| 2008/12/10-16 [Computer/HW/CPU, Computer/HW/Drives] UID:52220 Activity:moderate | 12/9 Another idea for the CSUA that lets you spend money and maybe get some
cool toys. Instead of buying a beefy server (like say, a massive server
with 20 386DX processors), buy a few cheap machines (like the ones
mentioned below) that have good disks and work on failover / load
balancing. A netscaler or other piece of hardware is complete overkill,
but maybe hacking an OpenBSD box could do the trick. The idea is that
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| 2007/7/17 [Computer/SW/Languages/C_Cplusplus] UID:47312 Activity:nil | 7/13 CSUA Life Roster
1 point each for: key:
significant other (out of county rule applies) G
car (Chevy Novas do count) C
housing (dorms DO NOT count) H
own computer running reasonable multi-tasking OS U
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| 2007/7/13-16 [Computer/Networking] UID:47279 Activity:nil | 7/13 I'm thinking about getting a Soekris 4501 to replace my the P2-400
that is currently acting as my home firewall. Has anyone used a
Soekris system for this purpose? If so, how well does it work? Also,
if there are any alternatives (similar power/form factor), I would
appreciate links to those as well. tia.
\_ John got me to use a WRAP box similar to Soekris. I use this one:
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| 2006/8/16-18 [Computer/SW/OS/FreeBSD] UID:44024 Activity:nil | 8/16 Greatest piece of software ever written is 4.3 BSD:
http://tinyurl.com/go7lv (informationweek.com)
\_ Windows is run by more computers than all other OS combined.
\_ that only makes it common, not great.
\_ If it wasn't great people wouldn't use it. They'd use 4.3
BSD.
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