[tech] Upgrading our PCs..

[Duncan Sargeant]

Anil Sharma <Grand Poobah Maset> wrote on Wed October 25, at 11:06 +0800:
> > 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.

UCS won't peer with UCC, but UCC is free to use proxy.uwa.edu.au as a
parent.  Any Squid box is going to take not-insignificant resources
away from other things, so unless you're going to do it properly, I
don't think its worth doing at all.

A resource friendlier solution would be to have a custom proxy forward
requests to the UCS proxy.  In the proxy response it finds out whether
it was a hit or miss, and if its a miss, you charge based on the
hostname of the website. (free for uwa.edu.au, ii.net, iinet.net.au, .au
rates for .au, telstra.com, telstra.net, int rates for everything else).

I'm sure yakk already had one of these written.  If he hasn't, I'll
write one this weekend.  Although based on previous experience, yakk
will have already written one by then :-)

> > > 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?

Its the UCC way.  moray was a fine 486 which did little.  mooneye is a
pentium which does almost as little, but does it in python.

> > Why do the X-terms need to move to Mussel?
> > So you can run bloated, slow KDE or GNOME compliant WMs on them?

Netscape, Dave.

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

I hope you mean switch and not segment :-)

,dunc