Most people look forward to weekends because they relax, go out, have fun, that sort of thing. On the other hand, I look forward to weekends because I can work on computer projects that… differ slightly from what I work on during the week when I’m researching articles or doing sys admin stuff. Also, I usually find time to do some pleasure reading and so forth.
This weekend, I think it’s time to put my old firewall out to pasture and set up a new machine. Right now the firewall is a Pentium II 350 MHz machine running Ubuntu Warty Warthog. Since Warty is being retired at the end of this month, it’s time to put a new machine into place and set up a few things I’ve been putting off for some time.
I plan to use the Dapper server install to replace Warty, and an Athlon 1.7GHz machine that’s been seldom-used. Might try to dig up some additional RAM for it too…
After that’s in place, I’ll probably swap out the motherboard in the PII machine with a slightly faster motherboard and the PII will go to the old parts bin.
