Suggestions?
I've got a computer that I've been building over the past few months with whatever parts I could scavenge or find cheap enough. I'm intending to insall linux on it (Slackware 8.1 or Knoppix, to be precise) and start teaching myself Linux. That is in itself a noble enough goal, but I'm starting to wonder about what sort of useful purpose I can put the hardware to.
Here's what I've got:
Intel PR440FX motherboard with 2 Pentium Pro 200MHz processors and 512MB of ECC EDO SDRAM
1 50x CD-ROM drive
3 10GB 10,000rpm Seagate Cheetah SCSI HDDs
1 10GB Western Digital WD100BB EIDE HDD
1 PCI ATI Rage128 All-in-Wonder video card
no sound card
Keyboard, mouse, floppy drive
100BaseT ethernet connecting to my small home LAN and to the outside via cable modem -- ToS on the cable service are fairly restrictive about allowing servers, unfortunately.
Any thoughts what I could do with this box? It's pretty slow, but I'm sure it ought to be able to do something useful. The obvious idea is a small file server, but I was thinking maybe I could come up with something a little more creative and interesting than that.
Here's what I've got:
Intel PR440FX motherboard with 2 Pentium Pro 200MHz processors and 512MB of ECC EDO SDRAM
1 50x CD-ROM drive
3 10GB 10,000rpm Seagate Cheetah SCSI HDDs
1 10GB Western Digital WD100BB EIDE HDD
1 PCI ATI Rage128 All-in-Wonder video card
no sound card
Keyboard, mouse, floppy drive
100BaseT ethernet connecting to my small home LAN and to the outside via cable modem -- ToS on the cable service are fairly restrictive about allowing servers, unfortunately.
Any thoughts what I could do with this box? It's pretty slow, but I'm sure it ought to be able to do something useful. The obvious idea is a small file server, but I was thinking maybe I could come up with something a little more creative and interesting than that.
