Re: ideas for an old BSD laptop?

2004-01-28 Thread Kai Grossjohann
Jonathon McKitrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Any ideas on something interesting to use it for? Maybe some kind of > learning experience? Well, if you can use it as a portable computer, that's cool. I guess that's what you should do, if you can. The second best choice is to learn. You coul

Re: ideas for an old BSD laptop?

2004-01-26 Thread anubis
On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 5:39 am, Jonathon McKitrick wrote: > On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 07:23:52PM +1000, anubis wrote: > : We have an old laptop and are going to turn it into a music on hold > : service for our pabx. > : > : Will be uploading files to it via ftp and running a cron job to list all > : fil

Re: ideas for an old BSD laptop?

2004-01-22 Thread Loren M. Lang
On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 07:29:59PM -0500, parv wrote: > in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > wrote Jonathon McKitrick thusly... > > > > On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 07:06:17PM -0500, parv wrote: > > : in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > > : wrote Jonathon McKitrick thusly... > > : > > > : > I haven't used my

Re: ideas for an old BSD laptop?

2004-01-22 Thread Jason M. Leonard
On Thu, 22 Jan 2004, parv wrote: > in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > wrote Jonathon McKitrick thusly... > > > > On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 07:06:17PM -0500, parv wrote: > > : in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > > : wrote Jonathon McKitrick thusly... > > : > > > : > I haven't used my infamous Toshiba

Re: ideas for an old BSD laptop?

2004-01-22 Thread parv
in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wrote Jonathon McKitrick thusly... > > On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 07:06:17PM -0500, parv wrote: > : in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > : wrote Jonathon McKitrick thusly... > : > > : > I haven't used my infamous Toshiba Satellite with FreeBSD 4.8 very > : > much since I g

Re: ideas for an old BSD laptop?

2004-01-22 Thread Jonathon McKitrick
On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 07:23:52PM +1000, anubis wrote: : We have an old laptop and are going to turn it into a music on hold service : for our pabx. : : Will be uploading files to it via ftp and running a cron job to list all files : in the ftp directory and start playing them. People can li

Re: ideas for an old BSD laptop?

2004-01-22 Thread Jonathon McKitrick
On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 07:06:17PM -0500, parv wrote: : in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, : wrote Jonathon McKitrick thusly... : > : > I haven't used my infamous Toshiba Satellite with FreeBSD 4.8 very : > much since I got my desktop system with a flatscreen. I'm trying : > to think of something int

Re: ideas for an old BSD laptop?

2004-01-22 Thread anubis
On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 8:36 am, Jonathon McKitrick wrote: > Hi all, > > I haven't used my infamous Toshiba Satellite with FreeBSD 4.8 very much > since I got my desktop system with a flatscreen. I'm trying to think of > something interesting to do with it now. I don't really need a separate > firewa

Re: ideas for an old BSD laptop?

2004-01-21 Thread Chris
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 21 January 2004 06:06 pm, parv wrote: > in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > wrote Jonathon McKitrick thusly... > > > I haven't used my infamous Toshiba Satellite with FreeBSD 4.8 very > > much since I got my desktop system with a flatscreen.

Re: ideas for an old BSD laptop?

2004-01-21 Thread parv
in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wrote Jonathon McKitrick thusly... > > I haven't used my infamous Toshiba Satellite with FreeBSD 4.8 very > much since I got my desktop system with a flatscreen. I'm trying > to think of something interesting to do with it now. > > Any ideas on something interestin

Re: ideas for an old BSD laptop?

2004-01-21 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Wednesday 21 January 2004 11:07 am, Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote: > On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Jonathon McKitrick wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 06:32:42AM +0100, Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote: > > : Can you run a basic X-Windows system on it? > > > > Definitely. > > Then I think you should use your lapt

Re: ideas for an old BSD laptop?

2004-01-21 Thread Peter Ulrich Kruppa
On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Jonathon McKitrick wrote: > On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 06:32:42AM +0100, Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote: > > : Can you run a basic X-Windows system on it? > > Definitely. Then I think you should use your laptop as what it is meant to be: a mobile workstation. Even if you can't install

Re: ideas for an old BSD laptop?

2004-01-21 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 11:55:26PM +0100, Didier Wiroth wrote: > > Messages d´origine > De: Jonathon McKitrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: mardi, janvier 20, 2004 11:36 pm > Objet: ideas for an old BSD laptop? > > > > > Hi all, > > > &

Re: ideas for an old BSD laptop?

2004-01-21 Thread Jonathon McKitrick
On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 06:32:42AM +0100, Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote: : Can you run a basic X-Windows system on it? Definitely. jm -- My other computer is your Windows box. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/f

Re: ideas for an old BSD laptop?

2004-01-20 Thread Peter Ulrich Kruppa
On Tue, 20 Jan 2004, Jonathon McKitrick wrote: > > Hi all, > > I haven't used my infamous Toshiba Satellite with FreeBSD 4.8 very much > since I got my desktop system with a flatscreen. I'm trying to think of > something interesting to do with it now. I don't really need a separate > firewall, a

Re: ideas for an old BSD laptop?

2004-01-20 Thread Q
On Wed, 2004-01-21 at 08:36, Jonathon McKitrick wrote: > Hi all, > > I haven't used my infamous Toshiba Satellite with FreeBSD 4.8 very much > since I got my desktop system with a flatscreen. I'm trying to think of > something interesting to do with it now. I don't really need a separate > firew

Re: ideas for an old BSD laptop?

2004-01-20 Thread Jonathon McKitrick
On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 06:07:58PM -0500, Andrew Hall wrote: : [EMAIL PROTECTED], Lophtcrack, [EMAIL PROTECTED] or any of the other distributed : computing projects. Do any of these have graphical displays? :-) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http:/

Re: ideas for an old BSD laptop?

2004-01-20 Thread Andrew Hall
op.org/). > > > Messages d´origine > De: Jonathon McKitrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: mardi, janvier 20, 2004 11:36 pm > Objet: ideas for an old BSD laptop? > > > > > Hi all, > > > > I haven't used my infamous Toshiba Satellite with FreeBSD 4.8

Re: ideas for an old BSD laptop?

2004-01-20 Thread Tom Parquette
Jonathon McKitrick wrote: Hi all, I haven't used my infamous Toshiba Satellite with FreeBSD 4.8 very much since I got my desktop system with a flatscreen. I'm trying to think of something interesting to do with it now. I don't really need a separate firewall, and it doesn't make sense to use it

Re: ideas for an old BSD laptop?

2004-01-20 Thread Didier Wiroth
Perhaps you could use it as a thin terminal client with vnc or even windows terminal client (http://www.rdesktop.org/). Messages d´origine De: Jonathon McKitrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: mardi, janvier 20, 2004 11:36 pm Objet: ideas for an old BSD laptop? > > Hi all, &g

ideas for an old BSD laptop?

2004-01-20 Thread Jonathon McKitrick
Hi all, I haven't used my infamous Toshiba Satellite with FreeBSD 4.8 very much since I got my desktop system with a flatscreen. I'm trying to think of something interesting to do with it now. I don't really need a separate firewall, and it doesn't make sense to use it as a fileserver. With a