OT: Lowest-power small server solutions

Allison> Also an older 500mb-1gb drive will use less power than a Allison> newer fast spinning drive. Or better yet netboot it and only Allison> keep a floppy. Pull all the IO you don't need and run the Allison> video at 640x480x256 as a further power reduction. Use a Allison> monitor (or KVM switch) as you don't need a monitor save to Allison> check on it. Good comments. My wirewall etc. is a Linux box, 486/66, with a 400 MB drive. No other I/O, no floppy, it boots from the hard drive. The one drawback is that the drive is so old it doesn't support software controlled spindown, so it spins all the time. That may actually help its reliability... but I've been meaning to change it. Perhaps I'll replace it with my old HP desktop that ate two CDROMs in a row (which still work fine on other machines). paul