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Posted: April 04 2004,12:22 QUOTE

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Still trying to come up with an actual use for the darned thing. So far, all I can come up with is to make a little file server for my home network.

what about a web server, i plan to connect my old laptop to the web and leave it in my draw sharing latest southpark episodes :)

i have a dynamic ip address but know i can find or write my own ip address updater, so it is linked to a domain name of some kind


or a router and network file server thats if ur poor like me and cant afford a decent router
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Posted: April 05 2004,04:53 QUOTE

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what about a web server, i plan to connect my old laptop to the web and leave it in my draw sharing latest southpark episodes :)

i have a dynamic ip address but know i can find or write my own ip address updater, so it is linked to a domain name of some kind


or a router and network file server thats if ur poor like me and cant afford a decent router

I had those thoughts, but... My big machine (an XP2200) is already the local web server, and I've already got a router/switch that I'm happy with (it works great, and cost me $20 at Circuit City!).

I truly had no use for this thing, I just bought it cause it was little and cute and my wife said I could :)

The current plan is indeed to make a local file server. It'll mostly just hold about 6Gb of MP3's and assorted backups of important stuff. I may offload local webserver duties to it, but I'm used to editing my PHP locally and having instant updates (though NFS would solve that). It's also a pretty slow little proc, 999MHz Via proc seems to equate to a ~500MHz AMD K6-2 (which is depressing as hell).

Still, it's a fun little machine. My biggest problem now (since I've decided on what it's function will be) is what kind of case to build to put it in...


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Posted: April 21 2004,17:28 QUOTE

The miniPC lives!:cool:

Managed to replace the fried part (with some botched surface mount soldering)), and now I'm posting this message using the toram option. I like the updates to 0.6.3, haven't played tetris in ages :;):

Shouldn't be playing with it too much now, need to work on exams :( but once theyre out of the way i can do a decent case and sort out a dcent use for it! (games server perhaps?):D


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Posted: April 21 2004,21:35 QUOTE

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i have a dynamic ip address but know i can find or write my own ip address updater, so it is linked to a domain name of some kind


or a router and network file server thats if ur poor like me and cant afford a decent router

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Posted: April 22 2004,12:33 QUOTE

Do u know where to get cheap mini-itx mb in USA ?
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