[CLUE-Talk] two count 'em two

jef jdlabarnhart at home.com
Sun Nov 26 21:47:52 MST 2000


Roger,

How many did they have when you were there? I may just get one for
myself.

Jef

Roger Frank wrote:
> 
> I picked up a little NCR PC at ExcessPC down on
> Santa Fe for $24.  Plopped in a bunch of spare parts
> (an old Pentium 166, some old 72 pin memory, a
> 1.7 GB disk and an 8X CD-ROM). Next think I know,
> I'm up with a working gateway.  I know Jim Ockers
> will frown when he reads this because being true to
> Linux, I should have done it with vi editing the appropriate
> files.  But I couldn't resist the NetMax Firewall product.
> I wanted to study the configuration files after it was
> set up.  Turns out the little NCR PC has built-in video
> but with NetMax, you don't need it.  It's set up over
> the network in a browser window.
> 
> So now, with two machines talking through the
> gateway machine to a modem (as I wait patiently
> for DSL), I'm feeling pretty good about ExcessPC
> and their $24 NCR motherboard/case/floppy deal
> and the NetMax Firewall Suite.
> 
> --
> Roger Frank
> Ponderosa High School, Colorado
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