Lil's Atelier
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Posted May 7, 2003 by marvthegrate LtG KEA
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 | | <Marv is elbow deep in a box overfull with cables and wiring, a rack needing assembling is stacked in the corner.>
OK, we need gig ethernet for all backbone routers and firewalling, 802.11a wireless for portables, regular 100baseTX for normal stuff and we can play around with standard for research. I nicked some of this stuff from my lab, hope they don't mind. I got an AS5800 for Phil to play with and four PIX 535s for me. There are assorted routers, content delivery switches and enterprise switches also. I thikn that I have a Fornax PIX blade for the 6509 as well. I'll take care of security and basic infrastructure, but I need help setting up the racks, and I do hope that CLI have enough power for this kit.
I propose that we do some research on alternative networking ideas, but to keep that stuff off the production network for now.
I also have dozens of older machines running a variety of OSen for those who want to poke about. Not too much of the bleeding edge though.
Lil, if you have a spare printer hanging about, might we use it?
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| | | Subject: The Atelier computer technology lab
Posted May 7, 2003 by Asteroid Lil -- Community Editor, Community Artist
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 | | The graphics machines, the Gates ones, should contain Radeon 9500 video cards. And we'll need several printers -- a laser printer for text output, a couple of inkjets, and now I can splurge and get an FA Giclée Printmaker.  Well, let's get a color laser printer. Why not?
http://www.asterlil.com/h2g2/aplanbig.htm
We're in the lower left corner. Marv, what if we have all the infrastructure hardware in the smaller room and then set out the users' machines in the larger one? That spiral stairway next to the lift goes straight to the basement -- there's fairly public warehouse space underneath the suite, so CLI can help you plumb wiring underfloor if you need it.
If push comes to shove, we can remodel this end, truncate the hallway and take over some of the guest rooms. 
We will need air conditioning.
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| | | Subject: The Atelier computer technology lab
Posted May 7, 2003 by marvthegrate LtG KEA
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| | The infrastructure may be too large for that room, but the blinkenlights are pretty to look at. Perhaps we can get locks for teh racks, or colour-code the cabling so no one can mess up the production wiring. The PDP10 is about 8' tall as I recall. I have got teh owner down to three mbougates and the price of moving it ourselves.
I also propose that for graphics, we use some real iron for the workstations. SGi O2 Boxen should do the trick. Not sure any redmondware powered peecees will do the same amount of crunching as a good SGI machine.
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