[ucc] minutes 2007-10-05

[Nick Bannon]

On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 02:23:49PM +0800, Grahame Bowland wrote:
> Fair enough - from the minutes it looked like a popular and useful
> idea had been randomly and capriciously dropped by a committee so
> disconnected from the needs of its members that it wanted to buy
> 2.4GHz Xeons!

...and here I was thinking the Committee was out of touch enough that it
wanted to buy another effectively single user desktop machine outright
rather than leverage club cash with donations; and to ignore buying a
~$1500 flavour-of-the-year virtual host server!

> Obviously I was mistaken!

Me too! Thanks to those who made it happen. I already gave $50 to [TRS]
for the Xeon machine; I'm hereby retrospectively pledging another $50
to the Mac, or Xeon, or whatever's up next on the list.

(I do hope that now we'll have the taste of a bargain $450 virtual server
that we'll upgrade it next year to one with shiny new CPU extensions)

Nick.

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