[Deganawida-sysadmin] Hardware & administrivia

[bks10 at cornell.edu]

Hey y'all.

One bit of info which it might be good to talk about sooner than later is 
the hardware being used for deganawida. The specs are as follows:
  P2/266MHz
  192M 70ns EDO RAM (running at 60ns results in rare but unacceptable errors)
  1 4G master IDE, 1 30G slave IDE
  1 24/2/4 CDROM/RW/R drive
  1 3c905 (xl0 - can't remember revsion #) for connecting to db on walesa
  1 Intel EtherExpress Pro/100 (fxp0) for connecting to inet
  1 ISA video card (it supports color!)
(Potential) Upgrades:
1 - Scott from Bandwidthcoop should be sending me a 100G IDE hard drive 
and I think the PCIIDE card which Christopher contributed to zero but 
never got installed - I'm not sure if the best use for these is on 
deganawida, but it's a possibility... It will definitely go somewhere on 
the indymedia network.
2 - The CPU/mobo/mem should probably be the first thing to be upgraded, 
even though we need to take some pictures of it in its current form 
(Quinten?). I think this machine could handle the loads we get on zero, 
but I fear CPU will be the limiting factor under heavy load. I have a 
500M stick of PC133 which I can contribute. I also recently got a 
barebones 1.4GHz Athlon (1700+, i think?), CPU fan,  mobo, and a case 
with a 300W power supply for under $150 (I cannot contribute this, but 
it's an idea of how cheaply we can upgrade if we strip everything from 
the current machine including floppy, cdrom, hard drives, etc.) Soooo... 
If anyone has $100some dollars or an Athlon/P3 w/ case and mobo to 
spare, we'll be in excellent shape. If no one does, well, keep your eyes 
peeled.

Chris, does this tie in at all with the finance stuff you wanted to talk 
about?

Sorry to send 3 emails in a row, posting from my "native" email address 
was getting caught up in the admin system for the list. Anyone else want 
to help admin the list?

Peace,
Brian