Use debian. They have an up-to-date alpha port. Not being driven by commercial considerations, they have ports for many other architectures you can't get redhat for, too (eg m68k). Upgrading from redhat may be a pain, but once you've got it running, debian upgrades are very easy (particularly if you have a fast connection) and there are *lots* of binary packages available.
Trademe is hopeless for any moderately interesting computer gear. This is the auction site that has people selling "100Mhz switch hub"s, and attempts to firewall users from each other in order to be sure of extracting their pound of flesh from each transaction.
The best I've found there was a m68k Mac IIci - slap a SCSI disk in there, load on NetBSD (linux kernel panics when it tries to network), and grumble at the 64MB address space per process limitations.
A new P4 2Ghz box has a different sort of appeal, compared to a PDP-11/40.
You don't run them because they're low power or because they're fast. It's the appeal of playing with what is now comparitively exotic hardware. You don't *need* to run new software on older machines. It'd be much more satisfying to get the aforementioned PDP-11 connected to the internet then a bright and shiny new computer. Particularly as I don't think there's an IP stack for RT-11.
The one at my local university recently got rid of around ten SPARCstation 5s. One is sitting on my desk. (running Solaris, though, as I want to use the SunPC accelerator it has).
You have to be careful, though - the 170Mhz turbosparc in this isn't supported very well under linux - it froze in the middle of X - although OpenBSD worked quite nicely.
I read Harry Potter 1,2,3 and 4 on *my* 2MB palm. Admittedly HP4 did take up 1MB, but it's not too bad - books take a while to finish anyway. The palm V's screen is quite adequate for reading, and it's easier to read than a book when you're walking up a largeish hill.
Project Gutenburg put up free ASCII versions of out-of-copyright books. You can download and convert as you want to - 2mb is enough for one or two books, and there's enough reading material for between hotsyncs, even if you read exceedingly quickly.
If you're worried about your traffic being sniffed, then encrypt it. You can't rely on the net between you and wherever you're connecting to be secure.
Anyway citylink is switched so you shouldn't be able to see Amy's traffic unless you're sharing a switch port with her.
Well - apparently they are extending the very edges of the network with wireless ethernet; the paremata webcam, quite a way out from the Wellington CBD, is connected via Citylink.
It's obviously KDE running Wine, with patches added to enable it to run Word and Excel (probably '97). So what you're really paying your $99 for is support and the Wine patches and the standard integration that goes into making a distribution.
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Something else is awry:)
It's using fonts that were bigger than the ones IE requested to draw those controls, so the ends of words get chopped off because they don't fit.
With more boxes, you can use some as routers. I'm running BGP on my two-segment home network (and tunneling over the cable modem to some friends, so I do have *some* excuse for using it) - my room is one segment, the rest of the house (wired for 10base2 back in '93) is on the other.
Then you still need (on the main house network) the gateway and fileserver.
Then you have your workstation.
Then you have your development server, because you don't like breaking the production family server that others use.
Then you end up running too much production stuff on the dev server (particularily if it's an old box that you can't easily put more disk in), so you need *another* dev server...
That's 5 machines; and I haven't mentioned the ones owned by other people in this house (unsubtle hint: two PDP-11s, among other things), or my 'spare' hardware.
If you really want to stay with someone who drops protocol 50, you could always use something like CIPE that uses UDP packets, or even use netfilter or similar to change the protocol type of the VPN packets.
As another poster said, Promise IDE controllers can handle it. I've heard of a someone who has/had a linux box with at around 7 HDDs in it as their fileserver - the ones that wouldn't fit in the bays were strapped in with cable ties and the like, IIRC.
Aha. In other words, the device has a MPEG decoder chip. So you need a sufficiently beefy server to decode Ogg and re-encode to MP3 in realtime. Not good.
You get situations like this, and you discover that if you do what all the advertisements seem to say is the advantage of their high-speed solution (insert graphics of speeding progress indicators and streaming video here) your bill mounts up quite quickly indeed.
>> see our advance in health
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> I'm surprised you can afford it with all those taxes. Oh, I forgot, most of you frogs don't have the ability to earn anything for yourself, you have to get everything at the taxpayer's expense.
Inability to edit comments with a score of 0 or -1 is silly. What would be really good: reset the post to whatever 'default' score the poster has.
If the comment is a troll, it'll get modded down again. If it was a post someone forgot to preview, they can edit it again.
Given that $TROLL could be writing a new comment instead of editing, resetting scores isn't too problematic. And I personally can't be bothered with losing extra points on an article of mine that's been modded up - they never are, anyway.
ISA is *simple*. If you woke up one morning and thought "hmm, I'd like to build an interface card for $SOMETHING", and you wanted to produce it in a quantity of 1, then you'd probably want to build an ISA board.
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I asked about this on nz.comp once and got some interesting replies. Rather than explain it I'll give you the link.
Use debian. They have an up-to-date alpha port. Not being driven by commercial considerations, they have ports for many other architectures you can't get redhat for, too (eg m68k). Upgrading from redhat may be a pain, but once you've got it running, debian upgrades are very easy (particularly if you have a fast connection) and there are *lots* of binary packages available.
Trademe is hopeless for any moderately interesting computer gear. This is the auction site that has people selling "100Mhz switch hub"s, and attempts to firewall users from each other in order to be sure of extracting their pound of flesh from each transaction.
The best I've found there was a m68k Mac IIci - slap a SCSI disk in there, load on NetBSD (linux kernel panics when it tries to network), and grumble at the 64MB address space per process limitations.
A new P4 2Ghz box has a different sort of appeal, compared to a PDP-11/40.
You don't run them because they're low power or because they're fast. It's the appeal of playing with what is now comparitively exotic hardware. You don't *need* to run new software on older machines. It'd be much more satisfying to get the aforementioned PDP-11 connected to the internet then a bright and shiny new computer. Particularly as I don't think there's an IP stack for RT-11.
is a nearby CS department.
The one at my local university recently got rid of around ten SPARCstation 5s. One is sitting on my desk. (running Solaris, though, as I want to use the SunPC accelerator it has).
You have to be careful, though - the 170Mhz turbosparc in this isn't supported very well under linux - it froze in the middle of X - although OpenBSD worked quite nicely.
You can always mangle your packets to randomise the *source* address, though.
I read Harry Potter 1,2,3 and 4 on *my* 2MB palm. Admittedly HP4 did take up 1MB, but it's not too bad - books take a while to finish anyway. The palm V's screen is quite adequate for reading, and it's easier to read than a book when you're walking up a largeish hill.
Project Gutenburg put up free ASCII versions of out-of-copyright books. You can download and convert as you want to - 2mb is enough for one or two books, and there's enough reading material for between hotsyncs, even if you read exceedingly quickly.
If you're worried about your traffic being sniffed, then encrypt it. You can't rely on the net between you and wherever you're connecting to be secure.
Anyway citylink is switched so you shouldn't be able to see Amy's traffic unless you're sharing a switch port with her.
Well - apparently they are extending the very edges of the network with wireless ethernet; the paremata webcam, quite a way out from the Wellington CBD, is connected via Citylink.
but it's not that great either.
It's obviously KDE running Wine, with patches added to enable it to run Word and Excel (probably '97). So what you're really paying your $99 for is support and the Wine patches and the standard integration that goes into making a distribution.
Something else is awry :)
It's using fonts that were bigger than the ones IE requested to draw those controls, so the ends of words get chopped off because they don't fit.
You haven't seen lwm obviously then. It *is* small.
With more boxes, you can use some as routers. I'm running BGP on my two-segment home network (and tunneling over the cable modem to some friends, so I do have *some* excuse for using it) - my room is one segment, the rest of the house (wired for 10base2 back in '93) is on the other.
Then you still need (on the main house network) the gateway and fileserver.
Then you have your workstation.
Then you have your development server, because you don't like breaking the production family server that others use.
Then you end up running too much production stuff on the dev server (particularily if it's an old box that you can't easily put more disk in), so you need *another* dev server...
That's 5 machines; and I haven't mentioned the ones owned by other people in this house (unsubtle hint: two PDP-11s, among other things), or my 'spare' hardware.
If you really want to stay with someone who drops protocol 50, you could always use something like CIPE that uses UDP packets, or even use netfilter or similar to change the protocol type of the VPN packets.
As another poster said, Promise IDE controllers can handle it. I've heard of a someone who has/had a linux box with at around 7 HDDs in it as their fileserver - the ones that wouldn't fit in the bays were strapped in with cable ties and the like, IIRC.
You didn't notice the attribution to Reuters at the bottom of that story? That's not NZ journalism.
Aha. In other words, the device has a MPEG decoder chip. So you need a sufficiently beefy server to decode Ogg and re-encode to MP3 in realtime. Not good.
Yes... but then what's the bet that the cable company will charge you $4.95/mo for extra IPv6 addresses?
But consumers don't like it.
You get situations like this, and you discover that if you do what all the advertisements seem to say is the advantage of their high-speed solution (insert graphics of speeding progress indicators and streaming video here) your bill mounts up quite quickly indeed.
>> see our advance in health
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> I'm surprised you can afford it with all those taxes. Oh, I forgot, most of you frogs don't have the ability to earn anything for yourself, you have to get everything at the taxpayer's expense.
You obviously don't know much about how much of the rest of the world deals with public healthcare. It's usually subsidised, or paid for altogether, by the government.
Inability to edit comments with a score of 0 or -1 is silly. What would be really good: reset the post to whatever 'default' score the poster has.
If the comment is a troll, it'll get modded down again. If it was a post someone forgot to preview, they can edit it again.
Given that $TROLL could be writing a new comment instead of editing, resetting scores isn't too problematic. And I personally can't be bothered with losing extra points on an article of mine that's been modded up - they never are, anyway.
Clarinet still exist, afaik: IIRC Actrix still gets a feed from them.
ISA is *simple*. If you woke up one morning and thought "hmm, I'd like to build an interface card for $SOMETHING", and you wanted to produce it in a quantity of 1, then you'd probably want to build an ISA board.
And it would be incredibly easy to fake, if you knew the checksum algorithm. That could prove problematic.
Erm... by "on the network" do you mean putting your data in UDP echo packets and persuading two servers to keep on sending them back and forth?