On 2/3/06, R. Scott Belford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > We have a vault full of computers that you may be interested in helping > us put to use. The vault is leased by CompUSA, and it is full of the > remnants from when Computers for Kids partnered with CompUSA to store > computers. Whatever we don't remove tomorrow will be going to the Gulch. > > You heard me right, and this is the way computer recycling works in > Hawaii. If HOSEF doesn't take it in, or Computers for Kids doesn't find > it a home in a school, and the contributor doesn't find a recipient, > then the equipment goes to the landfill. There is no computer recycling > in Hawaii. > > Some of the hardware *may* be of value to you in your mythtv endeavor. > Some of it will be rolled into HOSEF. We have so very, very much, > though, that I doubt if I can use much. So, if you want to help, I will > give you with hardware booty. > > Please reply in thread or in person if you want to meet me there > tomorrow. I'll be running our Saturday workshops at McKinley from 10-2. > I will open the vault around 8:30, and I can leave some of you there if > you want to dig through the loot and booty.
>From the sound of it, these boxes wouldn't be good for a mythTV box, but anyone who is looking to build an asterisk PBX box or firewall should grab one of these - if you are looking to build a firewall, make sure to grab extra NIC's from boxes that are to be trashed. Taken from this page - http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Asterisk+dimensioning - Pentium 133 MHz, 16 megs of ram: Handles up to 3 concurrent SIP calls before quality degrades - Pentium 1, 166mhz, 32meg ram: Successfully runs 4 SIP calls -Matt
