Guide to get cable modem working with debian

der.hans wrote:

>Am 30. Dec, 2003 schwätzte Rob Wultsch so:
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>>As this is a g/f, not family, or a long time friend, I was thinking
>>about just setting up debian stable and making a cron job do an apt-get
>>update; apt-get upgrade every night.
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>>This would be sufficent I trust to keep the box from getting easily cracked?
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>I suggest only automagically updating against security. Do other updates
>by hand. debian's good, but not perfect and it appears this is a system to
>which you won't have ready access.
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>>For that matter I know that it is not a great idea to use a desktop as a
>>firewall, but is it really that terrible?
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>For most home stuff, it's probably not that bad if it's running some form of
>*NIX. Using an m$ desktop as the gateway would be a good way to make sure
>everyone got the viruses...
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>ciao,
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>der.hans
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I meant throwing X onto a firewall..

Is it easy to have the root mail sent to me? The girl has a cox
connection which I thought was rather unfriendly to smtp server.