Er zijn weer statsloze stats, en het is hier weer een drukte van belang
Nog even het laatste tech news herhalen, voor 't geval iemand het gisteren gemist heeft.
Let me just say a couple things right off: I'm coming to realize that my tech news items are giving people a distorted view of the project as I mostly report about the failures. Let's face it - chaos and disaster is far more fun and entertaining. Nevertheless, this ultimately negative tone is doing a bit of disservice to what we are accomplishing here. I'm sure most people reading this understand, but I wanted to point this out to be safe.
Also - there's clearly confusion about what we need to better this project. I'm continually overwhelmed but all the varying offers of help from our participants. I personally don't have the time to address these offers (nor does anybody around here) which sometimes leads to further confusion and perhaps hurt feelings. Knowing this, we're waiting for current avenues of hardware donation to pan out, and then Jeff, Eric, and I will sit down and revise our hardware donation page. I would also like us to revise our general public donation policies to cover certain cases where ambiguities have bitten us in the recent past.
Now onto the disasters...
If you haven't read the front page news, the current ETA for a new server from Sun is tomorrow (tuesday), probably in the afternoon which means if we're super lucky the science database will be alive again sometime on wednesday. Read other recent threads for more information on all that. There was a failure in the replica BOINC database over the weekend, most likely due to sidious crashing and having corrupted bin logs. No real harm there, and we'll clean that up during the usual outage tomorrow. One of our UPS's is complaining about a bad battery. Great.
More positively, we're on the brink of retiring three of the older servers: kang, koloth, and kryten. They aren't doing very much anymore and are complaining more about aching disk drives and such things as they age. This will help both by reducing temperature/power consumption, but also by making room for bruno and sidious to finally move into the much cooler closet (temperatures today around Berkeley are pushing 90 degrees Fahrenheit). Plus they'll move onto the gigabit internal network which'll be nice. Snap Appliance graciously sent us a couple more spare drives in light of a recent single drive failure in gowron (an old disk that died of natural causes). They've been vastly supportive over the years.
That's about it for now.
- Matt
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APClll op 08-05-2007 11:57
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Ouwe troep? Wat is dat?.......Alles is leuk, zelfs modelracing..........BOINC ook mee met DPC!
......Team Grazzie~Power....!! Mooooooeeeee......
zit ik vol met duizenden woorden en teksten om eens hier een retestrak verhaaltje te tiepen zijn de stats fubar. Iemand die server gesloopt? Wil de dader even opstaan en zich melden bij Opperhoofd Pim om zijn straf te ontvangen. 
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