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DVA5737
Captain, B767-300

Joined on March 28 2008
Everett Century Club
DVA Five-Year Anniversary
50 State Club
Double Century Club
Commuter Conquest
Piranha Club

"Have you tried turning it off and back on again?"

243 legs, 270.2 hours
18 legs, 24.8 hours online
237 legs, 261.7 hours ACARS
6 legs, 13.5 hours event

Posted onPost created on September 26 2010 08:58 ET by Brian Clark

Picked up a new computer the other day for a song ($500 for computer and 19" monitor, AMD Athlon II dual Core, 750GB HDD, 4GB memory, nVidia 9200 graphics). So now I have the old computer cleaned out, and I am trying to figure out what to do with it. It's a little net top, runs an Intel Atom core, 130GB HDD. I was thinking file server under Linux. Anyone ever run into this quandary before?

DVA3419
Captain, MD-88

Joined on July 31 2006
DVA Fifteen-Year Anniversary

"Propellers keep you kewl!"
Newark, DE

67 legs, 89.6 hours
61 legs, 82.8 hours ACARS

Posted onPost created on September 26 2010 09:11 ET by Norm Hare

With the 750gb hard drive in the new PC, not sure you would need a file server. Perhaps you could use it with Wide FS and run squawbox and a few other FS addons. I think I would just use it a s a little portable for email, and web surfing.

Norm Hare (DVA3419)

DVA1933
Senior Captain, B727-200

Joined on September 19 2004
Triple Century Club

Monterrey, NL Mexico

357 legs, 860.4 hours
72 legs, 132.3 hours online
255 legs, 668.3 hours ACARS
1 legs, 1.9 hours event

Posted onPost created on September 26 2010 12:00 ET by David Eugenio Gomez

Or you can try and sell it, and use the money to buy a better video card wink

DVA6827
First Officer, A320
OLP

Joined on January 02 2007
50 State Club
Century Club
Everett Century Club
DVA Fifteen-Year Anniversary

"Gravity is a myth,earth just sucks"
Cleveland, OH

186 legs, 574.1 hours
72 legs, 238.7 hours online
183 legs, 552.1 hours ACARS
13 legs, 51.8 hours event

Posted onPost created on September 26 2010 15:04 ET by Russell Homan

load all of your charts, checklists etc on it. use it as a reference computer

Russell Homan

First Officer, A320

Posted onPost created on September 26 2010 22:46 ET by Brian Clark

David Eugenio Gomez wrote:

Or you can try and sell it, and use the money to buy a better video card ;)

I've thought about selling it, but I'm not sure I'm up for the work involved. I'll admit to being in a fairly decent lazy streak of late.... I might end up just using it to stream some movies/music to my PS3.

DVA7899
Captain, B737-800

Joined on October 29 2009
Online Double Century Club
Long Beach Century Club
Triple Century Club
DVA Ten-Year Anniversary

"PMDG or go home :)"
Springfield, MO USA

304 legs, 743.8 hours
283 legs, 682.2 hours online
303 legs, 740.0 hours ACARS
30 legs, 47.9 hours event

Posted onPost created on September 26 2010 22:50 ET by Skylar Macminn

you could give it to me!

Skylar Macminn (DVA7899)

DVA3952
Captain, MD-88

Joined on September 07 2006
DVA Fifteen-Year Anniversary

"Airbus, Mcdonnell Douglas"
Chicago, IL USA

85 legs, 161.3 hours
51 legs, 106.0 hours online
77 legs, 141.3 hours ACARS

Posted onPost created on September 27 2010 02:18 ET by Alex Jevdic

I'd save it as as a backup if your usual PC gives out for some reason.

Alex Jevdic (DVA3952)

DVA7196
Captain, B767-300

Joined on March 29 2009
50 State Club
Quatercentenary Club

Seattle, WA USA

472 legs, 1,383.9 hours
30 legs, 55.7 hours online
469 legs, 1,368.8 hours ACARS
18 legs, 35.8 hours event

Posted onPost created on September 27 2010 02:41 ET by Tom Scholl

Brian Clark wrote:

Picked up a new computer the other day for a song ($500 for computer and 19" monitor, AMD Athlon II dual Core, 750GB HDD, 4GB memory, nVidia 9200 graphics). So now I have the old computer cleaned out, and I am trying to figure out what to do with it. It's a little net top, runs an Intel Atom core, 130GB HDD. I was thinking file server under Linux. Anyone ever run into this quandary before?

If you go the fileserver route, throw up FreeNAS instead (FreeBSD + zfs is awesome). Another option is just to make it a "charts" machine that sits next to your new box. Great for loading up flightaware/skyvector/airnav.

Tom Scholl

Captain, B767-300

DVA8890
Captain, B747-400

Joined on August 03 2010
DVA Five-Year Anniversary
Everett 250 Club
Triple Century Club

"The sky is NOT the limit."
Plano, TX USA

336 legs, 1,301.6 hours
77 legs, 255.8 hours online
328 legs, 1,249.9 hours ACARS
2 legs, 4.5 hours event

Posted onPost created on September 27 2010 09:05 ET by Alexander Brinson

Alex Jevdic wrote:

I'd save it as as a backup if your usual PC gives out for some reason.

Thank God I kept my laptop, and didn't throw it out, cause my desktop isn't working, and now im FS9in on it. I miss FSX though, far better.

Alexander Brinson (DVA8890)

DVA3931
Senior Captain, L-1011-100
OLP, COMM

Joined on January 19 2007
50 State Club
Tri-Jet Triumph
Million Mile Club
Online Quadruple Century Club
Flying Colonel
Globetrotter
Burbank 500 Club
Eurocap Club
DVA Fifteen-Year Anniversary

"De oppresso liber"
Surry, ME

1,882 legs, 3,806.7 hours
478 legs, 767.8 hours online
1,107 legs, 1,674.5 hours ACARS
55 legs, 114.8 hours event
195 legs dispatched, 134.4 hours

Posted onPost created on September 27 2010 15:21 ET by Andrew Kaufmann

I've kept all my old laptops and desktops over the years - and I run my current simpit off my main desktop with two older PCs as my Navigation and overhead and center console drivers/processors for flight. I have an old laptop as well that I use for the internet stuff and I have about 6 screens of which 3 26" I use for the main "windows" and two smaller ones that display the gauges. I have a smaller touch screen ACER notebook that runs the FMC alone. My wife thinks (knows) I'm crazy!

Andrew Kaufmann (DVA3931)

Posted onPost created on September 27 2010 15:24 ET by Skylar Macminn

Andrew your wife just doesn't get the hobby is all biggrin

Sounds like a good setup!

On a related note my family thinks I am crazy as well, and I really don't have anything fancy yet >.<

Skylar Macminn (DVA7899)

DVA7620
First Officer, B777-200
OLP

Joined on July 21 2009

"Dream"
NJ USA

66 legs, 105.0 hours
55 legs, 89.5 hours online
63 legs, 99.1 hours ACARS
16 legs, 31.4 hours event

Posted onPost created on September 27 2010 15:30 ET by Neil Sarna

Andrew that is an absolute ridiculously amazing setup! Care to donate to the "neil needs another computer foundation"???lol

and for the question i would use it for charts, acars, squawkbox/fsinn/ and active sky or whatever other programs u have

Neil Sarna (DVA7620)

Posted onPost created on September 27 2010 20:06 ET by Alexander Brinson

My mom thinks that I am just hiding from the family. evilgrin

DVA7168
Captain, B747-400
OLP

Joined on April 06 2009
Everett 250 Club
50 State Club
Triple Century Club
Online Century Club
DVA Five-Year Anniversary

"CPL/IFR "A GOOD PILOT IS ALWAYS LEARNING""
Northeastern United States

348 legs, 1,580.7 hours
107 legs, 366.5 hours online
237 legs, 995.8 hours ACARS
12 legs, 29.5 hours event

Posted onPost created on September 29 2010 17:10 ET by Salvatore Catanzaro

u can use for paperless for approach charts and other things.

Salvatore Catanzaro

Captain, B747-400

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