[6590] in Release_7.7_team
Re: The Plan for dialup replacement
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Reed)
Wed Jan 6 16:42:27 2010
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From: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@MIT.EDU>
To: "Mark W. Manley" <mmanley@mit.edu>
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Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2010 16:42:19 -0500
> 01/27 - I'll update the pointer for athena.dialup to point to the
> linux.dialup pool. We'll still have a few Suns still on that will
> remain on until the end of the semester left as sun.dialup. The
> sun.dialup.mit.edu pool is available now for people to use to
> differentiate between the Suns and the Linux dialup servers.
We should coordinate this with the removal of Suns from 4-167 and put
something on the door to 4-167 talking about sun.dialup.mit.edu.
Oliver: Do we have a date for that?
> End of the spring semester - Evaluate the use of the Suns and
> decommission if there is no real compelling reason to leave them
> on. By then, it's possible that we'd have culled the herd of
> remaining Suns down, based on usage, to fewer boxes to save on the
> costs in maintaining them.
Is there precedent for keeping previous dialups around? dec.dialup
lasted for at least a year after we pulled the DECs, right? I realize
that things cost real money these days, though. And I don't think
we're losing any irreplaceable apps: Frame, Acrobat, Autocad and the
ESRI stuff are all available on Windows if people still have old data
they need access to.
-Jon
