[tech] Mermaid re-animated

[Nick Bannon]

On Fri, Sep 03, 1999 at 01:05:38PM +0800, David Manchester wrote:
[...]
> Similarly though - names have become indicative of roles.
> i.e. Moray's a trusted services box. Marlin's a backup services & general
> user machine. 
>
> IF we build a new moray, its still moray.

Well, that's another way of looking at it, but as far as I'm concerned
that's what CNAMEs are for - we've got about 50 of the things... moray's
coke, ftp and flame (now an extra A record). mako's www, cvs and fms
(A record). mola's home, nfs and loghost.

> Moray and Marlin the PC have had at least 4 motherboards between them
> since I've been about the club..

Well, exactly, that's the point. Marlin was even a SPARC at one stage!
When I think of marlin, I think of a 5MB 486DX-33, with a mono VGA
monitor, running 386BSD and Linux 0.99.3. Perhaps a copy of xmosaic
causing it to swap hideously. <grin>

Moray's upgrades have been more spaced. Some memory here, a motherboard
there. It only took the jump to 486DX4-100 from a 486DX-33 relatively
recently. It probably still deserves its name, though I wouldn't swear
to it.

Ah well. Whatever. If you _do_ do major surgery to an existing machine,
it'd be nice if you updated the machine's web page. If it's a brand new
machine, it's OK to wait until it's stabilised, I guess.

Nick.

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