Found a computer

Found a computer
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Shove it up your ass, and then install gentoo.

Plug it in, see if it works. Check if there's anything on it.

Put it in your closet and don't touch it for four years. After the four years take it out to make it into a shitty NAS

Give it back Tyrone

Give it back, Tyrone.

Bemtium 4 Hybertreding

throw in a dual port server NIC with proper offload (~$80). and run your own PFsense box which will destroy your current router in performance.

Stop with this meme, nobody will want a damn P4 HT anymore.

This, get a bootable flash drive with gentoo on it. Plug it into a USB extender. Shove the drive up your bootyhole. Plug other end into computer, and walla, install gentoo directly from your ass.

That fan is amazing inside of it. I think it has a nonstandard connection so you'll have to rewire it if you want to use it

Make an ftp server

Install the latest Lubuntu beta (the one with LxQt), see how well it runs

No, OP install gentoo

Replace the heatsink with a potato cut in half.

Install gentoo, Leroy.

>op has not posted another picture of that computer for 20min
sage & hide
Take your shitty thread to

>Bentium 4
Use it as a spaceheater.

See if there is anything interesting on it. Scan the hard disk for deleted files. What kind of porn taste did the previous owner have?

Install Gentoo

I have the same case, I installed gentoo hardened on it.

>6/1/17

send it back to RMS, tyrone

Install OpenBSD.

I'd first save a disk image of its original contents somewhere else (boot from any Linux live environment with an ssh server and networking support, like Gentoo, ssh into it and do `ssh root@shitbox "cat /dev/sda" > shitbox.img`) , install Gentoo on it, figure out what I could use it as (NAS + backup server, router, just fucking around with shit like btrfs volumes and snapshots and different bootloaders etc.) and so on and probably also convert the old disk image into a VDI image and check it out in VirtualBox. If for any reason you feel compelled to get the original installation back, then you could do the ssh thing again, except this time with something like `ssh nobody@desktop "cat /tmp/shitbox.img" > /dev/sda` from the old computer.

I still have that same computer assuming its an xps 410.

>destroy your router in performance
a) he probably doesnt need that kind of system
b) would also destroy his power bill desu

>sage & hide
>>>/rules/global/7
enjoy

>cat /dev/sda
use dd you absolute fool

meh, $5-10 a month maybe to leave it mostly idling 24/7.

Also, depends what kind of internet he has. My 1gbps requires some hefty hardware to deal with.

Especially helped with bufferbloat.

Put some ridiculous price tag on it and sell it to one of those retro faggots

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>11 sold

it's July you idiot

Got one just like it. Dubs decides what I do with mine

Burn it and post webm

>11 sold

wtf

Sell it on ebay for shekels

eat the thermal paste

This!

OP also.

now you know why /retro/ is cancer

turn it on and see if there is anything on the hard drive. If no take the hard drive and the RAM and transplant them into your computer. or install gentoo or arch and use it for normal computer stuff.

>If no take the hard drive and the RAM and transplant them into your computer.
wut

that's like a machine from 2005, you think anyone still uses DDR2 and mechanical hard drives?

winzip

I personally still use DDR2 and mechanical hard drives. I figured it wasn't uncommon.

Point and laugh!

>Huurrr duurrr I fell for the SSD meme therefore everyone did

Still have mechanical drives on everything: desktop, laptop, PS3, PS4, external hard drive.

people dont need to have the latest hardware because vidya games are the only things they do with their lives besides working or living with their parents

Exactly the opposite, laptop has two SSDs, desktop has two SSDs plus a 4TB spinning rust storage drive, PS3 has a SSD, Wii U has a SSD, even my old PS2 has a SATA bridge SSD.
The only place I still have plenty of spinning rust is the file/mediaserver, several terabytes in RAID, even that has a SSD system drive though.

Don't know about it being a meme, it's probably the biggest leap in consumer technology in the past decade.

>vidya
>not having a SSD
Enjoy 5x longer loading times.

These do actually have uses for certain businesses, usually having to do with various hardware changes and software incompatibilities that would cost more than $20k to fix, and justify a system rewrite.

Far cheaper to keep digging up old hardware, at least for now.

I see no reason to switch to anything newer. I still have I a powerful system. I use the ASUS D16 board so I could get libreboot with 2 AMD 12 core Opteron's and 16GB of DDR2 Ram. I don't use SSD's because they aren't good for encrytion allthough I'm thinking of getting one anyway.

Not a Pentium 4 though, ISA bus systems sure and everything older then that.

>I don't use SSD's because they aren't good for encryption*
Either a pedofile or a tinhat.
Autism anyways.

>big brother is gonna steal my hentai while I take a shit, ree

I enjoy software freedom.

>software freedom
>needs encryption
scared microsoft is going to steal your already open source code?

"SSDs aren't good for encryption"
wat
There is nothing stopping you from running encryption on an SSD, and its r/w performance won't be hindered by it. You'll just get closer to the CPU being the bottleneck, but that's a fault with encryption, not drive technology.

It's like saying "bikes are better for aerodynamics than cars because cars drive faster"

idk i think its hit or miss with loading times on drives. I had a gaming laptop with ssds in a raid 0 and i thought it was fast till i finally built a pc with a 2tb mechanical drive for game storage. Games that boot off the mechanical boot faster than they did with my ssd raid.

>Don't know about it being a meme

-Over priced compared to mechanical just for a slightly faster read/write but with less storage capacity

-Limited amount of write cycles, so unless it's storage that never gets moved/rewritten it doesn't last nearly as long

-implying that your time is so valuable you need your computer booting 12 seconds faster

Do you idiots know how listings work?

Its his last one in stock so he inflated the prices to stupid levels in order to keep the listing up. He would have to remove the listing if the last one sells, but if someone buys it for that stupid price, then its a win for him even if he has to pull it.

The other 11 sold for much less.

>I had a gaming laptop with ssds in a raid 0
>"gayming laptop"
probably also software RAID, literary shitloads of bottlenecks

>Games that boot off the mechanical boot faster than they did with my ssd raid.
how about the fact that there are literally hundreds of videos on youtube of our shitty unoptimized games loading as much as 10x faster, literary 40 seconds VS 4 seconds

SSDs earase as effectively and have other problems.

techrepublic.com/blog/it-security/the-security-limitations-of-solid-state-drives/

Part of free software is security you can trust.

why not? i'm running a mailserver, firefox sync, LEMP, sonarr, radarr, nzbget, dns, dhcp, network overlay and backup, plus a few other bits on an old pentium d. it works absolutely fine

>not using less and examining the data line-by-line

Ssds outlive mechanicals now, idiot, enjoy your bearing failure.

you're either a liar or incompetent

That's not about encryption. If you're encrypting the data before it's stored, and only decrypting it in RAM, the data stored on the drive itself is irrelevant.

If you're storing data unencrypted, then sure, but if you're giving people access to drives that have unencrypted sensitive data on them you deserve to be burned.

If you have solid encryption the data doesn't need to be erased. If there is risk of it being crackable your encryption needs an update.

>-Over priced compared to mechanical just for a slightly faster read/write but with less storage capacity
Overpriced? You get what you pay for.
Slightly faster? We have SSDs that are 6 times as fast as the fastest mechanical SATA drives.
Less storage capacity? Nobody said mechanical drives aren't useful for archiving, 500GB SSDs are cheap as fuck nowadays.
Not to mention, I/O ops and seek time, huge difference compared to mechanical drives.

>-Limited amount of write cycles, so unless it's storage that never gets moved/rewritten it doesn't last nearly as long
This isn't 2005 anymore, you call out memes while you fell for the decade old "flash media has extremely limited write operations meme".
Modern drives can write 100000 times their own size before dead cells start appreciating, even then, they have routines to last even after that.

>-implying that your time is so valuable you need your computer booting 12 seconds faster
Yes. It adds up.
It's not just system booting, it's everything, it's literary multitasking and seek time.
Keep using a bike because you are too poor to afford a car. You'll always find an excuse not to look dumb with your bike, driving to work 8 miles away.

Checkmate atheists.

>windows 95
>ssd
wat

When I encrypt a file it doesn't fully delete the unecrypted version. Thats the problem.

Tinfoil hat.

Delusional that someone wants hes information.

>why not? i'm running a mailserver, firefox sync, LEMP, sonarr, radarr, nzbget, dns, dhcp, network overlay and backup, plus a few other bits on an old pentium d. it works absolutely fine
Nice power bill and heat emission, literary a 100 dollar low power machine can outperform it while being several times more efficient.

Neither do HDDs.

Stop locking your house. Its not valueble enough for someone to break into anyway.

I have a 486 DOS machine with flash storage. Also an 33MHz 020 Amiga.
I know someone with a PC-XT that has a real SSD with SATA bridge.

Yes but with bleachbit and such I can fully delete it. SDDs don't do that.

What a shitty setup.

If you use an encrypted partition, it never stores an unencrypted file at any point.

But I won't go through the trouble of setting up security for it though. Unless someone really really wants something, nobody will bother.
Even then, it won't help much.

Enjoy your delusions user. I bet you're a faggot that think outdated operating systems automatically infect themselves when online.

You can flush a exact cell or range of cells, what the fuck are you talking about?

Am I a tinfoil hat if I lock the bathroom door when I go take a shower? I know that probably no one will go inside but when I lock the door, I am certain they cannot go in.
Same with drive encryption.

If you claim you only need encryption when you are doing something illegal on your computer, then keep your house doors unlocked and open. Surely if you are doing nothing illegal, you won't have the need to keep yourself locked, right?

You can literally do the exact same thing. How is it different?

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my other host has 2x e5645 xeons. the power bill for the pentium d is almost irrelevant

SSDs hide a lot of individual block management with what basically amounts to an internally managed block management structure.

It's all in the name of error correction, but there can be a fair amount of data left over in "bad" blocks that are ~90% functional. Once a block is marked that way, traditional methods won't wipe it, and the techniques you need to use are slightly different for different manufacturers.

As I said though, if you're only storing encrypted data you're good even then. Use an encrypted partition and your CPU auto-encrypts and decrypts when it writes and reads.

Not really, one is more inefficient, the Xeons probably don't even take double the power as the Pentium D does.

>But I won't go through the trouble of setting up security for it though.
You lock your door, you put curtains on windows so people won't see you from the outside. That's setting up security.
Encrypting a HDD in GNU/Linux is the easiest thing ever, you just check one checkbox in the installer and set the password. I wouldn't say I went through any kind of trouble for that extra layer of security.

>x5645
>not x5650

Get on my level my dude

e5500 is 65w tdp, e5645 is 2x 80w tdp
ark.intel.com/products/48768/Intel-Xeon-Processor-E5645-12M-Cache-2_40-GHz-5_86-GTs-Intel-QPI
ark.intel.com/products/42800/Intel-Pentium-Processor-E5500-2M-Cache-2_80-GHz-800-MHz-FSB

24 logical cores at 2.4ghz is more than enough for my needs anyway

Locking the door is equivalent of using a password and having user folder encryption on, it's default.
That won't help if someone really really wants it.

Anything more is literary setting up security, like a surveillance system, safes and steel doors. Unless you are a millionaire or high ranking individual, you have no need. Aka you're just a tinfoil hat.

>you put curtains on windows so people won't see you from the outside
Related how? Paranoid too?

>using a password and having user folder encryption on
Literally the same thing I have but mine encrypts the whole partition.
I still don't see why I would have no need to do it if I am not an important person. If setting up an encrypted partition is as easy as checking an option during OS installation, then why not? Sure, I will probably never lose my laptop since I keep it at home, or keep some files on it that the government would like to snoop on, but if something like that ever happens, it's good to know I am safe, or at least much safer than not doing this.
I am not spending half an hour each boot entering numerous 150 character passwords to unlock everything. It just takes like 2 seconds to enter a password and that's it.

Film yourself fucking it and post video

>falling for it

>dimension e510 on the case

Give it back, Antoine

in the trash it goes

OP here. Went to get groceries, ended up playing in a bluegrass band for a few hours accidentally.


This thing literally stinks. Orange light is just flashing, not turning on. Gonna try some stuff

Use as a heater

It sticks? Probably something dead inside desu.

>finds a dead rat inside the case

It was a meme. The 5650 is barely more powerful than the x5645.

Post your groceries.

Now what?