On Wed, 25 May 2005 10:27, Martin Baehr wrote: > On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 09:36:36AM +1200, Craig FALCONER wrote: > > And blowing a couple hundred dollars on something that needs the warranty > > voided to do what is needed, isn�t really that useful. > > i expect that it is still cheaper than any other hardware for the same > purpose. who cares about warranty at that price? Money doesn't grow on trees in NZ like it does in Europe.
> and if you build your > machine from older parts (the only way to be cheaper yet) you have no > warranty either. > > maintaining a self built machine also costs a lot of time. Eh? I got an old IBM PS/1 25MHz '486 about 3 years ago as a firewall. Put more memory in it, then IPCop on it, and it's gone continuously ever since. I have kept the IPCop s/w more or less up to date. 3 or 4 X 20 minutes or so for updates is not a lot of time over several years. > the downtime i had because of using an old pc as a router is already > worth more than what i paid for the wrt54g. > > is there a service that allows you to find the cheapest price for > computer stuff? http://www.pricespy.co.nz iirc -- C. S.
