Re: Disk 17/18 server is down

[Chris Albertson <chrisalbertson90278@yahoo.com>]

Setting up and maintaining the computer is not a big deal.
Finding a good, fast Internet connection is.  The computer
would need a good home.  All I have here is a modem connection
now.  My DSL provider went bust.

I seriously doubt anyone at their home or office could tell if the
computer were a Sun or a Pentium.  The difference would not be
noticeable.  CGI scripts, web pages, FTP and so on works the same on
both.  

The one advantage of a Sun over a PC is that the Sun can run with
no monitor, keyboard or mouse. so it takes no table or desk space.
A semi-modern PC would actually be faster then a Sun SPARC 5 but
for this purpose it does not matter.


Jure Skvarc wrote:
<snip>
> 
> This and other such events call again for a computer which could host some larger
> quantities of data and some CGI scripts. So Chris, of you can setup some computer
> for this, as you said before, I think nobody at TASS would object.  It just
> seems, however, that some simple Pentium 200 MHz or faster would be easier to use
> than Sun which is probably not known to everybody.  But Sun is certainly better
> than nothing.
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