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Do it with an old 486 motherboard like this or this or this or this or this or this or this or.....

If you want a really quiet Linux firewall, try using ThinLinux on a 486. No fans and no hard drive required. Look here for more info.

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As usual, @Home is full of it and needs to hire people who know what the hell they are doing.

I highly recommend having an old computer as a firewall. The 486 will do just fine

I agree; my firewall runs on an old 486DX2-66, 32MB RAM, 127MB HD, two Intel EtherExpress Pro/10 ISA ethernet cards and it works fine for my needs (@HOME cable connection).

I use the free EDGE Firewall from Fireplug Computers (recently acquired by Lineo), based on their ThinLinux distribution. It is a stripped down Linux that does packet filtering and NAT, and uses DHCPCD to connect with my ISP (@HOME) and serves DHCP to my LAN.

It is amazingly easy to setup if the instructions are followed carefully, and being a linux is as configurable as you want it to be.

I have not noticed any reduction in speed since setting up the firewall, though I must admit that the service I get from Rogers@Home is not what it used to be since all my neighbours jumped on the highspeed bandwagon. (I get max 150 KB/s these days, and am moving to ADSL as soon a port comes free). If I was still getting top-line cable speeds I might be seeing some limitation due to the slow ISA bus (no PCI in this box), but the processor is not a limitation.

I agree with most of your post, AC, but I never heard that South Africa and Canada were involved in Vietnam (and I know you say you are Canadian!) According to Canadians in Vietnam perhaps 2500 Canadians served in Vietnam, but as members of the US Armed Forces, not the Canadian ones, mostly as a matter of choice. I guess that meaning isn't excluded by what you say, but the rest of us (and I'm an Australian, with an uncle who served there) were there because our governments said so.

"It was from that planet [Nibiru], the Sumerian texts repeatedly and persistently stated, that the Anunnaki came to Earth. The term literally means 'Those Who from Heaven to Earth Came.' They are spoken of in the Bible as the Anakim, and in Chapter 6 of Genesis are also call Nefilim, which in Hebrew means the same thing: Those Who Have Come Down, from the Heavens to Earth." - Zecharia Sitchin, Genesis Revisited

Not that I saw! And you didn't even have the guts to sign it.

Let me take this bit by bit.

There is no proof that Evoltion is true.

You cannot even spell Evolution! As for evidence, you did look in the FAQs that were pointed to above?

Darwin himself later in life admitted that he was wrong.

The infamous Lady Hope story. Known to be a lie.

There is only evolution with in a class.

It seems that you have a common confusion about what macroevolution is and isn't.

Every "ape man" ever found has been proved wrong. The bones that they found where hundreds of feet even miles apart and in different layers of the earth.

You clearly don't have a clue what you are talking about. In a word, "Lucy".

In evolution you only evolve to have what you need. So since we don't need a third arm that is why we don't have a third arm. Well then how come we only use 10% of our brain. Why did we "evolve" to have such a big brain?

Warning, warning, urban legend alert! Do do have a reference?

If Evolution is real then there would be hundreds even thousands of transition fossils and yet there isn't even one!

Funny, the scientists seem to think otherwise.

Evolution is a theory and all it takes is one thing to prove it wrong and then it should thrown out. There are to many things that prove evolution to be wrong and not enough to back it up.

May I hold Creationism to the same standard?

To me it is easier to beleive that a living God made the earth and it didn't just happen. Have you ever seen a tornado go through a junk yard and assemble a perfectly working car. No! So what makes you think that something as big and complex as the earth and every living thing on it can happen by chance.

And that is a straw-man argument.

If you just look around you you will see that there is someone out there that is bigger than each and everyone of us. Just open your eyes and you will see.

Is closing my eyes also a pre-requisite? So far your batting average is pretty darned pathetic...

Sincerely,
Ben Tilly

The usual figure is ten percent of our brains, and it's total bunk.

You may also want to check out another mini-dist based on Debian that is aimed at a firewall/routing box booting from one floppy.