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The subscription (IMHO) is a different to things like the SA forums, this monthly access isn't there to cover the costs of hosting. Atomic PC is run by a large company (AJB Publishing, which is a part of Haymarket Media) and the way I see it the printed magazine is their core business.

Is this the only magazine that will be charging for access to their supporting forums? Is this to try and convince users to buy the magazine or is it to try and reward buyers with extra benefits? I'm just not too sure why they are charging money. I can understand hobbyist type sites needing to cover costs, they normally don't have other products to offset the hosting costs. I run a small Australian PC website with a few others (here) and can appreciate the fact that the owners don't want to be left out of pocket for hosting costs.

We have always remained free to use and read, offsetting the costs either with sponsorship or a single banner ad on each page. I'm hoping that I can always keep it that way, as I know a subscription based model would never work for us.

Yeah, I made the same switch. After the developer of smoothwall started acting like a 10 towards anyone that had a question or concern about Smoothwall.

The community, especially /., should consider not supporting the more goulish of developers.

here here and here are some quick links concerning the man's social skills. Do a google search if you like and you'll find thousands of links concerning his poor attitude towards end users.

Aside from that, IPCop is nice because the supporters of it have made a point to be nice to folks when they have questions about the product.

I've been running it for about 1.5 years and have had no troubles. I did hose up the box with a bad IDE cable, but replacing it and running the install CD took about 30 minutes to get things back to normal. If I were in charge of a small IT infrastructure, I'd definitely pick this over the other pre-fab Linux firewalls.

PSA, I have been using *nix for 9 years professionally. I'm well versed in security and can deploy firewalls built from scratch on virtually any platform, I just like the simplicity of a small firewall distro so I can focus my time and efforts elsewhere. :)

Anyone else notice that the picture here looks like the sticker has been peeled off and replaced? I also cringe at the poor quality of resoldering the resistors in this one. EEEk!

It's too bad that you can't find out for sure whether the processor is fake without voiding your warranty. Maybe AMD can help us out here and let us ask them about the serial numbers. I guess we should all expect tampering more often.

Anyone else notice that the picture here looks like the sticker has been peeled off and replaced? I also cringe at the poor quality of resoldering the resistors in this one. EEEk!

It's too bad that you can't find out for sure whether the processor is fake without voiding your warranty. Maybe AMD can help us out here and let us ask them about the serial numbers. I guess we should all expect tampering more often.