[frgeek-michiana] Warehouse Report - 11/8/2007
- From: Tom Brown <tbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: FreeGeek Michiana <frgeek-michiana@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2007 10:01:36 -0500
:: Bathroom Clean Up
Goose has the bathrooms cleared out enough to get to and use the sinks,
urinal and toilets. We are hoping the toilets will be functional within
a week.
:: Office Clean Up
As we build FreeBoxes for Perley School, we stack them against a wall in
the main room or in the shelves in the server room. At some point, we
will run out of space. I will contact the PTA coordinator at Perley and
ask her to store finished FreeBoxes, monitors, keyboards and mice at the
school. Hopefully, they have the space and are willing.
:: Rack Space
The new rack space is wonderful. otoh, every rack space is used. There
is no space to hold deman parts so we cannot deman.
Forest is going to check our monitor recycling resources to see how
quickly we can unload bad monitors to free up rack space and how much it
will cost. Although we can earn revenue by demanning monitors for metal
and circuit boards, we don't have space for the disassembled parts. If
we ship bad monitors, we won't gain much space -- there are only 3 or 4
gaylords of bad monitors.
We cannot stack anything on the floors for more than a few minutes for
the next few weeks, possibly the next few months. Consequently, we can't
accept new donations until we create rack space for the donation. Better
organizing and labeling the contents of gaylords will help. Our map of
our rack space will need constant updating.
:: Servers
SSH into the server room is working. I opened a second ssh port on the
warehouse router and forwarded the port to our gateway box in the server
room. Goose configured and tested the gateway. We can now maintain the
warehouse servers remotely.
The servers held up during the week. The LTSP server and the accounting
server/gateway were both still on and functioning after one week of the
new configuration. I don't recall whether Goose shut the servers down to
see if they boot handle gracefully.
John Gnubie offered to host the FGM web site. Goose offered to let us
use his dual Xeon Dell Poweredge 2500 to colo. Of the two offers, John
Gnubie's is the one we can count on right now. I'll follow up with the
local data center about the colo next week. Gnubie works for a
professional hosting service in New Zealand -- yes, that New Zealand.
:: Ebay Auctions
Kevin will manage small Ebay auctions for us. Kevin is a long time Ebay
seller and has a good reputation. FGM will pay a commission on sales for
his effort.
Our first goal is to auction the excess server boxes we have
accumulated. The auctions will be 7 days. Kevin will photograph one
server each week. I will help him describe the server and provide a link
to detailed specs to place on the auction page. We will deban drives,
load a suitable OS and test prior to auction because tested gear fetches
better prices. At the end of each auction, we will either ship a server
or deman it.
Kevin advised us not to open a store. Ebay charges premiums for stores.
Unless there is sufficient volume and profit margin, stores are not
worth the additional expense and work.
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