Ohhh... I've done a lot of interesting things with old computers, including just shooting one with a shotgun, that particular bastard well deserved it though...

Ohhh... I've done a lot of interesting things with old computers, including just shooting one with a shotgun, that particular bastard well deserved it though... The coolest project I've done with an old box involved playing with power-on over ethernet. The box I've had was configured (using BIOS) to power up in the middle of the night, send "wake up" packets to other machines (they were turned off), wait for them to power on, incrementally backup up their entire hard drives and power off everything including itself. I would wake up in the morning with all computers powered off. That was fun to watch multiple machines waking up, buzzing their drives and turning off by themselves. These days I never turn anything off though...