Hiya. Have you tried this? What kind of cable did you use and how long did it take before it broke? :) The longest I've ever tried is a 45 foot chain of serial cables ;). Not recommended... Timothy On Mon, 23 Oct 2000, Kent Schumacher wrote: > Go pick up a 40 Gb hard drive, a network card, and a lot of cable and > put the '486 out in the neighbors garage for an offsite automated backup > device... > > > Ben Kochie wrote: > > > > we use older linux boxes for file servers, or simple stuff like network > > monitoring.. DNS, DHCP, MRTG.. and a few other things > > > > Thank You, > > Ben Kochie (ben at nerp.net) > > > > *-----------------------* [ - * - * - * - * - * - * - * - ] > > | Unix/Linux Consulting | [ Haiku Error Message: ] > > | PC/Mac Repair | [ Chaos reigns within. ] > > | Networking | [ Reflect, repent, and reboot. ] > > | http://nerp.net | [ Order shall return. ] > > *-----------------------* [ - * - * - * - * - * - * - * - ] > > > > "Unix is user friendly, Its just picky about its friends." > > > > On Mon, 23 Oct 2000, Chris Opp wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > What kinds of things can be done using Linux on old PCs, (i.e. 486, Pentium > > > 100, etc)? I am already aware that you can use an older 486 to make a router > > > out of it, but what other creative things can be done? > > > > > > > > > > > > Chris Opp > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org > For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- Timothy Houck thouck at thouck.com www.thouck.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org