-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 01 Jan 2008 10:59:17 -0500 Chris Mauritz <chrism at imntv.com> wrote: > Old laptops make pretty good firewalls, I think. They take little > space, have a built-in battery backup and built-in keyboard/monitor > to use when you are visiting the datacenter. I have repurposed a > couple of older laptops for these reasons since the machine doesn't > need to be very fast to accomplish the mission. A lot of 3-4 year > old laptops cave in under the weight of Windows, but are really > overkill for a simple unix firewall. Better than sending them to the > dustbin. > > Best, > true... - -- Mark "Drunkenness is not an excuse for stupidity. If you're stupid when you're sober then that's one thing, but if you're sober when you're stupid, then you're just plain stupid!" ============================================== Powered by CentOS5 (RHEL5) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHemiHAHUWFbtwPigRAowzAJ429jU5WZsIo9yA87vemrXm22PUJACfVGp7 RxnJ+67PIkCU7Do6+Nvfl6A= =c3oq -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----