Re: [f-cpu] about the server(s)

[Yann Guidon <whygee@f-cpu.org>]

hi !

Lionel-Wolf-Eric Bouchpan-Lerust-Juery wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > * Lionel told me that there would be a new SUN BLADE with more
> > power and RAM, in the future, somewhere around 15000 or 20000FF
> > (something like $3000). It is probably enough horsepower and we
> > can probably gather all the money. The REAL problem is :
> > holly shit, there is no Free Hardware Fundation to help us.
> > i don't want to spend the rest of my life managing this stuff.
> > Volunteers and help are welcome, as usually.
> 
> Yes, and in the worst case we ca go for the one
> of the newest Ultra5 box : 400Mhz 2MB L2 cache UIIi
> priced at $2.500 : price should drop soon.

i hope you're right.
however, even if i don't get a job (soon or not),
i'm going to invest some money in RC models anyway :-)

> > * Remember, i had bought a laptop when i was at META SYSTEMS.
> > is is badly configured (PCMCIA is buggy), there are other
> > problems, but it's a PIII Celeron with 160MB of RAM.
> > Although the HDD can't draw more than 10 or 11 MB/s
> > in bursts (swapping processes will be rather slow),
> > i can dedicate it to the project. I simply require
> > a dedicated PCMCIA card.
BTW, if someone has a spare Ethernet PCMICA card,
i'd be happy to acquire it...

> > The good news is that it has
> > an integrated UPS that can work during 2 hours and
> > it doesn't take much room or generate noise or heat :-)
> Laptops aren't engineered to run 24H a day : you
> are going to kill it.
there is a couple of refrigerated machine rooms that i know
in Paris, if that bothers you. and i was happily surprised by
the efficiency of the thermal regulation of the mobile PIII.

> > Maybe i can install it at Paul Mota's home, if i could
> > configure everything cleanly (Please help me, Lionel,
> > you promised me ;-P)
> A friend of mine has got PCMCIA support with a 2.4 kernel.
"paroles, paroles, paroles" ! ;-P

> > * What would be cool : someone finds a PC that could be
> > used as a firewall for the server.
> I have brought three of my computers at rhinotec
> computers they are second hand machine
> ( 2 Dell Optiplex @ 133Mhz 32MB + 1 IBM DX4-100 16MB )
> they work fine as firewall and DNS + Mail server.
> With these kind of shop everything work fine as
> long as you don't trust them: don't let them go in
> the backoffice with your computer and check the
> hardware twice ( @shop @home ), plus torture test them
> for three days with shutdown + reboots.
yeah, i know... i have a spare Pentium 100 if needed.
The power supply should be enhanced by a safer one
(or redundant) but it's an AT board.

> >  In the case of the
> > laptop, the connexion could be through PLIP because
> > i have only 1 PCMCIA slot and this slot could
> > be used for something else, i think about an external
> > large SCSI or IDE drive because the internal IDE drive
> > is rather small (5GB) and is preferably used for swapping.
> You have one PCMCIA slot but you can insert two cards
> one Adaptac SCSI controller + an ethernet adapter :
> no need to use PLIP.
you don't know how much crap it is !
the physical slot is large enough to hold
2x slim PCMCIA cards but there's only one "electrical"
connexion.

> I guess you should have a hub too in order to do the
> backups on another machine ( tar + ssh ).
> You'll need to forward ssh + ftp connections
and so on, and so on...

let's first CORRECTLY configure the kernel, damnit...

If i find a job in/for the next months, i'll try to participate
to the acquisition of the Sun.

> A+
> Lionel
WHYGEE
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PS: i discourage you to acquire Multiplex branded RC planes ...
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