I've now bought a small HP thin client, a t574. Used on ebay it was 60 with no psu, but I picked up what looks like a very decent psu for a tenner. You can get earlier HP models for 35 or so, but this one has an atom processor so I thought it was worth the extra. Also more memory and flash drive.
Got a 64G micro usb stick for storage, and will now install Slitaz and mpd as people have suggested. Or another one which seems quite interesting is sockso.
However, meanwhile, and as always, one comes on the real solution after having bought an alternative, this seems the perfect solution:
https://store.tinygreenpc.com/tiny-green-pcs/utilite-1.html
This looks really neat. Wish I'd known about it before buying the thin client, which is probably very functional but by comparison very clunky.
The thing that is a bit dismaying is that having started the process of ripping the CDs to FLAC, the free space on the 64G usb stick seems to be shrinking at an alarming rate....
Al
This website may have some interesting nuggets of info for your thin client, couldn't see the exact model listed but probably something similar : http://www.parkytowers.me.uk/thin/
I've got a couple of VXL Percio's that I picked unopened for £4.99 each, that I intend to play with when I get around to it: http://www.parkytowers.me.uk/thin/vxl/percio/index.shtml
Rgds
Martin
On 27 September 2013 at 09:23 Peter Alcibiades palcibiades-first@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
I've now bought a small HP thin client, a t574. Used on ebay it was 60 with no psu, but I picked up what looks like a very decent psu for a tenner. You can get earlier HP models for 35 or so, but this one has an atom processor so I thought it was worth the extra. Also more memory and flash drive.
Got a 64G micro usb stick for storage, and will now install Slitaz and mpd as people have suggested. Or another one which seems quite interesting is sockso.
However, meanwhile, and as always, one comes on the real solution after having bought an alternative, this seems the perfect solution:
https://store.tinygreenpc.com/tiny-green-pcs/utilite-1.html
This looks really neat. Wish I'd known about it before buying the thin client, which is probably very functional but by comparison very clunky.
The thing that is a bit dismaying is that having started the process of ripping the CDs to FLAC, the free space on the 64G usb stick seems to be shrinking at an alarming rate....
Al
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On Tue, 1 Oct 2013 13:09:43 +0100 (BST) Martin mailinglists@collins-email.co.uk allegedly wrote:
This website may have some interesting nuggets of info for your thin client, couldn't see the exact model listed but probably something similar : http://www.parkytowers.me.uk/thin/
I've got a couple of VXL Percio's that I picked unopened for £4.99 each, that I intend to play with when I get around to it: http://www.parkytowers.me.uk/thin/vxl/percio/index.shtml
Martin
Thanks for sharing this. It looks a really neat and useful site. I can feel some ebay hunting coming on.....
Cheers
Mick
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Yes indeed, slitaz would probably fit on this hardware very nicely.
I've been a bit delayed by life, as one is sometimes, but finally have got the ingredients together, psu, 64G stick, the HP device, which is a t5740, so hopefully today or tomorrow slitaz and mpd will go on it, and then we will see. I'd quite like to make it into an ebook server too, but one thing at a time.
Al
On Tuesday 08 October 2013 18:20:07 mick wrote:
On Tue, 1 Oct 2013 13:09:43 +0100 (BST) Martin mailinglists@collins-email.co.uk allegedly wrote:
This website may have some interesting nuggets of info for your thin client, couldn't see the exact model listed but probably something similar : http://www.parkytowers.me.uk/thin/
I've got a couple of VXL Percio's that I picked unopened for £4.99 each, that I intend to play with when I get around to it: http://www.parkytowers.me.uk/thin/vxl/percio/index.shtml
Martin
Thanks for sharing this. It looks a really neat and useful site. I can feel some ebay hunting coming on.....
Cheers
Mick
Mick Morgan gpg fingerprint: FC23 3338 F664 5E66 876B 72C0 0A1F E60B 5BAD D312 http://baldric.net
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