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Story: Shuttle launches $199 KPC linux box, $99 barebones kitTotal Replies: 10
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ColonelPanik

Jan 10, 2008
1:46 PM EST 		I'll take one, blue please
Sander_Marechal

Jan 10, 2008
2:00 PM EST 		I like them a lot, but I really need a CD burner in my computer. Even in a cheap-ass surf box. How else am I going to burn those Linux ISOs? :-) The shuttle comes without a CD player or burner, which makes it unusable for me. Too bad because they look great!
hkwint

Jan 10, 2008
2:11 PM EST
Quoting:Now else am I going to burn those Linux ISOs?


Not possible to have a CD-burner connected via USB, like USB floppy drives? If not, I hereby patent it, and release the patent in the public domain!
azerthoth

Jan 10, 2008
2:23 PM EST 		I have a 40x USB CD/DVD burner right next to me. Cost me US$70 and works faster than the one I built into my desktop.
rijelkentaurus

Jan 10, 2008
3:59 PM EST 		Add a couple of NICs (or a NIC with multiple connections), and IPCop/Smoothwall/WTFever, and you've a nice little firewall for a lot cheaper than a "real" firewall from a vendor like SonicWALL, Watchguard or Linksys/Cisco.
gus3

Jan 10, 2008
7:43 PM EST 		rijelkentaurus, take a look at one-NIC NAT. It uses an interface alias on the firewall, so the NIC is talking on two different sub-nets using the same Ethernet. I had one set up for three years on cable Internet, and speed tests between a one-NIC firewall and no firewall showed negligible slowdown. And really, what's an extra twenty seconds when downloading a Knoppix ISO?
tracyanne

Jan 10, 2008
9:28 PM EST
Quoting: Not possible to have a CD-burner connected via USB


pardon, you are joking?
Sander_Marechal

Jan 10, 2008
10:32 PM EST 		@tracyanne: Yes, he was :-)
hkwint

Jan 11, 2008
2:50 AM EST 		In fact, I was not joking, but asking. Too lazy to find out for myself - that's what fellow LXer members are for, isn't it?
ColonelPanik

Jan 11, 2008
4:43 AM EST 		LXer - Sharing the abuse!







/sarcasm
rijelkentaurus

Jan 11, 2008
7:37 AM EST 		@gus3, thanks, I'll look into that.

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