Anyplace that takes old computers ?

[the puerto rican feen]

Soon I will have a 19" monitor, tube a little bit shagged, and an old gateway pentium III to gather dust.

[fix-it]

try a school, primary schools always need computers for thir pupils
Just a thought

[Joey Beltram]

Originally Posted by the puerto rican feen

Soon I will have a 19" monitor, tube a little bit shagged, and an old gateway pentium III to gather dust.

wipe it and put linux on it or even a fresh copy of xp.

p3`s are powerful enough to run xp.

no harm in having a spare machine, use it as a mp3 jukebox so something....

if you get a kvm switch, you can use 1 mouse 1 keyboard & 1 montior for the 2 pc`s.

[Joey Beltram]

i will take it for ya if you want - for free!

[sheppers]

Originally Posted by the puerto rican feen

Soon I will have a 19" monitor, tube a little bit shagged, and an old gateway pentium III to gather dust.

KD Systems take them from companies and give them to schools. Might be worth giving them a call to see if they're interested.

[thread_killer]

Originally Posted by Joey Beltram

if you get a kvm switch, you can use 1 mouse 1 keyboard & 1 montior for the 2 pc`s.

i'd also take it. i've only got one piii. but i can't take it.

and you don't need a fancy expensive KVM. just some cat 5e, crossover. or the cable and a hub/switch and

Synergy.

Synergy lets you easily share a single mouse and keyboard between multiple computers with different operating systems, each with its own display, without special hardware. It's intended for users with multiple computers on their desk since each system uses its own monitor(s).

Redirecting the mouse and keyboard is as simple as moving the mouse off the edge of your screen. Synergy also merges the clipboards of all the systems into one, allowing cut-and-paste between systems. Furthermore, it synchronizes screen savers so they all start and stop together and, if screen locking is enabled, only one screen requires a password to unlock them all. Learn more about how it works.

System Requirements

* Microsoft Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me (the Windows 95 family)
* Microsoft Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP (the Windows NT family)
* Mac OS X 10.2 or higher
* Unix
o X Windows version 11 revision 4 or up
o XTEST extension
(use "xdpyinfo | grep XTEST" to check for XTEST)

All systems must support TCP/IP networking.

"Unix" includes Linux, Solaris, Irix and other variants.

[freeohfree]

have you used synergy? it sounds good. i've been using cygwin's x server for the past while, which is fine for running your linux machine via windows... except for when the cursor disappears!

the KVM switch i had previously used degraded the video somewhat. it eventually started acting flakey so i sent it back. needless to say, i'm not a big fan, especially given the extra wires.

[Joey Beltram]

that Synergy looks the job,

must give it a go

[thread_killer]

the formatting in my quoted bit above messed up alignment. X with XTEST was only a requirement for "Unix", it should be indented. Windows don't need X installed for this to work.

and i've used it. "teh shit!!!1" so it is.

then i had to use a box for a VPN, which only would work with a windows VPN client. so i had to locate another mouse and keyboard for that.

cygwin/X was the only thing i installed on it. no, i lie, i installed firefox also. then run everything else from remote machines using X-Forwarded, compressed, SSH Tunnels.

aaah, i also installed aterm. so i could get that nice red-tinted pseudo-transparency thing going on, mmmmm.

KVMs are nice though, when you have 25 boxes stacked next to you. who wants 25 monitors on their desk like? those KVMs are v-expensive though.


...and THAT is how you hijack a thread!

[the puerto rican feen]

Originally Posted by sheppers

KD Systems take them from companies and give them to schools. Might be worth giving them a call to see if they're interested.

address? phone number ?