Thread: Now that I have an N900 I need to find a use for the N810.
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2010-03-28 , 00:26
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Thanks for all the replies, they are much appreciated.

Originally Posted by festivalnut View Post
other uses:

* paperwight
* doorstop
* conversation stopper when bricks are unavailable
* coaster
All valid suggestions, but it's too smooth to be a doorstop, too irregularly shaped to be a coaster and too light to properly knock somebody out and stop the conversation. It does work perfectly as a paperweight, which is what I've been using it for the past two months.

Originally Posted by buurmas View Post
Try searching this forum for threads with titles like "Why should I keep me N8x0?" or "What do you do with your N8x0?" There are lots of them. Other ideas:

* Remote desktop
* Use Garnet VM to make it like a Palm PDA
* Media player (Personal Desktop + links to media players)
* Clone OS to SD card and download large games
* Experiment with alternate OSs or Easy Debian
I've actually given Garnet VM some thought, and even ran it a while back. But I just sold my perfectly running Clie TH55 because I'm fed up with ancient Palm software. Sure, some of it is amazing but it was time to let it go. Flogging a dead horse and all that...

Many of the other suggestions involve running Linux and turning it into a server. Well, I have a dedicated Linux server at home that does file sharing over NFS and samba, and runs Apache, ssh. Sure, it draws more power, but it also has a monitor, keyboard and 2x1Tb drives in it.

I'll look into running other OSes and Easy Debian though, maybe even Garnet just for the hell of it.