[pure-silver] Re: Thanks, Jim!

I like to add my appreciation as well.

Thanks for all the work, Jim.





Regards



Ralph W. Lambrecht







On 1/28/05 5:03 PM, "Adrienne Moumin" <photowonder2010@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Thank you, Jim, for spending so much time to research, set up, &
> troubleshoot pure-silver's computing needs--not to mention what I'm sure was
> a hefty expenditure of dinero!
> 
> I greatly appreciate all your work for this labor of love.
> 
> -Adrienne Moumin
> 
> 
> 
> ***************************************
> Please, please shake some booty on the dance floor. You look great in those
> pants and we totally spy you tapping your foot up against the wall, flower.
> If the beat moves you, then rock it.
> 
> from "nonsense nyc," 12/31/04...and their list of rules for New Year's Eve
> (and for life).
> 
> 
> 
> 
>> 
>> Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2005 16:10:28 -0800
>> From: Jim Brick <jim@xxxxxxxxx>
>> Subject: [pure-silver] Why pure-silver was down (Saturday-Sunday in the US)
>> 
>> It's been just over three years since our last hardware upgrade
>> (http://www.freelists.org/archives/freelists-news/11-2001/msg00000.html)
>> and
>> our need for it has never been greater.
>> 
>> Since 11/2001, we've been running on a custom-built server with 512MB RAM,
>> two
>> PIII/800 cpu's, and some fairly slow storage.  The fact that we've been
>> able
>> to continue running on such ancient hardware is, in my opinion, a testament
>> to the quality of the Open Source software we so heavily depend on.
>> Nonetheless, as we've grown, demand for resources has gradually outstripped
>> the capabilities of our hardware.
>> 
>> For several months now, I've been researching and shopping for a server
>> that
>> will carry FreeLists for the next few years.  While there are several
>> servers
>> that make up the backend here, there's just one that does 90% of the work,
>> so
>> it's got to be a performant, reliable box.  I nearly went with Dell for
>> their
>> simplicity, my experience with them (we've already got an 1850 here), and
>> the
>> fact that they're so cheap.  Their lack of support for the AMD Opteron CPU
>> (far better than Intel's 64-bit offering) dropped them from the running.
> 
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