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Re: [PLUG] Reclamation of a Dell Latitude LM (P166)
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I have 3 ancient Thinkpads that I got for free. 466MHz, 96MB RAM,5GB HD,
800x600... a joke, right?
Not.
I put Xubuntu on them. One of them I use on a regular basis as my
'carrying-around' laptop. It runs everything I want (albeit not very
simultaneously) -- Firefox, gaim, Skype, a full LAMPP server... and more.
Another one I have sitting in a dark corner running BOINC with the
Einstein@Home program.
I can't help with hardware, but if you want to discuss (off-list?)
low-resource linux environments (Xubuntu, Fluxubuntu, Damn Small Linux,
Knoppix etc) I'm happy to help.
S/
mmalten@comcast.net wrote:
> A co-worker asked me if I could find any use for an old laptop.
>
> It's a Pentium MMX 166, Dell Latitude LM, no ethernet, PC modem card, swappable floppy and CD drive.
>
> It seems to be in good shape -- just suffering outdated specs.
>
> Assuming I figure out how to swap out the floppy for the CD so I can stick Linux on this puppy, what else could I do with it? Is it possible to connect it to ethernet, and where could I find an adapter? Can I connect a USB drive to it?
>
> Would it be possible to convert this beast into something comparable to the not-quite-wimpy $100 laptops they have now?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
>
>
>
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> Subject:
> RE: [PLUG] WIP Listners
> From:
> "Ottey, Daniel William" <Daniel.Ottey@unisys.com>
> Date:
> Thu, 4 Jan 2007 13:19:26 +0000
> To:
> "Philadelphia Linux User's Group Discussion List"
> <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>
>
> To:
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>
> Michael - thanks for the URL. Awesome to bookmark that URL and have it
> open in my media player, instead of requiring a browser window to be
> open. But I'm curious how you tracked down the URL. I've tried
> "viewing source" and failed at finding it.
>
> Again, thanks!
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> *From:* plug-bounces@lists.phillylinux.org
> [mailto:plug-bounces@lists.phillylinux.org] *On Behalf Of *Michael
> Bevilacqua
> *Sent:* Wednesday, January 03, 2007 5:12 PM
> *To:* Philadelphia Linux User's Group Discussion List
> *Subject:* Re: [PLUG] WIP Listners
>
>
> On 1/3/07, *Mag Gam* <magawake@gmail.com <mailto:magawake@gmail.com>>
> wrote:
>
> Any SportsRadio 610 listeners? I know you can listen to live
> broadcasts on Windows, anyone figure out if they can listen on Linux?
>
> tia
>
>
> The following works for me if by WIP you mean
> http://bdcast-infinity-wip-am.wm.llnwd.net/bdcast_infinity_wip-am - Just
> make sure you have ASF support compiled into mplayer.
>
> # mplayer -nocache
> http://bdcast-infinity-wip-am.wm.llnwd.net/bdcast_infinity_wip-am
> MPlayer 1.0pre8-3.4.4 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team
> CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.00GHz (Family: 15, Model:
> 2, Stepping: 4)
> MMX2 supported but disabled
> CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 0 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
> Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX SSE SSE2
>
>
> 93 audio & 211 video codecs
> Setting up LIRC support...
>
> Playing http://bdcast-infinity-wip-am.wm.llnwd.net/bdcast_infinity_wip-am.
> STREAM_HTTP(1), URL:
> http://bdcast-infinity-wip-am.wm.llnwd.net/bdcast_infinity_wip-am
> <http://bdcast-infinity-wip-am.wm.llnwd.net/bdcast_infinity_wip-am>
> Resolving bdcast-infinity-wip-am.wm.llnwd.net
> <http://bdcast-infinity-wip-am.wm.llnwd.net> for AF_INET...
> Connecting to server bdcast-infinity-wip-am.wm.llnwd.net[69.28.155.226
> <http://69.28.155.226>]: 80...
> STREAM_ASF, URL:
> http://bdcast-infinity-wip-am.wm.llnwd.net/bdcast_infinity_wip-am
> Resolving bdcast-infinity-wip-am.wm.llnwd.net
> <http://bdcast-infinity-wip-am.wm.llnwd.net> for AF_INET...
> Connecting to server bdcast-infinity-wip-am.wm.llnwd.net[69.28.153.147
> <http://69.28.153.147>]: 80...
> Resolving bdcast-infinity-wip-am.wm.llnwd.net
> <http://bdcast-infinity-wip-am.wm.llnwd.net> for AF_INET...
> Connecting to server bdcast-infinity-wip-am.wm.llnwd.net[69.28.153.138
> <http://69.28.153.138>]: 80...
> Cache size set to 0 KBytes
> Stream not seekable!
> ASF file format detected.
> Stream not seekable!
>
>
>
>
> --
> Michael D. Bevilacqua
> michael@bevilacqua.us <mailto:michael@bevilacqua.us>
>
>
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