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(...) Conversely? How can it be filtering and forwarding if there are no processes running? And why wouldn't it shutdown all the way at some point? (22 years ago, 16-Apr-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) close... a firewall, that you told to shut down - so it's not running any processes at all, no programs are running on it... but it still filters and forwards packets. How can you hack a firewall if you can't launch any process on it? :) (22 years ago, 16-Apr-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) What's a halted firewall? Just one that's not working? or something neater? Thanks to all who answered my questions about making old iron into firewalls some time back... I went as far as downloading the "firewall on a floppy" image that (...) (22 years ago, 16-Apr-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) could be - but I think we ended up putting some not-so-good memory in it... I think it reports 8016K or something like that... (...) heh, nope - it doesn't even log to itself, nor does it run _any_ services (other than mgetty on the serial :). (...) (22 years ago, 16-Apr-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Most likely, that 486 actually has 8 1MB SIMMs under the hood, and it claims it has 7168k or so due to caching ("shadowing") the video BIOS ROM, the system BIOS ROM... ...Being a firewall, you can probably at least get away with turning off (...) (22 years ago, 15-Apr-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Baseline. (...) They may be oldbut they work! As to 6100, while given enough RAM it should run MacOS 8.6 and higher, I'm afraid your are of of luck with OpenGL programs, as GLUT only operates with ATI graphics cards and to my knowledge ATI have (...) (22 years ago, 11-Apr-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Cool! If you can clearly show where you make the changes, I might be able to port this back into the other versions. I've never been all that happy with the rendering speed myself. You can see in the code where I tinkered a bit with display (...) (22 years ago, 11-Apr-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) hey, it's not a 386, but our home firewall is a 486 with 7M or RAM :) and our mailserver/fileserver/wireless firewall is a P90... I was thinking of putting a streaming mp3 server on it too... *grin* (22 years ago, 11-Apr-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) You call that a baseline? Can't you do something for the old PowerMac 6100 that I got out of my sister in-law's closet? All I can coax out of it is some sort of boing sound, but I'm sure you could work around that. ;) I'd tell you about my on (...) (22 years ago, 11-Apr-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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At present, I am writing my own OpenGL renderer for LdGLite (Mac). In order to spped things up I am defining the parts within OpenGL and then calling then by their definitions. Theoretically this places the entire model within the Graphics Card (...) (22 years ago, 11-Apr-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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