Re: Storable problem on Intel Mac Mini

2006-05-12 Thread Manfred Bergmann
Am 12.05.2006 um 13:05 schrieb Joel Rees: On 2006.5.12, at 10:01 AM, Mike Schienle wrote: Hi all - I just installed an Intel Mac Mini as a replacement for a dual 1.8 GHz G5 at my colocation place a couple days ago. Can I ask a silly question in public, or would off-list be more

Re: Storable problem on Intel Mac Mini

2006-05-12 Thread Chris Devers
On Fri, 12 May 2006, Joel Rees wrote: On 2006.5.12, at 10:01 AM, Mike Schienle wrote: I just installed an Intel Mac Mini as a replacement for a dual 1.8 GHz G5 at my colocation place a couple days ago. Can I ask a silly question in public, or would off-list be more appropriate?

Re: Storable problem on Intel Mac Mini

2006-05-12 Thread Mike Schienle
On Fri, May 12, 2006 7:05 am, Joel Rees wrote: On 2006.5.12, at 10:01 AM, Mike Schienle wrote: Hi all - I just installed an Intel Mac Mini as a replacement for a dual 1.8 GHz G5 at my colocation place a couple days ago. Can I ask a silly question in public, or would off-list be more

Re: Storable problem on Intel Mac Mini

2006-05-12 Thread Ken Williams
On May 12, 2006, at 6:05 AM, Joel Rees wrote: On 2006.5.12, at 10:01 AM, Mike Schienle wrote: Hi all - I just installed an Intel Mac Mini as a replacement for a dual 1.8 GHz G5 at my colocation place a couple days ago. Can I ask a silly question in public, or would off-list be more

Re: Storable problem on Intel Mac Mini

2006-05-12 Thread Joel Rees
On 2006.5.12, at 08:54 PM, Mike Schienle wrote: On Fri, May 12, 2006 7:40 am, Mike Schienle wrote: On Fri, May 12, 2006 7:05 am, Joel Rees wrote: On 2006.5.12, at 10:01 AM, Mike Schienle wrote: Hi all - I just installed an Intel Mac Mini as a replacement for a dual 1.8 GHz G5 at my

Re: Storable problem on Intel Mac Mini

2006-05-12 Thread Joseph Alotta
My instant reaction to that would have been putting a stripped-down whitebox running OpenBSD as a logging firewall between the G5 and the 'net, to check for attacks on the mail and ftp subsystems. Can you tell me what a whitebox is? I have my personal web site on my old clamshell iBook,

Re: Storable problem on Intel Mac Mini

2006-05-12 Thread Mike Schienle
On Fri, May 12, 2006 10:03 pm, Joel Rees wrote: On 2006.5.12, at 08:54 PM, Mike Schienle wrote: On Fri, May 12, 2006 7:40 am, Mike Schienle wrote: On Fri, May 12, 2006 7:05 am, Joel Rees wrote: On 2006.5.12, at 10:01 AM, Mike Schienle wrote: Hi all - I just installed an Intel Mac Mini

Re: Storable problem on Intel Mac Mini

2006-05-12 Thread Chris Devers
On Fri, 12 May 2006, Joseph Alotta wrote: My instant reaction to that would have been putting a stripped-down whitebox running OpenBSD as a logging firewall between the G5 and the 'net, to check for attacks on the mail and ftp subsystems. Can you tell me what a whitebox is? Generic

Re: Storable problem on Intel Mac Mini

2006-05-12 Thread Joseph Alotta
I have my personal web site on my old clamshell iBook, and it runs a dynamic DNS client every ten minutes via cron. That basically keeps the disk spinning constantly. Burned out a drive last year, and I'm worried it will burn out a drive this year. So I'm thinking of putting the client on a RAM

Re: Storable problem on Intel Mac Mini

2006-05-12 Thread Chris Devers
On Fri, 12 May 2006, Joseph Alotta wrote: Why wouldn't it work to put the client code and perl on the USB keydrive and then every ten minutes, your system will get it from there instead of from your hard drive? I realize the USB keydrive is slower to load, but does that matter here? I