[pure-silver] Thanks, Jim!
- From: "Adrienne Moumin" <photowonder2010@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 11:03:01 -0500
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
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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
>(//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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