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nemt

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What To Do With A P1?
« on: May 08, 2004, 05:11:00 AM »
Play MS-DOS games like Grim Fandango and Sid Meiyer's Colonization?
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XeroKitsune

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« Reply #1 on: May 08, 2004, 09:59:00 AM »
Well you could do quite a few things.
Make a home mp3 player
Run command line linux
Run some of the smaller emulators on it (nes/gen/snes)
Load it with childrens software and give it to a child
Abuse the OS and learn more about windows
Run a small webserver
Set it up as a simple word processer
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Ween311

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« Reply #2 on: May 10, 2004, 05:24:00 AM »
It should handle most emus.  Make a MAME machine out of it.
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falser

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« Reply #3 on: May 10, 2004, 10:40:00 AM »
Yup, firewall would be the way to go.  I used to use my old P133 for a linux firewall for years until it's power supply died.  It isn't so easy to find AT power supplies these days.  But the firewall worked considerably better than a Linksys router we used before it.
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« Reply #4 on: May 10, 2004, 10:54:00 AM »
I would personnaly just laod it with hard drives and make it a MP3/Movie server for my xbox and home PC's
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« Reply #5 on: May 11, 2004, 07:01:00 PM »
QUOTE (falser @ May 10 2004, 07:40 PM)
Yup, firewall would be the way to go.  I used to use my old P133 for a linux firewall for years until it's power supply died.  It isn't so easy to find AT power supplies these days.  But the firewall worked considerably better than a Linksys router we used before it.

Ah, yes, possibly the best use for an old computer nowadays, at least if you have broadband. Just use something like Coyote Linux and you don't need anything more than two NICs and a floppy drive (16MB of RAM is plenty for this sort of setup). Cheaper than most routers, much more secure, and much more configurable.
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nemt

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« Reply #6 on: May 11, 2004, 07:24:00 PM »
Hackers could still just go to his house and unplug it though.
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XeroKitsune

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« Reply #7 on: May 12, 2004, 02:29:00 AM »
QUOTE (nemt @ May 11 2004, 10:24 PM)
Hackers could still just go to his house and unplug it though.

 blink.gif Hacker commandos! rotfl.gif
You realy have to have cheezed someone off heavily to break into a home, and rather than stealing the PC or hacking directly, they disable the firewall to hack at the dynamic ip from thier remote secret lair.  laugh.gif
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« Reply #8 on: May 12, 2004, 04:00:00 AM »
QUOTE (nemt @ May 12 2004, 04:24 AM)
Hackers could still just go to his house and unplug it though.

hahahha
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« Reply #9 on: May 14, 2004, 04:35:00 PM »
take it apart, rip out the cpu - use a metal drilling bit to _slowly_ drill a hole right through it (in one of the corners) put it on a chain and where it around on your neck like a dickhead. just like me.
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