On Fri, 12 May 2006, Joseph Alotta wrote: > > 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?
Generic cheapo x86 computer. Possibly home-built from scrap parts. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitebox_computer > > 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. Tht's a flash RAM devive, not a RAM disk. Different thing. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAM_drive -- Chris Devers DO NOT LEAVE IT IS NOT REAL
