As you know if you were at EUGLUG's clinic last night, we have four monstrous HP servers that the City of Eugene recently donated. The biggest of them has dual 200 MHz Pentiums, 512 MB of RAM, a hardware RAID of 12 drives totaling 78 GB, and triply redundant power supplies, all housed in a cabinet the size and shape of an end table.
So, compared to a $300 PC from Best Buy, these machines are slow, huge, and power hungry, but they have good disk bandwidth, and their power supplies won't burn out anytime soon. (-: They are also free. The question is, what should we do with them? Larry suggested donating them to a local nonprofit, and I think that's a good idea. But it'd be good to target a nonprofit that can actually use the performance characteristics of the machines that we have. I'm thinking a database server. What could a nonprofit do with a high performance database over 10 GB in size? Maybe we could have a contest for the most creative use of these servers, and award the servers to the best entrants? Or would society get the most benefit from recycling these junkers responsibly, then holding a bake sale to buy Headstart a new Celeron box? Brainstorming time. Throw out some ideas. -- Bob Miller K<bob> kbobsoft software consulting http://kbobsoft.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
