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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