On Friday 20 January 2006 01:01 IST, Kevin Krammer wrote: > > I do not mind putting up a higher config for the server. I could make > > my existing PC; an AMD64 3000+ with 1Gig of RAM be the server while i > > personally use a laptop. > > It might be better to use a dedicated machine as the firewall, so it can > be really locked down, etc. > Depending on your specific needs it might even be recommendable to use an > firewall appliance, for example something like this: > http://www.netgear.com/products/details/FR114P.php I might rather take this route when i want to have my server do other stuff. I have had the linksys WRT54GS in mind. It has wireless... But here i need to learn how i can protect my LAN and internet usage with the wireless router. I am yet to learn and understand this, and i think it is worth it. It is about a year now since i shifted to using linux from the 'other OS' and it took me less than a month or two, before i started exclusively using and then evangelizing Linux and KDE. As Nigel mentioned in the other post... it is definitely worth it. :-) > As for question no. 4: > One word: Jabber, because you can install your own Jabber server, there > are several clients for a lot of platforms and only have to allow one > specific machine (the one the Jabber server is running on) to connect to > the Internet for external IM usage OK. Does jabber support audio / video? I think it supports audio considering that Google talk uses the jabber protocol and they do have voice... -- Cheers! kitts ___________________________________________________ . Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.