But it was the end of my venerable Compaq Evo N610c that is so good IMDb didn't want it back when I left. The hard disk failed a mere 7½ years after being replaced. Oh well, it's been doing a good job for the last (almost) two years as a firewall machine with Ubuntu installed and a PCMCIA network card.
I recently retired it from firewall duty (as it's on-board network connection seemed to be playing up, although the problem disappeared once I'd retired it), so it was left acting as a local DNS server and a WebDAV server (for sharing iCal calendars). Both of which I would rather the Time Capsule would take care of - but it doesn't.
I've managed to resurrect it for now using the 160GB drive that I removed from my MacBook when I expanded that, attached to the Evo using a cheap USB enclosure, put another Ubuntu install on it and installed dnsmasq and got lighttpd running as a WebDAV server, and everything seems dandy again.
But I can't help thinking I'd be better off with a proper low power server to do this kind of thing.
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Funny. I have the same laptop (also from IMDb) and I used my a while as a mediacenter on the attic, digitizing the analogue TV signal for the rest of the house to use. I had the same thought: would probably make more sense to use a low-powered server type machine. As we moved house and switched to digital the laptop stayed at that attic where it will probably live the rest of its life in peace.
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