RE: Disk 17/18 server is down

["Creager, Robert S" <CreagRS@LOUISVILLE.STORTEK.COM>]

Hey all,

I have a friend who has a satellite connection (100k upstream, 600k
downstream) that he is willing to make available.  On his end, he has a dual
600Mhz PentIII Xenon system, and can manage 20 SCSI disks without problem.
He'd be willing to open up the box for our use, and up to about 40Gb of disk
space.  After that, he'd like some more disks :-)

Would this provide what is required for playing around?  

Other than a http (with cgi and mod_perl), database, ftp, and ssh, what
services would people want?

He's also willing to take a box which is set up and forward services to that
if we want.

Later,
Rob

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Albertson [mailto:chrisalbertson90278@yahoo.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2001 7:49 PM
> To: Jure Skvarc; TASS
> Subject: Re: Disk 17/18 server is down
> 
> 
> 
> 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.
> 
>