[TriLUG] Donations

[Tanner Lovelace]

On Sun, 2003-01-05 at 22:37, Chris Hedemark wrote:
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> On Sunday, January 5, 2003, at 09:52 PM, Scott Stancil wrote:
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> > Is there anything that Trilug needs specifically?
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> High capacity storage for the ftp server wouldn't hurt.

SCSI drives.  We've got lots of room for SCSI drives, but
unfortunately no room at all for IDE drives. :-(

> I'll have to double check, but we might could use a smallish fast 
> ethernet switch for the rack's private network (used for NFS and 
> authentication between servers... the servers themselves are publicly 
> available).

No, that's been fixed.  Both internal and external networks
have brand new fast ethernet switches.  One was donated by
Lisa Lorenzin (thanks Lisa!) and I believe trilug bought
the other (when the old was was dying).

> Poor Roy has been struggling with our portable firewall for a long time 
> now and may have some ideas on a suitable replacement.  This is the 
> machine that gives us wired & wireless 'net access at TriLUG meetings, 
> installfests and other events.

Roy, correct me if I'm wrong, but one of those Linksys or Netgear
cable/dsl routers with a four port switch would probably do the
same thing as the portable firewall and you could probably just
plug it in and go.  Actually, I believe they even have that with
included wireless which would be even better because then we'd 
just need the one box to do everything. :-)

> Cash donations are always appreciated & useful.  The more cash we have 
> in the bank, the more cool & useful stuff we do with it.

Definitely.  We're right now in negotiations to help bring down
a nationally recognized speaker and would love to be able to
contribute to their travel expenses.  The more we have, the more
we can contribute. :-)

Cheers,
Tanner
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