Anything cool to do with a Dual P3 server?

[Jonchilds]

Picked up a dual-P3 866MHz setup with 768MB RAM the other day and was wondering if there's anything cool that can be done with these still?

Certainly not up for modern games etc, but it'd be interesting to hear any opinions etc.

Yeah, I know my dual-core laptop shits all over it too...

[Desmo]

Firewall, torrent box, fileserver, give it to me?

[Jonchilds]

It's a bit of overkill as a torrent box, but might do nicely as a RAID-5 NAS box if I get an 8-port SATA/PCI card.

[deeman111]

PSB porn server????

Just a suggestion

[Crimson]

Asterisk phone server, would be suitable for a mythTV backend providing you use tuners with built in encoding.

[MikeC]

Run BOINC or Folding on it and use it as a space heater?

[Desmo]

Give me the IP and install distcc on it?

[Crimson]

[merctom]

Install FreeBSD on it and use it for all of the above.

[thro]

Dedicated encoding/ripping box?

Sure, its not blisteringly fast these days, but while its doing that you can use your normal PC for doing other shit....

[Jonchilds]

A really cool thing to do with it would be to flash the BIOS so it's not limited to 65535 cylinders...

An even cooler thing would be if Gateway provided updated BIOS's, even though the current one is dated 2001 and shouldn't have a 65535 cylinder limit as this was known about in 1999

[xphread]

asterisk box for PABX.

It has been quite fun setting up my small office.

Currently have 3 voip phones and 3 software-phones. Plan to include my home phone and any remote soft-phones too.

I have 3 voip services registered to answer and call out on.
iinet from the naked DSL and 2 pennytel accounts.
All local and national calls are free from any phone through iinet.
All mobiles and international calls go through one of the pennytel accounts which are supercheap rates.

Voicemail is automatically recorded and emailed to me.
Still yet to configure it correctly, but should have free fax sending and receiving which is done via email.

Can automatically or manually re-direct calls to other phones (eg work from home on mondays, so all office calls get directed to my home phone or mobile with a different caller ID/ringtone)

If you want, you can create my own automated menus for incoming callers.

and its all legally free / open source!

[thro]

A really cool thing to do with it would be to flash the BIOS so it's not limited to 65535 cylinders...

An even cooler thing would be if Gateway provided updated BIOS's, even though the current one is dated 2001 and shouldn't have a 65535 cylinder limit as this was known about in 1999

Gateway went broke dude.


Anyhow, i don't think Linux uses the BIOS for IDE controller CHS limits (never used to, anyway)? So if you put linux on it, you're gold...


Either that, or pick up a cheap SATA raid controller, scsi controller or whatever for it?

[Brougham]

that. sounds. interesting.

asterisk box for PABX.

It has been quite fun setting up my small office.

Currently have 3 voip phones and 3 software-phones. Plan to include my home phone and any remote soft-phones too.

I have 3 voip services registered to answer and call out on.
iinet from the naked DSL and 2 pennytel accounts.
All local and national calls are free from any phone through iinet.
All mobiles and international calls go through one of the pennytel accounts which are supercheap rates.

Voicemail is automatically recorded and emailed to me.
Still yet to configure it correctly, but should have free fax sending and receiving which is done via email.

Can automatically or manually re-direct calls to other phones (eg work from home on mondays, so all office calls get directed to my home phone or mobile with a different caller ID/ringtone)

If you want, you can create my own automated menus for incoming callers.

and its all legally free / open source!

[xphread]

that. sounds. interesting.

Asterisk :: The Open Source PBX & Telephony Platform |

Asterisk NOW is the all-in-one setup, but it helps if you have some linux type knowledge.

There may be better distributions that need less know-how.