ke4nt1
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Posted: April 22 2005,05:59 |
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Your little laptop will make a great lil personal web surfer,
mp3 player ( from cli anyway ) , email browser, etc..
With 2GB of HD space, you can do a LOT with it and DSL on it.
(serve some web pages? Admin another box? homework?)
Consider spending the $10-$20 or so to get a real
serial hardware modem... even a used 33.6k would do nicely.
and you can use it on any computer, even a windows box..
If you had another old computer lying around..
You could strip it down to just a p/s, mobo, floppy drive, and a nic.
Put freesco in it, on a floppy only, and connect your serial
modem to it, and run the nic out to a small hub.
then your laptop, along with all your other users/boxes/family
could share the dialup connection. Then you can share files,
music, etc. with everyone in your "home network"..
You don't need high-speed or broadband to do this with linux.
If the laptop supports pcmcia type II cards,
you could even run wireless from your freesco-shared dialup
to your laptop, with a wireless router connected to the hub.
I have a P99, a couple of 233's and an P3-800. all laptops
They are all a joy to use with DSL.
Multiplayer Freeciv? IRC? Ham Radio? I can think of lots more..
73
ke4nt
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