computoman

If you have an old machine that is still good shape, but may not run the latest software, considering turning it into a home server. There is so much you can do with it.  In fact, I just installed a personal accounting application on the server the other day. Using that old machine will be the best money you never spent on a system. More information at: http://www.instructables.com/id/Uses-for-your-own-private-cloud/ Just tooling around the server. softserv and oesrvr1 are actually coming from the same machine commonly know as virtual hosts.  Actually have five plus hosts on that system. Then you are taken through a myriad of free open software programs that have been installed available from sourceforge.net and other sites. The latter part of the video displays standalone web applications from web pages that have been extracted and added to the server. Plus a few of my own apps are featured.  Pretty powerful coming from an old Pentium III computer. Not for the rea...

Sourceforge.net has a tremendous amount of free software. One area they excel at is with web  server based software.  A web server is a perfect use for an old machine. In fact, I still have an old pII based box that runs our private web server. All the screenshots are from that system. Probably will have to update to a pIII soon. In any case I found this great piece of software that is easier to install than most desktop applications. It should work on any system with a W/M/Lamp based server. It is a POS or short for point of sale software. This is great for a garage sale or a charity event where you need to sort of act like a small business. Most everything in it is point and click once you have it set up. One thing I like about it is, you can access it with an Ipad, Android, or any tablet that has a built in web browser. That gives you and anyone working with you to have the freedom to move around at your sale and not be stuck behind a register. Using a program called ph...

Statistics can be very important especially for a business. I like to know how the instructables are dong. Which are the top viewers, so it gives me an idea of what project to do next and trending of views over time. You can do the same thing with the products you may or may not want to keep in inventory. If it does not sell why keep it on hand. Though the instructables do not cost me anything, I have on occasion deleted what I thought was a dead instructable. Lost a few views, but it overall gives a better picture. (Have a program that gets all the data from the site, so the figures do not have to be typed in manually.)