If you don't want to give it away, make it a storage machine. Keep it off & safe most of the time, boot it up once a week, let it save your important data, and

If you don't want to give it away, make it a storage machine. Keep it off & safe most of the time, boot it up once a week, let it save your important data, and then shut it off. Pretty hard to hack a computer with no power. Pretty hard to accidentally delete a file from one, too. But, old computer buildup is why I'm looking into getting a local rack, possibly a bladecenter for home use. I can usually use some more power for long-running/heavy-load programs, but I don't want to have that many desktop boxes under my desk. I'd rather just accumulate a local grid.