Skippy_X
April 13th, 2007, 07:29 PM
OK - here's the situation.
I recently got an internship in an IT dept at a local business. My buddy is the CIO. We were cleaning out the storeroom/shop-gopher's-office and we pulled out three retired servers.
My buddy said, "Get rid of them."
"um. Ok. How?"
"I don't care. Put them in your truck and take them home if you want. Just get rid of them."
SCORE!!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!
One of them will stay there as an LTSP server. The place is a windows shop, and I'm a *nixhead. 'til now my friend endured my "linux rocks" rants w/ a patient smile - as if thinking "oh - the poor afflicted fellow. Let him rant. It does him good." I mentioned when I started there that I'd like to play w/ an ltsp network - and he thinks it sounds like fun.
One of them is a server that neither one of us know the specs of. Could be about anything. 3 net cards, a couple of USB ports, so it's likely not too rickety a machine.
The third is a compaq server - 3 X P2 (not sure of the MHz), 2 gigs RAM, 6x18.6 Gig SCSI drives.
I'm thinking about putting a SATA card in my current desktop (1.6 GHz athlon, 256 megs), adding some big drives and making it a mythtv backend. Use the p2 server for a desktop (already got a pretty good vid card and sound card on my current desktop), and using the unknown-spec server for something else.
I'm stoked. But - now what? What on earth would you do if you got your fingers on that?
(oh - here's something cool. They've a warehouse full of retired 1 GHz class machines. The 2nd in charge there - with just a little push - is thinking "cluster".)
Ok - suggestions?
I recently got an internship in an IT dept at a local business. My buddy is the CIO. We were cleaning out the storeroom/shop-gopher's-office and we pulled out three retired servers.
My buddy said, "Get rid of them."
"um. Ok. How?"
"I don't care. Put them in your truck and take them home if you want. Just get rid of them."
SCORE!!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!
One of them will stay there as an LTSP server. The place is a windows shop, and I'm a *nixhead. 'til now my friend endured my "linux rocks" rants w/ a patient smile - as if thinking "oh - the poor afflicted fellow. Let him rant. It does him good." I mentioned when I started there that I'd like to play w/ an ltsp network - and he thinks it sounds like fun.
One of them is a server that neither one of us know the specs of. Could be about anything. 3 net cards, a couple of USB ports, so it's likely not too rickety a machine.
The third is a compaq server - 3 X P2 (not sure of the MHz), 2 gigs RAM, 6x18.6 Gig SCSI drives.
I'm thinking about putting a SATA card in my current desktop (1.6 GHz athlon, 256 megs), adding some big drives and making it a mythtv backend. Use the p2 server for a desktop (already got a pretty good vid card and sound card on my current desktop), and using the unknown-spec server for something else.
I'm stoked. But - now what? What on earth would you do if you got your fingers on that?
(oh - here's something cool. They've a warehouse full of retired 1 GHz class machines. The 2nd in charge there - with just a little push - is thinking "cluster".)
Ok - suggestions?