"New" toy

[mdlbear]

As I mentioned upstream, andyheninger gave me an old but serviicable Thinkpad A30 last night -- his father had been about to have it recycled. It currently has Ubuntu 8.10 on it; I figure I'll do a little messing around and exploring before probably reconfiguring it with Lenny. Or possibly dual-booting.

I've also come into a little nano-ITX board, from a co-worker who'd gotten it at a conference. Looks like a good choice for an X-terminal, or maybe a portable server. Only one SATA port, 100BaseT networking, and no PCI slots, so it's a bit too wimpy for a fileserver.

Neither has a name, as yet.

Comments

[carmiel.livejournal.com]

For the nano-ITX, may I suggest Nano.bot? (ducks)

[mdlbear]

Hmm. Might be more appropriate if I were into robotics.

Most of the machines here at thestarport.org are named after stars, planets, or spaceports. Since it's small, a dwarf star like Sirius B or Cygnus X1 might be appropriate.

Or I might simply revive the name of its predecessor X terminal and call it Terminus.