Re: OT: Free machines

2006-02-06 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Tuesday 07 February 2006 18:20, Roger Searle wrote: > to make it an on-topic thread ;-) > > Would one of those machines (hypothetically if they're already gone) be > enough to set up an ipcop box? Ideally so. > Perhaps with a larger hard drive? Probably not necessary. I had an IPCop box runni

Re: OT: Free machines

2006-02-06 Thread Andy George
My P200 box at home dishing out internet access to/from the internet to my home lan, has a PCI 4 port lan switch, and IPCop. Hasnt missed a beat in 9 months... Very pleased. Roger Searle wrote: to make it an on-topic thread ;-) Would one of those machines (hypothetically if they're already

Re: OT: Free machines

2006-02-06 Thread Roger Searle
to make it an on-topic thread ;-) Would one of those machines (hypothetically if they're already gone) be enough to set up an ipcop box? Perhaps with a larger hard drive? Cheers, Roger Craig FALCONER wrote: I have too much crap. Currently there are four or five P166-P200 machines wait

OT: Free machines

2006-02-06 Thread Craig FALCONER
I have too much crap. Currently there are four or five P166-P200 machines waiting for a trip to molten media. If anyone wants them please email me off list and they're yours. P166-P200 MMX 32-96 Mb ram, 1-4 Gb HDD, 100 Mbit NIC, some modems or sound cards. All are ATX and are working. Relevanc

Re: Filesystem comparison was: Re: Wasted hard drive space on new format

2006-02-06 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Tuesday 07 February 2006 11:56, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: > > Um, Well. JFS is a time tested filesystem. > > See:- > > http://jfs.sourceforge.net/ > > > > It's been an IBM product for many years, was available for O/S2 > > And it has been pointed out that just because jfs has been available for > m

Re: protoize

2006-02-06 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Monday 06 February 2006 23:13, Wesley Parish wrote: > Does anyone know anything about how to use it? I'm up to my eyeballs in > old K&R code from two different generations and I'd like to tidy it up. http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-3.3.6/gcc/Running-Protoize.html Praise Be to Google! -- C

Re: Filesystem comparison was: Re: Wasted hard drive space on new format

2006-02-06 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
> Um, Well. JFS is a time tested filesystem. > See:- > http://jfs.sourceforge.net/ > > It's been an IBM product for many years, was available for O/S2 And it has been pointed out that just because jfs has been available for mainframes on hardware xyz for donkeys years does not imply in any way th

protoize

2006-02-06 Thread Wesley Parish
Does anyone know anything about how to use it? I'm up to my eyeballs in old K&R code from two different generations and I'd like to tidy it up. Thanks Wesley Parish -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish - Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? You ask, what is the most imp

Re: Filesystem comparison was: Re: Wasted hard drive space on new format

2006-02-06 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Monday 06 February 2006 20:32, Wesley Parish wrote: > On Mon, 06 Feb 2006 13:30, Ben Devine wrote: > > On 2/4/06, Wesley Parish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > jfs: > > > > * very low cpu overhead (lowest) > > > > * file writing unaffected by partition load > > > > * flushes to di

Re: Filesystem comparison was: Re: Wasted hard drive space on new format

2006-02-06 Thread Wesley Parish
On Mon, 06 Feb 2006 13:30, Ben Devine wrote: > On 2/4/06, Wesley Parish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > jfs: > > > * very low cpu overhead (lowest) > > > * file writing unaffected by partition load > > > * flushes to disk when the IO scheduler tells it to > > > (see /usr/src/linux/Docu