I’ve decided the purpose for one of my PCs and what it will be used for. I’ve always wanted to have a PC, where anyone that comes over can use. I’ve had the PC for a number of years and besides just waiting for it to die or recycling it. I think it can be used to just display Pictures in a loop and Surfing the web.
Which, it is only a 1GHz processor of five years ago and I absolutely hated watching videos on it. Actually, most of the videos that I’ll have on the network won’t be able to be displayed because it would just take too much processing power.
Instead of having Pictures scatted around, I can just have a LCD monitor mounted on the Wall and hooked up to the PC. I’m not sure what the operating system will be yet. I’m thinking Linux, since I can strip it down to the absolute bare components.
I may be able to do that with Windows Vista, but the only catch there, is that the system probably won’t be able to handle it. I can’t wait until Windows 7 comes out for the MinWin to set it up. It will be this year, during the Fall.
However, if I can’t do the picture project going, then I’m just going to have it as an Internet machine for visitors, when they come over. Well, that is somewhat of a catch to that, since I’ll need to get my own place before I’ll even be able to have people come over. I think it would be totally interesting to have a video of fish floating around and play it.
It might be interesting to build a .NET application, which pulls the pictures in a loop, plays the video, and surfs the net and lock the machine down to where only those three are the only are possible.
I’m excited, because this box has been sitting around for ages and I’ve yet to have a purpose for it. I still might give it away to my sister, but I don’t think they will enjoy it as much.
I will probably hold off on buying a new case for it until I find out if it will even fit in the new case. If it does, then it will have a new case, a new operating system (I do have a legal copy of XP sitting around if it comes to that), and nothing else. It’ll be nice, because once I have the Windows Home Server up and running, the needs to have a huge hard drive in the machine is diminished.
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