Re: [Bulk] Things to do with a Pentium 166MHz cpu - 32 MB of RAM - 1.5 GB disk

2011-05-16 Thread STeve Andre'
On 05/16/11 03:49, Nuno MagalhC#es wrote: Hi, On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 19:47, Peter Hessler wrote: We want dmesgs from *everything*. B You may have something interesting, even if its old. I assume you don't include VM's dmesg in that ;-) The low-power-when-idle is nifty but CPUs aren't always

Re: [Bulk] Things to do with a Pentium 166MHz cpu - 32 MB of RAM - 1.5 GB disk

2011-05-16 Thread Peter Hessler
On 2011 May 16 (Mon) at 08:49:39 +0100 (+0100), Nuno Magalhces wrote: :On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 19:47, Peter Hessler wrote: :> :> We want dmesgs from *everything*. B You may have something interesting, :> even if its old. : :I assume you don't include VM's dmesg in that ;-) : Yes, we want them fro

Re: [Bulk] Things to do with a Pentium 166MHz cpu - 32 MB of RAM - 1.5 GB disk

2011-05-16 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Hi, On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 19:47, Peter Hessler wrote: > > We want dmesgs from *everything*. B You may have something interesting, > even if its old. I assume you don't include VM's dmesg in that ;-) The low-power-when-idle is nifty but CPUs aren't always idle and mine spikes after halt. The

Re: [Bulk] Things to do with a Pentium 166MHz cpu - 32 MB of RAM - 1.5 GB disk

2011-05-15 Thread Peter Hessler
On 2011 May 15 (Sun) at 18:36:47 + (+), Kevin Chadwick wrote: :Would I be right that's there's little point in sending dmesgs from :very ancient machines. We want dmesgs from *everything*. You may have something interesting, even if its old. -- He's the kind of guy, that, well, if you w

Re: [Bulk] Things to do with a Pentium 166MHz cpu - 32 MB of RAM - 1.5 GB disk

2011-05-15 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Sun, 15 May 2011 18:36:47 + Kevin Chadwick wrote: > p.s. I've just got a neat 366mhz 64meg laptop from '99, Oh yeah, old linux debian boot disks work on it but the new ones don't. Fails at edd and again later on.

Re: [Bulk] Things to do with a Pentium 166MHz cpu - 32 MB of RAM - 1.5 GB disk

2011-05-15 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Sun, 15 May 2011 18:36:47 + Kevin Chadwick wrote: > p.s. I've just got a neat 366mhz 64meg laptop from '99, li-ion battery No intel cpu management mode either :-)

Re: [Bulk] Things to do with a Pentium 166MHz cpu - 32 MB of RAM - 1.5 GB disk

2011-05-15 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Sun, 15 May 2011 19:48:36 +0300 Michael Sioutis wrote: > What else could I use it for? A dedicated system to admin your servers/network from. p.s. I've just got a neat 366mhz 64meg laptop from '99, li-ion battery still works!!!, halts, usb works, apm works, acpi of course doesn't and has flop