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| As many of you already know, The Hobby Show in Toronto is fast approaching. The dates are November 7, 8 & 9 / 2003. This is the first full weekend (Friday, Saturday and Sunday) in November. The LEGO builders booth that I have been organizing is (...) (21 years ago, 26-Sep-03, to lugnet.loc.ca.on, lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
| | | | | Re: 486-33 8Mb
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| (...) I can suggest: Float test (if it floats, you failed) Radiator Test (smash it against the radiator until it breaks) Drop Test (out the window- just make sure no-one is below it) Bulletproof test (only if you vote for the alliance, in which (...) (21 years ago, 2-Sep-03, to lugnet.loc.ca.on)
| | | | | Re: 486-33 8Mb
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| (...) You can use it as a good firewall. That's what we use for our home network - an old 486, with (less than [1]) 8Mb of RAM, and ~200M disk space... And it's the firewall for ~8 machines at any given time, doing pretty smart stuff, with an (...) (21 years ago, 1-Sep-03, to lugnet.loc.ca.on)
| | | | | Re: 486-33 8Mb
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| (...) I have heard of people running linux on tired iron like this (there's even a linux on a floppy distribution, I hear, that's already set up to do this) and using the box as a firewall/dhcp server between the outside world and the rest of your (...) (21 years ago, 1-Sep-03, to lugnet.loc.ca.on, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
| | | | | Re: 486-33 8Mb
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| (...) This reminds me of when as a student I went on a work experience assignment with a computer company and my home computer was more powerful than anything they had. They then bought a 486 33mhz server. I wondered at the time if it was just so (...) (21 years ago, 1-Sep-03, to lugnet.loc.ca.on)
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