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What to do with my old box?

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With the comming of my new laptop what to do with my aging desktop?

Specs are as follows.
Cpu:800mhz Duron
ram:256mb SDram
HD: C: 20 gig,D:10 gig.
CD-roms:12 X burner/52 X cd rom
Monitor:Some generic mircroscan 15 inch monitor.
Sound:Integrated
Video:Geforce 2 MX.
OS:Win 98 SE

Ok my thoughts were turn it into a FTP/Jukebox/Seti Machine?


Anyone else got any ideas?(Anyone who says "Install linux" shall not post in this thread; I do not know enough about linux atm.)


Anything else will be taken under advisement.
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Render box? Make something in Terragen or other 3d/modeling app and let it calc for half a day.
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You can mail it to me, that's better than what I've got.
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Donate it to your old school, most schools dont have computers you can use during brake, give them one
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Do as you suggested. I would never get rid of an old box; too many usefull things to do with it.

Besides, it makes a nice secondary gaming machine for a guest.
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Turn it into a dedicated <Insert game here (Eg. BF1942, Quake, UT2k, SC)> Server. Hell, that's what i'd do...being an admin on a popular server is tha shee-eye-ott.
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File Server. Me and my roommates turned one of his old computers into a 400 GB file server.
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Make it a server. Files, internet, gaming, etc. It's a winner.
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Put Linux on it and make it into a server. Plus, you can learn a new OS while you're at it :D
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Donate it to a poor starving student...like me!
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aerius wrote:Donate it to a poor starving student...like me!
Says the man with the Gilmore amps and Sennheiser headphones :P :P :D
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aerius wrote:Donate it to a poor starving student...like me!
why to one poor student, donate to charity
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Chardok wrote:Turn it into a dedicated <Insert game here (Eg. BF1942, Quake, UT2k, SC)> Server. Hell, that's what i'd do...being an admin on a popular server is tha shee-eye-ott.
UT2k3 and BF1942 have beefy requirements for a decent server. It would run them, but not well.

I suppose he could run a small Quake/HL server, but if he doesn't have enough upload, you can't do much better than that and expect good pings.
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