Howdy list, Things are looking up for the Vanagon list. Just over a week ago, I purchased a remanufactured Dell PowerEdge 1400 server. It has a single P3-800mhz processor, 256MB of RAM and a single 9.1GB SCSI drive. MUCH more powerful that the P90 we are running on now. It is currently sitting under my desk, waiting for me to install the OS and ListServ software. I hope to have it up and running sometime during the next 3 weeks. The Dell service tag # is 6WFDK01 for those of you who want to view the specs on the http://support.dell.com website. Thanks to everybody who was kind enough to donate. I have updated the donations page at http://gerry.vanagon.com/info/donations.html and the info should be current as of today. An additional upgrade I would really like to make right off the bat is to add a second 9.1G hard drive as a mirror of the first. That way, we can suffer a single drive failure without any data loss. So, if you can spare a few pennies this month, please send them to the list! Donations can be via PayPal or to the mailing address listed listed on the donations page. Hopefully, this server will speed up those painfully slow web archive searches. If it still seems sluggish on the new hardware, we can add a second P3-800 processor to add even more "umph". Take care, TomC tcarrington@relitech.com |
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