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Cool Heads (sometimes) Prevail...`
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| The sometimes live-in boyfriend took it
| upon himself to wipe out the Linux install
| we had given them and put a hacked copy of
| Windows XP on their new machine.
|
| It didn't go well. Megan called me before
| the day was over and complained that the
| machine we had given them was not very
| good. It was already giving her popups
| and refused to connect to the Internet.
| Of course the boyfriend, knowing her
| computing ignorance, knew he could sell
| her that story without repercussion.
|
| That ain't gonna happen.
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http://linuxlock.blogspot.com/2010/02/cool-heads-sometimes-prevail.html
Adventure with Old Hardware
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| The English teacher had a couple of old
| machines kicking around. They were taking
| up space and she wanted them replaced with
| something kids could use for writing.
|
| * 486
| * last used 5 years ago
| * 500 MB hard drive
| * 8 MB RAM
|
| [...]
|
| Eureka! DSL runs. So far I have the worst
| display I have ever seen and the hard
| drive is still chugging after 15 minutes.
| The resolution is so bad I cannot read the
| menu items easily. I clicked on âX setupâ
| and a window opened eventually but nothing
| is visible. Finally, I killed X and
| configured it manually using xsetup.sh to
| 800Ã600 and 16 bits. startx then gave a
| very nice display.
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http://pogson.6k.ca/2010/02/27/adventure-with-old-hardware/
Recent:
$100 card converts old PCs into Linux thin clients
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| Igel has released an add-in card that enables old desktop PCs to be turned
| into Linux thin clients on the cheap. The "Igel TC Card" costs $100 and
| requires a computer to have an available PCI slot and an IDE interface, the
| company says.
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http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS2782154377.html
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