Run Linux
- download distributions from sites such as www.linuxlinks.com/Distributions
- slow machines can try compact distributions such as Damn Small Linux
- faster machines can try Knoppix, Ubuntu.
Run as a second monitor
- suited for old pc with its own screen.
- MaxiVista, a $45 program at www.maxivista.com
- The program lets one use multiple screens as though they were a single big monitor.
- it also has a cloning mode mode which alllows mirroring of a computer screen to another.
Give it away
- Disabled People's Association of Singapore, a Microsoft Authorised Refurbisher that redistributes commputers to the needy www.dpa.org.sg/events/free_PC.htm
-for hardware that's too old or not working, they can be recycled. HP provides a recycling service, visit www.hp.com/recycle for details and contacts.
