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2013-09-04 --Tech & Moderator Notes
The State of the Rantburg Treasury Department...
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Posted by Sherry 2013-09-04 01:54|| || Front Page|| [11127 views ]  Top

#1 Sitting in the BA lounge at Zaventam (BRU) waiting for KLM flight to JFK and the freaking connection won't connect with PayPal. Will have to defer my endowment until after I land.

I still have a sock filled with Rupiahs if that will help.
Posted by Jack is Back!  2013-09-04 03:25||   2013-09-04 03:25|| Front Page Top

#2 What are the specs for Fred's new server?
I see that he is hosted. Why not a VM on one of theirs?
Posted by Skidmark 2013-09-04 07:45||   2013-09-04 07:45|| Front Page Top

#3 What are the specs for Fred's new server?

Didn't you look at the picture above?

(sorry - couldn't resist).
Posted by CrazyFool 2013-09-04 08:03||   2013-09-04 08:03|| Front Page Top

#4 Otay. Do I get one of those data processing technicians like seated in the pic?
Posted by Spot 2013-09-04 08:12||   2013-09-04 08:12|| Front Page Top

#5 The 'Burg server is a physical piece of hardware, located in south Baltimore. It also runs three small VMs for other projects I do. Donations pay the monthly hosting fees except for when I dip into the till and have to cover it out of our family budget.

If we crash, I should be able to drive the twenty minutes from my house, swap the old server for the new, and be back in business within, say, an hour or an hour and a half at the outside.

We back up the database three times a day: midnight, 8 a.m., and 4 p.m., so that if I do have to restore we won't be more than eight hours out of date.

That's all subject to occasional change, mind you. The local version has a GUI, so I can compose the 'Burg on it when not working on my laptop. I also do my programming on it, to include other projects, many of them abortive, and it runs my local Samba file system so I can access it from my wife's machine(s) and from my Windows VMs. I compose the bloid using an ancient copy of Fireworks on one of those.

Occasionally I do something stupid on the backup box and end up blowing the system away and having to reinstall from scratch. Once I did something spectacularly stupid, blew away the system, and let Ubuntu try and install over the backup disk. I was pretty pale and shaky until I got the backups running properly again.

The new server I'm looking at has twice the memory of our current machine, twice the storage (not that we're running close to filling up what we've got), and an improved processor. It should sing like a nightingale.
Posted by Fred 2013-09-04 09:26||   2013-09-04 09:26|| Front Page Top

#6 or a fat lady?
Posted by Frank G 2013-09-04 09:36||   2013-09-04 09:36|| Front Page Top

#7 snailmail info please.
Posted by rjschwarz  2013-09-04 10:23||   2013-09-04 10:23|| Front Page Top

#8 I'll have to wait till I get back to the plains
Posted by bman 2013-09-04 10:58||   2013-09-04 10:58|| Front Page Top

#9 If you need snailmail info send me an email.
Posted by Fred 2013-09-04 11:29||   2013-09-04 11:29|| Front Page Top

#10 Still got your snail mail address, will contribute when psycho summer ends next weekend.
Posted by Grunter in Saratoga Springs 2013-09-04 12:06||   2013-09-04 12:06|| Front Page Top

#11 AND DON'T FORGET AMAZON!

If you're going to buy anything from Amazon, if you'll click on the Amazon logo and go to Amazon through Rantburg, Fred gets a minuscule cut. (But hey, it's better than nothing.)

Every time I go to Amazon to buy something, I always go through Rantburg. It's easy, and helps Fred a little.
Posted by Barbara 2013-09-04 13:03||   2013-09-04 13:03|| Front Page Top

#12 Wow, an IBM 360, WITH the punched-card reader? Top o' the line!
Posted by Mojo 2013-09-04 13:38||   2013-09-04 13:38|| Front Page Top

#13 Just used the paypal link on the right. It came back as 'rantburg defense fund'. Dropped some change in the kitty. Hope it's the right place.
Posted by abu do you love 2013-09-04 13:55||   2013-09-04 13:55|| Front Page Top

#14 Sent a little
Posted by Beavis 2013-09-04 14:31||   2013-09-04 14:31|| Front Page Top

#15 I don't think that's an IBM/360 - the front panel has way too few 'flashing lights' and the 'console' was usually hardcopy (with a very loud bell). Somehow this makes me think of Honeywell....

In either case - Contribution made.
Posted by CrazyFool 2013-09-04 15:17||   2013-09-04 15:17|| Front Page Top

#16 Think that's a CDC 6600
Posted by Mullah Richard 2013-09-04 15:29||   2013-09-04 15:29|| Front Page Top

#17 Yep, it used the NATO round, halogen fire extinguishers and 5 number locks.
Posted by Shipman 2013-09-04 17:45||   2013-09-04 17:45|| Front Page Top

#18 Bet the mods are excited! But looks like they are playing video games on it! ;-)
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