[ale] Old host you want to unload?

Pete Hardie pete.hardie at gmail.com
Sat Jul 13 23:23:08 EDT 2013


You got it good, Jim.  Around here, it's "Dad has the oldest computer,
'cause Linux can run on anything!"

Pete Hardie
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On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 10:20 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:

> Jerald, you're missing the entire point: Upgrade _your_ machine and give
> the old one to the young-uns. Put squid-guard on it and provide a pile of
> bookmarks they are interested in.
>
> :-)
>
> House Rule: Dad ALWAYS has the best hardware unless someone else is paying
> for it.
>
>
> On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 10:00 PM, Neal Rhodes <neal at mnopltd.com> wrote:
>
>> **
>> I would think you could look for off-lease "no-os" refurb units on
>> TigerDirect for maybe $100.
>>
>> On Sat, 2013-07-13 at 21:22 -0400, Jerald Sheets wrote:
>>
>> Hi all.
>>
>> I've come to the point where my next generation o little ones will be going online, and I'm going to build me a content filtering firewall.  (Ipcop)
>>
>> Thing is, I don't have any old hardware and need to get something, but anything I would buy in a store would be overkill.
>>
>> I'm looking for something P3 or later, mid tower with one drive bay is fine and 4-8G of memory.
>>
>> Anyone have anything like that you'd like to unload?
>>
>> Jerald Sheets
>> Sent from my iPhone5
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