{"id":312,"date":"2006-01-17T03:18:43","date_gmt":"2006-01-17T11:18:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?m=62"},"modified":"2006-01-17T03:18:43","modified_gmt":"2006-01-17T11:18:43","slug":"finding-a-use-for-your-old-xbox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/?p=312","title":{"rendered":"Finding a use for your old XBox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the launch of the XBox 360 there are going to be a lot of original XBoxen lying around that nobody wants. I'm a keen re-user of hardware - some of my machines are 5-10 years old and at least second (and possibly third or fourth) hand. If it still works, why dump it? <\/p>\n<p>There are lots of things you could do with them, none of which I can think of right now, but how about using it as a Linux box. There's an Intel CPU, 64MB of RAM and a 8-10GB hard drive in each machine - perfect for running, or even just trying out, Linux. With a little stack you could even create a small grid or cluster.<\/p>\n\n<!--\n<rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/02\/22-rdf-syntax-ns#\" xmlns:dc=\"http:\/\/purl.org\/dc\/elements\/1.1\/\" xmlns:trackback=\"http:\/\/madskills.com\/public\/xml\/rss\/module\/trackback\/\">\n<rdf:Description rdf:about=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/blogs\/node\/1580\" dc:identifier=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/blogs\/node\/1580\" dc:title=\"Finding a use for your old XBox\" trackback:ping=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/blogs\/trackback\/1580\" \/>\n<\/rdf:RDF>\n-->\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?a=BH9jdY\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?i=BH9jdY\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a><\/p><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?g=62\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the launch of the XBox 360 there are going to be a lot of original XBoxen lying around that nobody wants. I&#8217;m a keen re-user of hardware &#8211; some of my machines are 5-10 years old and at least second (and possibly third or fourth) hand. If it still works, why dump it? <\/p>\n<p>There are lots of things you could do with them, none of which I can think of right now, but how about using it as a Linux box. There&#8217;s an Intel CPU, 64MB of RAM and a 8-10GB hard drive in each machine &#8211; perfect for running, or even just trying out, Linux. With a little stack you could even create a small grid or cluster.<\/p>\n<p><!--\n<rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/02\/22-rdf-syntax-ns#\" xmlns:dc=\"http:\/\/purl.org\/dc\/elements\/1.1\/\" xmlns:trackback=\"http:\/\/madskills.com\/public\/xml\/rss\/module\/trackback\/\">\n<rdf:Description rdf:about=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/blogs\/node\/1580\" dc:identifier=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/blogs\/node\/1580\" dc:title=\"Finding a use for your old XBox\" trackback:ping=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/blogs\/trackback\/1580\" \/>\n<\/rdf:RDF>\n--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?a=BH9jdY\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?i=BH9jdY\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?g=62\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[27],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}