[clug] looking for small PC

[Ian Matters]

My NC-900 cost me $650 plus $16.50 freight plus GST on the total,  
$733.15 in total.

Cheers, Ian
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On 25/02/2008, at 3:37 PM, Anthony David wrote:

> Ian Matters wrote:
>> Hi Bob,
>>
>> I recently purchased an NC-900 Mini-PC from Tekdis
>> (http://tekdis.com.au/).
>
> Hi Ian
>
> Looks interesting, what was the price you paid?
>
>>
>> The machine arrived promptly and I proceeded to blow away the minimum
>> install of Windows 2000 that was on it. The spec turned out to be
>> slightly different to what I had been led to believe but it was still
>> quite useful.
>>
>> Hard drive: setup as hdc reports as Hitachi Travelstar  
>> HTS424040M9AT00
>> (40GB)
>> RAM: 256KB total with 192MB available. Presumably the missing 64MB is
>> used for graphics
>> CPU: VIA Nehemiah operating at 733.447 MHz
>>
>> I first tried to install Ubuntu 8.04 server LTS (pre-release)  
>> followed
>> by Ubuntu 6.06.1 server LTS. The installation went OK with each but I
>> had problems at boot time with both of these. I expect that it was
>> some sort of hardware-related issue which I didn't find in my
>> eagerness to prove that machine would do the intended job.
>>
>> I finally settled on a Debian 4.0 r2 "Etch" Netinstall and that  
>> worked
>> great.
>>
>> I now have it working with SSH, FTP, Apache2 (including https),  
>> Samba,
>> Bind9, Netatalk, Telnet, POP3, IMAP and SMTP servers running. I
>> swapped from Exim4 to Postfix which is my SMTP server of preference.
>>
>> The machine is totally quiet and runs comfortably warn. The HDD
>> temperature reports as a little over 40C.
>>
>> You should be able to see it working at:
>>
>> http://matters.homelinux.net:8080/
>>
>> -- or --
>>
>> https://matters.homelinux.net:/
>>
>> I have since added an 8GB CompactFlash card for weekly backups of the
>> system.
>>
>> Cheers, Ian
>> -- 
>>
>> On 25/02/2008, at 10:37 AM, Robert Edwards wrote:
>>
>>> Wondering if any of the wise folk on this list can recommend a
>>> locally available (Australia) small diskless PC, like a Zonbu
>>> (we have a Zonbu, but it broke :-(
>>>
>>> I was thinking of an EeePC or another Via EPIA based system,
>>> but was wondering if anyone had tried and could recommend
>>> anything else.
>>>
>>> I need: VGA out, wired Ethernet (no need for wireless), USB
>>> (for keyboard/mouse), Flash filesystem and runs Linux (or can
>>> be persuaded to).
>>>
>>> It's for a kiosk type application.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> Bob Edwards.
>>>
>>
>
> Regards
>
> Anthony David