Linked by Richard White on Tue 15th Mar 2005 11:21 UTC
My basement is like a mortuary with the remains of computers all lying in state, waiting and hoping for a new lease on life. But what is there to do with the K6s, the Celerons, and Pentiums of the past. It seems nothing short of a miracle would bring these ghosts back to life.
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As my parents' box. They only use it for email (hotmail) and the web (firefox). It's behind my network router/firewall and runs XP, never had a single security problem with it, and it doesn't run the firewall (I need access to it now and again through various services, so it's open behind my router).
Firefox+Router=Security.
And this is in the hands of my parents.
I ran XP on my main box for about 2 years with just my router/firewall and never had a single problem. Security just isn't an issue.
I could have ran Linux for their box (they've run both Slackware and Debian machines in the past, just provided a 'Internet' icon on the desktop and they don't see the difference) but Gnome is far heavier than XP and it's only 450mhz, 192mb ram. Plus they have some whack printer which only has Windows drivers.