[Info-vax] DR's fate

[Stephen Hoffman]

Please assume the Deathrow server will be offline, at least until it's 
not offline.  If not after.  Deathrow might go offline later, and with 
little or no notice.

While various parts of the hardware configuration do have issues and 
there is definitely a flaky (or failed) disk involved in the 
configuration, the limits here involve competing priorities and 
scheduling conflicts.  Of having a life and a wife and child and a job 
(and the issues of the occasional passing hurricane), at its simplest.  
Not the (failed) hardware.  The spare parts inventory and the necessary 
knowledge of OpenVMS and of the server hardware are not what's 
centrally keeping the configuration offline.

The current Deathrow status has been posted to the login messages and 
are visible via ssh or telnet logins (to gein.vistech.net), and the IRC 
channel (#vms, password vms, irc.2600.net) are open for additional 
questions and discussions.    I'll not include that status text here.  
If you have questions that aren't addressed, please post them via IRC 
and somebody will either answer them and/or update the status messages.

I've suggested this to MG in the past, and I'll suggest it again here: 
Please consider running your own public-access cluster on your own 
server hardware.  You already have the Itanium hardware, and the 
hobbyist licenses and components such as the user-registration system 
are available; everything you need to have the uptime and the support 
that you want is available.  As an added benefit to your interest in 
OpenVMS, you'll learn substantially more about OpenVMS, about security 
and networking, and about the hardware you're using.

Thanks for the offers of hardware, too.



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