On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 18:31, Federico Sevilla III wrote: > On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 03:14:00AM -0700, aracelipraiz wrote: > > Getting new hardware is always nice but then we always have the > > "problem" (also a space and environmental issue) of what to do with > > the old. Sell? (To who?) Recycle (Who accepts?) Junk? (Where?) Or the > > default, store in some dark closet/room/mausoleum somewhere that is > > accumulating all the detritus of the decades. > > One option will be to build thin-clients that will help maximize the > power of the newer beefier hardware by letting it feed more users. Of > course this has its limits. Older hardware may not support the higher > resolutions that some users will start getting used to, and if you're a > "pure server" environment thin clients don't matter.
What about "lightweight" servers? Recycle those boxen to serve as, say, cheap mail clients and fax servers? Or perhaps a groupware server of some sort? > -- > Jan Michael Ibanez > Student > > CELL +63919 422 1141 > WEB one Generic lizard Geek's LiveJournal > http://www.livejournal.com/~cyberlizard > WEB CyberLizard productions (coming soon) > http://www.mycgiserver.com/~butiki > >
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