Nifty
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| Author | Content |
|---|---|
| ColonelPanik Jan 10, 2008 2:46 PM EDT |
I'll take one, blue please |
| Sander_Marechal Jan 10, 2008 3:00 PM EDT |
I like them a lot, but I really need a CD burner in my computer. Even in a cheap-ass surf box. How else am I going to burn those Linux ISOs? :-) The shuttle comes without a CD player or burner, which makes it unusable for me. Too bad because they look great! |
| hkwint Jan 10, 2008 3:11 PM EDT |
Quoting:Now else am I going to burn those Linux ISOs? Not possible to have a CD-burner connected via USB, like USB floppy drives? If not, I hereby patent it, and release the patent in the public domain! |
| azerthoth Jan 10, 2008 3:23 PM EDT |
I have a 40x USB CD/DVD burner right next to me. Cost me US$70 and works faster than the one I built into my desktop. |
| rijelkentaurus Jan 10, 2008 4:59 PM EDT |
Add a couple of NICs (or a NIC with multiple connections), and IPCop/Smoothwall/WTFever, and you've a nice little firewall for a lot cheaper than a "real" firewall from a vendor like SonicWALL, Watchguard or Linksys/Cisco. |
| gus3 Jan 10, 2008 8:43 PM EDT |
rijelkentaurus, take a look at one-NIC NAT. It uses an interface alias on the firewall, so the NIC is talking on two different sub-nets using the same Ethernet. I had one set up for three years on cable Internet, and speed tests between a one-NIC firewall and no firewall showed negligible slowdown. And really, what's an extra twenty seconds when downloading a Knoppix ISO? |
| tracyanne Jan 10, 2008 10:28 PM EDT |
Quoting: Not possible to have a CD-burner connected via USB pardon, you are joking? |
| Sander_Marechal Jan 10, 2008 11:32 PM EDT |
@tracyanne: Yes, he was :-) |
| hkwint Jan 11, 2008 3:50 AM EDT |
In fact, I was not joking, but asking. Too lazy to find out for myself - that's what fellow LXer members are for, isn't it? |
| ColonelPanik Jan 11, 2008 5:43 AM EDT |
LXer - Sharing the abuse! /sarcasm |
| rijelkentaurus Jan 11, 2008 8:37 AM EDT |
@gus3, thanks, I'll look into that. |
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