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is my first purchase at compusa, so hopefully i won't hit the cap. and i agree, i hate those rebates, but i just couldn't pass up this great deal!
I did restore an old beat up laptop that was absolutely worthless back to life..took me a few months to get the nic and sound settings going..but it did bring it back to life
Brian
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I have to add my 2 cents. At the school where I teach, several Compaq Armada 1750s were donated. I tried to put Windows ME on them for the school but no one liked them because they were so slow. I took one and have been trying different distros on it. I tried Knoppix, Ubuntu, Kubuntu, feather, and dsl. When I got to dsl my little Armada had some real spunk to it. I had some sound and wireless problems but, with the Forum's help, the problems have gone away.
I even went so far as to try dsl-n but had some unexpected problems (system would reboot for no eason). So, for now, I will stay with the 7.4.26 kernel.
--Ted
I'm building portable server that includes:
VNC server
ftpd
httpd with php support
sshd
I just need to do few scripts so that making user account could be faster.
DSL is one of those "swiss army chainsaws" that I always keep in my geek kit. Because it is system light and handles older hardware well, it's my disc of choice to toss into mystery-meat pc's to determine what I'm dealing with.
Beyond its use as a rescue and diagnostic tool, I've used DSL:
1. As a portable desktop on my usb thumbdrive, and as a cd. I've been 100% linux long enough that I actually get a little lost on other OS'es. Having copy that runs via QEMU/vmware/etc has been mighty handy when I was forced to go portable without my laptop.
2. I've now ressurected three laptops, all old enough to be considered relics. One of which is so reliable that it lives in the living room, with uptimes in the months. Coupled with a wifi card, it's my xterm of choice when I need to do something quickly, and it's often the pc that goes on "hazmat" duty when someone begs me to unscramble their network.
Someone needs to explain to me why older laptops have such wonderful keyboards. It really is why I can't let the "nine pound beast" go to the scrapheap.
3. My girlfriend's pc.
After a brief stint of laptop obsession, my girlfriend decided she wanted a pc on her desk again. Rather than blowing the budget on another loud, expensive machine for the office, I got the idea to set up a thin client.
Once again, DSL to the rescue. I found an old HP E-Vectra at a computer show for fourty bucks, frugally installed DSL and the NXclient extension and managed to materialize a decent monitor from the spares closet.
With a little tinkering, we now have a machine that securely logs into our main desktop machine, and as a bonus it does double duty as a guest machine when we kill off the nxclient.
Let's see, forensics, rescue, portable pc, three laptops, and a thinclient/guest machine. Not bad for fifty megabytes of penguin power.
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