"Simply Amazing" and "Head Slappers"

[Bruce Dawson]

Ted Roche wrote:
> Jon 'maddog' Hall wrote:
>   
>> I want to thank all the people that sent me email on the "F***king Cool"
>> email, and anyone that is inspired to send more, it is certainly
>> welcome.
>>
>> Now what I would like to concentrate on is more of the line of
>> "Wow, I (or my boss) would really like to see that at work...
>>     
>
> On the hardware side, I think it might be time for something like the
> Cobalt again, cross-bred with a LinkSys WRT54-StorageLink-Linux box:
>
> - Small, lower power
> - Preinstalled OS, web management interface
> - Plug in Internet to one plug, intranet to other plug
> - Router, firewall, email server, spam filter
> - Intranet server with forums, wikis, CMS already setup
> - File server with USB2-plugable external storage
> - Print server, autodetect, configure available printers
> - Downloadable/burnable client ISOs of client workstation software
> - Extranet web site (optional)
> - This is combination Small Business Server Killer and low-end
> Cisco/Firebox killer, potentially a monsterous SOHO solution.
> - Oh, and priced at $249.
>   
I think you've spec'ed out the Linksys WRTSL54GS. Except it was priced 
at $106.00 from PC Connection.
I think its a bit anemic on the CPU though, won't be good running 
something like TWiki.

I have one, but OpenWRT seems to have some USB driver issues - I 
couldn't get it to understand some USB Serial ports I have (that 
Ubuntu/Debian work fine with).

There's quite a bit more power in the KoolU Sky though. (But the one I 
have is about $700 (and it is maxed out on options). At least it runs 
with 2 heads.) And it runs on less than 12 watts.

--Bruce