[ale] Old host you want to unload?

Jim Kinney jim.kinney at gmail.com
Sun Jul 14 08:37:09 EDT 2013


No OS competition here helps. One win7  game box that will get NO support
from Dad is the outlier.
On Jul 13, 2013 11:26 PM, "Pete Hardie" <pete.hardie at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
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