The 280's were known for having capacitors go on them. I wouldn't be surprised if the 280 that is mentioned to be "not reliable" below has bad capacitors. I've had a number of these which had bad caps, with some new caps and about an hour with a soldering iron, they became reliable again.
If it is a university, surely there should be something better then an old 260 or 280 kicking around that can be had for no budget? A university that I have worked with was recently sending 6 year old dual-core desktops to a recycler, systems that would have no trouble running Rivendell. The only difficulty with them - they still had XP installed, and no one wanted to go through the trouble of installing Win7 (even though the hardware would have supported Win7 without difficulty). > > The Dell Optiplex GX260 Came out in 2001 or 2002. Isn't it amazing how > hardware can seem so old so quickly? > > Mike Price > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Rob > Landry > Sent: Thursday, August 20, 2015 12:42 PM > To: Cowboy > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [RDD] Appliance on a virtual machine? > > > > On Wed, 19 Aug 2015, Cowboy wrote: > > > 1. Virtual machines are highly discouraged. > > They don't lend themselves to "hard" real time applications very well. > > ( nor soft real time, either, really ) > > This is an unusual application: a "student radio station" that is an > Internet stream, automated 24/7, for which students pre-record programs > and Rivendell runs them automatically. It has a zero-dollar budget; I was > asked to use whatever spare capacity the radio station could afford: > either a virtual machine on a reasonably modern box that does other things > as well, or one of several decade-old cast-off Dell Optiplex 260's or > 280's. We ran it on a 280 for a year and a half, but it's not reliable, so > we're trying a VM. > > The sole reason for this "station" to exist is to satisfy some University > bigwig who feels the radio station needs to justify its existence by > involving students in some way. The station is owned by a university but > plays no role in the university's educational mission. To be honest, it is > something of a mystery to me why the University is in the radio business > at all. > > As far as I know there are zero listeners for this service and less than a > handful of student contributors. Their programs account for four or five > hours a week of the Internet stream; the rest is programmed by > rdlogmanager using whatever music the students have imported. > > > Rob > _______________________________________________ > Rivendell-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://caspian.paravelsystems.com/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev > _______________________________________________ > Rivendell-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://caspian.paravelsystems.com/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev _______________________________________________ Rivendell-dev mailing list [email protected] http://caspian.paravelsystems.com/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev
