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OT - Small DNS "appliances" for remote offices.
Not to mention reliability issues with old machines...fans failing,
leaky capacitors, etc, etc.
-Pete
On 2015-02-18 14:32, Baldur Norddahl wrote:
> That option is expensive in power fees...
> Den 18/02/2015 23.12 skrev "Rich Kulawiec" <rsk at gsp.org>:
>
>>
>> Find someone unloading 50 old, physically small desktop PCs. Buy the
>> lot. Drop OpenBSD and BIND on them, ship 3 to every site, run 1 or 2
>> live with the leftovers as on-site spares. If one breaks, wipe the
>> disk
>> and send the box to recycling.
>>
>> (Just checked: someone on a certain auction site is selling a lot of
>> 64
>> HP Compaq 8000 (3.16GHz, 2GB) systems, current price $1K.)
>>
>> ---rsk
>>