LIST ADMIN

[Jay West]

Greetings Folks!

As many of you noticed almost a year ago, we started having issues with the 
classiccmp server. Some of these were hardware issues, some software, etc.

Due to the extreme generosity of Al Kossow, a new server was recently 
provided for the list. It is a very nice 2U dual cpu 2.2ghz opteron with 4gb 
ram, dual gigabit ethernet, and six 300gb hot swap ata drives. Two of the 
drives are mirrored (gmirror) and hold the OS (freebsd 7.1) & software. Of 
the remaining drives, 3 are in a zfs raid5 pool and one drive is a hot 
spare. These drives hold the websites, ftp sites, mailing list data, etc.

Over the past few weeks I've been working to migrate all the 
classiccmp-related websites that I host on the server to the new machine. 
Last I did the classiccmp.org website (which means the archives were 
unavailable for a week or two as they existed {and were still being updated} 
on the old server). A day or two later I migrated the archives and finally 
yesterday - the list itself. To the best of my knowledge, all should be up 
and running well. There is *STILL* a problem with the htdig indexing of the 
lists. I am going to finally dedicate some time to researching that. I've 
been putting it off for eons because I've mostly forgotten everything I used 
to know about HtDig. I still have to do a little work to get metrics back 
up, unfortunately my favorite tool (mod_watch {interfaced with cacti}) is no 
longer supported so I may be looking for a new tool along those lines to 
implement. If you have suggestions, please email me off-list, I don't want 
to start a long off-topic discussion of modern hosting tools.

I would like to post a list of all the classiccmp-related websites, ftp 
sites, etc. that are lurking on the server, as I suspect some are not 
commonly known. Everyone who has things hosted on the classiccmp server is 
aware of it - so if you object to me posting your URL please email me within 
the next few days and let me know and I'll omit your site.

I'd like to take this time to re-iterate my offer to host any classic 
computer related websites, ftpsites, mailing lists, wiki's, blogs, etc. at 
no charge. I don't want to run the site, I just provide free hosting and 
bandwidth - the site is still yours. The server is in a world class 
datacenter with serious bandwidth - not on a DSL line in a basement or 
anything :) Along those lines, several people recently asked to move their 
classic computing sites to the server and I asked them to wait till the new 
server was up. We have gobs of free disk and the machine is reliable now, so 
re-contact me and we'll get it up and running.

My classiccmp email address got to a half gig, it will be a long, long time 
before I skim through it. However, I have put it into a different mailbox so 
I can definitely see any new emails to my classiccmp address and will keep 
on top of those. Or attempt to :)

I am trying to get back to things classiccmp related - as well as actively 
reading the list again instead of just watching the server. I departed for a 
while due mostly to classiccmplist-burnout and "work stuff". The work stuff 
has mostly settled down, and I find myself very much wanting to dig back 
into my beloved DG's, HP's, and yes, even the DEC's </troll> My last 
acquisition was an excellent Data General Dasher D200 terminal, which will 
look awesome sitting next to the Eclipse S/130. Next project is to make room 
for a metric boatload of 800/1200 DG minis and get them here instead of 
storage.

Glad to see all the familiar faces, as well as some new ones. Best regards,

Jay West