[ossig] TM Net User Group Klang Valley

[Molly Cheah]

Thanks for these suggestions. I'm sure when I submit these requirements, 
someone in management will do some calculations to see if TM Net will 
benefit in termsof dollars and cents, not counting  goodwill :) Don't 
expect anything in the near future though. Everything takes time.

When I asked a technical person as to whether there were linux literate 
personnel there at the Contact Centre, one of the remarks made to me by 
a member of the User Group is that priority of service should be given 
to "windows user" because they are the majority. I didn't know whether 
to laugh or to cry. So much for addressing the digital divide and the 
marginalized groups! And that comes under my SIG!. The TM Net's guy says 
there are no linux expert (that's why Colin you can't get service 
support) but there's one on the Mac. A laughable comment from this guy 
is that "Linux is not so stable 2 years ago and now its quite OK". How 
to carry out a discussion? So I just walked away, shaking my head.

Molly
Colin Charles wrote:

>Molly Cheah wrote:
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>>When the User Group is a little more settled and has its own web-portal, 
>>I'm sure the different people who heads the different SIGS will engage 
>>users in a more systematic manner than through this OSSIG list. However, 
>>I would like Aizat to let me know as to the requirements if we are to 
>>propose that TM Net host a local mirror site (similar to what Jaring is 
>>doing) for OSS downloads. That way they'll save a lot of bandwidth if we 
>>don't have to go overseas for our downloads and updates.
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>4 * 3000GB disks, rackspace, sensible small OS installation. use 
>lighthttpd for HTTP, and then start mirroring. 1+ terabyte of space is 
>quite a bit, mirror the popular ones:
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>	* Fedora
>	* CentOS
>	* FreeBSD
>	* Ubuntu
>	* Debian
>	* Apache
>	* MySQL
>	* PHP
>	* CPAN
>	* Whatever else, by popular request
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>Sync it daily. Provide rsync access. This, if used a lot (will save even 
>more bandwidth locally), will require some beefy CPU power. Have some 
>amount of stock RAM in this box.
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>Its not rocket science to run a mirror. Allow the box to be growable 
>(ideally, maybe to add 4 more disks in the near future)
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>This way people can point their apt lists to the streamyx mirror, or 
>their yum lists or do a portsnap all via this wonderful new streamyx mirror
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>Remember the key to running a good mirror is to *be current*. Mirrors 
>that hold content that are weeks old are useless. Syncing daily (and 
>making sure this happens) is crucial
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>	/me continues dreaming for it...
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>p/s: not aizat, but hope this helps
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