Most people look forward to weekends because they relax, go out, have fun, that sort of thing. On the other hand, I look forward to weekends because I can work on computer projects that... differ slightly from what I work on during the week when I'm researching articles or doing sys admin stuff. Also, I usually find time to do some pleasure reading and so forth.
This weekend, I think it's time to put my old firewall out to pasture and set up a new machine. Right now the firewall is a Pentium II 350 MHz machine running Ubuntu Warty Warthog. Since Warty is being retired at the end of this month, it's time to put a new machine into place and set up a few things I've been putting off for some time.
I plan to use the Dapper server install to replace Warty, and an Athlon 1.7GHz machine that's been seldom-used. Might try to dig up some additional RAM for it too...
After that's in place, I'll probably swap out the motherboard in the PII machine with a slightly faster motherboard and the PII will go to the old parts bin.
Things to do this weekend...
Most people look forward to weekends because they relax, go out, have fun, that sort of thing. On the other hand, I look forward to weekends because I can work on computer projects that... differ slightly from what I work on during the week when I'm researching articles or doing sys admin stuff. Also, I usually find time to do some pleasure reading and so forth.
This weekend, I think it's time to put my old firewall out to pasture and set up a new machine. Right now the firewall is a Pentium II 350 MHz machine running Ubuntu Warty Warthog. Since Warty is being retired at the end of this month, it's time to put a new machine into place and set up a few things I've been putting off for some time.
I plan to use the Dapper server install to replace Warty, and an Athlon 1.7GHz machine that's been seldom-used. Might try to dig up some additional RAM for it too...
After that's in place, I'll probably swap out the motherboard in the PII machine with a slightly faster motherboard and the PII will go to the old parts bin.