<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Wad,</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">On memory I agree. I am using
640MB on my XS system, and 512MB on my Squid system. As for disk
capacity, you can combine multiple 120GB drives to get the capacity you
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">As for "backing up the cache",
what I think we really want is a "mirror site" as many download
sites call them. This would mean that the Squid box hosts specific
content under Apache, and this content could be pulled in from the internet
daily or weekly via CRON schedule. A PHP page could easily point
to what is available, and we can make the main page or Moodle point to
it for specific content. This "mirror" could easily be
backed up to the XS or Backup server as needed.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">In effect this makes the Squid box double
as a pseudo-"Library Server" that we were considering earlier.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Thanks<br>
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On Feb 17, 2008, at 10:31 PM, Bryan Berry wrote:<br>
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> When the power comes back on in my house (and Internet connection)
I<br>
> will take a look at your updated version of the project plan.<br>
><br>
> 1. Google vs. Mediawiki<br>
> I would like to keep everything in the wiki but I find formatting
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> tables<br>
> in Mediawiki to be a real pain. If you could try to put the stuff
<br>
> on the<br>
> google spreadsheet into Mediawiki tables that would be great.<br>
><br>
> 2. School Server Hardware<br>
> We do need to nail this down this week.<br>
><br>
> XS<br>
> Most likely will be the following:<br>
> Pentium D processor (cheap and readily available in Nepal)<br>
> 120 GB hard drive<br>
> 256 RAM<br>
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This has to be higher. I would recommend 512 MB as a minimum, and
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1GB as<br>
recommended. Squid eats memory. If you are doing backup,
you will <br>
need<br>
more hard drive --- 250 GB are currently the "most for the least",
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and that is<br>
quickly moving to 320 GB.<br>
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> Hardware availability is pretty limited in Nepal so we will use that<br>
> which is most available.<br>
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