On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 12:20:22PM +0100, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: > For a long time now I've been using an old Pentium 75 as the > "headless mail server/firewall/gateway" (running Woody) in my > home, and it works very well. > > The only problem is that it is old and I wonder what to replace it > with if it dies. > > Ideally I would like to have a new box to replace it, which should > be small and silent, and consume as little electricity as > possible; but it does not need to have "high end" specs at all. It > does not need to be fast, nor have lots of memory (the old Pentium > works fine with 16 M), and 1 gig of disk space would be more than > enough. No sound needed, no video (in principle), but of course it > should have room for 2 NIC's. >
Try looking for a laptop with a broken LCD. You'll get low power consumption, and a built-in UPS. The only gotcha would be finding PCMCIA NICs which use external dongles so you can stick two of them at a time in the laptop. Of course, if you get a laptop with a built-in NIC or USB this wouldn't be an issue. dt -- Dave Thayer | If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about Denver, Colorado USA | cutting them down? We might, if they screamed all [EMAIL PROTECTED] | the time, for no good reason. - Jack Handey -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
