Builder Machine

It looks likely that I'll have a donated Dual PIII 750 machine, complete with 2Gb of RAM to use as Debian building machine by the end of the week.

This is fantastic, and means that I can finally both build SSP packages, and offer them to the world. I'm not sure how far to go, so far I can easily build all the "Section: Base", and "Priority: Required" packages - but more than that?

It's hard to know what to choose. Given that I do have limitted resources it seems best to do :

• All required / base packages
• All things in section net
• All things in section games

More than that will have to happen over time, I've got a pair of 200Gb drives on order - really the only thing that I'm looking for now is good connectivity.

My ideal would be a hosted machine remote where I could play on an unstable chroot - and have a lot of disk space, but I think I can get by dedicating this machine to constantly building, then uploaded the packages every couple of days. (I don't have a great uplink to the world, but I should be able to manage some uploads on a regular basis).

ISDN Modems

Now that I've got a Cisco #1603 dialling up properly I'm sat on a set of five identical Diva external ISDN modems / TA's.

Free to a good home if you're near Edinburgh.

(Unlikely I know, but I'll pimp them here, then offer them on ed.general after a few days if there's no interest.