I've had great success using an old Toshiba Satellite Pro 410CDS (Pentium) with a half-dead screen & no CD drive as a Linux based, multi-purpose server. I used my "damaged laptop" to run my personal web and SMTP/POP servers for over two years (until I upgraded to a PIII 600Mhz machine). It only had an 800MB hard drive and about 64MB of RAM, but it still hummed along just fine. Of course, I never submitted it to a slashdotting:)
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Most of these older Toshibas can gotten for pretty cheap from eBay. The only drawback is that a good battery is quite expensive.
Animals came from miles around Tired of walking so close to the ground "They needed a change," that's what they said "Life is better walking on two legs!" But they were in for a big surprise Cause they didn't know the law!
What is the Law? "No spill blood." What is the Law? "No spill blood."
Who makes the rules "Someone else." Who makes the rules "Someone else."
We walk on two legs not on four To walk on four legs breaks the law! What happens when we break the law? What happens when the rules aren't fair? We all know where we go from there! To the house of pain!
Here's the link to what you're thinking of:
http://www.duckproducts.com/products/detail.asp?ca tid=1&subid=1&plid=8
Guess that guy is SOL...prior art and all.
'Aikanaka...
There is a way to get UNIX/Linux functionality on your Windows box.
cygwin (www.cygwin.com) has a full implementation of OpenSSH (even includes sshd capability) - plus a whole pile of UNIX/Linux applications that will work ontop of Win2K.
"SuSE offers the possibility to install SuSE Linux free of charge directly from the FTP server. The function scope of FTP versions is virtually the same as that of the "normal" version. Merely a few program packages have been excluded due to license reasons. The installation support is not included either."
This works for releases back to the 7 series. Download/create the boot disk and module disks. With 8.1, and most likely 8.2, you can download a boot ISO (which includes all of the module disks). Using either the floppy or the ISO, you can install SuSE via the Internet using ftp or NFS.
Also, I've been using SuSE since 6.2 and like it's ease-of-use. Updates can be managed using their YaST program. You can even test-drive new versions by booting their Live-Eval CDs! Kinda fun way to freak out your co-workers by changing their Windoze box to Linux while they're out to lunch;) No side-effects or lasting changes either...perfectly safe.
The original problem with Iridium wasn't Motorola. The service worked (and still works) as designed.
What went wrong, in my opinion, is that Iridium LLC targeted the wrong customer base! So, basically, the failure of the original Iridium can be chalked up to bad marketing.
I should know...I used to work at the INA-H facility.
'Aikana
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Most of these older Toshibas can gotten for pretty cheap from eBay. The only drawback is that a good battery is quite expensive.
Here's some helpful links:
Is that even physically (physics-aly?) possible for any motor?
Here's the link to what you're thinking of: http://www.duckproducts.com/products/detail.asp?ca tid=1&subid=1&plid=8
Guess that guy is SOL...prior art and all.
'Aikanaka...
There is a way to get UNIX/Linux functionality on your Windows box.
cygwin (www.cygwin.com) has a full implementation of OpenSSH (even includes sshd capability) - plus a whole pile of UNIX/Linux applications that will work ontop of Win2K.
HTH...
"SuSE offers the possibility to install SuSE Linux free of charge directly from the FTP server. The function scope of FTP versions is virtually the same as that of the "normal" version. Merely a few program packages have been excluded due to license reasons. The installation support is not included either."
This works for releases back to the 7 series. Download/create the boot disk and module disks. With 8.1, and most likely 8.2, you can download a boot ISO (which includes all of the module disks). Using either the floppy or the ISO, you can install SuSE via the Internet using ftp or NFS.
See these links for details:
Also, I've been using SuSE since 6.2 and like it's ease-of-use. Updates can be managed using their YaST program. You can even test-drive new versions by booting their Live-Eval CDs! Kinda fun way to freak out your co-workers by changing their Windoze box to Linux while they're out to lunch ;) No side-effects or lasting changes either...perfectly safe.
Anyways, just my $0.02!
`Aikanaka...
The original problem with Iridium wasn't Motorola. The service worked (and still works) as designed. What went wrong, in my opinion, is that Iridium LLC targeted the wrong customer base! So, basically, the failure of the original Iridium can be chalked up to bad marketing. I should know...I used to work at the INA-H facility. 'Aikana