I find myself watching CNN all day because there is constantly new information being discovered and announements of more possible attacks.
It is almost like watching a movie, but sadly, its all real... Knowing that something may happen doesn't seem too far-fetched at this point, as they have already stated that supposedly there are still terrorists within the US that may be planning to do more.
Looks like Slashdots choice to keep the site semi-old style and basic, and not adapt to the tons-of-images-with-flash-animation-etc-etc like all of the other big news sites, may have helped keep their site available Tuesday...
I currently run a home-made router box consisting of an old Pentium, two ethernet cards, and a floppy drive (literally, thats all thats in it besides the motherboard, RAM, power supply, and some cables).
The box runs Freesco (www.freesco.org) which is a Linux-based router that fits on a single floppy disk, and is quite simple to setup.
The box is used to route my DSL connection over my home network. I chose to run this because a full Linux distro has much more to it than is needed for the simple purpose of routing. Plus, the absence of a hard drive makes the box a little quieter. The box is relatively quiet right now, as the only fans in it are: small fan on the processor (inaudible) and the power supply fan (the only item in the box making noise).
So what I am wondering is would it be safe to remove the fan from the power supply? The power supply is 250watt and the case is AT. My goal is to eliminate all of the fans in the box so that it is almost like a solid-state router that you buy; quiet. My concern is that if it isnt a safe thing to do, the power supply will fry or start a fire and burn down my house.
Do they sell minimal type power supplies that put out less heat, thus not requiring a fan? I certainly don't need 250watts for this application, since its only powering a motherboard, floppy, and two PCI cards.
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I find myself watching CNN all day because there is constantly new information being discovered and announements of more possible attacks.
It is almost like watching a movie, but sadly, its all real... Knowing that something may happen doesn't seem too far-fetched at this point, as they have already stated that supposedly there are still terrorists within the US that may be planning to do more.
Looks like Slashdots choice to keep the site semi-old style and basic, and not adapt to the tons-of-images-with-flash-animation-etc-etc like all of the other big news sites, may have helped keep their site available Tuesday...
I currently run a home-made router box consisting of an old Pentium, two ethernet cards, and a floppy drive (literally, thats all thats in it besides the motherboard, RAM, power supply, and some cables).
The box runs Freesco (www.freesco.org) which is a Linux-based router that fits on a single floppy disk, and is quite simple to setup.
The box is used to route my DSL connection over my home network. I chose to run this because a full Linux distro has much more to it than is needed for the simple purpose of routing. Plus, the absence of a hard drive makes the box a little quieter. The box is relatively quiet right now, as the only fans in it are: small fan on the processor (inaudible) and the power supply fan (the only item in the box making noise).
So what I am wondering is would it be safe to remove the fan from the power supply? The power supply is 250watt and the case is AT. My goal is to eliminate all of the fans in the box so that it is almost like a solid-state router that you buy; quiet. My concern is that if it isnt a safe thing to do, the power supply will fry or start a fire and burn down my house.
Do they sell minimal type power supplies that put out less heat, thus not requiring a fan? I certainly don't need 250watts for this application, since its only powering a motherboard, floppy, and two PCI cards.