"tao" suddenly died

[Diego F. Arias R.]

On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 2:01 PM, Gary Kline <kline at thought.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 10:04:26PM -0600, Adam Vande More wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 9:34 PM, Gary Kline <kline at thought.org> wrote:
> >
> > >        Aloha Al and thanks for responding.  {god this has been a
> > >        long day... .  ............}
> > >
> > >        Well, long-story-short, the most unepect thing happened: a
> > >        power surge.  I did not realize that my printer was also off
> > >        until hours later.  A friend helped me trace the problem and
> > >        reset my surgge-protector.  ---It is worth noting that BEFORE
> > >        I got my battery [UPS], when things were dead or suddenly
> > >        went dead, i  knew right away to check the surge-protector.
> > >
> > >        nutshell: things are almost back.  it'll be only an hour
> > >        before everything is back.
> > >
> > >        still, this is a warning to get back on the ball and start
> > >        looking for a new desktop.
> > >
> > >        i would be much obliged for ideas on what kind of dell to buy
> > >        next.  i say 'dell' because i would like to make life simple
> > >        and eventually have one kind of box.  (i have three tower
> > >        computers: one is my DNS/mail/web server; one is my pfSense
> > >        firewall; one is my laptop.  i COULD use the server as a
> > >        desktop, but that would be too much of a risk!
> > >
> > >        so:: should i be looking for a dual or quad?  ----i am biased
> > >        toward intel because i think the AMD requires more juice.  [[my
> > >        only linux server --long dead-- seemed to suck 100w to 107w as
> > >        a minimum.]]
> > >
> > >        suggestions?
> > >
> >
> > I don't really think much of Dell consumer level products or support.
>  While
> > they aren't the worst out there, it still doesn't make it very compelling
> > for me.  Depending on your resources(money) you might consider something
> > like this:
>
>
>         WEll, frankly, _cost_ is less of an issue considering all
>        the grief, &c.  i think I've built [custom ordred] more
>        and better systems than the Dells and HPs.
>
> >
> > http://www.ixsystems.com/apollo
>
>
>         I'll look this up when I am using a GUI mailer.
> >
> > While more money than you'd probably spend with dell, here's a couple
> > reasons to consider it further.
> >
> > 1.  Out the Box compatibility
> > 2.  Great hardware support/warranty service
> > 3.  Vendor backing of your OS
> > 4.  Long term upgradability, this will serve you better than any
> emachine.
> > 5.  ixsystems is a large supporter of FreeBSD
> >
> > I believe the TCO of something like that is lower than most alternatives.
> >
> > One further thought is I don't see a lot sense in the requirement "must
> be a
> > dell, cause the other ones I have are dell" given the amount of machines
> you
> > run.  To me, it would make more sense to standardize on something like
> cpu,
> > so that you could run one as a build system/package repository.  I know
> that
> > settling on one vendor generally means you only need one source for
> warranty
> > work, but with stickers on cases and online accounts this isn't such an
> > issue anymore.
> >
>
>
>         I would like to establish a history with one vendor, so
>        your feedback makes sense.
>
>        What I haven't decided on yet in whether to go with a
>        dual-core or quad-.  mY current desktop is a 2.4GHz and
>        has always seemed slow when I've running more than five
>        tasks.  Strange.  The new dual-core server is like
>        greased lightening ... and extremely lightly loaded.
>
>        gary
>
>
> >
> > --
> > Adam Vande More
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I will choose to go witha  Dual Core and the extra buck to a better hard
driver, more memory or even better a good quality mainboard.
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mmm, interesante.....