Contributed by grey on from the don't let a good architecture die dept.
Hours ago Theo de Raadt put out a call for an Alpha CS20, because as of last night OpenBSD no longer has one.
The CS20 that died was a build machine and without it further support would be nearly impossible.
If you have a C20 or other 1U Alpha machine that you would be willing to donate to the project, please respond to the discussion on the misc mailing list.
For further information and to track the misc discussion, click here.
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By Damien (82.226.59.105) on
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By Anonymous Coward (66.131.206.50) on
By Anonymous Coward (213.84.84.111) on
I'm sure he will deal with this if you contact him
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By wicked (62.103.254.154) on
By Wim (194.78.167.231) wim@kd85.com on http://eurobsd.org/2005-WhatTheHack
Why don't you email me to resolve this issue?
I really have been working my ass off to solve some open issues and I'm trying my best to get the urgent things done first.
Somehow there is always some smartass....
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By Damien (82.226.59.105) on
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By wob (63.237.113.222) wob@bonch.org on
By wim (194.78.167.231) wim@kd85.com on http://eurobsd.org/2005-WhatTheHack
They will be back on my list in August but right now I have some serious other things (hello Intrastat) to deal with.
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By Damien (82.226.59.105) on
I can understand now you gave me an explanation. :-)
In fact, the only thing I wanted (and the purpose of my post) was another answer that "i'm busy" ;-)
So it's a happy end story :-D
By Anonymous Coward (212.211.153.7) on
What are you thinking, man?
By Wim (194.78.167.231) wim@kd85.com on http://eurobsd.org/2005-WhatTheHack
Anyways, until this issue with the posters is resolved, I've removed the posters from the ordering site.
By Anonymous Coward (82.43.92.127) on
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By Fizban (80.3.128.7) apt@earthling.net on
Carry on the great work Theo and Team, I'll send you a few dollars thru the post.
By Paulo (84.195.171.207) on
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By Damien (82.226.59.105) on
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By Bert (68.100.43.184) on
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By Nate (65.95.243.163) on
By Damien (82.226.59.105) on
:1,$ s/Vim/Wim/
:-)
By Anonymous Coward (64.92.206.84) on
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By Anonymous Coward (65.5.196.200) on
He obviously knows its an issue, and has tried to remedy it. Still, bad things will happen. You deal with it, move on, and try to keep it from happening again. Bitching about it doesn't really help.
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By henning (80.86.183.129) on
it temporarily failed, and that caused this machine's (and some other hardware's) death.
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By Matthias Kilian (84.134.29.243) on
NB: some months ago, in a datacenter of a company I won't name here, they actually had a power failure. All the equipment in the room was connected to UPS's, the AC wasn't -- ouch! Lots of disks died within minutes.
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By grey (207.215.223.2) on
http://www.netbotz.com/
Not the best or only things I'm sure - keep in mind I work at a w32 oriented company as well :(, and can't attest to whether all their java web interface crap works on OpenBSD. But it still might be useful info for some.
That said, the solution to the root of the problem was reducting our server room to spread the AC to the appropriate spots instead of trying to cool the whole room. The servers stay cooler, the AC units' workload dropped, they stopped freezingup/failing over as often (this happened particularly in winter where they couldn't cope with the workload and the cold air) and no more problems. In the interim, the monitor was good as an alarm for us to rush in and open a door with a fan to get things to cool down, but it didn't solve the problem. Moreover, a room can get up to nasty temperatures in 10-15 minutes with as many machines as I deal with & just an active/passive AC system, and that's not always enough time to react (esp. if it's after normal hours).
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By Nathan (69.34.233.55) natex84@gmail.com on http://www.brainwerk.org/