Linked by Richard White on Tue 15th Mar 2005 11:21 UTC
Debian and its clones 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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Be careful - Penny wise and dollar foolish
by Matthew Payne on Tue 15th Mar 2005 16:58 UTC

Half of the people resurrecting old pc's are using them just for firewalls or ftp servers.

You can get a cheap rounter (dlink, linksys, netgear...etc) that does the same thing but takes up less space, is quieter, and uses less electricty.

Heck my USR secure stor router(got off ebay) serves up ftp services for many usb/firewall flash drives or hard drives that are chained off the back of it.

My old stuff is not around because I don't feel like looking at those big honking things.