Ok - sorry for being a bit quiet. I've had the flu and have been out of any energy to do anything over the last 4 days or so.
I've let this thread move along and see what people have to say. It seems there is sufficient support to make this happen - and since we have bandwidth and hosting provided for - the only burden on us is getting hardware together. ok - i've taken a stab at it here are 2 examples (Taken from dell because its easy to select things and geta price immediately): PowerEdge 850 (1u): Pentium D Dual core 3.2Ghz 2x1MB L2 Cache, 2GB 667MHz DDR RAM, SATA Raid Controller, 2x250GB SATA 7200rpm Drives, 24x speed CD. Standard next business day on site warranty support (nothing special) = $2744 PowerEdge 1850 (2u): 3Ghz Xeon 2MB L2 Cache x 2, 2GB 400Mhz DDR RAM, SCSI Raid Controller, 2x146GB SCSI 10000rpm Drives, 24x speed CDROM. Standard next business day on site warranty support (nothing special) = $4272 This is a SAMPLE. I personally would take the first option - cheaper, likely overall the same spee (depends what u are doing though). ie faster memory bus, but less l2 cache, but a tiny bit more ghz. 7200v10000rpm - etc. anyway - do other peolp eant to investigate options elsewhere? NB: to people offering "i have a raid controller you can use" or "i may have a spare cpu" - that's great - thanks, but really impractical. everyone will need to pack aup the hw - send it somewhere to be built, then there is no warranty or easy replacements later down the line - and hassles of things like car no the right form factor for the case or other issues you have when dealing with hw building. it'as simply easier and faster to just order it all together from somewhere like Dell, HP, Sun, etc. and then we know we get new HW that comes with warranty (in Dell's case 3 years - ys it breaks sometimes, but they DO come and fix it - on site. I have had them fix my laptop motherboard twice in 3 years - next day on site, no hassles). Anyway - so what do you guys think? to me it seesm as if we have a target of about $3500 to meet at this stage (we need some extra for shipping and handling, and then some extra in the kitty for when warranty runs out and we need new parts or we need to ship someone up to the server to fix it etc. or whatever - i also just like over-estimating costs and coiming out with a pleasant surprise) -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) [EMAIL PROTECTED] 裸好多 Tokyo, Japan (東京 日本) ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=103432&bid=230486&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
