[Noisebridge-discuss] Proliant and Cisco gear

[Dr. Jesus]

On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 02:28:27PM -0700, Andy Isaacson wrote: 
> On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 02:00:38PM -0700, Dr. Jesus wrote:
> > Does anyone know who owns the proliant upstairs and the Cisco 26xx
> > series devices downstairs?
> 
> They were donated to Noisebridge.  There were various plans to use them
> for various projects, but if hardware has been at NB
> 1. not on a shelf
> 2. without a sign
> 3. without visible use for a month
> , it's fair game for repurposing.  (Your mail alerting about possible
> reuse is a great way to Be Excellent, of course.)
> 
> BTW, I've noticed a bunch of networking / computing gear with fans being
> installed in the downstairs networking closet.  I would highly recommend
> that people not install gear with fans in that closet:
> 
> 1. the wood/metal shop is very likely to cause your fans to become full
> of crap and stop working, and/or short out your power supplies.
> 2. the building floods in that corner every spring.
> 
> We installed a *lot* of spare Cat5 capacity between the upstairs and
> downstairs closets specifically so that there was no need to put more
> gear downstairs.  Please just use the patch panel (label your patches or
> they'll be removed!) and install gear upstairs instead.
> 
> (Of course things like DOCSIS mean that we need *some* gear downstairs,
> but it should be
> 1. fanless
> 2. mounted on the wall or high up in the cabinet.)

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