[aklug] Re: OLD MACHINES & linux

TRY, not to depend on tech (hardware) :( but its okay if you do, just
its best practice never to, I use github
(\ /)
( . .) Jon's website is here:
c(")(") http://www.securityrabbit.com

On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 2:05 PM, Jon Bradley <weatchu@gmail.com> wrote:
> read only the first post, but I was off to school, and could not my
> tablet which had the books on it, so I bring my netbook, old tech
> works.
> (\ /)
> ( . .) Jon's website is here:
> c(")(") http://www.securityrabbit.com
>
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 2:37 PM, JP <jp@jptechnical.com> wrote:
>> I have a couple 2nd hand chromebooks running xubuntu in a chroot. These are
>> the fastest computers I have used in a long time, and since I use the cloud
>> pretty heavy (Google enterprise reseller and user since early gmail beta) I
>> don't rely on but a handful of fat clients.
>>
>> My main desktop is a hand me down, a3 year old gamers rig, so it is still
>> pretty modern with an i7, 16gb ram, solid state drive and dual pci-x video
>> card. Like I said, a monster. But, I paid $200 for it, gotta love gamers :)
>>
>> Otherwise, I tend to lean toward the lower energy requirements, like Royce
>> mentioned, for my personal systems. I have a dell PowerEdge 2850 (and 2800
>> iirc)that is gathering dust because a desktop will do the same thing for my
>> use case (hyper-v sandbox) for a fraction of the power.
>>
>> JP
>> 907-748-2200
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