All the talk of hard drives, I find it easier to keep a one floppy drive
system!
Snag an old Cisco PIX firewall case, or LocalDirector case. They're rack
mounted, have a killer fan, support a floppy with a dust cover and hold a
standard 386/486 mom board. You don't have an *outside* keyboard/monitor
connector, but big deal!!
I found one for $20 at a Ham Swap meet....
Much easier to put it all on a floppy and put the floppy in the case, cover
it with a dust cover and put it away in the corner...
I have over a year on mine with no reboot...
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John Burton
Midwest City, Oklahoma
http://sxs.sandbox.dynip.com
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert Stratton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2001 11:42
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [STN] Open Source? Was "A Final plea..."
>
>
> Please keep my $70.00 it has been well worth the price, I
> already make the
> system
> boot from a hard drive. How about a 2 floppy system? I would
> just as soon
> have
> a hard drive system though
>
> Keep up the good work
>
> Robert
>
>
> At 02:23 PM 5/30/2001 -0700, you wrote:
> >Sales of ShareTheNet have dropped off almost completely. I
> believe this is
> >because of the following factors (in order of precedence):
> >
> >o There are plenty of inexpensive hardware alternatives
> that do as
> >great job
> >of sharing your Internet connection.
> >o STN does not support PPPoE, IPSec & other features
> >o The STN web site is old & crummy
> >o There has not been an update to STN in quite awhile
> >o I'm sure there's more, but you get the picture.
> >
> >I've been working on a new version of STN for over a year, but
> I've come up
> >against a very difficult technical problem - the newest kernel
> + the newest
> >glibc just don't leave me enough room on the floppy for
> everything else. I
> >spent time working with uClibc, but that has not panned out so
> far either.
> >
> >So, what to do? I'm considering releasing STN as an open
> source product.
> >That is, I'll release the source code under the GPL, but still
> sell support
> >for it. It will no longer require a registration code to run,
> but to get
> >official support you'll have to register it.
> >
> >I'm worried that I'll get a lot of people saying "hey, I want
> my $70 bucks
> >back." Does anyone think this is a reasonable position?
> >
> >Would anyone on the list sign up to be a developer?
> >
> >Any suggestions, concerns?
> >
> >Regards,
> >John Lombardo
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