Re: Laptops as routers

2004-10-31 Thread cpghost
On Sun, Oct 31, 2004 at 01:54:33PM -0800, Luke wrote: > To go off on a bit of a tangent here, I find the idea of replacing hard > drives with flash memory intriguing. When I first heard someone talk > about doing this several years ago, the idea was quickly shot down by > people saying that fla

Re: Laptops as routers

2004-10-31 Thread R. W.
On Sunday 31 October 2004 21:54, Luke wrote: > > If you are worry about power consumption or reliability when using > > old computers I have some general tips for you: > > 1. Don't use a storage device that has spinning disks, instead use > > a CF card, Zip Drive/Disk, etc. > > http://www.cfide.co.

Re: Laptops as routers

2004-10-31 Thread Nikolas Britton
Luke wrote: If you are worry about power consumption or reliability when using old computers I have some general tips for you: 1. Don't use a storage device that has spinning disks, instead use a CF card, Zip Drive/Disk, etc. http://www.cfide.co.uk/compact_flash_ide_adapters.shtml To go off on

Re: Laptops as routers

2004-10-31 Thread Luke
If you are worry about power consumption or reliability when using old computers I have some general tips for you: 1. Don't use a storage device that has spinning disks, instead use a CF card, Zip Drive/Disk, etc. http://www.cfide.co.uk/compact_flash_ide_adapters.shtml To go off on a bit of a ta

Re: Laptops as routers

2004-10-31 Thread Nikolas Britton
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Oct 30, 2004 at 11:38:02PM -0500, Nikolas Britton wrote: Here is a better idea! Step 1: Go dumpster diving for old computers (Pentium 1 or better, 8MB IDE Storage Device or better, and a minimun of 48MB/Ram). Step 2: Grab some networks cards wail your in the dum

Re: Laptops as routers

2004-10-31 Thread Bill Schoolcraft
At Sun, 31 Oct 2004 it looks like Emanuel Strobl composed: > Am Sonntag, 31. Oktober 2004 00:20 schrieb Paul Hoffman: > > Greetings again. I'm looking to buy a couple of cheap old laptops to > > be used as temporary routers. They just need to be able to handle > > PCMCIA Ethernet cards, not much m

Re: Laptops as routers

2004-10-30 Thread Dick Davies
* Robert Storey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [1036 04:36]: > On Sun, 31 Oct 2004 01:12:19 +0200 > Emanuel Strobl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Am Sonntag, 31. Oktober 2004 00:20 schrieb Paul Hoffman: > > > Greetings again. I'm looking to buy a couple of cheap old laptops to > > > be used as temporary ro

Re: Laptops as routers

2004-10-30 Thread cpghost
On Sat, Oct 30, 2004 at 11:38:02PM -0500, Nikolas Britton wrote: > Here is a better idea! > Step 1: Go dumpster diving for old computers (Pentium 1 or better, 8MB > IDE Storage Device or better, and a minimun of 48MB/Ram). > Step 2: Grab some networks cards wail your in the dumpster. > Step 3: Ins

Re: Laptops as routers

2004-10-30 Thread cpghost
On Sat, Oct 30, 2004 at 03:20:39PM -0700, Paul Hoffman wrote: > Greetings again. I'm looking to buy a couple of cheap old laptops to > be used as temporary routers. They just need to be able to handle > PCMCIA Ethernet cards, not much more (having an Ethernet connector on > the motherboard is fi

Re: Laptops as routers

2004-10-30 Thread Nikolas Britton
Oh... If you don't want to do the dumpster diving then you can get some good stuff here: http://www.retrobox.com/rbwww/home/search_results_pc_computers.asp?bin_id=world&page=1&Manufacturer_ID=&CPU_ID=&CPU_Speed_ID=&RAM_ID=&HD_Size_ID=&CD_ROM_Flag=&Price=&order_by=price%5Fcurrent%5Fselling%5Fprice+

Re: Laptops as routers

2004-10-30 Thread Nikolas Britton
Paul Hoffman wrote: Greetings again. I'm looking to buy a couple of cheap old laptops to be used as temporary routers. They just need to be able to handle PCMCIA Ethernet cards, not much more (having an Ethernet connector on the motherboard is fine, of course.) I don't want to run XWindows, and

Re: Laptops as routers

2004-10-30 Thread Robert Storey
On Sun, 31 Oct 2004 01:12:19 +0200 Emanuel Strobl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am Sonntag, 31. Oktober 2004 00:20 schrieb Paul Hoffman: > > Greetings again. I'm looking to buy a couple of cheap old laptops to > > be used as temporary routers. They just need to be able to handle > > PCMCIA Ethernet

Re: Laptops as routers

2004-10-30 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Sonntag, 31. Oktober 2004 00:20 schrieb Paul Hoffman: > Greetings again. I'm looking to buy a couple of cheap old laptops to > be used as temporary routers. They just need to be able to handle > PCMCIA Ethernet cards, not much more (having an Ethernet connector on > the motherboard is fine, of c

Laptops as routers

2004-10-30 Thread Paul Hoffman
Greetings again. I'm looking to buy a couple of cheap old laptops to be used as temporary routers. They just need to be able to handle PCMCIA Ethernet cards, not much more (having an Ethernet connector on the motherboard is fine, of course.) I don't want to run XWindows, and I'm sure 64 MB and