Comment Welcome to my kitchen (Score 1) 91
I have an old P133 laptop booting to a Knoppix image copied to its hard drive sitting on my kitchen counter. I have a linksys wireless card that Knoppix recognizes providing the network link. I also started a Recipants database (google it) so we could save our favorite recipes and look them up from the laptop.
It is slow, but I've recently found a way to significantly boost its speed -- VNC to the 1.4 GHz machine upstairs. Running mozilla on the 133 MHz processor is painful, but the old processor runs a VNC client just fine. Launch the client in full screen mode and it's just like a 10x processor upgrade!
Because it is an old laptop and I got it for next to nothing (with a non-functional spare to cannibalize parts from), I've got no problem if there is a kitchen disaster such as "P133 al forno" or "Toshiba surprise".
It is slow, but I've recently found a way to significantly boost its speed -- VNC to the 1.4 GHz machine upstairs. Running mozilla on the 133 MHz processor is painful, but the old processor runs a VNC client just fine. Launch the client in full screen mode and it's just like a 10x processor upgrade!
Because it is an old laptop and I got it for next to nothing (with a non-functional spare to cannibalize parts from), I've got no problem if there is a kitchen disaster such as "P133 al forno" or "Toshiba surprise".
