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Have an old computer sitting around and want to know what to do with it? Here are 12 good uses for old computers including firewalls, thin clients, web servers, media servers, and more.
andy29 said on 09/18/07 @ 10:37 AM: I'm posting this right now through a Smoothwall box, and next to that is a ClarkConnect box as a web, shared drive, Torrentflux, etc. etc. server. Both on a couple of old computers which cost $0 :)
Jake said on 09/18/07 @ 10:54 AM: I have setup probably a dozen smoothwall boxes back in the day. Love 'em and the new version 3 is pretty slick.