What to do with my old PC?
My old PC sat on my desk for over two weeks after I put Morrowind Oblivion on my new laptop. I started to wonder if I was ever going to use it again. Fact is, I want to spend my time using my new machine, not that olld clunker.
Specs: AthlonXP 2600+, on board video (I fired my GPU and I am waiting for a hand me down GPU to use as a replacement -->got a 5700 Ultra coming soon!). 2GB of DDR, 160GB HD, M-Audio Delta1010LT sound card, Roland reference monitors, LG 15" LCD, BenQ dual layer DVD burner, firewire card.
Normally I would have sold this machine because it is still relevant and could be a great machine for many users who would be happy to pay afew hundred bucks for it, and that's a lot of beer for me.
But no. I need that Delta1010LT sound card for playing and recording music. And that 160GB hard drive would be great if I could store files on it over my wireless LAN.
Enter XAMPP. I had tried a CD bootable Linux disk in my desktop PC a while back, and after figuring out how to convert German nto English I was mildly impressed. After throwing that away, I decided I would try running Linux as a dual boot, just to "experiment". Unfortunately I messed up the install process (Fedora is not a smooth installl for "new to Linux" users) and lost my Windows partition. Thank your god of choice for DVD backups! Anyway, I ended up running Fedora on my desktop for about a month or so and I thoroughly enjoyed it. Then I started to miss some of my favorite graphics apps that were PC-only and I put Windows back on.
XAMPP lets me run Apache easily under Windows. It also comes with PHP 4 and 5, an FTP server and a mail server. Once I got the laptop I didn't want to spend too much time setting up the server so XAMPP was a fast and easy way to get it up and running. In the near future I will think about going back to Linux, but for ease of use I will be using XAMPP for now. Thank you, apache friends!!!
Specs: AthlonXP 2600+, on board video (I fired my GPU and I am waiting for a hand me down GPU to use as a replacement -->got a 5700 Ultra coming soon!). 2GB of DDR, 160GB HD, M-Audio Delta1010LT sound card, Roland reference monitors, LG 15" LCD, BenQ dual layer DVD burner, firewire card.
Normally I would have sold this machine because it is still relevant and could be a great machine for many users who would be happy to pay afew hundred bucks for it, and that's a lot of beer for me.
But no. I need that Delta1010LT sound card for playing and recording music. And that 160GB hard drive would be great if I could store files on it over my wireless LAN.
Enter XAMPP. I had tried a CD bootable Linux disk in my desktop PC a while back, and after figuring out how to convert German nto English I was mildly impressed. After throwing that away, I decided I would try running Linux as a dual boot, just to "experiment". Unfortunately I messed up the install process (Fedora is not a smooth installl for "new to Linux" users) and lost my Windows partition. Thank your god of choice for DVD backups! Anyway, I ended up running Fedora on my desktop for about a month or so and I thoroughly enjoyed it. Then I started to miss some of my favorite graphics apps that were PC-only and I put Windows back on.
XAMPP lets me run Apache easily under Windows. It also comes with PHP 4 and 5, an FTP server and a mail server. Once I got the laptop I didn't want to spend too much time setting up the server so XAMPP was a fast and easy way to get it up and running. In the near future I will think about going back to Linux, but for ease of use I will be using XAMPP for now. Thank you, apache friends!!!
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