My instant reaction to that would have been putting a stripped-down whitebox running OpenBSD as a logging firewall between the G5 and the 'net, to check for attacks on the mail and ftp subsystems.

Can you tell me what a whitebox is?


I have my personal web site on my old clamshell iBook, and it runs a dynamic DNS client every ten minutes via cron. That basically keeps the disk spinning constantly. Burned out a drive last year, and I'm worried it will burn out a drive this year. So I'm thinking of putting the client on a RAM disk, although, since I wrote the client in perl, I suspect that I'd then have to copy perl itself to the RAM disk as well.

RAM disks are so cheap now.  I saw a 64MB USB on google for $8.97.



Joe.


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