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It isn't specified if he did or did not ad-hoc dumpster dive any further items....

Nice pull, Res.  If only you had the means to record the truck's plate number and report the illegal dump to the authorities.

That's cool, but... a Pentium III? Somebody tried to give me a laptop with a PIII in it, and I politely declined.

It is funny that the guy took off so abruptly. Maybe he thought you were a park ranger or state trooper or something? It'd be pretty sweet if you could use the original hard drive to sleuth his identity.

Your smurfing MacGyver. GOOOOOOD FOR UUUUUUUUUUU.

Bren wrote:

I chuckle whenever I think of having to pay a disposal fee. As previously mentioned (in a previous thread), there's a place in South San Francisco which pays cold, hard cash for the privilege of taking your electronic junk off their hands. Of the various types of e-waste they pay for, the highest per-pound rate they pay is for computer motherboards. The next highest is for computers that are still in their cases.

Shades of the "Dead Cow Story" thread: http://www.maclife.com/forums/topic/113753

You are such a geek, and i mean that in the best way.

Oooh! You can access their credit card numbers.

And old porn.

Seriously, though, could you find their address in there somewhere and turn them in for illegal dumping?

Last edited by Pithecanthropus (2009-11-06 12:35 am)

Bren wrote:

That's cool, but... a Pentium III? Somebody tried to give me a laptop with a PIII in it, and I politely declined.

It is funny that the guy took off so abruptly. Maybe he thought you were a park ranger or state trooper or something? It'd be pretty sweet if you could use the original hard drive to sleuth his identity.

I wouldn't use a PIII for a desktop.
I still use my Thinkpad T20 but only for light browsing without flash and JavaScript. It's going to be disposed of soon, battery only lasts 40 minutes now.

But for simple serving of files, you don't need a lot of power.

I already have a LAN server, a 1.6 GHz Duron, it mirrors CentOS + updated (both i386 and x86_64), acts as my lan sql server, dns server, imap server (it pops my pop accounts and then serves them as iMap so I can read my mail from anywhere), etc. - but that system has all the internal hard drives used and the only empty PCI slots do not work so I can't use it as a media server because it just doesn't have the disk space to add that to it's list of duties.

The task I have lined up for it does not require a lot of CPU speed or RAM (it's i815 chipset so 512MB is the max) and the crappy integrated video card doesn't matter because it's headless, and in some respects is a benefit because it doesn't generate much heat.

The only downside is that it only has two low profile PCI cards. That means for external SATA I am stuck at SATA I - but SATA I is more than fast enough. I also may be stuck at 100MB ethernet, I don't know if gigabit is available in low profile pci cards. But it's fast enough to serve media faster than it plays, it just means it will take a little longer to upload media to it.

Thanks!
I hadn't even looked for one yet.

bedstuy wrote:

I had to look up "herping"

They don't let you out of minithink much do they.

Argh! The PCI bus is older 33MHz bus - which means it won't even reach SATA I speed.
I think SATA I cards will still work in it, though. I'll have to check.

Yeah - I'm definitely getting SATAII disks even though SATAI controllers are all that are available because when the power supply, cpu, or board on this thing dies - I'll just replace the unit, so the external disks should be SATAII.

I need to do my homework, not all SATA chipsets are well supported. I need to find one that is well supported with the RHEL/CentOS kernel (which tends not to be bleeding edge for drivers).

Howbout "The Windows Whisperer?"