What to do with a 486?

[TJx2]

Any thoughts... besides pitching it?

I think it's a 486, 500 meg hard drive and probably 8 meg of ram.

Might use it as a control device for my model trains if I can't think of anything better to do with it.

[mojeepmike]

Model trains would be cool, you could run a really small install of linux if you wanted to. Donate it instead of throwing it away, some community centers will take whatever they can get their hands on. Remember that todays homeless kids, when empowered with a computer and JU, are tomorrows moabes :D

[FenderXJ]

http://www.linuxrouter.org/

[kjp98TJ]

webtech is looking for another server so search works. that'll be the high end :D

[TJx2]

Originally posted by kjp98TJ
webtech is looking for another server so search works. that'll be the high end :D

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!

[89XJClay]

Have you ever scene what happens to a computer when you toss it out a window from about 10 stories up?? :)

Clay

[TJJEEP]

Originally posted by FenderXJ
http://www.linuxrouter.org/

I agree. Althoug it could use a bit more of ram. A verysound firewall

[StompfesT]

Windows 3.1 + DOS 6.2 + abandon warez. :D :D :D


StomP

[Mall Security]

Target practice sounds like fun . . .

[Bon&JohnsWJ]

Wheel Chock :eek:

John

[roryknowles]

gasonline and a match.

or you could use it for DSS satelite.

[Hubjeep]

Originally posted by jeepingnet
http://www.dssstuff.ca

Fun cause its all legal in canada :) ....

REALLY? The guy that is doing this lives in PEI. Why is it legal? He goes to the airport to get the card re-programmed whenever it stops working.

I went to that site, I would not even know where to start.

[StompfesT]

Canada, our peaceful neighboor to the north? I think not! ;)


StomP

[Blackswell92XJ]

Originally posted by TJx2
Any thoughts... besides pitching it?

I think it's a 486, 500 meg hard drive and probably 8 meg of ram.

Might use it as a control device for my model trains if I can't think of anything better to do with it.


an HK G3 Rifle (or the HK91 - civiilian ver of the G3) + 7.62mm rounds in a 20 round clip + old 486 = swiss cheese:)

[beaker]

When winching, you never know when you may be stuck and without a tree near by to anchor to.... this would work well, I say.....

[Hubjeep]

Originally posted by roryknowles
....or you could use it for DSS satelite.

Can anyone explain how this works?

There is someone in another country who is acquiring DSS through a programmed card which gets zapped every month or so, then goes to get it re-programmed. Could a computer eliminate this?

Thanks,
John

[jeepingnet]

http://www.dssstuff.ca

Fun cause its all legal in canada :) In the little area I live there are 5 houses and everyone of us have a Directv setup. Odd though cann't purchase Directv in canada though eh.. :)

Its great you can pirate the stations and not get arrested even if your caught :)

[Sportacus]

Canada has no law against it. Why not. If you can't buy it, decode it.

I unscrambled a couple of stations when I lived in Pennsylvania. One was in south Jersey and the other in Delaware. The would lease boxes in the area and the subscriber had to pay to keep it turned on. What I did was actually figure out what they did and undid it. They had supposedly "hard R," movies. I watched part of one on each channel. Those flicks were dumber than a sack of lead hammers. I needed some of the components shortly after and scrapped the board.
One guy I knew bought a stolen box and when it stopped unscrambling, he mounted a pink noise generator upside down on top of the chip in the box and (so he said) it would hit the right combination of numbers often enough to keep it turned on.

Sport.