3/12 A day or so ago, the motd was full of talk about donations to
the csua and questions about what the current state of csua hw
is and what we're planning on doing about it. First off, we'll
take any cash donations people want to give us; I'm going to
bring up the paypal idea at the next meeting. As far as
hardware donations, we'll take anything in working condition
thats better then what we have now (not a tall order as our
worst machines are currently dual PPro 200s); this includes
the 50 gig SCSI raid 5 that was offered. Currently, we're in
need of video cards (two have failed in the past two weeks);
if you have any old ones lying around that work without much
effort under linux, send em our way! We do have a backup
system for soda that is basically the same as what scotsman
described thats almost "in production" (we're still working
out a few bugs with the software that takes snapshots). At
some point I'll try to get the person working on that to write
up a technical description for our out of date website. With
respect to Soda's disk, tom is right but gm's point re the age
of disk is what we're most concerned about. We're also lacking
numbers on what performance we can expect for various
solutions; if anyone has them for a load like soda, please let
me know. Finally I do read motd and hang out/monitor wall, but
if you really have something you want to say to
root/vp/politburo, send mail. As for donations, please send mail
to donations before sending anything. Thanks, erikk - current VP |
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