On Wed, 3 Apr 2002, Greg McCarroll wrote: > [internal mounting] > [offers of scsi bits and bobs] > [ventilation]
We could sort all of those bits, if we pull out the existing smaller disk and replace it with a single, larger one, using the cradle from the existing one, and thus no ventilation problems (which may be an issie with 2 disks, as they're mounted one on top of the other, in a case just about high enough to do so) > [buying a new pee cee] > > a new PC may be close to no money, but not exactly no money, as > opposed to this SS10 that is no money, bar the usual beer tax I'm actually vaguely surprised that we can't between us come up with a fairly nippy and nice peecee. Just on my own, I could blag a case (1U, or normal midi tower), a motherboard, a P3, small amounts of ram, floppy, cd, some HD or another, network cards, etc, etc. I'd be surprised if there wasn't someone on here who could find some bigger dimms or a larger HD, or more HDs. > [solaris vs. debian] > > lets not do this debate at all, linux admin experience is in the most > supply in this group, so lets just go with it and debian is the best > distro for non-pee cee architectures (bar YD on macs) I'll bow to your superior knowledge of linux on non-peecee thingies though, though given that you only need a small amount of sysadmins, I'm not convinced that there's much value in having more cooks waiting by the kitchen doors. > [ups + money] > > lets see if we find a mug^H^H^H person of excellent taste to buy the > beast first and see how much cash we raise Coincidentally, I might even be able to do a good deal on a recycled UPS (subject to small donations to the cake fund) the hatter
