Hi, On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 07:08:17 -0700, Jay Dolan wrote:
--- Johannes Winkelmann <jw@tks6.net> wrote:
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Jay mentioned on IRC that he might help us here, since he has some connections to a local university (I hope I remember that correctly). Jay, can you elaborate on this?
Sure. I'm 90% confident that it would not be a problem at all for me to drop a box on UMass Dartmouth's T1. I can also probably convince my boss to donate some older hardware (something like a P3 700, 256MB) to the project. I live about 10 minutes from the university, and am still in contact with several of my professors. So handling hardware malfunctions in a timely manner wouldn't be terribly difficult. It would be completely free. The only problems we'd have to deal with would be power outages, etc..maybe twice a year. This sounds great; maybe we can collect some money for additional RAM and a RAID setup. WRT to power outages, we should work out a concept for mirroring, maybe even with ports(8) supporting a fallback-server; I don't mind when development stops for a few days, what matters more is that users can get the ports from somewhere.
Otherwise, I really like the plan. Kind regards, Johannes -- Johannes Winkelmann mailto:jw@tks6.net Bern, Switzerland http://jw.tks6.net