No doubt about it - those Macs are good. I might need to play with one some day. So is Linux. You don't constantly hack at your linux firewall/server however - you set it up, and it just runs. I've had NT servers that did the same thing. They got replaced (at work) for hardware support contract reasons (some people are VERY risk adverse). I have a P90 over drive chipped Windows 95 box that I keep just for programming AVL Genesis slide shows. It's the only motherboard I have left that will accept a full length, full height ISA board (AVL Genesis). It was up graded to W95 in 1996, and haven't required anything since. It hasn't been patched since we stopped surfing the Internet with it years ago - just runs when I want it (not that often now). Your home network runs circles around mine! I'll save this for the next time my wife asks why I need to add another component to it!
On 12/26/06, John W. Reames III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Tue, 26 Dec 2006, OK Don wrote: Umm I'm not a "mac person" but I picked up a piece of cordwood for cheap and its suprisingly capable. OS X (any variant) is unix under the hood with an Apple GUI on top. Literally. It is a Mach Kernel with BSD trimmings. Dig into "Applications/Utilities/Terminal" and behold the unix prompt. You can remote manage it via VNC. It supports full X11 capabilities. It has no problem at all with multiprocessing. I was sitting there burning CD's while sucking down disk images and surfing the net... I don't have a single coaster and did not have a single buffer underrun. It just worked
-- OK Don, KD5NRO Norman, OK "Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there." Will Rogers '90 300D, '87 300SDL, '81 240D, '78 450SLC, '97 Ply Grand Voyager
