Personally, I don't see a problem with the home-brew solution. When you want something very specific, its often your only choice. Any it wouldn't be that hard either, you get a Mobo/CPU combo, case/PSU combo, and a stick of ram, it takes you 4 screws, and plugging 3 things, and 2 or 3 minutes in the BIOS.
69.69.69.69 isn't really that interesting. Embarq owns 69.68.0.0/15 so the "coolest" thing that you could do would be to ping someone's DSL modem off of the face of the earth.
Since we're talking about portable media, I want it portable and use fat32.
I use FAT32 even on the HDD partition shared between Linux and Windows on my office machine. Other file systems have just caused me headaches with permissions in the past, though I suppose that's just because I wasn't managing them properly. I suppose I could change my ways, but it's easier just to use FAT. If that's ill-advised of me, maybe someone will tell me so:-)
I'm not sure what I'm going to switch to when >4 GB files become more prevalent...
You could possibly use exFAT, the successor to FAT32 which supports files up to 127PiB and volumes up the 64ZiB. I don't know about the status of a *nix driver, but currently MS has not released a spec and is requiring a licenses to distribute exFAT implementations.
Probably wouldn't be too hard to write though, its only a rehashing of FAT and it doesn't have journaling.
This may be the best answer to your needs, tell them this, and they suddenly question just how secure it is, and its that seed of doubt that you can use to turn them off of this idea.
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Personally, I don't see a problem with the home-brew solution. When you want something very specific, its often your only choice. Any it wouldn't be that hard either, you get a Mobo/CPU combo, case/PSU combo, and a stick of ram, it takes you 4 screws, and plugging 3 things, and 2 or 3 minutes in the BIOS.
69.69.69.69 isn't really that interesting. Embarq owns 69.68.0.0/15 so the "coolest" thing that you could do would be to ping someone's DSL modem off of the face of the earth.
Since we're talking about portable media, I want it portable and use fat32.
I use FAT32 even on the HDD partition shared between Linux and Windows on my office machine. Other file systems have just caused me headaches with permissions in the past, though I suppose that's just because I wasn't managing them properly. I suppose I could change my ways, but it's easier just to use FAT. If that's ill-advised of me, maybe someone will tell me so :-)
I'm not sure what I'm going to switch to when >4 GB files become more prevalent ...
You could possibly use exFAT, the successor to FAT32 which supports files up to 127PiB and volumes up the 64ZiB. I don't know about the status of a *nix driver, but currently MS has not released a spec and is requiring a licenses to distribute exFAT implementations. Probably wouldn't be too hard to write though, its only a rehashing of FAT and it doesn't have journaling.
This may be the best answer to your needs, tell them this, and they suddenly question just how secure it is, and its that seed of doubt that you can use to turn them off of this idea.