Grand Plans (was Re: [tech] morwong)

[Simon Fryer]

Bingle

I thought I would add my 1.5p (or whatever - weak AU$). 
 
> A while ago Nick Bannon tapped:

[...]
> > As for the last one there... what sort of machine were you suggesting
> > for the NFS and such box, Nick? You said, Fast Ethernet and all that...
> > are we going to blow $4k on an Ultra10 or something?
> 
> No rush - we don't need it yet. We can wait to see if we really
> need it, and see if something good becomes available. It'd need
> fast ethernet, good disks and only moderate RAM and CPU.

Yes. I think we are going about this in the wrong manner - we have money - 
lets do something with the money. Rather than, we want to do XXX and YYY
 - Do we have enough money - what do we really need and can we really 
justify that sort of expense. 

I suppose what I am really trying to say is that we shouldn't be spending the
money just because we have it. Lets see what we can do with what we have and
then if we find that our resources are inadiquet then we can work out how 
to best find a solution. 

[The illustrious grand plan]
 
> >From the last wheel meeting, we still need a backup NIS server and a
> new router...

I like the PC soln to routing at the moment. I am trying to find a 
source of DE504's (4 tulips on a single PCI card) and not having 
much luck. I think one of these in a pentium would be a good solution. 
I think Yakk is going to come up with another soln this evening. 

Until the guild get 100Base? I don't see the router being all that static. 
This is why I think a good PC soln will work for the time being.  

I am sure that there where some other points that I wanted to make 
but I will make them later. 

See Ya
Simon
[PS - I have borrowed the DEC Server 200 manual. Will return it in the 
next couple of days.]

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