Conundrum - to toss the hardware or not?
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So years ago I built a small linux box to play with ... this was before VMs and downloadable ISOs made firing up a linux (or any other machine) trivial. There it sits on my desk... This is the Christmas break, and I traditionally target technologies I want to learn. One area is to play with "full stack" development - nothing serious - just get it up and running, etc. And it occurs to me a VM easily handles this. Any ideas as to what I could use a small pizza box machine to do? It's a core i3 with good ram and an SSD, so it's quick. I'm drawing a blank.
Charlie Gilley <italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape... "Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783 “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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So years ago I built a small linux box to play with ... this was before VMs and downloadable ISOs made firing up a linux (or any other machine) trivial. There it sits on my desk... This is the Christmas break, and I traditionally target technologies I want to learn. One area is to play with "full stack" development - nothing serious - just get it up and running, etc. And it occurs to me a VM easily handles this. Any ideas as to what I could use a small pizza box machine to do? It's a core i3 with good ram and an SSD, so it's quick. I'm drawing a blank.
Charlie Gilley <italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape... "Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783 “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
perhaps have a go installing whatever software is around to turn it into one of those free tv streaming boxes? Or that free games site somebody mentioned a couple of days back? Or, download the bitcoin mining thing? Is seti still running it's screensaver search-for-aliens? - do that at the same time as the bitcoin mining - become rich and be the one to learn alien techno-secrets.
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perhaps have a go installing whatever software is around to turn it into one of those free tv streaming boxes? Or that free games site somebody mentioned a couple of days back? Or, download the bitcoin mining thing? Is seti still running it's screensaver search-for-aliens? - do that at the same time as the bitcoin mining - become rich and be the one to learn alien techno-secrets.
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bitcoin - I like it :)
Charlie Gilley <italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape... "Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783 “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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So years ago I built a small linux box to play with ... this was before VMs and downloadable ISOs made firing up a linux (or any other machine) trivial. There it sits on my desk... This is the Christmas break, and I traditionally target technologies I want to learn. One area is to play with "full stack" development - nothing serious - just get it up and running, etc. And it occurs to me a VM easily handles this. Any ideas as to what I could use a small pizza box machine to do? It's a core i3 with good ram and an SSD, so it's quick. I'm drawing a blank.
Charlie Gilley <italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape... "Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783 “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Maybe a NAS?
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So years ago I built a small linux box to play with ... this was before VMs and downloadable ISOs made firing up a linux (or any other machine) trivial. There it sits on my desk... This is the Christmas break, and I traditionally target technologies I want to learn. One area is to play with "full stack" development - nothing serious - just get it up and running, etc. And it occurs to me a VM easily handles this. Any ideas as to what I could use a small pizza box machine to do? It's a core i3 with good ram and an SSD, so it's quick. I'm drawing a blank.
Charlie Gilley <italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape... "Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783 “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
charlieg wrote:
It's a core i3 with good ram and an SSD, so it's quick.
Create a Mac VM environment? I was trying to build one recently[^] but it did not work out. Maybe things will be better with a SSD.
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So years ago I built a small linux box to play with ... this was before VMs and downloadable ISOs made firing up a linux (or any other machine) trivial. There it sits on my desk... This is the Christmas break, and I traditionally target technologies I want to learn. One area is to play with "full stack" development - nothing serious - just get it up and running, etc. And it occurs to me a VM easily handles this. Any ideas as to what I could use a small pizza box machine to do? It's a core i3 with good ram and an SSD, so it's quick. I'm drawing a blank.
Charlie Gilley <italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape... "Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783 “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Install your own private git server with Gitea: GitHub - go-gitea/gitea: Gitea: Git with a cup of tea[^] Available for Linux and Windows.
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So years ago I built a small linux box to play with ... this was before VMs and downloadable ISOs made firing up a linux (or any other machine) trivial. There it sits on my desk... This is the Christmas break, and I traditionally target technologies I want to learn. One area is to play with "full stack" development - nothing serious - just get it up and running, etc. And it occurs to me a VM easily handles this. Any ideas as to what I could use a small pizza box machine to do? It's a core i3 with good ram and an SSD, so it's quick. I'm drawing a blank.
Charlie Gilley <italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape... "Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783 “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
I made a home server a few years ago when faced with the same conundrum. It has since Frankensteined into a full blown Plex Media server, but it all started from humble beginnings.
____________________________________________________ I'd rather have a frontal lobotomy than a bottle in front of me... Bill W
