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Grex > Coop > #232: Taking root access from non participatants | |
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aruba
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response 119 of 126:
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Aug 16 16:07 UTC 2008 |
I am coming to this discussion late, but I feel obliged to respond to cross
in #76. Dan says that Grex bought its current hardware by "buying the
cheapest stuff we could", but that's not my memory of it at all. STeve
chose the list of hardware in the spring of 2003, and I set about buying it.
The expenses are listed in the treasurers reports of April through June of
2003, which you can see in coop or at ~aruba/reports/0304.txt ... 0306.txt
I wouldn't say we "spared no expense", and I know Dan had some differences
of opinion with STeve on what to buy (which I didn't hear about until after
we'd already bought the stuff), but it's not fair to say we chose the
cheapest things we could find.
All that said, that was 5 years ago, and even though our memb ership has
dwindled we have more money now than then (thanks to our move to
colocation). I don't thoroughly understand the technical issues, but it's
my understanding that it's expensive to add the remote-access capability
we need to the current machine, because most people who need that buy new
machines that have it built in. So I support spending some of our money
on a new machine.
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cross
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response 120 of 126:
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Aug 16 16:13 UTC 2008 |
(My recollection was that we did NOT buy hardware RAID or ECC memory in order
to save money. Actually, the ECC thing might have been for performance, which
I don't quite understand, but then, there's a lot that I don't quite
understand. The RAID thing, as well as a rack-mount case, were certainly cost
related.)
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keesan
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response 121 of 126:
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Aug 16 17:45 UTC 2008 |
We have several no-longer-new rackmount DELLs (1550, 1650) with RAID
and SMP capabilities - would grex want any of those? Also ECC RAM
PC133 512MB.
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cross
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response 122 of 126:
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Aug 16 18:53 UTC 2008 |
No, I don't think that those would be particularly useful. But thanks anyway!
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keesan
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response 123 of 126:
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Aug 16 21:35 UTC 2008 |
Would anyone else reading this like one or more? We already recycled or gave
away at least half of the original total.
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nhardon
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response 124 of 126:
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Aug 19 14:51 UTC 2008 |
Ask cross about the penis extension that he got for lar.
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lar
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response 125 of 126:
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Aug 20 02:27 UTC 2008 |
I haven't received it yet,is it coming soon?
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tod
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response 126 of 126:
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Aug 25 19:33 UTC 2008 |
Yes, stand still
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