On Dec 23, 2007 12:52 PM, Chris Hellyar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Arrrrrrrrr. Clear as mud. :-). > > I knew about the 'ThereIsNoCLUG', but didn't understand that the hosting > was the limiting factor in the wiki, I thought someone was being overly > zealous about the 'perfection' of the solution for it. > > Hmmmmmmmmm. Again, tell me to bugger off if I'm out of line...
You are _not_ out of line. > Can I offer virtual LAMP box and a dedicated fixed IP in our DMZ at work > to the clug to host a more current wiki engine? That would be most generous, many thanks. > I'll be putting another > vmware host in the DMZ after Xmas which would have more than enough > spare capacity to host wikimedia or similar. Would you care to have a look at this Deki-Weki thing I mentioned at the start of the thread? >From its web page it would appear to be quite a good looker, but goodness only knows what it is like technically. It's a LAMP application. http://wiki.mindtouch.com/ There is a link to sourceforge on that page. > Someone else would have to admin it once it's running though. > Resources I've got lots of, it's time I'm short of! I'm sure there are enough of us who can keep the content in order. > On Sun, 2007-12-23 at 11:21 +1300, Jim Cheetham wrote: > > > online in the mere twinkling of an eye. Lets face it, we're geeks > > > aren't we? > > > > There is no "we", which may be the source of your misunderstanding :-) > > > > There is an "I", as in "I am donating some spare cycles from one of my > > servers", in a similar manner to the availability of "horse". The > > number of spare cycles I have in both terms of CPU/memory/disk and > > time are not unlimited ... > > > > If CLUG wanted to set something else up, then CLUG might have to > > exist. http://clug.net.nz/index.php/ThereIsNoCLUG > > -- Sincerely etc. Christopher Sawtell
