Re: [nlug] Needing old computer

2010-07-15 Thread Alex Smith (K4RNT)
I hate to turn the conversation off on a tangent, but have you tried Fink? www.finkproject.org I'm not as active of an OS X user as you are, but when I've tried, 99% of the software I use in a CLI environment work under OS X no modifications needed, however this was back in the days before

[nlug] Needing old computer

2010-07-14 Thread Kevin Hart
Anyone have an old PC they just want out of their life and out of their house? My last 'server' took a nose dive 6 months ago or more, over heated a few times from well not cleaning dusts out of fans :(. But seems that all my friends have done the same as myself and gotten rid of all their old

Re: [nlug] Needing old computer

2010-07-14 Thread Dave Tomlin
Hey man, I have an old ibm netvista you can have. 1gb ram 2.66 P4 120 gb hard drive On 7/14/10, Kevin Hart bowl...@gmail.com wrote: Anyone have an old PC they just want out of their life and out of their house? My last 'server' took a nose dive 6 months ago or more, over heated a few times

Re: [nlug] Needing old computer

2010-07-14 Thread Kevin Hart
Dave, replied off list JMJ that sounds like the machine I just fried...wait no it was an AMD. The processor heat sink got so hot it burnt my finger prints off. While thats good for most thieves, I dont need to worry about such things :). Amazing what even an older machine will do. At work Im