[tech] Ultra Enterprise 6000 upgrades

[Adrian Chadd]

On Thu, Sep 29, 2005, Davyd Madeley wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 12:17:13PM +0800, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> 
> > UCC should write a letter to UCS/ITS asking for colocation for your
> > E6000. Mention that its being used for quite prominent open source
> > development (squid, gnome, etc) and it'll look good for the university.
> > Say you don't require bandwidth, just power, housing and cooling.
> 
> Or with the current situation in that half of UCS seems to want to
> quit and doesn't know how it's going to function in the new
> political landscape, I would suggest keeping our heads down.

The political landscape isn't that volatile. We know who will
be running the show, we know that the space won't be suddenly
yanked from under us.

However, the UCC doesn't know when their aircon is going to fail,
and whether this shiny busily used E6000 in a room it wasn't ever
specced out for is going to suddenly become unstable.
Don't blow $$$ on equipment that is designed to be in a decently
controlled environment if you're not going to put it in said
environment.

Thats just MHO.




Adrian