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Zutronius
Joined: 16 Apr 2007
Location: Suncheon
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 Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2008 12:48 am Post subject: What do I do with it? |
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| I was dumpster diving the other day and I snagged a working Pentium 3 desktop. Its a 700 mhz processor, 8.6 gig hard drive and 256 ram and has a dvd drive. What should I do with it? I was going to put on a linux distro and donate it to whoever wanted it. I wondered if you guys had any ideas of what I should do with the pc? |
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bassexpander
Joined: 13 Sep 2007
Location: Someplace you'd rather be.
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| Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2008 1:20 am Post subject: |
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That PC is 9 years old.
Cool. |
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ttompatz
Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Location: Kwangju, South Korea
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| Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2008 1:29 am Post subject: |
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I often pick them up and donate them to rural schools in the Philippines but if you really are down in Mokpo, it is a little far and not worth shipping...
Spend 25k and add an additional 100 gig IDE hdd and you could use it as a torrent seeder or network backup for your current machine.... |
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Demophobe
Joined: 17 May 2004
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| Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2008 2:08 am Post subject: |
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Recover the data on the hard drive.
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eamo
Joined: 08 Mar 2003
Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.
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| Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2008 4:38 am Post subject: |
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If you don't mind paying the electricity bill then set it up to run seti@home or maybe some other distributed program. You could find a cure for cancer or find aliens!
To run that comp 24/7 would be about 15,000 per month.
http://boinc.berkeley.edu/
Choose which project you want your comp to support. Gene mapping. Cancer research. Alien radio signal searching.......... |
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ttompatz
Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Location: Kwangju, South Korea
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| Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2008 5:44 am Post subject: |
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| eamo wrote: |
If you don't mind paying the electricity bill then set it up to run seti@home or maybe some other distributed program. You could find a cure for cancer or find aliens!
To run that comp 24/7 would be about 15,000 per month.
http://boinc.berkeley.edu/
Choose which project you want your comp to support. Gene mapping. Cancer research. Alien radio signal searching.......... |
Boinc is a good thing if you have spare CPU cycles.
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