Re: [SLUG] OT: picked up a screw around rig today

From: Robert Foxworth (rfoxwor1@tampabay.rr.com)
Date: Fri Dec 03 2004 - 23:33:09 EST


> >>great specs, 133mhz CPU, 96meg of ram (upgraded from 64 meg) 1.2gig
> >>hdd, added a cdrom and a 2nd nic. came with win95 by default, got
> >>knoppix on here for now.
> >>
> >>106$ total, not a bad deal for an antique like this.

> That is bad in the since that I usually pick up pII 450 to P3 550
with
> 128 megs of ram and a 8 gig drive plus cdrom and nic for only 80
dollars
> after shipping . Which makes a great little web machine.

Dealer at the recent computer show (State Fairgrounds) sold me a couple
of Dell GX-1, everything except the HD, 128 RAM, P-II 400 MHz, forty
bucks
each, and you can get a 10 gig HD at Quicksilver for about $25 or so.
He even flashed a new rev of the BIOS for me (also to show that they
worked).

> >OK, now what are you going to do with it? Keep a boat in place?
Hold a
> >door open? Firewall? Space heater?

Firewall works, IDS. Run tcpdump in a term window and keep an eye on
your
net connection. Run a browser with knoppix/firefox and avoid viruses.
Use
them as cheap end-points when setting up a cisco CCNA lab to test
routing etc.

- Bob
sent 2004-12-03 23:33 est

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