060101 Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: > On Sunday 01 January 2006 19:53, Neil Bothwick wrote: >>> No, I'm not going out to buy more hardware. Am I missing something >> A cable at least, a cable and two cheap NICs at most :) >> Networking them would enable use if the 2nd machine as a backup server, >> reducing the risk of needing to use it as your main box. > And make possible the use of the ssh+screen combination described before. > Moreover, it would allow sharing the ADSL line between the two boxes, > so they could be connected to Internet both at the same time.
But why would I want to go to all that trouble just to have another computer I can plug in if the usual one fails ?? I would have to have on OS in the back-up machine -- Mandriva 2005 ? -- , run Sshd (or whatever) with accompanying security paranoia (which I've never had to get into so far), get it to work properly -- there are always bugs & awkwardnesses with something like that -- , then use it all to install -- slowly -- Gentoo on the 2nd machine. This would be all new to me & have no other use for work or normal life, all for a machine I built in 2000 & which is beginning to show signs of age (eg the on/off switch doesn't work reliably) !! Really, some of us believe computers are working machines, not toys, & we try to keep our systems simple, reliable & useful. -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT `-O----------O---' University of Toronto -- [email protected] mailing list
