Seven great uses for an old laptop, including headless machine to aid in downloads or backups, a speedy Linux box or the ever-popular photo frame.
Notebook- Confessions of a recovering asshole, or, how I learned to stop worrying (literally) and love prescription stimulants
- An interesting practice
- Twenty Ten in pictures
- Advice for would-be pro bloggers
- Paying attention now because someday I’ll be dead
- Writing assignment – Your father’s music
- We’re here on Earth to fart around
- My vinyl
- Negative reinforcement is not punishment [Updated]
- A note to America’s cashiers
- My TUAW posts
- 52 Tiger
- David Lee Roth interviews Eddie and Alex Van Halen
- Thanks to Tango Remote HD
- “Paste and Retain Style”
- BGR disables comments
- Extend Launch Center even further (Update)
- Creating Launch Center profiles
- Using your iPhone without a case
- Hey MacDailyNews, more of this please!
- “We penalize kids for getting distracted from boring stuff at school”
- Tilt iPad case by Hard Graft
Yep, old iBook plus firewire 4-bay external case plus an accumulation of old drives plus sharepoints = networked raid / backup / server solution.
It stutters a bit over wireless (b) to my other old iBook, but it plays images of DVDs that I’ve made flawlessly to the iMac over plain old ethernet. It’s a regular Fight Quest jukebox.