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What would you do with 11 Itona VXL thin clients?

The specs are:
-Gigabyte P3VB-VXL mini-ITX motherboard
-anless VIA C3 800 Mhz CPU with a

VIA VT8601T northbridge and a VIA VT82C686B southbridge
-ports:PS/2, serial, parallel, game, VGA, audio, USB & LAN
-256 MB of PC-133 RAM
-256 MB IDE flash drive
-Windows XPE currently installed.

-----My initial thoughts--
-set up a gaming room for UT.
-do some folding
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nullsmack | 1 year, 5 months ago
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Set them up with some software so you can put them in remote locations, say at relative's houses, and listen to the scanner or bridge radios. If you can find a computer controlled scanner or modify one to be computer controlled you can listen in on local radio traffic where ever you put the computer.

You could also bridge an FRS/GMRS radio over the internet although that's not really allowed in the rules for those systems.

For software you could use something like mumble for the audio and then juryrig a webpage to remotely control a radio if you go that way.

You could also stick an usb wifi adapter on it and put it at a friends or relative's house, connect it to a neighbors' wifi and then use it as a proxy remotely. Use it to make web browsing, etc look as if it's coming from their ip address.

That last one is kinda nasty, don't actually do that.

I bet those computers don't use very much power since the psu is only 50w.. get a DC-DC power converter, a 30gb+ 2.5" notebook hdd and make a car pc for navigation, music, etc.

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sirkristoph | 1 year, 5 months ago Report

I like this car computer Idea

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redfathom | 1 year, 5 months ago
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"-set up a gaming room for UT."

Damn that was what i was going to say. actualy planed on doing something like it at the next Oklahoma Video Game Expo. would also have a higher end machine for UDK so people could play with it. http://forums.epicgames.com/showthread.php?t=740353

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acomputerdog | 1 year, 5 months ago
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id make a super-cluster and try some minor games

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strider_mt2k | 1 year, 5 months ago
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Classic console emulation, MAME if it can handle it.

XBMC?

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somebodygeeky | 1 year, 5 months ago
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place them all around the house, linking them to a massive server farm in the basement, surf web, home automation, gaming, email, etc. from anywhere in the house
would be fun

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strider_mt2k | 1 year, 5 months ago Report

Mentioning XBMC in my other comment makes me want to hook a wireless dongle to one and hang it behind the TV in our bedroom where it would connect to my home file server for media.
It's not like I own any HD content anyway, so even something as modest as this might work.

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xalior | 1 year, 5 months ago
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Throw a bunch of cheap USB wifi and LCD screens and mount them like picture frames. Whip up some sort of local Javascript and HTML interface and a simple Django intance onto one of them, and network the whole house with a Linux based set of picture frames/PIMs/Calendars/reminders/todo lists/shopping list manager/home media catalog system/music player/streamer/etc. With a giant unified central media&IO cluster. :-
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My BRAIN!

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robdob | 1 year, 5 months ago
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Setup a local web server on LAN (e.g. LAMP, DNS, chat server) with all your media (movies, MP3's, pics, podcasts, etc.). Use the rest around your house as web kiosks (Webconverger) to view the media from your local server.

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ke5aux | 1 year, 5 months ago
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Throw in a larger server and set the whole thing up at a youth foster home in your town. CRT's can be found at recycling centers.

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palomides | 1 year, 5 months ago
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Install Linux and PulseAudio and use them as network-attached speakers.

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missionaryman | 1 year, 5 months ago
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Build an LTSP computer lab and donate it to my local primary/elementary school. You'll need a reasonably specified computer to act as the server, but 11 thin clients would work beautifully.

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kaeles | 1 year, 4 months ago Report

I was gonna say this, if you also look into some sort of SSI kernel module, you dont need as beefy of a server, as you can make them act as a cluster. I know openmosix did this in the 2.4 kernel, but they haven't gotten it working in 2.6 insofar as I know.

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jeditalian | 1 year, 5 months ago
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get 11 lcd screens one wireless keyboard/mouse combo, 10 spare wireless dongles, and a spinny chair. ok im not sure you could drive 11 computers with one wireless keyboard..
so: idk but it should involve SliTaz http://www.slitaz.org/en/
clustering them would make you the equivalent of an 11-core @ 800mhz cpu with 2.75 gb ram and collective flashdrives, or not, idk how to cluster anything so.. SliTaZ!

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uberben | 1 year, 5 months ago Report

Synergy+ (https://code.google.com/p/synergy-plus/) will give you your multi-screen, single keyboard joy.

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protocol | 1 year, 5 months ago
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You could do many things with them, I am however partial to the idea of donating 10 in a cluster to a needy cause like an orphanage and using 1 in your car running ride-runner for gps, audio video advanced diagnostics. Have Fun. And know that the feeling you get from helping so many will last a lifetime and can get you in the door for many other career possibilities long after the car PC is done.

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nardella | 1 year, 5 months ago
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I say try and do a sort of video wall, otherwise picture frames like someone else suggested.

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crazyrog17 | 1 year, 5 months ago
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Dedicated MagicJack/VOIP server.

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