well RHEL 5.10 will support the OLD 2001 XP hardware from 13 years ago
and RHEL 6.5 will also for most 13 year old hardware ( except for the nvidia gforce4 and OLDER cards )
a minor hack of the OS is needed for that .
You can use the FREE CentOS or ScientificLinux 5.10 or 6.5
OR BUY $$$$ the redhat support contract
The Carrington event was a X27 to x45
so a 1.6 is tiny ( for a big one)
a 2 is 10 times greater that a 1 in power
a XKCD flare would need a warning like this
-- Don't Panic --
http://www.craftster.org/pictu...
Seeing as it is only a x 1.6
As far as BIG things go this is a bit tiny
so PREPARE for the WORST
1 to 2 days no electricity
BUT
expect the BEST
pretty lights in the sky
the "dd" command
I used to use No-Ip.com
and ALWAYS recommended it
it was a great service
i worked in custom color and B&W darkrooms for over 10 years
finally by the late 90's there were 3 jobs for over 200 techs in the SE Michigan area
The oldest piece of hardware was a Kodak K10 that still had vacuum tubes
did not "Bush" already loose a ton of mails when the "white house" moved from the
Huge giant sized corporate Lotus based mail to the " small business/HOME" mail system from MS
this is NOTHING new
make drm FREE copies
i can almost GUARANTY that target will "frack up " this too
a 2015 prediction
target will use the password " 1234" to secure the servers
Machines have less problems. I'd like to be a machine. -- Andy Warhol