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Normally, I keep everything that I have, who knows when you will need that old P2 350Mhz CPU?

What do you guys do with your parts after an upgrade?

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runtuff

Hmmm I have a bunch of boxes up in the attic I use to use for SETI. I guess I have barbecue grills for life!! Nice picture!!

mjw

That's awesome man. I think my old linux box is going to be turned into a hotdog grill...

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sushiboy

Now that is thinking outside the box.

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MontanaXVI

I never thought of setting up an old box on the network for the gf to use for recipes and the such. thanks

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usrbinboy

Hahaha.. that's a great picture. I turn old laptops into digital pictureframes which is always fun.

Akira

I use one of my old computers pretty much like a server. I added a 80gig hard drive, don't even have a monitor or keyboard hooked up to it. It's just on all the time.

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piesen

I have 2 old boxes that i was going to set up as little servers but the picture above gave inspiration.

Thanks

DJMala

Instead of a Linksys (Netgear, etc.) hardware router, I use my old PII-350 running Smoothwall Express. Two network cards, an old 20 gig drive, no monitor, mouse, or keyboard. It's bulletproof, way more flexible than a hardware router, and free.

redwhorns

i used my crappy computer to install longhorn and linux on because i've always wanted to try linux. But longhorn didn't work out too well.

thunter

I have a friend who turned his into a boat anchor.

sailor

I generally find some crazy use for them. Webserver, firewall/router, tinker box, mail server... No reason to throw it away!

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tspikes51

Now with limited compatibility in XP, I use mine as a game machine.

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bushboar

The latest craze in the mac world is to make fish bowls out of your old classic/se/se30 or imac machines. Check out http://www.lowendmac.com/compact/macquarium.shtml

Redlemon

"Latest"? That's been around for YEARS. Nonetheless, from the site bushboar linked, I request that everyone read the howto by Andy Inhatko (written in 1992). This man is a genius.

Glava

Isn't that a waste of electricity?

jonjon42

you sir are not touching my 486 still going strong (sorta) routing my traffic.

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bitrunner

I just keep mine laying around the basement, really pisses the wife off! But hey, you never know when you might need a spare part!

Confederate

I use mine to play slightly older games. Got a pIII-450 running Win 98 SE, 16 mb vid card, 256 mb ram, and 8 gig hard drive, 17" monitor, and all the parts needed to run a machine. I got it all for $15 at a work auction. I use it to play Dark Forces, Full Throttle, Duke Nukem 3d, and similar games that don't work well in XP.

sashime76

Shoot! I tossed mine ages ago...I'll keep that in mind when I need to upgrade next time.

Fallon

I'm doing this also, but I'm in the process of figuring out which distro I'd like to use...torn between Gibraltor, Clarke Connect and now Smoothwall.

flamingpeach

I like that kitchen PC idea!

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Mine is on the Kitchen Counter, been messing around with Linux deciding if I want to make it a server or not.

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Mephisto2

Give it to charity

Mr Mephisto

kenshee

I second Mr Mephisto's suggestion. Also it can be used as a router or a distributed computing cluster. Nice pic!Looks delicious mmm...

tropple

Just a FYI for anyone around Essex County in NJ:

A recycling dropoff is scheduled for Saturday, 16 October at South Mountain Arena in West Orange NJ. Half-dead monitors, adapters & Modems, motherboards, whole computers....

Don't toss it in the trash.

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bill96ab

I like the fish tank conversions... they look very nice!



http://www.amherst.edu/~camiller/macquarium.html

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DJMala

I've never used the first two, but Smoothwall is a piece of cake to use. It literally took me 15 minutes to install and set up. If you've got a fairly standard network setup, it pretty much works right out of the box, no tweaking necessary.

duckduck

Depends on who you ask. My answer would be biased as I use my extra ones for Folding, though. I'd rather have my old junk trying to help find data on proteins that may one day save me at the E.R. To me (and probably the other guy), folding/seti is a hobby, competition, and a way to help further scientific knowledge. I pay the electricity bill so it's all good in the end.

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SinisterMotives

I've written an application that creates a fullscreen dynamic HTML jukebox interface using Windows Media Player that hides the operating system from the user. One of these days I want to get a touch screen to use with it.