[nycbug-talk] how are soekris boxes?

[Barry Kominik]

Michael Hanulec wrote:

>
> there was tons of talk about them in June.  has anyone received theirs 
> yet?  anyone onlist done anything cool w/ them yet?
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I got mine a few months before all that talk. I love it. I use it as a 
home firewall/web/mail server running openbsd. I installed a 60 gig 
laptop hard drive. The only problem I have is heat. The system runs at 
about 60C which I think is too hot, though I haven't seen any errors. I 
just bought a cheap usb wifi card with the prism3 chipset. I plan on 
playing around with making a wifi base station. I'm also thinking of 
swapping out the hard drive for a compact flash. Has anyone ever seen 
one of these: US Modular 2.2GB compact flash;  
http://www.ecost.com/ecost/shop/detail.asp?dpno=338550  In the product 
details it says the media is glass. I'd love to find out more about this 
as it is cheap, $176.

Rgds,
Barry