Text 2069, 81 rader
Skriven 2005-01-19 07:19:04 av James Bradley (1:134/77.0)
   Kommentar till text 2044 av Maurice Kinal (1:153/401.1)
Ärende: Router/Firewall Advice
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01-18-05  12:33, Maurice Kinal told James Bradley about Router/Firewall Advice

 Well, how do, Maurice?
 MK> Cowtown.

Been here since '68. Close to a million idiot... er people here now!
 JB> <L> My sister from Van was visiting, and a small ice storm blew 
 JB> through. She didn't want us to drive home.

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

Oh... I don't? <G> I'm still alive, so I'm doin' something right. Yes, if the
ice was as prevalent when I neared the highway, it would have been back-road
scenery for me!
 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!

 MK> The good stuff is still the same (2005) although there may be a few
 MK> new cool  switches added.  Stuff like bash scripting has changed for 
 MK> the better but the older scripts should still work.  
 MK> Difficult to improve a perfect OS.  :-)
 
|-P <-- (Directed at the na-sayers.) It sure is an interesting study to be
sure! The HOWTO's didn't seem to show up on this distro, and I-net means I have
to Shanghai someone's  connection. The man page on my last foray showed me
NOTHING that I wanted to know, and apropos told me that I was looking at the
only man page that contained what I was looking for. <Sha-G>  It's time to
update the CDs, so, there should be more info here soon.
 JB> I'm running my Linux on a i810 chipset. "e" is a revision of that?

 MK> Not really.  The only difference I am aware of is the the "e" one can
 MK> accept  a TV-out card on that little modem slot they put on these 
 MK> boards.  I have no idea if it even works - the CNR slot 

As in a 'puter to NTSC/PAL? Mine does that, but it does it with a dongle. You
were talking about strapping a tuners output into the MB, maybe?
 MK> that is - as I have yet to run across one of those devices
 MK> and am not even looking to buy one.  If someone gave me one 
 MK> I'd try it but I have serious doubts about them being worth 
 MK> any effort it might take to get them working.
 
If you *are* talking about the output going to a television set, no. I only did
that with a 640x480 486, and only to zoom it up from the 9" B+W monitor when I
was parked in front of a television.
 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> 

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

Ditto. One runs Windows w/a capture card, and the other is on the Linux. I
would upgrade the Linux machine, but doubt I would actively search for a faster
CPU for the Windows box.
 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.

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

The MB here will work with a (I'd have to check to be sure.) 800 or 900 MHz
VIA, but a Medoceeno (Ta HECK if I can remember those code names.) of only
7(something) hundred M would work. Nothing to do with the speed of the machine
with a given MHz CPU, but what the MB would accept.
 JB> ... If at first you don't succeed,wave your hands and blow the smoke 
 JB> away.

 MK> That sounds like here.  :-)


... I'll TTYL, Maurice.                                James

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