[Sussex] newbie

[Adam Smith]

Thanks for the welcome guys.  

I did have a fairly large network at home, but I ended up literally climbing over machines to get to the door of my bedroom.  I thought about converting the garage but I need that, and the loft is too small really.  The machines weren't really serving any useful purpose, so they had to go.  I couldn't leave them on at night either as I can't sleep with even the slightest noise.  Luckily I've managed to silence my smoothwall and my main rig will be silent by Wednesday so I can crunch seti at night :-)  

Are you guys all seti crunchers?

On Mon, 25 Nov 2002 13:04:45 -0500
Steve Dobson <SDobson at manh.com> wrote:

> 
> On 25 Nov 2002 Adam Smith wrote:
> > Hi, I'm a new member to the list and I've been told it's a good idea to
> > introduce myself.
> 
> Hi Adam and welcome to the list
> 
> > I'm 16 years old and from Eastbourne.  Currently studying Maths,
> > Economics, Computing and German at Park College, Eastbourne.  I'm
> > currently running Gentoo 1.4rc1 on my main box - an Athlon XP1600 AROIA
> > @ 1.837 (hopefully more when I install my watercooling), 256mb PC2700
> > Crucial and an 80gb 'cuda IV.  
> 
> Hay someone else from Eastbourne.  Geoff we have someone else trying to
> talk your seat for a lift home.  :-)
> 
> > I'm relatively new to linux.  I was tied to Bill's apron strings until
> > around a month ago when I installed Gentoo linux....
> 
> Are another Gentoo user - say "Hello" to Geoff.  Geoff meet Adam.
> 
> > So far I'm loving Linux, I've actually been able to sell/give away most
> > of my other boxes as for some reason I no longer need them.  I first
> > decided to try linux after installing Smoothwall.  I was so impressed by
> > the way it could operate router and firewall functions with perfect
> > reliability whilst making frugal use of resources.
> 
> Arrrrh! time for your first :-)  Don't give away old machine - just run 
> Linux on them and turn them into servers.  You too can have a home network.
> You too can learn to go to sleep admist the gental hum of CPU and case fans
> :-)
> Jokeing apart, that is what old machines are for.  Playing with running a
> network.
> 
> > I'm also new to mailing lists, so please bear with me if I make an idiot
> > of myself.
> 
> So far you're doing fine.
> 
> Steve
> 
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