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what about a web server, i plan to connect my old laptop to the web and leave it in my draw sharing latest southpark episodes

i have a dynamic ip address but know i can find or write my own ip address updater, so it is linked to a domain name of some kind


or a router and network file server thats if ur poor like me and cant afford a decent router

Quote (gekkokid @ April 03 2004,23:22)

what about a web server, i plan to connect my old laptop to the web and leave it in my draw sharing latest southpark episodes i have a dynamic ip address but know i can find or write my own ip address updater, so it is linked to a domain name of some kind or a router and network file server thats if ur poor like me and cant afford a decent router

I had those thoughts, but... My big machine (an XP2200) is already the local web server, and I've already got a router/switch that I'm happy with (it works great, and cost me $20 at Circuit City!).

I truly had no use for this thing, I just bought it cause it was little and cute and my wife said I could

The current plan is indeed to make a local file server. It'll mostly just hold about 6Gb of MP3's and assorted backups of important stuff. I may offload local webserver duties to it, but I'm used to editing my PHP locally and having instant updates (though NFS would solve that). It's also a pretty slow little proc, 999MHz Via proc seems to equate to a ~500MHz AMD K6-2 (which is depressing as hell).

Still, it's a fun little machine. My biggest problem now (since I've decided on what it's function will be) is what kind of case to build to put it in...

The miniPC lives!

Managed to replace the fried part (with some botched surface mount soldering)), and now I'm posting this message using the toram option. I like the updates to 0.6.3, haven't played tetris in ages

Shouldn't be playing with it too much now, need to work on exams but once theyre out of the way i can do a decent case and sort out a dcent use for it! (games server perhaps?):D