Repurposing

[Blacksheepboy]

If anyone's interested, how would you repurpose an old computer if you had one? I'd say turn it into a NAT box, or maybe a router.. I guess that's all you could do in terms of computer things (besides printer servers or something). I suppose Googling has the other uses people would use it for.

[jrgp]

My old computer is now my house's router/fileserver/seedbox. linux+dhcpd+iptables+nfs+samba+transmission+vnc/fluxbox. Previously, the machine for this role was a compaq presario circa 1999

Specs:
 - Ubuntu Lucid
 - AMD Athlon 64 x2 3800+ 2ghz dual core
 - 2GB ram
 - 3 gigabit nics. One for my modem; the other two for different switches, each with other spare machines plugged in to them
 - Two raid arrays. One RAID1 and one RAID5, each for their own purposes. In total I have around ~3TB of space

I have a few more spare machines that I use for openvz/kvm

[iDante]

I made my old computer a seedbox when the video card died, but the hard drive followed suit not long thereafter.

[jrgp]

I made my old computer a seedbox when the video card died, but the hard drive followed suit not long thereafter.

RAID, RAID, RAID...

RAID + backups is the only way to live, given how shitty hard drives are.

[13th_account]

I have an old Windows Vista laptop that runs SVN and SFTP services. And when coding networking programs it doesn't hurt to have a second computer to work with.

Though as I'm in the market for a new smartphone I'd like to try installing Ubuntu or some other distro on my Galaxy S2, then I could replace the laptop if all goes well.