Wow, where to begin? I finished installing Gentoo on the box I got from the mafia guy, fooled around with synergy, vnc, ssh, fluxbox, and eventually set it aside. I really like gentoo!
My girlfriend works at Radioshack, so I can get stuff at a reasonable cost, but that's not really what I'm going to go into right now. There is a new shopping center opening, and the local Radioshack is moving from an old location to a new one in the brand new shopping center. I assisted in the move, and noticed some older computers in the back, which I eventually purchased (with 2 monitors) for about 10 bucks! When I get these boxes home, I realise two things: One, neither of these computers have any RAM in them, and two, both computers are under 300Mhz...not ideal for anything really.
My friends and I are starting up a computer-oriented business together at the end of December, and one of the services we want to offer is a free-of-charge internet cafe. Of course, since we're all under 20, finances are of the utmost importance, and anywhere we can save a buck or two, we try to. I was using stumbleupon, and found this . After about 4 hours of trial and error, I was able to get each computer to boot from an etherboot floppy, load a minimal OS from a central server, load X, and get to a desktop! The cool thing is, 90% of the processing is done on the server, the crappy box that the customer sees is just a thin client. Of course, we want to look professional, so we're not going to be displaying 10 year old technology in the front room, these boxes were just for me to practice on. Now that I know the theory and practice, we'll be using these <--link to 533Mhz box as our thin clients. Small, cheap, stylish. I'm digging it, for sure!
In totally unrelated news, I slid off the side of the road (it's been pouring down rain lately), got pulled out, locked my keys in the truck, and had to break the window to get them...what a bummer! :(
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