** Chris Rowson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-09-13 20:45]: > On 13/09/2007, Matthew Larsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > check this out > > > > http://www.custompc.co.uk/news/601272/killer-nic--first-look.html > > That's one of the most frivolous pieces of kit I've seen in a while. > How much fun is that! ** end quote [Chris Rowson]
They totally glossed over the best feature of that card, and the one that could make the price a bit more justifiable. One of the applications that can be installed on the card was a firewall. Now that's an idea I was pushing for back when I worked at SmoothWall (mk1) - put a Linux firewall onto a PCI (or etc.) card to plug direct into a Windows box. Of course with the extra level of hardware development they've trimmed down the PC on a card aspect of that to the bare minimum. Back then, and having to think along the lines of off the shelf hardware, I was looking at cards that would have required an ethernet connection to the host PC, and the card cost was somewhat higher - but then so were firewalls back then! Boy I miss the days when I could proactively work on open source stuff rather than have to conentrate on anything that I can get paid for :( I spend way too much time fixing Windows PCs. -- Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd. | http://www.aptanet.com/ | 023 9238 0001 ====================================================================== Registered in England | Company No: 4905028 | Registered Office: Crawford House, Hambledon Road, Denmead, Waterlooville, Hants, PO7 6NU -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
