Server to use
Madison
Logical Solutions. I am looking for anyone that has a spare server I
can use. I have an older desktop, but I am not dying to spend money on
extra RAM just to make it work. I am looking for something that either
is or has been a server and can still run well.
Main reason is that I want to have a server I can play with, to teach
myself the ins and outs of making email, file, print, and most
importantly a LAMP server. I just dont have any way to do it.
If any of you have any ideas or suggestions let me know, I would
greatly appreciate it!
---Madison
Eater
Barring that, maybe there's an unused one in the LOLpht. Or, I imagine
there's somebody on this list wanting to reduce their closet
inventory...
If none of that works, you can get one for super-cheap from ALBOES in
town (they have used PCs and parts and such).
Cheers!
Eater
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David Littlebear
When I was there I was running slackware on LSIs old POS computer I brought in an old voodoo banshee video card to do the GUI better.
andrew kesterson
> If any of you have any ideas or suggestions let me know, I would
> greatly appreciate it!
>
> ---Madison
Second what david and eater said, if you can get ahold of an axiom,
they're perfect for it (mainly because they're really not a damn bit of
good for anything else!). There's also a bunch of old ISA-bus pentium
class computers back in the warehouse that would be good for it
providing that you're willing to grind on the technical details and
make it work, and that they'd let one of those dinosaurs go. Failing
that, I've got a couple of systems in my closet that - I think - still
work, and I know Honkeykong just rebuilt his machine, so he probly has
parts he'll let you have on the cheap.
andrew kesterson
> Barring that, maybe there's an unused one in the LOLpht.
Speaking of the lolpht, what happened at that last meeting (or do you
know)? Didn't Speed and Five get some guys together a month or so ago? I
meant to go, but life is what happens when you make other plans.
Madison
heard that they had plans to give them to kids to use or something...
Will Check into that though...lol
Madison
Ubuntu...hence the reason I am clamering for something better...it
runs DSL pretty decent though so far.
On Apr 10, 1:05 pm, "David Littlebear" <dlittleb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> If you have an older desktop linux is perfect for it, depending which distro
> you get. Those old IQ2k Eater was referring to were like 33Mhz-133Mhz CPU
> with like 8-32mb ram. IIRC
>
> When I was there I was running slackware on LSIs old POS computer I brought
> in an old voodoo banshee video card to do the GUI better.
>
>
> > Hmm, can't Kent score you one of those cold-war era theater servers? ;)
>
> > Barring that, maybe there's an unused one in the LOLpht. Or, I imagine
> > there's somebody on this list wanting to reduce their closet
> > inventory...
>
> > If none of that works, you can get one for super-cheap from ALBOES in
> > town (they have used PCs and parts and such).
>
> > Cheers!
> > Eater
>
Madison
would even get an Axiom if I wanted one haha...I am going to check it
all out though.
andrew kesterson
> Well with the 256 mgb of RAM I have in it, it stinks horribly running
> Ubuntu...hence the reason I am clamering for something better...it
> runs DSL pretty decent though so far.
If I may ... For serious learning/hacking, get rid of Ubuntu, and pick
up a bare-bones distro like Slackware or Gentoo. Ubuntu comes with alot
of overhead (in the name of ease of use/friendliness) that less
experienced admins/users won't know to look for and sort out. It's not a
problem when you're running on multicore P4s or Xeons with gigs of RAM
like we do here, but in a remotely limited environment, it's really
going to mess with you.
If you did that, then you wouldn't need a new machine. Most of us here
will tell you that if a medium range speed machine with 256mb of ram
won't host your average linux needs, then the answer isn't a better
machine, it's a re-tooling of the linux on it.
Cypher-Ryan
discovered the world of hacking into portable NAS HDDs that use Linux
and the operating system. I was quite surprised as to what all i could
get my WD My book world edition to do not to mention its has 750GB of
storage on board :D
ddale
http://www.tomshardware.com/2008/04/10/shuttle_ninty_nine_dollar_kpc/page7.html
dub
;)
Eater
http://www.ao.com/~regan/penguins/tux.html
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And von Neumann spoke unto the Architecture, and blessed it, saying,
"Go forth and replicate, freely exchanging data and code, and bring
forth all manner of devices unto the earth." And it was so, and it was
cool. The Architecture prospered and was implemented in hardware and
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:)
Eater
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