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Ah! The operation was successful. by L1nX 2007-09-23 01:18:30

As of 16:42 (SAST) yesterday. An old computer was resurrected. "The-hamster" was christened running Debian (Etch) Linux. By 19:02 is was given an X.org graphical body and was able to mutter it's first words.

Christened because a hamster could probably power it (and also because it's running with Xfce and the logo is a hamsterish thing :P). It's a pretty old motherboard with a Socket 478. I stuck a 2.4Ghz P4 into it and it seems to only detect it as 1.2Ghz. Also two PC100 ram slots which can be over-clocked to a blazingly fast 133Mhz. And there's even USB1.0.

Planning on using it as both a thin-client to connect to my main PC with XDMCP and also as a slow standalone computer with Xfce for browsing and simple stuff. Also, depending on it's soundcard and if I can get a low latency kernel working on it it can function as a net_jack client for me :)

Oh.. and this thing beeps when it reads the hard-drive before it boots the kernel.. That buzzer is getting de-soldiered very very soon.

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  by "beeps" I assume you mean the pc speaker? by Freakazoid2007-09-23 01:25:47
    The speaker is soldered directly onto the m/b.. by L1nX2007-09-23 02:58:39
      I find a screw does wonders by amp_man2007-09-23 03:58:13
  oh, and :P by Freakazoid2007-09-23 01:29:40
    blah.. Ghz, in my day we was lucky to have 2.4Mhz (n/t) by Woodburn2007-09-23 01:42:11
      I call bull! by amp_man2007-09-23 02:03:08
        Oh no :-D by chrisP2007-09-23 02:19:36
          Nothing like old school technology... by AlanTwo2007-09-23 07:26:51
          Sounds like mine by kent_eh2007-09-23 15:55:14
        who said it was a PC? by Freakazoid2007-09-23 10:14:32
  Old? OLD? That's what I run now! by Arman X2007-09-23 07:21:24
    Who remembers the Cyrix 6x86 chips? (n/t) by AlanTwo2007-09-23 07:27:32
      I really didn't =want= to, but yes, I do... by themadkansan2007-09-23 07:45:10
      uhg... I unfotunately had one by Freakazoid2007-09-23 10:20:46
      Ohh! me! I even have one of thier posters... by Arman X2007-09-23 14:03:05
    Bah. Piker. by themadkansan2007-09-23 07:47:09
      I've been turning Celeron/300s into file servers. by kahuana2007-09-23 08:14:21
        Oldest Machine In The House, currently: by themadkansan2007-09-23 08:26:28
          my oldest in daily use by kent_eh2007-09-23 16:01:17
  My current linux by shadowboy8132007-09-23 08:25:05
    Except for "server", that'd be a waste... by bwkaz2007-09-23 09:41:13
    nah, just install dosbox on the 3000+ by Freakazoid2007-09-23 10:26:51

 

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