<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">On a machine that old you would have a better and smoother experience just converting it to a VM. There are some good tools to convert to KVM/Quemu from raw disk.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Oct 11, 2015 at 11:34 PM, Steve Litt <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:slitt@troubleshooters.com" target="_blank">slitt@troubleshooters.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">LOL,<br>
<br>
Sitting right next to me, I have a 1997 Pentium II that's my Windows<br>
machine. I fire it up every couple months to do a little Micrografx<br>
Windows Draw. It uses my Linux desktop's data directories via Samba.<br>
<br>
SteveT<br>
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On Mon, 12 Oct 2015 00:54:09 -0400<br>
<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">Michael Havens <<a href="mailto:bmike1@gmail.com">bmike1@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
<br>
> you have 12 year old computers?<br>
><br>
> On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 12:32 AM, Keith Smith<br>
> <<a href="mailto:techlists@phpcoderusa.com">techlists@phpcoderusa.com</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
> ><br>
> > I've been using isobar since about 1993. I believe that is why I<br>
> > have not had any equipment failure. 13 or 14 years ago the<br>
> > transformer attached to where I was living exploded. I was sure it<br>
> > cooked my computer. Nothing happened to my computer.<br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
> > <a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/?ie=UTF8&keywords=isobar&tag=googhydr-20&index=aps&hvadid=84109345576&hvpos=1t1&hvexid=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=6200554956233029823&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=b&hvdev=c&ref=pd_sl_2hv0pgf2to_b_p2" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.amazon.com/s/?ie=UTF8&keywords=isobar&tag=googhydr-20&index=aps&hvadid=84109345576&hvpos=1t1&hvexid=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=6200554956233029823&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=b&hvdev=c&ref=pd_sl_2hv0pgf2to_b_p2</a><br>
> ><br>
> > Of course it is not going to keep your computer running when the<br>
> > power goes out.<br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
> > On 2015-10-11 16:11, Steve Litt wrote:<br>
> ><br>
> >> On Sun, 11 Oct 2015 13:39:53 -0400<br>
> >> Michael Havens <<a href="mailto:bmike1@gmail.com">bmike1@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> >><br>
> >> I finally broke down and bought a UPS:( I got a 650 VA for $57. The<br>
> >>> 550 VA was $55 so I figured it was worth the 2 extra dollars. Now<br>
> >>> I don't have to worry about frying my computer during one of the<br>
> >>> many lightening storms here in gainesville!<br>
> >>><br>
> >>><br>
> >> That's a great price!<br>
> >><br>
> >> The benefit of a UPS isn't preventing frying in a lightning storm.<br>
> >> A simple surge protector does a better job of that. A UPS prevents<br>
> >> your computer frying during a brownout or severel rapid<br>
> >> transitions between power and no power. It also gives you a<br>
> >> reasonable timeframe to perform an orderly shutdown, and in cases<br>
> >> of > 1minute power outages, which describes over half of our power<br>
> >> outages here in Seminole County Florida, you just keep computing.<br>
> >><br>
> >> Another great thing about a UPS is when your printer starts up and<br>
> >> all the lights dim and your ceiling fan slows down, (Brother<br>
> >> MFC8810dw prints suck *a lot* of current), you hear your UPS<br>
> >> click, but otherwise there's no sign of the undervolt. I hate to<br>
> >> thing what would happen to my box if I didn't have a UPS.<br>
> >><br>
> >> I wouldn't be caught dead without a UPS on my daily driver or my<br>
> >> whole-house pfSense router/firewall.<br>
> >><br>
> >> SteveT<br>
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