On Tue, 16 Mar 2004 17:13:23 -0000, "Christian McArdle"
wrote:

where's the d-i-y in _that_ ???

I did rewire the socket and consumer unit the router plugs in to.

Christian,

P.S. I'd be very happy to have a Linux server back again, if I could cobble
together a solid state machine for a reasonable cost. Now that DRAM is so
cheap, I wonder if I could piece together a machine that just creates a huge
ram disk and shuts down the HDD...


Yes you could.

There are also IDE interface compatible flash disks which are enough
to store a small distribution able to behave as a firewall.

In principle, you boot from this and use DRAM based filesystems to
keep regularly run executables and regularly used data. You can then
log back to flash based disk.


..andy

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