[tech] Upgrading our PCs..

[Anil Sharma <Grand Poobah Maset>]

> Having one of the Celeron boxes in the clubroom with mussel's existing 
> video card, and the other in the machine room doing something useful sounds 
> good. Perhaps running squid (a few gigs of cache ought to be enough) and 
> serving the webpages plus random other tasks. It'd also be another user 
> machine. Of course, we could have two fast PC boxes out in the clubroom.
>

I really don't think that squid for UCC is going to be a good thing any
time soon.  If we are able to use UCS squid cache, then that is good, but
removing a good console box to make goats load a bit faster once a week
seems pointless.  Mermaid seems to be hacking the pace quite well at the
moment doing all the odd jobs in the machine room... why move it to an
overpowered machine?  If this plan goes ahead we will have quite a few
user machines in the machine room (mussel, mermaid, morwong, mola and
kraken) mussel being the beastie for compiling (or maybe making it the X
server thingy, and put all the x-terms on their own segment with mussel).
 
> Then mussel becomes UCC's "big iron" in the machine room.

I just hope not as hot :)

Maset the Grandiose.
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