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Date:      Wed, 21 Jan 2004 14:14:53 +1000
From:      Q <q_dolan@yahoo.com.au>
To:        Jonathon McKitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ideas for an old BSD laptop?
Message-ID:  <1074658318.932.6.camel@boxster>
In-Reply-To: <20040120223640.GB39542@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
References:  <20040120223640.GB39542@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>

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On Wed, 2004-01-21 at 08:36, Jonathon McKitrick wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I haven't used my infamous Toshiba Satellite with FreeBSD 4.8 very much
> since I got my desktop system with a flatscreen.  I'm trying to think of
> something interesting to do with it now.  I don't really need a separate
> firewall, and it doesn't make sense to use it as a fileserver.  With a ppp
> connection, it couldn't easily be a webserver either.
> 
> Any ideas on something interesting to use it for?  Maybe some kind of
> learning experience?

I had a similar desktop machine collecting dust, and I set it up as a
transparent proxy/content filter using ipfw + squid + squidguard (and
recently frox). Makes browsing a lot faster on slower connections.

Seeya...Q



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