2006-07-16 04:34:10 · 7 answers · asked by ny k 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Desktops
Keep one as a backup. Donate the other to your local public school and get a tax writeoff for it.
2006-07-16 04:37:44 · answer #1 · answered by Zelda Hunter 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would recommend donating a useable, but used PC to charity or a local school/family that you know who may nee done. Keep one as a backup in case. As for turing them into firewalls, creating networks, making them servers, or processor farms, I would say, unless you truly have a need for that (which it would appear you don't as you are not using them now), then I wouldn't go that route as it can get more complex than you may want.
Also, as an FYI, to say 100% of the fortune 1000 companies use FreeBSD based servers and apps is a bit of a stretch. If nothing else, it may only be 99% as I work for one of those fortune 1000 comanies in their corporate IT department and know for a fact that we don't have our servers on BSD based systems.
2006-07-16 15:31:48 · answer #2 · answered by sad2125 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Due to Copywrite laws, and the EULAs, it is ILLEGAL to sell, donate, or trade any Microsoft, Adobe, Sony, Autodesk, etc. proprietary or DRM software! The penalties can be $150,000 plus all Court costs, and legal fees! Just look at the Salvation Army lawsuit, and settlement, with Microsoft, for MILLION$!
Oregon, Indiana state schools systems have switched over to Free, safe, secure, fast, GNU/Linux, under the threat of an 'audit' that costs MILLION$!
And the 'big guys', the movie, record companies, and commercial software companies, through the BSA, MPAA, RIAA, and other 'trade' groups, are cracking down, with the many latest cases against individual students on campus!!!
There are over 500 OSes, and 118,000 FREE programs that are solutions, are DRM free, Virus free, and hacker proof!
So stable, secure, that Microsoft.com uses them, exclusively, on its' 15,000 servers, on the 400 campus servers at Redmond, and on 15,000 Hotmail.com servers!
So good, that MAC OS X copies them! It is really DarwinBSD!
And, MORE GOOD NEWS! The Unix clones OSes all run the computers at 8X FASTER, than the speed of the same system on Microsoft Windows XP! (ZD Net, PC Magazine, PC Gaming, MacIntosh, tests since 2003!)
My advice? Emulate Microsoft and the Fortune 1,000!
Take your oldest and slowest system, anything from a 486, up to a Pentium 333, with 16 Mb or more, of RAM, and, a 540mb to 2 Gb hard drive, add one network card and plug in a small router, and convert it to a secure server/firewall to really protect your network, using IPCOP. Won't need the monitor, mouse, keyboard, or CDrom drive, once it is set up...
Take the second system, and the third one, and install a couple really fast Unix clones, and learn why the world is 78% Unix, on the Internet, and, 100% Unix, in the Fortune 1,000 corporations!
(NetStat, WallStreet Journal).
The added programs, games, office suites, tools (total of 5,000 on a CD or DVD that is FREE!), will do whatever you want without the DRM!
A little more knowledge will make you ready for promotion at work, or at the least, let you demonstrate your power over the computer, play all the games (transgaming.com), serve Quake, create movies (all movies since Titanic - 1977, are done in Open Source Software, on GNU/Linux! )
And, there are 800 forums, clubs, Linux Users Groups, BSD chats, Yahoo groups, etc! We are all here, with YOU! But, we don't have to run defrag, anti -virus,-bot,-ware,-trojan,-port, protection software! We're just learning, and having fun, working efficiently!
Yahoo.com runs BSD! I am running a LIVE CDrom, with NO hard drive, on theis Duron 1.3 system to chat here, on multiple desktop environments, while enjoying a movie, and surfing pricing of drives, and reading mail in three browser windows!
2006-07-16 12:47:19 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
OK, how old are the other computers?
If they are more than 3 years old they are just about out of date unless you update them.
Most computers are going to a 64 processor
hard drives are over 100 gig
and so forth.
you can empty the drives and donate them to a kid that needs one.
2006-07-16 11:41:03 · answer #4 · answered by Gabe 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
set up a small network using a switch. either assign them to different people and share resources or use the different computers for different tasks
2006-07-16 11:39:19 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
just sell them to me for free
2006-07-17 00:50:56 · answer #6 · answered by chithu 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
send them to me.
2006-07-16 11:36:54 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋