So last December I find this old clunker in the garbage pile at work: base memory, CD rom, and power source. Oh, and it weighs a ton.<\/p>\n
I decided that I wanted a server to act as my internet gateway and was too cheap to buy a router; I bought an 8 gig HD used for $10 and burned the appropriate disks. Realize that my wonderful PIII 555 is slowing down a bit, so in order to get the most out of it I decide that it should no longer have to deal with internet sniphing, attacks, pinging and so on.<\/p>\n
The install takes just about all night. It succeeds, though, and I got to see what the “new” (now of course old) gnome desktop looks like, a glimpse of which I’d seen a couple of years before with FC5. (Shudder. Bad experience.)<\/p>\n
And what happens?<\/p>\n
My brother says that the HD I bought was a dud. Point final.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
So last December I find this old clunker in the garbage pile at work: base memory, CD rom, and power source. Oh, and it weighs a ton. I decided that I wanted a server to act as my internet gateway and was too cheap to buy a router; I bought an 8 gig HD used … <\/p>\n