Re: Some Bad news and some good news

[Anmar Oueja <anmar at canada dot com>]

Nadim Shaikli wrote:
> --- Anmar Oueja <anmar at canada dot com> wrote:
> 
>>Well after much surgery, and lots of metal bending... the machine is in
>>a very good shape. The SCSI card and its fan are seated correctly and
>>the machine is booting with no problems at all... I am gonna leave it
>>running all day to burn it in and make sure we are not going to have
>>problems later on
> 
> 
> I would still want it fixed - we should not settle on possibly having
> problems in the future.  A perfect machine was sent, a perfect machine
> is to be received (Ahmad notes that he's already in contact with the
> "claims" people over there).  See if there is a close-by IBM shop or
> service center or something to get a quote.

I agree... we should get is fixed. There are lots of IBM service centres
in Vancouver. I will have the pics of the damage ready by days end
> 
> 
>>BTW, we need to decide if we want to setup RAID on this box or Sync or
>>whatever befor I got ahead and set it up.
> 
> 
> Mohammed, comments ?  I'm not the prefect person to talk about such things.
> But as this machine will live in an external site, is RAID a problem ?
> Should we do both (for extra paranoia) - I'm assuming we'll continue to
> download tarballs to burn onto CDs for backup, etc - no ?
> 
Whatever you guys want is fine by me.
> 
>>What is the root password for this machines ?
> 

OK I will look for it.

> 
> It was mailed - check your various mails from Ahmad.
> 
> Salam.
> 
>  - Nadim
> 
> 
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