And then CNN would show UN jeeps pulling dozens of PCs with shotgun
holes from soggy trenches in rwanda...
>
> Or you could install linux on them and donate them to 3rd world
> countries as mail/usenet uucp machines for individual
> villages. This is a _useful_ and humane thing to do!
>
>--jmg
>
>> Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1998 16:00:30 -0400 (EDT)
>> From: Captain Napalm <spc_at_armigeron.com>
>> To: "Discussion re-collecting of classic computers"
<classiccmp_at_u.washington.edu>
>> Subject: Re: Wirehead Update
>>
>> It was thus said that the Great Zane H. Healy once stated:
>> >
>> > >The other thing I need to do is find uses for the pile of 386 and
486
>> > >boxes in my garage. It's 6 feet wide and 4 feet tall, neatly
stacked.
>>
>> Well, you could install Linux/Beowulf on them and get supercomputer
>> performance, then rent space on them. Beowulf is clustering software
for
>> Linux developed at NASA and freely available. It's been used in
several
>> other labs with great results (from what I hear).
>>
>> Check out http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/beowulf/ for more
information.
>>
>> > Of course the smartalick answer that came to mind was to turn them
on end,
>> > get some cement, and build a shed useing them instead of bricks :^)
>>
>> Of course there's always that.
>>
>> -spc (Or set up a massively parallel web server and rent space out
on it)
>>
>
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