I have an old beat to shit XP machine, what should I do with it?
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>>51657967
give it to someone in need, 'tis the season...
>>51657995
It would be a crime to give this to someone anon.
>>51657967
whatever you want family, old XP-era systems are good as simple servers, testbeds, legacy software boxes, pretty much anything they were capable of doing when they came out, get creative
hell, grab a cheap xyz domain and try hosting your own website, I just started running one off of an entry-level 650 MHz SPARC server and its entertaining as fuck
old shit in general is a great learning tool
>>51658024
nah, even the very earliest of XP boxes are still okay for low-end jobs like email or using office productivity software. shit, you can even keep XP on it if you lock it down enough.
>>51658437
I was thinking about hosting a website, might do that. Maybe I could also use it as a dedicated server? I've got a fair few co-op games that require one of those.
One of my mutual friends has a box set up at his office that he stores 3TB of movies on, all his friends use it. Do you think there would be any advantage doing that over torrenting films every time?
>>51657967
does it have a parallel port? Turn it into a robot with some python and some car batteries.
Nothing like seeing that obsolete system tear down the street and run over children .
usb support for webcams too god damn are you spoiled,
>>51658554
You'll probably find it very handy to have some kind of centralized archive on your network, I definitely do. I swap between systems pretty often and it's pretty great to not have to re-download all of my most frequently used software on winshit systems. If you have movies you watch frequently where you think you would benefit from being able to access them faster or offline, that's definitely a good thing to have, you can also run a seedbox.
>>51657967
Start a server farm or start a botnet. Even better, install puppy linux on that.
>>51658621
I wasn't intending on keeping XP friend.
>>51658664
Run it and slowly kill it by messing with the motherboard and then scrap for gold.
>>51658720
>scrap for gold.
he'd literally make several hundred times more money selling it on craigslist
>>51658751
He'd probably lose money if he needed to buy any chemicals himself
>>51657967
Keep running XP? Stay with a winner.
Or you could install Slackware.
play vidya that don't play nice with modern OSes for one retarded arbitrary reason or another? i mean shit i still keep a win98se machine around because God himself couldn't force mechwarrior 3 to run properly on any computer made after like 2005
>>51657967
Install gentoo
>>51659705
This desu. Muv Luv is why I have a Win7 machine rather than 8
>>51657967
Porn box. Make everyone think its dead. It hides all your ts porn.