[tech] Upgrading our PCs..

[Duncan Sargeant]

David Manchester wrote on Wed October 25, at 11:55 +0800:
> > 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.
> 
> Unless we do it on currently unused shit, like the big suns.

Ah, neato.  And if you install Solaris on it, wheel won't break it :-)
Got enough RAM and disk?

> > 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).
> 
> Have the router forward all outgoing web stuff through it?

Can do that.  No real need though.

> > > > 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.
> 
> Which is significantly more stable on DU than Linux, last time I checked.
> Why is netscape a consideration, Dunc ?

Sorry, I blindly assumed that morwong was too slow (hence we need a
new dev box).  I guess the reason we need this new development box is
because DU headers are broken? :-)


,dunc