-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 1 Jan 2008 08:57:22 -0500 Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com> wrote: > Have you ever thought about how rare floppy drives are now? At best > you go with a bootable usb, if your notebook supports bootable USB. > My Libretto does have a bootable floppy, but that is something extra > to carry. It will not boot from anything else (besides its HD). My > nc4010 (this notebook) will boot from usb. My corp notebook (nc2400) > is locked down; and I don't see any value at getting corp IT bent out > of shape. why would you even think about using a Notebook computer as a firewall? I was assuming you were going to delegate this task to an older machine with sufficient resources to handle the task and not give the task to a notebook computer. - -- 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) iD8DBQFHelHmAHUWFbtwPigRAnENAJ4lTmw4Y/zYA0o2UoLkS9kfS0BmBgCfdCaY MMt82ApSGiXMHn10XOFXslQ= =fm8P -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----