My aunt gave me a new computer. It is a Pentium IV at 1.7ghz with 128mb RAM not sure what to do with it. It has a 37gb hard drive with 4gb used up by windows xp. before I saw the RAM I was thinking of running it with VNC so I could access my computer and files from wherever I was with internet, but then I went and looked at the RAM. Its disk drive is only for CD's says CD-ROM but I'm gonna try it with a CD-R in a bit to see if that would work. So what do you guys think I could do with this? I want something interesting/fun to do with it. I will be able to assure it continuous Internet(wired it seems to have two internet access ports according to windows as it shows two different network connection but I only see one on the back) access as of this weekend. It also came installed with Windows XP Proffesional.

CPU Pentium IV 1.7ghz
RAM 128mb
graphics rage 128 pro ultra gl agp (reports as 350mhz and 16 mb memory)
hard drive 37gb
OS Windows XP Professional

EDIT: Looking somemore this is the model of computer http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/opgx240/en/ug/specs.htm

Would it be possible to make a calculator with a model b rasberry pi?

Iw as thinking you could have one usb port internally for internal storage with a microusb with a few gb of storage. You could make it easily removable so teachers could remove programs for standardized testing. If it was possible you could make the sdcard write protected so that the user couldnt store programs on it. The other usb port I'd run through to the outside for addon's. USB wireless card, more storage, and maybe some other things.

You could add a Keyboard like the nspire(easier to use though) so that you could program on it easily. It can't be a qwerty though because of testing rules. with the keyboard you'd also have some shortcut keys for math equations and a touchpad/clickpad.
You could have a reasonable resolution color lcd added on
The case would probably have to be custom to have things fit well
You'd also have to have a battery that could run the pi for a at least 24 hours(maybe add a charge port so it can easily be charged iif it isnt too long of a battery life)

The OS could be a custom linux distro or an offshoot of arch that is customized to work with the hardware and to have a good interface for the keyboard


What do you guys think? How much would you expect this to cost and how usable would it be? Could we have at least one version that is usable for testing?
I'd like a cost of under $100 if possible.

Since we started this in the Avatar thread I thought it might be good to make it here.(Not completely sure this is right place though, please move it if its not)

Basically this is a thread to discuss the various linux distributions.

I have used
Linux Mint 10-12 All gnome 32 and 64 bit
Linux Mint LMDE all xfce 32 and 64 bit
Arch 64 bit
Sabayon 8 xfce 64 bit which is my current primary OS on my laptop(my primary computer)
Ubuntu(for a very short time because i prefered mint) 11.04 beta and 10.10 both 32 bit with the standard DE
OpenSUSE(for just a while since it didnt recognize my wireless card on my desktop and I never tried it on my laptop)

I have found my favorite to be Sabayon XFCE so far. It allows me to get stuff from gentoo if I want really up to date and the binaries it has are also extremely up to date though it does not have a good gui package manager currently imo

Me and Homer-16 were working on a chat program of his. As we were working we both commented on how useful it would be to have a real-timecooperative editing plugin for Code::Blocks. I told him I would start this thread for working on the plugin. If anyone has any ideas or wants to help please post here. I have no experience with writing Code::Blocks plugins so I will have to figure out how to do that. The only thing I'd really like for this would to have it be cross platform so I and anyone else could use it on Windows/Linux/Mac/etc.

I am going to create a python(pygame) port of Freyaday's wonderful Nymless. I will post here with updates and questions on the source/how axe works. I will be basing off Freyadays most recent release of v.7

I have a laptop with a Nvidia GT555M 2gb and and integrated card. my problem is that I can not disable the integrated card so ubuntu isn't using my good graphics card. Ive been reading about Hybrid-Graphics and tried ironhide and had it fail(issue reported here https://github.com/MrMEEE/ironhide/issues/170) I've tried to get acpi_call to work but the test script always reports that its not working. I do not have the necessary methods in the dsdt for the asus_switcheroo. Does anyone have any other ideas? I think if I can't get ironhide working soon ill test regular bumblebee.


I am running Linux Mint 11(Gnome) 64 bit running xfce as my primary DE
the processor with integrated graphics is a i7-2720Q at 2.2ghz

if i left out something that could help you help me just tell me and ill gladly tell you. Thanks in advance for any help

EDIT: When trying to edit xorg.conf to use the nvidia card it reports no devices. I've read that unless you deactivate the card through BIOS or hardware switch this will happen each time.

EDIT2: If I could get it running on Arch or PCLinuxOS that would be great also.
Topic where im trying to get help on the PCLinuxOS part http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,98565.0.html

Due to personal IRL reasons I have decided to leave the omnimaga community and really almost every online account I have. I will check this thread for the next day or two, but then I'm going to leave. I have been having many problems
IRL and I need to fix those before I will even think of coming back here.
I love the community and one day I might return, but for now cya all :'(