Re: [SLUG] Orphaned Machines

From: VT (vt1@gte.net)
Date: Sat Nov 10 2001 - 13:44:58 EST


At 05:02 PM 11/10/01 -0500, you wrote:
>I would like to lay claim to as many as you would be willing to give to one
>person (Not to be greedy so if more people want them, I'll take one) =))
>
>They are good for fileservers, dhcp servers, WINS server, PDCs and lot of
>other things(often all at the same time)...i486s have more horsepower than
>you think, and for many applications its not the CPU that is the bottleneck
>but the bandwidth of the IDE bus and ISA bus etc etc...so not often best for
>fileservers if you need highbandwidth file server. often though, its enough
>for small networks...
>
>I'll take any 386s you got too =)
>
>Partly its for nostalgia that I like old hardware...I like to be able to show
>people my killer network, and THEN tell them what's driving it. I like to put
>procs like dhcpd, WINS and other like stuff on the slower machines so I can
>conserve my procs on my faster machines...I have an AMD700 w/512 MB RAM which
>is my Gnome Workstation, a DELL Optiplex piii866 w256 MB RAM which is the
>backend fileserver for my network. I use it as my fileserver because it has
>the fastest buses, and its video capability has MUCH to be desired with or
>without a replacement vid card. It server web file to my webserver via
>/dev/ndb. My firewall is a p150w32 MB RAM which also is the apache front end
>of the website. My wife's (and my current workstation until I get my
>broadband back) is an AMD K2-333 w/96 MB RAM running Win98SE. I have a p200
>but my RAM is bad so its not in use. I would use that as my console
>workstation for programming and such.
>
>I may be getting a used laptop as payment for some computer repair work I am
>doing and that'll be used as my mobile analysis platform (ethereal, John the
>Ripper, etc etc)
>
>So now you know I have a butt load of hardware, but I love to tweak and move
>procs to ancillory devices when I can...If someone else needs the 486s more
>than I, then please give it to them, but if not.....
>
> I GOT FIRST DIBS =)
>
>Scot Mc Pherson

I'm not sure if this has been posted before, but as the amature radio
community has
swap meets to buy-sell-trade equipment, perhaps we could as well. Perhaps
one of the
regular meetings could have a parking lot swap meet before or after.

Just a thought.

VT



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