[XCSSA] Netvista's
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Mon, 01 Jan 2007 21:31:41 -0600
I use it as my home firewall/VPN/print server.
Got 2 for $10 each on ebay.
You can use it for any thing that a 233 MHz computer
can do. The trick is to get Linux working on it.
xcssa-admin@xcssa.org wrote:
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> Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2006 17:55:59 -0600
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> From: xcssa-admin@xcssa.org
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> Subject: [XCSSA] Netvista's & Christmas goodies!
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> Reply-To: xcssa@xcssa.org
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> Hey Tweeks,
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> Did anybody in the group ever get anything useful done with those
> Netvista's? Got and sold my before everybody got interested in
> tinkering with'em. Wouldn't mind seeing a presentation on some of the
> cool things being done with them. Anybody get any cool toys for
> Christmas? This was an unplugged year for I and my family. Lots of
> board games, football, baseball, soccer ball...trying to get these
> kids outside and off the TV/Computer. Not just them either, me too.
> Can't walk a block without being outta breath.
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> Love my job doing nursing over the phone with the computer all day but
> didn't anticipate the toll it would take on my health. Thought all you
> cubicle dwellers had it easy-)
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> HAPPY NEW YEAR! GENE
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> I Bought one just to see if it will do what I want to do with it and I
> think I am going to go get 2 more just so I have a 3 set. I want to
> make them terminals so that I don’t need to buy and upgrade 3 PC
> instead I will only buy and upgrade 1 machine. Your right that if the
> XCSSA does want to do a workshop on it I will be there with video
> camera in hand just so I don’t miss anything
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> Robert
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> Day 4 of Not smoking and keeping my New Years Resolution
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