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Yup, last heard of firewalling for someone. Long retired from the community group service but at least I diverted it from landfill to floppyFW work. Shoudl carry on with that forever. Other last heard of at the end of last summer serving up files having found its way into a language school of all places ... amazing how things sort of drift around if people have an inkling what to do with old kit rather than junk it! Or was yours the low end pentium as well? Am I getting confused about the provenance of some of this kit? I had heaps of stuff go through my hands in the 99-2003 era before Alex was born and my fibromyalgia took a nasty turn for the worst. About 10 or so old donated and then superceded systems went to a fellow Oxlugger who's been parcelling them out as firewalls over the last couple of years. He's into floppyfw as doing all one needs without the hassle of a whining hard disk thats gonna fail sooner or later. And with 6-8 year old stuff that is probably sooner... At least one of those is in an old original XT case, and a couple in old original AT cases! So far our move to Charlbury seems to be going OK. Megan has settled in with a heap of village (well overgrown village with a town charter ca 12 hundred summat) girls which would never have happened with the atomised private school situation in Summertown. She essentially didn't have a peer group in her state school, and the middle class highly educated parentage showed in respect to the kid's socialisation despite our best intentions to "muck in" with everybody (and my working/underclass origins). OK, she's very bright - top decile at least, maybe top 1% like Dad or Mum - but it went deeper than that. The tiny handful of girls from educated families just stuck to each other like glue. Some sort of osmosis about what was interesting/valuable. It could even simply be down to their vocabulary and ability to articulate and imagine, which is what I found was the most significant difference in my chatting with the other kids in playgrounds, and with their parents. I instinctively and actively teach my kids words .. for example, the use of the word "articulate" above would be followed by an explanation of what it meant and its context in passant as I was talking to them, must have an impact upon their ability to formulate and deal with concepts and creativity. How are you settling into the village? Last I heard of it you were saying it was a slow process as most locals had their own stable family/social circuits and didn't particular need newcomers to add to them... On Mon, 2005-08-22 at 22:03 +0000, David Bell wrote: > On 22/08/05 22:30:52, M.Blackmore wrote: > > Completely off even this topic - David, you remember those mobos you > > gave me in the late 90s, just when Harry Potter had first come out > > (your > > wife was reading it in the car at the time). Well, as of last contact > > in > > april they were still (a) a firewall and (b) a modest server, though > > feeling a bit stunned with a pair of 120gb disks attached to it via an > > ata/133 raid card. > > Yes, remember them well. One was an AMD 486 DX100, replaced by the AMD > K6/400 I built, which went to a well deserved cause on Saturday. I had > more fun with the former than any other combo since. Capture it for me > if it is ever retired. The board and CPU were one of those Scan.Co > bargain bundles of the week (free cooling fan) that used to be > advertised in the Micro-Mart. 'Twas a bargain indeed by he sound of it > :) > > > > Largest disk at the time they were made was what? 4gb? > > Way beyond my means in those days :( > > David > > > > > -- > The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG > Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the > message body to unsubscribe. FAQ: www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html > -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe. FAQ: www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html