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Old December 7, 2007, 9:39 PM
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Originally Posted by Superkid11 View Post
I was going to take it apart, but my dad's not too cool with that idea and definitely won't let me do it myself.
It's not his anymore. If he didn't want it taken apart he shouldn't have given it away.

Originally Posted by Superkid11 View Post
Since taking it apart isn't an option now and it'd honestly be a shame to let a working computer get thrown away, I need any suggestion I can get on its potential uses.
Experiment with it as a Linux box. Using it to download torrents is an alright idea. Set it up as a file server and download your torrents on that.

Originally Posted by Superkid11 View Post
Out of sheer curiosity i'll install linux on it probably, but I'll be testing that in VMware first.
Come now, tut tut. Just dive in! Forget about VMware, it sucks all the fun out of playing with Linux on your own terms!
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