13 Dec
2001
13 Dec
'01
6:09 p.m.
On December 13, Doc wrote:
A firewall with a video card? Gotta love them PCs. ;)
But yes, I agree...Linux can be made to work well on machines with
small quantities of memory. It's actually pretty good at it.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
St. Petersburg, FL
Remember Linux
too needs lots of memory. With >16 meg on a video card
your OS needs about 16x that. It is the video display that is the
killer.
BZZZT!! Wrong.
Linux *likes* lots of memory. I can show you X running on a 386SX with
12M and a 1M video card. Not just a demo; that's my friend's firewall. 
13 Dec
13 Dec
6:46 p.m.
On Thu, 13 Dec 2001, Dave McGuire wrote:
A firewall with a video card? Gotta love them PCs.
;)
Yeah... Most distros don't even have a headless install option, and not
all PCs will even complete a POST without a video card. But more
relevant is the fact that hardly anybody I know, even the geeks, knows
what a null-modem cable is for, let alone own a serial terminal.
Doc
14 Dec
14 Dec
6:58 a.m.
Doc wrote:
On Thu, 13 Dec 2001, Dave McGuire wrote:
I prefer a terminal server. I picked up a Cisco ASM for $50 for o100 ports
(64 ports in decimal ;-).
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A firewall with a video card? Gotta love them
PCs. ;)
Yeah... Most distros don't even have a headless install option, and not
all PCs will even complete a POST without a video card. But more
relevant is the fact that hardly anybody I know, even the geeks, knows
what a null-modem cable is for, let alone own a serial terminal. 
6:18 p.m.
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11:55 p.m.
(b) using my HP95LX and HP100LX palmtops as serial
terminals rather more
than I use them for anything else.
I love my twin 95LXes, but their battery monitors went bananas and now they
constantly claim the batteries are almost dead, even when I just replaced
them. Both of my 95s have this problem and it's really very annoying. Done
much repair work on these to tell me where to start looking? :-)
Because of this my Palm m505 has largely supplanted them. Kind of sad but
I really like the colour Palms. I miss having a keyboard though.
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15 Dec
15 Dec
2:53 p.m.
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8:18 p.m.
> > (b) using my HP95LX and HP100LX palmtops as
serial terminals rather more
> > than I use them for anything else.
> I love my twin 95LXes, but their battery monitors
went bananas and now they
> constantly claim the batteries are almost dead, even when I just replaced
Just to check the obvious : It is complaining about
the main batteries
and not the lithium cell that's used for memory retention when you're
changing the main battery, right?
Correct.
them. Both of
my 95s have this problem and it's really very annoying. Done
much repair work on these to tell me where to start looking? :-)
From what I remember, most of the low-battery circuitry is in the large
custom HP chip inside. I don't know if there are any relevant external
components, though.
13 Dec
13 Dec
7:44 p.m.
But yes, I agree...Linux can be made to work well on
machines with
small quantities of memory. It's actually pretty good at it.
Hey! Don't forget about ... *waves NetBSD flag frantically*
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