On Thu, 21 Jul 2005 10:14:56 +1200 Carl Cerecke wrote: > On 21/07/05, Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Thu, 21 Jul 2005 08:40:51 +1200 > > Carl Cerecke wrote: > > > > > > > > > > I think I've pretty much settled on buying a modem with a firewall in > > > it, and having a small, quiet server behind it. Some of those > > > compaq/HP small-form-factor PCs might do the trick. trademe has a few > > > for sale. Anybody else have something suitable gathering dust? > > > > > > try the computer broker, from time to time they have nice compaq small > > form factor boxes for sale at a very reasonable price. I have three of > > them, two running ipcop (home & office) and the other running some > > server type stuff in a wardrobe. > > > > they weigh a ton for their size, but that gives them a nice feeling of > > permanence. > > How noisy are they? Would I be able to leave it on in a bedroom > overnight (while I'm sleeping in it? - the room that is, not the box. > Blasted ambiguous language)? What about in a room next to a bedroom? > We have a pretty small house (by NZ standards) with 5 of us in there. > Noise can be a big issue.
We have one of the compaqs in our room (wife's computer) - she sometimes leaves it on by mistake as the monitor switches off and you hardly notice it is going. However sometimes she gets up and says "oh my computer is still on, I wondered what that hum was in the middle of the night" In other words quiet enough to not notice its on until the lights are out and its 3.00 am. If the hard drive was in use it would be noisier, - reschedule those 4.00 am cron jobs. I just dropped Miles at Science Alive so popped in to Computer future to see what they have. They have compaq SFF boxes, 1.6G, 256 RAM, 20G HDD, CDROM for @$349 with no OS or $499 with XP home - ex lease machines of course. Sexy in black and silver. I have a 350 MHz one in the lounge as an ipcop firewall, apart from intensive disk activity from time to time I find it unobtrusive. There is other second hand gear about the place too, worth a trip to have a look. The one in my bedroom is an older model with PIII 650. > > Cheers, > Carl. -- Nick Rout
