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Gateway to Sell Cobalt Systems

Posted by Hemos on from the selling-different-machines dept.

Manuka writes "According to news.com, computer maker Gateway will be selling Cobalt systems, such as the RaQ and Qube. Neat, but will it come in the trademark Cobalt blue, or will it have blue cow spots? " Cobalt, Amiga - GW seems to be all over the place.

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  1. Web Cache - Squid + Friends by Christopher+B.+Brown · · Score: 4
    The first thing for you to look at, run, don't walk, is Squid.

    Squid is a full-featured, free cacheing web proxy that is most certainly what you want to look at. It is available in RPM and DEB pre-packaged form.

    You might also want to look into filtering web proxies that might be what users set up to "hit," to do things like filtering out cookies and/or annoying banner ads. (Not the Slashdot ones, of course!). The "standard" one to mention is Junkbuster but there are other possibly more sophisticated ones as listed at HTTP Links.

    I'd hazard the guess that you'd be able to get most of the web cacheing benefits from a 386 box with 8MB of RAM and 500MB of disk; moving up to 14.4GB isn't likely to increase performance vastly over that...

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    If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.