Swings and roundabouts
Since we bought a new PC for my partner a month or so ago I’ve been meaning to move the disk from the house “server” (an old Shuttle box with a 1.6GHz Celeron and 256MB of RAM) into her old desktop so we can do more with the server and maybe recycle the Shuttle as a media PC.
Finally got around to it today, only to discover that one part or another of her old machine has given up and now it won’t power on.
No idea what’s buggered, but after fiddling around and making sure everything was still connected correctly I was ready to give up. Then I remembered the machine I used to use as a PVR. It’s a 1.4GHz Athlon with 256MB of RAM, but I hadn’t been using it for anything as it didn’t have a NIC and I hadn’t been sufficiently bothered to buy one. The ex-desktop has an Intel EEPro in it…
So now the old Athlon is happily running as house server and the other machines are in parts all over the floor. Better clean that up. Now thinking about maybe buying more RAM for the Athlon (PC133 is expensive!) and a proper disk cooling tray to keep things humming along.
The irony is that I’m thinking that the iMac downstairs would make a better media machine if I can convince Front Row to run and operate in widescreen over S-video. Just not keen to spend $150 on Leopard to then find out it still won’t do widescreen.
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