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--Tech & Moderator Notes
The State of the Rantburg Treasury Department...
2013-09-04
... is good, but could be better. With the popularity of Rantburg, Mayor Fred is needing a new server so Rantburg can be all that it can be, and is....

Just so you know, when he gets a new server, an elementary school receives his donated server which is prolly the most sophisticated server in the entire school district.

And you can be a part of that.....

For you stats folks, check these out:

Achieved on those servers:
285,204 articles
1,145,510 comments

A question to you, fellow citizens of Rantburg, when reading those over one million comments at Rantburg, how many times have you thought, "I didn't know that."

Information brings knowledge -- thus Rantburg U. Universities welcome and appreciate donations.

Reward yourself with the inner smile you will feel, for that time you thought, "I didn't know that," when you:
1) Scroll way down, working the right side of the screen...
2) See that brilliant blue Rantburg rectangle glistening out at you... and below that, then
3) Click on the DONATE button.

Rather snail mail a check? Just state that desire in comments, and you will be rewarded with the needed info to do so.

Now, just go do it -- 5 bucks is worth your Rantburg experience. After all -- it's for the kids....
Posted by:Sherry

#18  Bet the mods are excited! But looks like they are playing video games on it! ;-)
#17  Yep, it used the NATO round, halogen fire extinguishers and 5 number locks.
Posted by: Shipman   2013-09-04 17:45  

#16  Think that's a CDC 6600
Posted by: Mullah Richard   2013-09-04 15:29  

#15  I don't think that's an IBM/360 - the front panel has way too few 'flashing lights' and the 'console' was usually hardcopy (with a very loud bell). Somehow this makes me think of Honeywell....

In either case - Contribution made.
Posted by: CrazyFool   2013-09-04 15:17  

#14  Sent a little
Posted by: Beavis   2013-09-04 14:31  

#13  Just used the paypal link on the right. It came back as 'rantburg defense fund'. Dropped some change in the kitty. Hope it's the right place.
Posted by: abu do you love   2013-09-04 13:55  

#12  Wow, an IBM 360, WITH the punched-card reader? Top o' the line!
Posted by: Mojo   2013-09-04 13:38  

#11  AND DON'T FORGET AMAZON!

If you're going to buy anything from Amazon, if you'll click on the Amazon logo and go to Amazon through Rantburg, Fred gets a minuscule cut. (But hey, it's better than nothing.)

Every time I go to Amazon to buy something, I always go through Rantburg. It's easy, and helps Fred a little.
Posted by: Barbara   2013-09-04 13:03  

#10  Still got your snail mail address, will contribute when psycho summer ends next weekend.
Posted by: Grunter in Saratoga Springs   2013-09-04 12:06  

#9  If you need snailmail info send me an email.
Posted by: Fred   2013-09-04 11:29  

#8  I'll have to wait till I get back to the plains
Posted by: bman   2013-09-04 10:58  

#7  snailmail info please.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2013-09-04 10:23  

#6  or a fat lady?
Posted by: Frank G   2013-09-04 09:36  

#5  The 'Burg server is a physical piece of hardware, located in south Baltimore. It also runs three small VMs for other projects I do. Donations pay the monthly hosting fees except for when I dip into the till and have to cover it out of our family budget.

If we crash, I should be able to drive the twenty minutes from my house, swap the old server for the new, and be back in business within, say, an hour or an hour and a half at the outside.

We back up the database three times a day: midnight, 8 a.m., and 4 p.m., so that if I do have to restore we won't be more than eight hours out of date.

That's all subject to occasional change, mind you. The local version has a GUI, so I can compose the 'Burg on it when not working on my laptop. I also do my programming on it, to include other projects, many of them abortive, and it runs my local Samba file system so I can access it from my wife's machine(s) and from my Windows VMs. I compose the bloid using an ancient copy of Fireworks on one of those.

Occasionally I do something stupid on the backup box and end up blowing the system away and having to reinstall from scratch. Once I did something spectacularly stupid, blew away the system, and let Ubuntu try and install over the backup disk. I was pretty pale and shaky until I got the backups running properly again.

The new server I'm looking at has twice the memory of our current machine, twice the storage (not that we're running close to filling up what we've got), and an improved processor. It should sing like a nightingale.
Posted by: Fred   2013-09-04 09:26  

#4  Otay. Do I get one of those data processing technicians like seated in the pic?
Posted by: Spot   2013-09-04 08:12  

#3  What are the specs for Fred's new server?

Didn't you look at the picture above?

(sorry - couldn't resist).
Posted by: CrazyFool   2013-09-04 08:03  

#2  What are the specs for Fred's new server?
I see that he is hosted. Why not a VM on one of theirs?
Posted by: Skidmark   2013-09-04 07:45  

#1  Sitting in the BA lounge at Zaventam (BRU) waiting for KLM flight to JFK and the freaking connection won't connect with PayPal. Will have to defer my endowment until after I land.

I still have a sock filled with Rupiahs if that will help.
Posted by: Jack is Back!   2013-09-04 03:25  

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