Show HN: My 486 Server

Re:Show HN: My 486 Server by flatiron on Sunday January 16, 2022 @03:24PM (#29959598)

Unrelated 486 story: I used a 486 66 dx2 as my computer until 2001 when I went to college and used my grad money for an actual computer. Get to school and they limit the internet to 1 gig per day. Discovered it’s by MAC address. Not by LAN port. So thanksgiving break grab that bad boy and drag it to school. It ran FreeBSD and I made a SOCKS proxy that just changes it’s MAC after about 1 gig of usage. Have it out to everyone on our floor and we destroyed Kazaa and Limewire. Good times.

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Re:Show HN: My 486 Server by mobilio on Sunday January 16, 2022 @03:35PM (#29959706)

Also unrelated 486 story - around this time i have similar machine (486 Overdrive) with two LANs that works as router.

OS - FloppyFW: https://www.zelow.no/floppyfw/

Because ISP used PPTP as way to providing internet and i need to share internet on few machines.

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Re:Show HN: My 486 Server by ForOldHack on Sunday January 16, 2022 @04:58PM (#29960637)

I did too, but that pesky F00F bug, knocked out our router once a week, until we traced who was owning us.

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Re:Show HN: My 486 Server by anthk on Sunday January 16, 2022 @05:49PM (#29961214)

I miss floppy distros such as Basic Linux or NeHaBoDi, nethack 3.4.3 under a floppy.

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Re:Show HN: My 486 Server by anthk on Sunday January 16, 2022 @04:17PM (#29960170)

Did you use Links and Pine too? Because reading web pages over Links/Lynx was still possible in 2001. FVWM, Urxvt, Lynx and ImageMagick for images would fly as a daily machine.

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Re:Show HN: My 486 Server by flatiron on Sunday January 16, 2022 @05:39PM (#29961102)

I did when I was home on that box. Even though Netscape ran fairly well with FreeBSD’s Linux compat layer.

I applied for my university using lynx on that 486. Worked ok(ish).

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