seen any BestBuys near here.

]]> By: Chris http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/09/14/things-to-do-with-an-old-computer/#comment-48004 Wed, 09 Feb 2011 20:59:20 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/09/14/things-to-do-with-an-old-computer/#comment-48004 Their mothers know what a raid is, they are actually performing a great services to our society, well not for teaching their parents about World of WarCrack specifically, but about gaming in general. If we can just get them t o play TF2/Portal/Something awesome instead …

]]> By: Chris http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/09/14/things-to-do-with-an-old-computer/#comment-48003 Wed, 09 Feb 2011 20:55:27 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/09/14/things-to-do-with-an-old-computer/#comment-48003 A 100mHz machine at full use is not going to be anywhere near a quad core at say, half use. The mHz per watt for a newer cpu and MB/s per watt for a newer hard drive are probably a lot better though.

But this is like the car argument, a new car/computer might be more efficient, but the earth has already expended the resources to make the old car/computer. A new prius/computer will take years (decades? centuries?) until it uses up more energy in use than it took to make it. Even an inefficient old computer may not have used more energy than it took to make it yet.

]]> By: Scott http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/09/14/things-to-do-with-an-old-computer/#comment-47999 Wed, 09 Feb 2011 15:11:02 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/09/14/things-to-do-with-an-old-computer/#comment-47999 You should edit your recycling part. BestBuy will take ANY electronics and recycle them for you for free. Everyone knows where their nearest BestBuy is which increases the chance they’ll actually recycle it.

]]> By: Nick http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/09/14/things-to-do-with-an-old-computer/#comment-47997 Wed, 09 Feb 2011 14:35:11 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/09/14/things-to-do-with-an-old-computer/#comment-47997 Wow that’s a very extensive list you have there. I’m using an old thinkpad as a web and development server. It’s worth mentioning here that if you want an internet facing machine and don’t have a static ip, install something like ddclient to keep it in sync with a dyndns account. Then you can do all sorts of awesome stuff.

]]> By: oliver http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/09/14/things-to-do-with-an-old-computer/#comment-47988 Wed, 09 Feb 2011 03:40:39 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/09/14/things-to-do-with-an-old-computer/#comment-47988 You can also make older machines DVR’s for home security. Simple PCI cards allow you to add a number of cameras, quickly making your machine a security system. Hook it up to the internet and it can email you when there is motion.

]]> By: Not a new idea, not a bad idea « Motho ke motho ka botho http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/09/14/things-to-do-with-an-old-computer/#comment-47742 Sun, 23 Jan 2011 12:18:15 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/09/14/things-to-do-with-an-old-computer/#comment-47742 [...] beat-up Toshiba Dynabook in the house has given me the chance to try a little something I mentioned a very long time ago, but haven’t really [...]

]]> By: shawn http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/09/14/things-to-do-with-an-old-computer/#comment-47727 Sat, 22 Jan 2011 13:50:15 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/09/14/things-to-do-with-an-old-computer/#comment-47727 Hi, I have a Mercer with a Pentium-S, 120 Mhz, 200W Power, VX97 MBoard, Cache mem: 256K, Base mem: 640K, Extended mem:31744K. It has floppy, stiffy and Cd-rom drives.
It doesn’t boot up so I don’t know what it did.
What can I do with it? Can I upgrade any aspect of it? Ram, HD, – can I put in a usb-card etc?

Your advice much appreciated
Shawn

]]> By: James Shepherd-Blythe http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/09/14/things-to-do-with-an-old-computer/#comment-47695 Thu, 20 Jan 2011 14:51:05 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/09/14/things-to-do-with-an-old-computer/#comment-47695 I have an old Toshiba Satalite Pro 480cdt any ideas what linux to put on it. Also depending on where you are there is Freegle or Freecycle a good source of pcs etc begging to be reused. I have an irc server if anyone would be interested in talking about this subject on there also.

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