"So I bought this new AOpen Pandora box (yes--a beige box Mac Mini ripoff). I got a Pentium M 1.73GHz and 512Mb of RAM. It comes with a DVD Reader/CDRW and I didn’t buy a harddisk or anything else. My goal was to run a single terminal server for all the Media PCs in my apartment (I have 1 in the living room & 1 in the bedroom… thinking of putting one in the bathroom).
"I figured my main computer can be the Terminal Server, but as I started building it I realized that building an i386 client image on an AMD64 box was an utter pain (the script that generated it complained all the time, even after I hardcoded my arch values into it). So I figured I will just create it inside VMWare running a i386. Luckily I had latest flight of Dapper there already..."