Text 2044, 68 rader
Skriven 2005-01-18 12:33:58 av Maurice Kinal (1:153/401.1)
   Kommentar till text 2039 av James Bradley (1:134/77.0)
Ärende: Router/Firewall Advice
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Hey James!

Jan 17 11:51 05, James Bradley wrote to Maurice Kinal:

 MK>> I am saying that in Cowtown it can be hotter then hell in

 JB> Interesting to see someone back-pedal so hard.

Not back-pedalling in this case.  Just furthering the information I initially
assumed you already knew about Cowtown.

 JB> <L> My sister from Van was visiting, and a small ice storm blew 
 JB> through. She didn't want us to drive home.

I don't blame her.  Even though I grew up and raised a family on the Flatlands
and understand adverse driving conditions, out here it is totally different. 
Also you are too dependant on the other drivers out there to know what they're
doing too, and I have absolutely no faith in that.

 JB> Come to think about it, they gave me a Linux 
 JB> f/Dummies book a few years ago. Glad to unload that one at my buddies 
 JB> place. It was dated 1999!

The good stuff is still the same (2005) although there may be a few new cool
switches added.  Stuff like bash scripting has changed for the better but the
older scripts should still work.  Difficult to improve a perfect OS.  :-)

 JB> I'm running my Linux on a i810 chipset. "e" is a revision of that?

Not really.  The only difference I am aware of is the the "e" one can accept a
TV-out card on that little modem slot they put on these boards.  I have no idea
if it even works - the CNR slot that is - as I have yet to run across one of
those devices and am not even looking to buy one.  If someone gave me one I'd
try it but I have serious doubts about them being worth any effort it might
take to get them working.

 MK>> Lots of embedded boards but a tad too overpriced methinks.

 JB> "Embedded" means? I learned the term in a less cognizant state.

In this case it means the cpu is soldered to the board.  No zif socket.

 JB> The box I have is populated with a Celeron 466, and 
 JB> (Hold onto something!) it's the FASTEST in the farm! <mediocre G> 

Sounds good to me.  Celerons are okay.  I used to have two of them.

 JB> Your socket is - Um... I mean sockets are - a 370-p jobber, isn't it? 

Yep.  Both the smp and the flex.

 JB> My MB is reported to work up to just about 1GHz with the VIA CPU, but 
 JB> a little slower when populated with the Intel.

Really?  I don't have a 800MHz p3 to compare to the c3 but my bet would be that
the p3 would win.  However the c3 when comparing cost would probably win out
here except that I'd be inclined to run them fanless at a lower speed.

 JB> ... If at first you don't succeed,wave your hands and blow the smoke 
 JB> away.

That sounds like here.  :-)

Life is good,
Maurice

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