RE: Uses for a mini-tx system?

["Tony Butler" <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> You don't need to do anything with it.  Once you own a Linux
> PC you qualify to wear a penguin on your shirt, and spend all
> day moaning about Microsoft - that should keep you busy ;-)

LOL, since I own a mac mini now, I am already qualified to moan about MS
and
my jesus-beard would obscure any pengiuns on my shirt ;)

> Seriously though, I'd use a PC like that for things that
> require it to be on 24/7 PC (since it doesn't take much juice).

My main box is on 24/7 anyway.

> Attach a large external drive via USB and you could use it
> for backup (anyone can copy their files to it at any time
> since its always on - you can then just backup from that
> central place instead of remembering to do each PC individually).

True, but my main box is mirrored and nobody, least of all me, could work
up
the enthusiasm to do this - hence my tapedrives from previous lives all
died
of underuse :(

> If you install an IMAP mail server like Mercury, you can
> access your email from any PC without having to worry about
> sychronising it all the time (you can then spam-filter it all
> in one place too)

ATM, I use remote desktop to connect to outlook on my main PC if I am
elsewhere in the house.
What I NEED is to be able to access my outlook over the web too - Outlook
web access thingy using exchange would seem the thing to use there, but
switching to exchange is scary and probably this machine is not beefy
enough
:(

> How about using it to serve music files?

I thought about that, but it is only 20GB so not big enough to be useful
enough :(

Good ideas all though!

Am looking for a 0 cost use for it, since if it costs anything to do what I
could be doing on another existing box then there's not much point
really....

Cheers,

Tony