Strog's Journal: September '02

Updates

Not a lot of changes here

iMac:
Picked up a lime rev d (G3 333Mhz) with 160Mb of ram. A closer look and I see that there is a genuine Apple PC133 256mb sodimm in there. The part number is right for a powerbook but not an older imac. Anyone want to trade a decent imac-compatible 256mb (or 2 128mb's) for this memory? I think that I'll move OS X off the 8600 and put it here. The 8600 makes a nice Linux box but OS X is a little slow on it. I see that MOL now support OS X in Linux. I'll have to try that out on this box.
I was looking a stripping this system out of the case and rackmounting it. There are some pre-made kits around $300 to turn it into a 1U setup. I'm not sure if I want the desk space that bad right now. Of course the shell could be turned into an iMac aquarium. Naah.

Firewall:
No hardware changes but thinking about some OS and software changes. It currently is running a OpenBSD post-3.1 snapshot(after the OpenSSH fixes). I upgraded from 3.0 so the pf and nat config merger threw me for a second. I hadn't played with pf much and then they combined the config files. I like it better this way.
I still want to play with ipf to see the features and performance differences. I'm thinking about FreeBSD or NetBSD for this. I'll put in another hard drive so I can boot back into OpenBSD if I want/need. I'm looking through the mailing lists to if I want to go with the latest release or post-release. We'll just have some fun with it.