Hello Maurice!   
      
   Wednesday March 01 2006 10:11, you wrote to me:   
      
    MK> Hey Sean!   
      
    MK> Mar 01 08:31 06, Sean Rima wrote to Maurice Kinal:   
      
    SR>> Oh I can never have enough :) I just seem to keep finding old   
    SR>> boxes somewhere to do jobs :)   
      
    MK> That isn't a problem here either.  I've got two boxes sitting on the   
    MK> floor next to me for a couple of weeks now that I probably could get   
    MK> working in short order.  Also the neighbour has a storage area filled   
    MK> with them and I am sure there are more then a few there that could be   
    MK> fired up if there was a need.   
      
      
   I have 4 Pcs at the moment and 2 laptops :)   
      
    SR>> Mine is a basic 486 PC nothing fancy just does the firewall and   
    SR>> isdn dialup, wish we had some form of broadband here   
      
    MK> That sounds excellent.  Even with broadband a 486 can easily keep up   
    MK> as far as connecting local machines to the outside world goes.  The   
    MK> only slowdown I have noticed is on 100Mb network interfaces but there   
    MK> we don't do masquerading/firewalling so it isn't an issue.  I think   
    MK> for your cause the 486 is the way to go.  They tend to be rock solid   
    MK> dependable machines especially for grunt work.  I have to get mine   
    MK> back online again but have been distracted by a few things as of late.   
      
   Yeah it does the job with hardly any disk space or ram :)   
      
   Sean   
      
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