At 04:33 PM 11/17/02 -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: >I think Clemens said something to the effect that there is nothing >more annoying than the presence of an example. Your best bet would be >to load up this old box (actually pretty nice hardware!) you have and >burn a CD while doing "other tasks" and watch the fifo while you are >doing that. As long as the fifo does not drop below a comfortable >margin for safety you should be fine.
How do I watch the fifo? The new IDE CD-R has "BurnProof" so I think that will indeed help. >Let me recommend something different. Buy a dedicated firewall from >Linksys or D-link or Netgear or any of the other consumer products >network firewalls that exist. I did think about that, and that's a good idea. Truth be told, I'm about to redo my own home machines on the public IP side of the lan so I'm looking at this as a nice warm up... And "down-grading" the machine to be behind a commercial firewall (instead of THE firewall) would not be hard. >Then use your PIII-450 as your CD writer with a full X11 desktop >installation. Load the box up with all of the fun toys that you can >and let the reliable operation of it convince people that this was the >right system to put in place there. That's Phase-II of this project... ;) I think it would be good for him to see that to burn his CD he can just move files via samba to the Linux machine and run a single command or shell script. No real need for the GUI. (Although I do like X-CD-Roast). And for a desktop it will be hard for this PIII-450 to compare with his new P4 2.0G XP desktop. He also has really good beer. So I want to make sure he will need help often. Thanks very much for your (and everyone else's comments)! I'll be back at debian-user tomorrow with specific setup questions, without doubt. I'm sure I'll be asking about pppoe -- I've never set it up as I have static IPs, but I'll want to review the config so when I take the box to his place I'm not fumbling trying to get it to connect. Reviewing things today has given me HOWTO overload. I sure wish every HOWTO included a last modified date! Cheers, -- Bill Moseley mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
