Shameel Arafin on 4 Jan 2007 17:39:16 -0000 |
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 It seems to be in good shape -- just suffering outdated specs.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. > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > 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: > "Philadelphia Linux User's Group Discussion List" > <plug@lists.phillylinux.org> > > Content-Type: > Multipart/mixed; boundary="NextPart_Webmail_9m3u9jl4l_17703_1167924677_1" > > > 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> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org > Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce > General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org > Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce > General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
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