Getting jiggy with it
Ansar Mohammed
ansarm-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org
Sat Mar 4 01:31:40 UTC 2006
I admit it. I am frugal!
So I always look for the cheapest way out of a problem.
Moving to Canada was a bit of a challenge to rebuild my lab, especially
since servers consume a huge amount of power and take up a tremendous amount
of space.. neither of which are cheap here.
So I came upon a solution.. MiniITX. But damn it is so expensive...
So I started to look for a cheaper way out..
Then I came upon this site
http://www.linux-hacker.net/
Basically you got tons of devices out there, from linksys routers to thin
clients to web terminals that are all capable of running Linux, FreeBSD
etc..
So I started looking ...
Luckily I came upon a guy in Orangeville who had 2 thin clients; netier
xl2000 (AMD k6-2, x86 motherboard, onboard ethernet, WOL and PXE).. I got
them for 30 bucks each.
then hooked up with some guys selling internal laptop ide cables (
cablesonline.net)... plugged in a laptop ide cable.. a PXE boot later and I
have freeBSD running on it.
Now you can get these suckers for $9 on ebay.. lol
Anyway, I thought I could share this experience for anyone else looking to
setup a home network cheaply.
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