On 11/19/2011 4:04 PM, Joe Greco wrote:
On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 6:58 AM, A. Chase Turner<chase@stumpy.com> wrote:
I am seeking a $100 turnkey micro hardware appliance to plug into a LAN hub...
Why micro? Just get a pile of free for the carting-off old Pentium machines and run them headless with a BSD. Set them up to heartbeat to a cacti box. Why buy new when you have a good use for the old stuff that is going to a dump anyway? As long as you're not paying the electric bill. But quite frankly, some of the stuff that's been put out over the years is better off in a dump.
... JG
They also have moving parts like disk drives and fans that will wear out and need replacement.
In all fairness, everything breaks. But, yeah, it may also break quicker. ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net "We call it the 'one bite at the apple' rule. Give me one chance [and] then I won't contact you again." - Direct Marketing Ass'n position on e-mail spam(CNN) With 24 million small businesses in the US alone, that's way too many apples.