[Adium-devl] Hardware plans

[Colin Barrett]

On Aug 23, 2007, at 4:03 PM, Evan Schoenberg wrote:

> Okay, so it seems that every plan we're talking about includes one  
> Mac Mini at least.  I'm also on the side of (XServe + Mac Mini) > (a  
> whole bunch of Mac Minis).

For what it's worth buildbot, multiple machines is usually a better  
idea. As I said before, here at Moz we're eschewing Xserves -- minis  
are much better for our needs. FYI rackspace is something to consider  
with machines.

> So (as Colin suggested a few emails ago) let's go ahead and get a  
> single Mac Mini (2.0 GHz Core 2 Duo, 2 GB DDR2 SDRAM, 160 GB Serial  
> ATA HD, w/ AppleCare).  We'll set it up with everything we want --  
> buildbot, subethaedit server, etc. -- and get it up on network  
> redux.  We will have a machine immediately rather than "sometime in  
> the future" and will be able to gauge what and where our  
> requirements are met and where/how we need/want more power.
>
> I'll order it and have it set up on my home network with appropriate  
> port forwarding so that developers can access it initially. Once  
> we're sure that everything is the way we want it, we'll ship it to  
> Thomas for installation at Network Redux.

Awesome. ETA on it arriving? Guessing sometime in early sept?

-Colin