On Mon, 22 Jan 2001, Philip Newton wrote:
> alex wrote:
> > I'd prefer to do it the other way round if you don't mind, and say you
> > have just one month to send a cheque for 50 pounds made out
> > to C A McLean [1] to state51, 8 rhoda street, bethnal green, e2 7ef ,
> > or brought along to the
alex wrote:
> I'd prefer to do it the other way round if you don't mind, and say you
> have just one month to send a cheque for 50 pounds made out
> to C A McLean [1] to state51, 8 rhoda street, bethnal green, e2 7ef ,
> or brought along to the next social or technical meeting.
Hm, random questi
> > [1] My first name is actually Christopher, but handily my parents changed
>
> [Oddly enough, same here. I'm Chris Paul ... It's an absolute pain in the
> arse. Note to parents: don't do this.]
I know a Andrew Christopher Jackson that's known as Chris. So it's not
just Christopher that's shu
On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 11:42:52PM +, Greg McCarroll wrote:
> * Paul Makepeace ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > Building reliability is probably your best aim: does it have a UPS? does it
> > have a RAID 1/0 config? Dual PSUs? Tape drive & backup policy? Those things
> > are way more important t
* Paul Makepeace ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>
> Building reliability is probably your best aim: does it have a UPS? does it
> have a RAID 1/0 config? Dual PSUs? Tape drive & backup policy? Those things
> are way more important than a faster chip or RAM.
>
your right of course, however all of th
On Fri, 19 Jan 2001, Paul Makepeace wrote:
> Without wanting to sound too real-world and pragmatic, why not upgrade
> the server when you actually *need* to, i.e. learn how to monitor
> performance and when it starts to suck, *then* buy new stuff.
because as i'm gathering together this money, i'l
From: "alex" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> [1] My first name is actually Christopher, but handily my parents changed
> their minds after registering my birth and decided to call me by my middle
> name.
[Oddly enough, same here. I'm Chris Paul ... It's an absolute pain in the
arse. Note to parents: don't
> I like the idea of a backup disk and a procedure that automatically backs up
Do like I did on one of the machines I set up which was to have a backup
disk but not mounted except during backups.
Make it bootable and use rsync to keep peeps data current.
If you lose a disk, simply select the b
On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 02:42:19PM +, Neil Ford wrote:
> >On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 02:37:24PM -, Jonathan Peterson wrote:
> >> > Personally I'd be happier if we had mirrored disks in there.
> >> I'd go for a backup system before a mirror, myself.
> >
> >That could be good, too...
> >
> >W
Title: RE: Hardware Upgrade Fund
I don't know about anyone else, but I'm quite happy to provide some money, but I'd much prefer to do a direct bank cash transfer (through online banking) I don't know if you'd want to publicise your bank acvcount details on the list,
> > Who is planning to store data on penderel that they won't
> > have somewhere
> > else anyway. I don't think we should ever rely on our data
> > being there. I
> > have a local copy of everything that I have on other servers.
>
> So, we need only buy two more of whatever size disk we want in th
> Who is planning to store data on penderel that they won't
> have somewhere
> else anyway. I don't think we should ever rely on our data
> being there. I
> have a local copy of everything that I have on other servers.
What about applications running on penderel that generate data? Even if what
t
- Original Message -
From: "Michael Stevens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: 19 January 2001 14:41
Subject: Re: Hardware Upgrade Fund
> On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 02:37:24PM -, Jonathan Peterson wrote:
> > > Personally I'd be ha
>On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 02:37:24PM -, Jonathan Peterson wrote:
>> > Personally I'd be happier if we had mirrored disks in there.
>> I'd go for a backup system before a mirror, myself.
>
>That could be good, too...
>
>We definately need one of the two. (IMHO)
>
>Michael
Well a tape drive wo
On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 02:37:24PM -, Jonathan Peterson wrote:
> > Personally I'd be happier if we had mirrored disks in there.
> I'd go for a backup system before a mirror, myself.
That could be good, too...
We definately need one of the two. (IMHO)
Michael
> Personally I'd be happier if we had mirrored disks in there.
I'd go for a backup system before a mirror, myself.
On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 02:41:57PM +, Jonathan Stowe wrote:
> > [gem@penderel gem]$ df -h
> > FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> > /dev/sda6 3.9G 879M 2.8G 24% /
> > /dev/sda1 7.6M 2.9M 4.2M 41% /boot
> >
> OK that'll be another disk or two
On Fri, 19 Jan 2001, Greg McCarroll wrote:
> * Dave Cross ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > At Fri, 19 Jan 2001 12:34:11 +, John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > [upgrading penderel]
> >
> > > What's the current specs of the machine? (Just out of interest)
> >
> > I'm not sure. I don't thin
On Fri, 19 Jan 2001, you wrote:
> [gem@penderel gem]$ cat /proc/meminfo
> total:used:free: shared: buffers: cached:
> Mem: 130895872 125063168 5832704 46772224 63795200 15314944
> Swap: 271392768 6909952 264482816
> MemTotal:127828 kB
if its of any intereset I was offer
On Fri, 19 Jan 2001, Greg McCarroll wrote:
ok i was a bit late ;)
--
Snack pastries are dramatic when shapes are combined
On Fri, 19 Jan 2001, Dave Cross wrote:
> I'm not sure. I don't think I've ever known this. I'm hoping that
> someone woh a) bought it or b) is sitting next to it will be able to
> leap in with this information.
[alex@penderel alex]$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : Authenti
On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 02:03:43PM -, Robert Shiels wrote:
> > At Fri, 19 Jan 2001 12:34:11 +, John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > [upgrading penderel]
> > > What's the current specs of the machine? (Just out of interest)
> > I'm not sure. I don't think I've ever known this. I'm hoping tha
> At Fri, 19 Jan 2001 12:34:11 +, John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> [upgrading penderel]
>
> > What's the current specs of the machine? (Just out of interest)
>
> I'm not sure. I don't think I've ever known this. I'm hoping that
> someone woh a) bought it or b) is sitting next to it wi
* Dave Cross ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> At Fri, 19 Jan 2001 12:34:11 +, John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> [upgrading penderel]
>
> > What's the current specs of the machine? (Just out of interest)
>
> I'm not sure. I don't think I've ever known this. I'm hoping that
> someone woh a) bo
At Fri, 19 Jan 2001 12:34:11 +, John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[upgrading penderel]
> What's the current specs of the machine? (Just out of interest)
I'm not sure. I don't think I've ever known this. I'm hoping that
someone woh a) bought it or b) is sitting next to it will be able to
leap
> At Fri, 19 Jan 2001 12:41:38 + (GMT), alex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Fri, 19 Jan 2001, Dave Cross wrote:
> >
> OK. Sounds like a fine plan to me.
>
> Just as long as you don't bugger off to Amsterdam, Krefeld or Sweden :)
>
although Alex doesn't know it yet - his job is just about
At Fri, 19 Jan 2001 12:41:38 + (GMT), alex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Jan 2001, Dave Cross wrote:
>
> > How soon do you think you can have a list of the kinds of hardware
> > that you want to buy? That would give us an estimate of how many new
> > donors we're looking for.
>
> I'
On Fri, 19 Jan 2001, Dave Cross wrote:
> Thanks for the offer. I'm more that happy to take you up on it.
no problems.
> How soon do you think you can have a list of the kinds of hardware
> that you want to buy? That would give us an estimate of how many new
> donors we're looking for.
I'd prefe
n interest in
>joining the exclusive club of people who have accounts on the server.
>
>The suggestion is, therefore, that we set up a hardware upgrade fund to
>buy new bits for the server. Contributions would be set at £50 and
>anyone contributing would gain the same rights on the
Dave Cross ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> At Fri, 19 Jan 2001 12:12:58 +, Simon Wistow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Dave Cross wrote:
> >
> > > I'm therefore looking for a volunteer to organise this. The
> > > organiser would, of course, be given a free login on the server.
What's the curr
On Fri, 19 Jan 2001, Dave Cross wrote:
> At Fri, 19 Jan 2001 12:10:26 + (GMT), alex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Fri, 19 Jan 2001, Dave Cross wrote:
> > > Anyone fancy it?
> >
> > I forgot to mention, I offered to do this before, and that offer still
> > stands.
>
> Alex,
>
> Thanks f
At Fri, 19 Jan 2001 12:12:58 +, Simon Wistow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Dave Cross wrote:
>
> > I'm therefore looking for a volunteer to organise this. The
> > organiser would, of course, be given a free login on the server.
> >
> > Anyone fancy it?
>
> I'll give it a go.
Simon,
The ad
At Fri, 19 Jan 2001 12:10:26 + (GMT), alex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Jan 2001, Dave Cross wrote:
> > Anyone fancy it?
>
> I forgot to mention, I offered to do this before, and that offer still
> stands.
Alex,
Thanks for the offer. I'm more that happy to take you up on it.
How
Dave Cross wrote:
> I'm therefore looking for a volunteer to organise this. The organiser
> would, of course, be given a free login on the server.
>
> Anyone fancy it?
I'll give it a go.
On Fri, 19 Jan 2001, Dave Cross wrote:
> Anyone fancy it?
I forgot to mention, I offered to do this before, and that offer still
stands.
alex
--
Snack pastries are dramatic when shapes are combined
g the exclusive club of people who have accounts on the server.
The suggestion is, therefore, that we set up a hardware upgrade fund to
buy new bits for the server. Contributions would be set at £50 and
anyone contributing would gain the same rights on the box as the
origianl contributors.
I'm
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