Good Use for TiBook G4 667Mhz

Hello all!
Aside from the systems listed in my profile below, I still have my first Pro class laptop (15in. Ti Book G4 667, 768mb RAM, 30gb HDD) and was using it daily up until about 2005. It's currently loaded with OSX 10.4 or 10.3.
Though it hasn't been used or even powered on in a few years I don't want to get rid of it. Other than a fairly dead battery, it's in great shape, no scratches or wear marks and the top bezel around the KB was replaced by Apple right before I got my Core 2 Duo MBP (I was amazed Apple did that 5 years later- they were concerned about the sharp enamel chips that were flaking off). I'm really compulsive about keeping my gadgets in good shape
I was considering turning it into a music/photo server and or bringing it back up to the kitchen to use as a house PC (movie, weather look ups, light internet info, etc.). So what I'm asking is if there are any suggestions on a good way to set it up so they there is minimal overhead/taxation on the system. What to turn off, good lightweight programs to use or if there is such thing as a lighter stripped down of OSX or if anyone has experience putting Linux on an older Mac. I have very little experience Linux other than pre-built releases like Jolicloud and know nothing about custom setups.
Any tips are appreciated. Thanks!

You could turn it into a media server, I had an old Pentium III 700mhz Laptop that I used as a home/web server and it worked fine for basic tasks. If you install iTunes 9, home sharing should make it very easy.
You probably shouldn't have to disable any services on a clean OS X installation. That being said, there is a tool that can do that: http://sourceforge.net/projects/lingon/files/
Linux on your Mac is tricky, since it's a PPC machine. You'll have to find a distribution that supports. Probably the most popular and compatible is Yellow Dog Linux.
http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/support/downloads/ (make sure you download an iso with 'ppc' in it's name).

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FUNCTION Z_GR_BAPI.
""Local interface:
*" IMPORTING
*"     REFERENCE(I_CODE) TYPE GM_CODE
*"     REFERENCE(I_MOVE_TYPE) TYPE CHAR3
*"     REFERENCE(I_EKKO) TYPE EKKO
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e_document = gm_retmtd.
CALL FUNCTION 'BAPI_TRANSACTION_COMMIT'
      EXPORTING
         WAIT          = 'X'.
     IMPORTING
        RETURN        =
ENDFUNCTION.

Hi,
This piece of code may be helpful.
Structures for BAPI
data: gm_header type bapi2017_gm_head_01.
data: gm_code    type bapi2017_gm_code.
data: gm_headret type bapi2017_gm_head_ret.
data: gm_item    type table of
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data: gm_return type bapiret2 occurs 0.
data: gm_retmtd type bapi2017_gm_head_ret-mat_doc.
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move '1'        to gm_item-entry_qnt.
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move '0004'     to gm_item-plant.
move '4000'     to gm_item-stge_loc.
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I am facing an error like 'u2018Content of order 1011907: MDT218AJ10 transferred to interface (IMSEG): T-86410-71".
I have written the code as below. Please let me know what is missing when using the BAPI 'BAPI_GOODSMVT_CREATE'. What is the cause of this error ?
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Calling BAPI_GOODSMVT_CREATE to create the Material Document Number
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    EXPORTING
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      goodsmvt_code         = gs_gmcode
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hi,
did you look at message ?
System says, there are differences between the interface data and the order data. It can be anything. I think you should check
data in the interface .
this is the long explanation of your message :
Diagnosis
When calling the function module MB_CREATE_GOODS_MOVEMENT or the BAPI GoodsMovement.CreateFromData (BAPI_GOODSMVT_CREATE) to post a goods receipt for a production order, there are differences between the interface data and the order data.
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System response
Due to this difference, the system cannot post the goods receipt.
Procedure
Check the data in the interface (IMSEG-WERKS, IMSEG-AUFNR). If necessary, correct the plant or the order number in the interface.
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Edited by: Rob Burbank on Feb 6, 2012 11:24 AM

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"Database Engine Tuning Advisor" for optimization of one stored procedure.
Please tel me about the Event classes which i should use in trace.
You can use the "Tuning" template to capture the workload to a trace file that can be used by the DETA. See
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms190957(v=sql.105).aspx
If you are capturing the workload of a production server, I suggest you not do that directly from Profiler as that can impact server performance. Instead, start/stop the Profiler Tuning template against a test server and then script the trace
definition (File-->Export-->Script Trace Definition). You can then customize the script (e.g. file name) and run the script against the prod server to capture the workload to the specified file. Stop and remove the trace after the workload
is captured with sp_trace_setstatus:
DECLARE @TraceID int = <trace id returned by the trace create script>
EXEC sp_trace_setstatus @TraceID, 0; --stop trace
EXEC sp_trace_setstatus @TraceID, 2; --remove trace definition
Dan Guzman, SQL Server MVP, http://www.dbdelta.com

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