Obituary Notice

[Martin Tournoy]

On Fri, 09 Jun 2006 13:26:22 -0000, John Brann <john at brann.org> wrote:

> It is with deep regret that I note the failure to POST of gate.brann.org.
>
> This Toshiba Satellite Pro 415CS (Pentium 90MHz, 16Mb memory) had worked
> tirelessly as the gateway / firewall / natd machine connecting my home
> network to the Internet following its productive career starting in 1996
> as a personal laptop machine.
>
> It first took on its gateway role during 2000 and ran 24/7 for six years,
> except for reboots to perform upgrades or due to power failures.
>
> The machine's dmesg (from 2004) is recorded at:
>
> http://www.nycbug.org/?NAV=dmesgd;f_dmesg=;f_bsd=;f_nick=brann;f_descr=;dmesgid=1135#1135
>
> The role of gateway has been taken on by another Toshiba laptop,  
> purchased
> in 2000 partly with credits from the Toshiba floppy-driver settlement.
>
> John.

I would like to offer my sincere regrets as a fellow Toshiba Satellite.

May you find strenght in these hard times.