What shall I do with the 133mhz laptop?

**Evil_Cowgod** · Nov 30th, 2002, 03:19 PM

Ello all,

After around 4 years of not using the laptop my sister finnaly decided I can have it

) Unfourtunatly its now way out of date. It doesnt have any modem, my sister lost the CD drive, and its only 133mhz. I wish I had a good laptop :P Does anyone have any great suggestions on what I should with the laptop? Right now the best thing I can think of is leave a program on it calculating pie for fun and then put it in my cubboard where no one can hear it, see it, and it can still have a powerpoint.

**siyan** · Nov 30th, 2002, 04:55 PM

see if you can get a network card and a replacement cdrom for it. then put on linux. it could still have uses

**MartinLiss** · Nov 30th, 2002, 08:43 PM

Door stop? Boat anchor? Stair step exercise stair?

**kleptos** · Dec 1st, 2002, 03:13 PM

You could make it a firewall with linux on it. If it can be networked that is. I turned my P200 laptop into a firewall, and it works great. Slap linux on it and off i went.

**Evil_Cowgod** · Dec 2nd, 2002, 12:59 AM

I might use it as a firewall, I like that idea. Right now Im trying to get Mandrake Linux for an old desktop I have sitting in my room. So maybe I should put them on both opf them. Im having trouble getting it, theres only one more computer store that I havent looked in yet, and its too big to download. Maybe I could put Unix on the old laptop, I would like to learn about, and try out, some systems other than windows. If I were to partition one of my computer's hard drives to put both linux and unix on them, is it possible to undo?

**kleptos** · Dec 2nd, 2002, 11:23 AM

OpenBSD i hear is great... Im a Windows guy, so im not sure if its all that or not.

**BestCoder** · Dec 9th, 2002, 03:56 PM

OR you could just as easily send it to me.

PM me for my address.

[edit] I'll pay shipping, of course.

**Sastraxi** · Dec 9th, 2002, 06:40 PM

Mandrake isn't good for low-spec computers (it's way too bogged-down with junk). May want to try Debian instead... very very powerful but just has the essentials. You can of course still install other packages with the excellent dselect.

**Evil_Cowgod** · Dec 11th, 2002, 08:04 PM

I think I might just use it to practice ASM when my sister is reading harry potter stuff on the main computer :P

**dolor** · Dec 11th, 2002, 08:50 PM

like everyone else said, install linux. as one of my good friends said...linux will run on an empty pepsi can.

**Pc_Madness** · Dec 13th, 2002, 02:37 AM

Use it as file storage. Chuck in a network card...

**Evil_Cowgod** · Dec 13th, 2002, 03:02 PM

What is the smallest flavour of Linux can I get? Cause if I want to get it to that laptop I will have to do it by floppy disks :P

**Pc_Madness** · Dec 13th, 2002, 07:50 PM

Get a network card for it, then you can copy the files directly.

**Evil_Cowgod** · Dec 13th, 2002, 10:31 PM

Im only 14 :P so I cant get anything for it that costs money. I just spent arround 4 hours installing freeBSD unix on one of my computers from floppy disks, and now that Ive finnaly installed it Im stuck in a command prompt and all I know how to do it make directories and list all my files. How do I get to the part where you can point and click at things like in windows? lol

**Evil_Cowgod** · Dec 13th, 2002, 10:56 PM

Still its kinda nice to use just a weird command line for a while

**Yonatan** · Dec 14th, 2002, 06:22 AM

Originally posted by Evil_Cowgod
How do I get to the part where you can point and click at things like in windows? lol

This is *nix, not Windows!

**Evil_Cowgod** · Dec 14th, 2002, 02:48 PM

I ment this thingo :P

**jjmanton2** · Dec 15th, 2002, 12:32 AM

evil cowgod, are u the one who wrote the hacks for runescape a while back? cause i know there was an evil cowgod who wrote some really cool rs hacks. maybe it was you....

**Evil_Cowgod** · Dec 15th, 2002, 12:52 AM

lol their not hacks their just funny little cheats like an autominer that no longer works

**jjmanton2** · Dec 15th, 2002, 02:01 AM

yeah, thats what i meant, is still a fun game though. do u still play?

**Evil_Cowgod** · Dec 15th, 2002, 04:07 AM

nope lol

**Yonatan** · Dec 15th, 2002, 07:05 AM

Anyway, are you running the X server? In your weird command line try typing: startx

**faisalkm** · Mar 24th, 2003, 04:55 AM

U can great linux from scratch. Compile u r own kenel and libraries . it would take i think 500 MB or so.....if u had a CD ROM drive I would have suggested Knoppix.

**Pc_Madness** · Mar 24th, 2003, 04:59 AM

Psst, this thread is 3 months old.

**faisalkm** · Mar 24th, 2003, 06:24 AM

am i not allowed to post a reply for a thread which is 3 months old or what? a pblm is a pblm until it is solved i think!!!

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