Older computers

[Ototero]

Try www.logmein.com. It works very well from my laptop in a B&B (on a wireless network) to my home machines.


EDIT. and it is free.

[vaughan]

Works great with all Windows except doesn't support Win 95, the one I need access to.

[Keith75]

I generally keep upgrading the ones around the house and then take the old parts and put them in storage. I tend to be a little bit of a pack rat when it comes to electronics.

Keith

[AMDave]

vaughan,

Have you tried the Free Edition of RealVNC ver 4.1 ?
http://www.realvnc.com/
It will run on Win95/98/ME. You can view the desktop in your web browser.
You can also change the port IDs to suit your network. So you can configure your router to allow access to the port only on your LAN and not from the internet. Then try with your firewall up and down. The documentation is available on the website. I like it. It is small fast and simple to use.

...back on topic, though

Hej Lagu :D

I don't have any PIIs or Cyrix-x86s anymore, but I got the old PIII 800 running again last month using FC4 linux. With no mouse, keyboard or screen connected I get all the access I need on the remote Secure Shell (SSH) command line. The 1.2 GB HDD is very limiting but it is getting the job done so I am pleased with the result of the effort.

[drezha]

Off topic but I use Real VNC and have only had a couple of problems (like my the firewall decided to go into "Stealth" so I could out of it but not into it...
Would have thought a 1.2Gb drive was fairly suffcient...
No idea what size the FC4 SSH Linux is but could easily run Dam Small Linux.

Takes a shade over 50Mb when installed
Set up a script to start Folding@home linux text only client on statup...sorted nice and simple It's what I should be running on my laptop, but got a copy of Windows 2K on there for ease of networking and compatibility with my main PC. :roll:

[Steve Lux]

I got an old Toshiba laptop (430 series) of mine working again. It runs Win-95 but it only has 16 megs of ram and 300 megs of free disk space, and I'm having trouble finding a PMCIA-1 network card for it - preferably wireless if they are even available. The new network cards don't fit in the old slot.

[drezha]

I got an old Toshiba laptop (430 series) of mine working again. It runs Win-95 but it only has 16 megs of ram and 300 megs of free disk space, and I'm having trouble finding a PMCIA-1 network card for it - preferably wireless if they are even available. The new network cards don't fit in the old slot.

Run resiel sieve ;)
It doesn't need to be connected to the web. All done by copy pasting files and can set the size of workl units yourself

Should run fine.
Could always add a 512Mb USB drive to double the space

[Lagu]

Hej AMDave

Thats is great. A Intel PIII, 800 MHz is far better than my PII. But how can you have so small HDD? Mine is 6 GB. What project are you running on this computer?

Right now I´m running QMC@Home on my PII and used CPU-time is 199.05 hours and 92.10 % done.

I must have been unlucky as got that big WU. This is my second and the first work doesen´t run so long. I think 6 hours.

I had post about this longrunning WU in their forums and got replies where they told me to cancel, but I didn´t listen on them. Another guy said I was georgious as run this wu on a PII.

I will be exiting to se how much point it will get.

Lagu :D
All is possible!

Hej Lagu :D

I don't have any PIIs or Cyrix-x86s anymore, but I got the old PIII 800 running again last month using FC4 linux. With no mouse, keyboard or screen connected I get all the access I need on the remote Secure Shell (SSH) command line. The 1.2 GB HDD is very limiting but it is getting the job done so I am pleased with the result of the effort.[/quote]

[Lagu]

Hi

Steve Lux

Don´t give up. I´m glad for everyone who can get an old computer to run a project. Old computers are not a simple scrap. However, I´m aware it is a problem finding hardware as fit.

Lagu ;)