| New Hardware on the way! | by lmbedore |
I may be broke now, but at least we have new hardware! I ordered a slew of new equipment tonight, which will get us in line to have:
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| Re: New Hardware on the way! | by josh |
| Laird, you're the bomb-diggity. I promise to scrape up some money when I'm no longer a poor college student and actually give. | |
| Re: New Hardware on the way! | by sirius crackhoe |
| Plz tell me you bought some rack mount cases (or have them) too. :) | |
| Re: New Hardware on the way! | by angeltek |
| Perhaps you should use that P3 for a streaming audio server or something like that. I know my idea is lame, but it's still an idea. | |
| Re: New Hardware on the way! | by Josh |
| Rack mount cases? Why would we need them when we can just slap together something from cardboard boxes and elmers glue for just a few dollars. We'll spray paint the cardboard black though, so we can try to keep up with the dark color theme. :) | |
| Re: New Hardware on the way! | by stale |
| We figured we'd just leave all the hardware running on top of that stack of paper towels you got in the corner. | |
| Re: New Hardware on the way! | by Josh |
| Frank, you had to go back to the paper towels, didn't you? | |
| Re: New Hardware on the way! | by stale |
| Of course! | |
| Re: New Hardware on the way! | by lmbedore |
| Don't worry, sirius... all 4 x86 boxes will be in 4U black rackmount cases. The Sparc's will stay as they are, though I'm going to look for a center-mount tray for them to sit on. I think there's an extra one upstairs at work. | |
| Re: New Hardware on the way! | by sirius crackhoe |
| I think Frank is thinking about rack mounting the towels. | |
| Re: New Hardware on the way! | by Josh |
| Rack mounting the towels might be a good idea. They'd be very accessible in case of any liquid spills. You never know when you might be enjoying a frosty beverage and you accidently spill some. Having those paper towels mounted in an easy to reach place could be useful. | |
| Re: New Hardware on the way! | by angy person |
| Whocares about the fucking new hardware when we can't get an acount on this server. You bether fix that first | |
| Re: New Hardware on the way! | by sirius crackhoe |
| Re: New Hardware on the way! | by sirius crackhoe |
| Yo Mr. Hooked on Phonics... STFU! | |
| Re: New Hardware on the way! | by jdaunt |
| I said it before and I will say it again. Go about things the right way angy person. | |
| Re: New Hardware on the way! | by Josh |
| Posts regarding the new hardware has made the message board really pick up recently, I like that! | |
| Re: New Hardware on the way! | by lmbedore |
| The process required for account signups to start up again is simple:
1. New Hardware and Network Architecture Updates (we're doing this NOW, obviously) 2. Administration Software (this is in the works. we put it on hold because we realized we needed to do number 1 first!) 3. flip a few switches and let signups flow. Also... On the Usefulness of Towels... I'd definitely recommend rackmounting the towels! | |
| Re: New Hardware on the way! | by Dragon4 |
| So does this mean we can use sendmail cgi's now/again? Or do we need to wait for software writing... | |
| Re: New Hardware on the way! | by lmbedore |
| Once the new servers are put into place, Toby and I will be working on a means of allowing CGI's/PHP scripts to send mail via the sendmail routine. We've got a solution that appears to work, but we're going to make some changes to the code and do a lot of testing before we open it up to be used system-wide.
We'll probably do one of two things: Allow mail to be sent ONLY to local users, or restrict the number of emails that can be sent through the mechanism. Doing the restriction is more difficult than it sounds, but that's what we're hoping to implement. | |
| Re: New Hardware on the way! | by r3chn3r |
| hurry up with the T-shirts man... I'll buy one.. I'm not saying I'll wear some sorry looking thing, but I'll at least buy one. ;) | |