[tech] Upgrading our PCs..

[Anil Sharma <Grand Poobah Maset>]

> Au contraire, as Nick is eager to exclaim, any squid is better than
> no squid. Similarly, the UCS proxy will be charged anyway & how are
> non-students going to use it?
> Our own squid, with our own ACLs and our own traffic logs is better.
>
I don't know if it is feasible, but I meant having a minimal squid setup
here and peering? with UCS to basically leach off their squid box.
 
> 
> >  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).
> 
> Why do the X-terms need to move to Mussel?
> So you can run bloated, slow KDE or GNOME compliant WMs on them?

ja.  And having them on the same segment should hopefully stop them
sucking the network dry of bandwith.

Maset the Grandiose.
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