TN-Birders: The first upgrade of hardware for the Freelist server that distributes the TN-Birds mailing list will take place this coming Saturday morning starting at around 9 a.m. Since this is a somewhat complicated process, you may expect that TN-Birds list will be out of service for a good part of the day. We'll be moving to a roomy HP DL585 with 2 Opteron 850's and 2GB RAM. The server also provides for upgradeability -- two more CPU's and another 62GB of memory which can be dropped in if ever need. It's been just over four years since the last hardware upgrade and Freelist feels their need for it has never been greater. Since Nov. 2001, Freelist has been running on a custom-built server with 512MB RAM, two PIII/800 cpu's, and some fairly slow storage. The fact that they've been able to continue running on such ancient hardware is a testament to the quality of the Open Source software they so heavily depend on. Nonetheless, as Freelist has grown, demand for resources has gradually outstripped the capabilities of their hardware. So here's the plan: Freelist will be doing the migration on Saturday the 22nd, starting at about 9am. It's a complicated migration and they do expect there to be bumps along the way, but they plan to have everything operational by mid-afternoon. During that time, of course, FreeLists' services and TN-Birds net will be unavailable. The rest of the weekend will be available to finding and ironing out any remaining problems that crop up. Any questions or concerns? Please don't hesitate to ask. E-mail me at wallace@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx There is no need to send messages to TN-Birds during downtime because obviously the list will not be operational and no messages can be distributed. We will try to send a message to the list when it appears we are again up and running. Let's go birding..... Wallace Coffey Moderator TN-Birds Tennessee Ornithological Society Bristol, TN =================NOTES TO SUBSCRIBER===================== The TN-Bird Net requires you to sign your messages with first and last name, city (town) and state abbreviation. ----------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------- To post to this mailing list, simply send email to: tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx ----------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, send email to: tn-bird-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * TN-Bird Net is owned by the Tennessee Ornithological Society Neither the society(TOS) nor its moderator(s) endorse the views or opinions expressed by the members of this discussion group. Moderator: Wallace Coffey, Bristol, TN wallace@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Visit the Tennessee Ornithological Society web site at http://www.tnbirds.org * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Topographical Maps located at http://topozone.com/find.asp * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ========================================================