[IMC-Tech] Things needing to be done at the IMC...

[daniel]

On 2/4/06, David Young <dyoung at pobox.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 04, 2006 at 07:32:39PM -0600, daniel wrote:
> > Hey all,
> >
> > I am not for sure what the official status of this group is so count
> > this as an attempt to try and find out.  I am not for sure if there is
> > a need for a meeting, although that might be nice, as much as just an
> > effort to identify all the things that are on a todo list that I am
> > not aware of.  Also, a good definition of what the tech group duties
> > are and what it is responsible for would be beneficial.
> >
> > Currently, I have been working rotating on replacing existing machines
> > with new and old computers that better suit the need.  Initially, that
> > was replacing the streaming server that was being way under utilized
> > with something less then again doing that today to use a lower better
> > suited computer.  There is supposedly going to be 2 audio/video
> > production rooms both of which will require decent computers.  I want
> > to replace Rosa with a 1.4Ghz P4 that has 512 ECC DDRAM.  We have two
> > of those boxes for both locations that were donated last week.  There
> > is also the migration of the chambana.net server in Zack's basement to
> > the new server at the IMC.  This will follow the bandwidth upgrade I
>
> What's the status of the Internet connection at Zach's?  In particular,
> I am wondering if the wireless node at Zach's is going to be "high &
> dry" without an Internet connection, or else without a global IP address,
> any time soon?  The importance of the node at Zach's is that it lets me
> access the nodes on Race Street near Washington St.
>
being a very recent addition to the imc/cuwin crew, i am not the
person to answer that question (hopefully someone reading this can)...
> > have been looking into for the IMC building.  After that, there is
> > scrounging up any ole boxes we can find to use for public access
> > stations somewhere.  There is also some consolidation that needs to be
> > done with the RFU specific machines.
>
> CUWiN has had a few machines donated to us that are useless for our
> purposes (no expansion slots).  I would be happy for you to take them
> off our hands.  If you take them, you have to promise me you will not
> bring them back to us!
>
i can assure you of that... if they have at least a cdrom i will drop
a live distro in them and use them for public access machines that you
wont get back.
> Dave
>
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Thanks,
Daniel Meredith
Professional Geek
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