Creative uses for COL

[Bill Campbell]

On Thu, Feb 24, 2005, Rick Sivernell wrote:
>On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 15:24:28 -0500
>Jerry McBride <mcbrides9 at comcast.net> wrote:
>
...
>Jerry

>Actually I do have a place for them right now, it is perfect, small foot
>print, and all of those other old delapadate laptops with a 1.5 to 2.5 gig
>hd. I am developing something for them right now. For the sight impaired, a
>large screen clock. Try and find a digital clock with 6 inch high letters.
>Recycle thos old laptops as a digital clock.  Hmmmmmmm.

I hadn't thought of that one, although I have used a server as an alarm
clock.  I used to have our dialup uucp server call our home phone every
morning at 5:45 (which really saved our butts when we had an 06:30 flight
from Seatac and my wife had set the regular clock for 16:30 instead of
04:30 :-).

I'm also running very current software on a couple of eDesktop 2.4 systems
using the OpenPKG package management system including the latest versions
of gcc, postgresql, mysql, berkely DB, ...

Bill
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