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