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Skriven 2009-07-22 11:35:02 av James Bradley (1:342/77.0)
     Kommentar till en text av Wayne Chirnside
Ärende: firewalls
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on 06-25-09 22:12: WAYNE CHIRNSIDE to JAMES BRADLEY re: firewalls

 ->  WC> Have a cup off coffee?
 ->  WC> Now there's a real crisis, I broke the darned pot 2 days ago and I
 ->  WC> are also broke.
 ->
 -> One big cup at a time can work. Sauce pans can often fit under the
 WC> spout, and -> extend the brewing cycle. <Been there. B->

 WC> Naw, this is some goofy 4 cup thing that has the basket attached...
 WC> Target has a new Proctor Silex at $12 plus shipping.

Campfire coffee? Get prepared to OD of caffeine, if you go that way. <G>

 WC> Now I've gone as far as I can with this old Aptiva ( circa 1998),
 WC> I need to look for a good used Gateway locally or build my own white
 WC> box.

I just went stupid and picked up a *brand new* P4. <Shaking head, in how
latently the over-stock just hit the auction floor> It has a licensed copy of
*the competition* on it, so it can run the stuff Linux/BSD + GNU just isn't
stepping up to. 

I've read a big-wig to OpenBSD lives here, so I hope to fire off some probes to
find an install-fest, or a UG that I might weasel into. Maybe I'm missing
something simple to cramming the thing in, but by a cursory look at the docs; I
doubt it.

 WC> Hey but the IBM was the quickest way back onto the internet with
 WC> Slackware 12.2.
 WC> The onboard graphics card just doesn't cut it for MPlayer, Xine or
 WC> Gxine.

This P4 is an IBM. I doubt I'd bother stuffing a vid card into it, considering
the chores I'm taxing it with, unless one shows up for cheap-to-free.


 WC> Next project, slightly off topic is a homemade HDTV antenna I'll
 WC> build for the PC tuner card I'll be installing in the next box.

On slow traffic days, I've seen worse.

 WC> I've a really cool .mv4 video on how to build it.
 WC> It's 58 megs however half or more of that is how to build your own
 WC> version of WC> a steadycam.
 WC> Got a PDF still version too, that's only a bit over 5 meg.

We *need* URLs, Wayne. It's less fun if you keep it all to yourself. <L>

 WC> Hey, how're you doing?

Bulging disks... Bone spurs... Arthritis... All on the back. And then there's
the usual... <Cha-G> I think it's my fifth - MRI is scheduled for the spring.
Like that many shots of tequila, it's to be expected to lose count? <chuckle>

 WC> Nice to see another friendly face around here

I dare say, there's more friends than foes here. You realize this is Fido,
right? <BWEG>


... James
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