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 >> (//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. > > -----------SNIPPITY-DOO-DAH---------------------------------------------------> - > > > ============================================================================== > =============================== > To unsubscribe from this list, go to www.freelists.org and logon to your > account (the same e-mail address and password you set-up when you subscribed,) > and unsubscribe from there. ============================================================================================================= To unsubscribe from this list, go to www.freelists.org and logon to your account (the same e-mail address and password you set-up when you subscribed,) and unsubscribe from there.