Too obsolete? *points at the closet* On the shelf there's a little Compaq mini tower with a Socket7 AMD K6-400 in it. Everything's either proprietary or so obscure it's not possible to locate. I keep thinking I'll just wipe it and make it a linux box, but the 'why bother' voice in the back of my head keeps stalling it.
It came to me from a (quite talented) artist who'd used it for ages as her primary machine... and in its prime, it was a solid performer. But I think she's using a 1.4ghz-or-so Sony Vaio/Viao/whatever nowadays. It's a good little machine, but where I'd need an extra workhorse would be for video compression runs... and it'd take forever. So it sits in my closet and looks lonely. Poor little devil deserves better... I'm hoping to get my hands on a four port KVM, and maybe then it'll become the linux box I'm wanting...
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Date: 2005-02-01 07:07 pm (UTC)It came to me from a (quite talented) artist who'd used it for ages as her primary machine... and in its prime, it was a solid performer. But I think she's using a 1.4ghz-or-so Sony Vaio/Viao/whatever nowadays. It's a good little machine, but where I'd need an extra workhorse would be for video compression runs... and it'd take forever. So it sits in my closet and looks lonely. Poor little devil deserves better... I'm hoping to get my hands on a four port KVM, and maybe then it'll become the linux box I'm wanting...