Re: West Highschool Robotics

On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 04:15:39PM -0900, Keeper Nott wrote:
> Hey all. I'm a member of West Highschool's Robotics team and right now
> were trying to put together a linux server. I know the most about
> computers, linux, and I am lead programmer and so I have been given the
> responsibility of setting up the linux box. We finally got some stuff
> together and we do have a box, but its got a processor running at about
> 133 hertz, about 32 megs of ram, and not much else. We really need a box
> that can support our needs.
Greetings from an alum of East High's FIRST program, and ex-server admin
for that team. (I done gone and graduated, see)

Anyway, I think you underestimate a 133 machine. Our server ran full
web, ftp, squid (to get around irritating district firewalls),
phpBB, NFS, and Samba on a 200mhz box with 32 megs of ram. It was a bit
tight, but a carefully-worded debian install was enough.

And unless I've been out of the loop for a very long time, there's no
way there are a hundred people doing FIRST at the high school level in
Alaska. (As much as I'd like to hear that there are)

So just go and do it. At the very least, if the load is way too large,
you'll already have the system built and you can drop the drive (or copy
the contents of the drive) into a faster box.

    --Mac
      (Icebreakers, Team #374, '01, '02, East-SWS '02)

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Julian "Mac" Mason                            mac@cs.hmc.edu
Computer Science '06                          (909)-607-3129
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