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#1
22 Mar 2006 23:47
 
 
I overheard a rumour about B.A.T. ry being short on available funds. As the
treasurer of B.A.T. ry, I'm compelled to remark about this publicly; this
information is false. While certain operations may tax our meager wealth,
we're
still in a very healthy position to mentally operate as a non-profit -type of
organization.

As it is the custom, donations are open every couple of years. At this point
there is no information available about the next "donation round". This has a
certain correlation towards keeping the organization's funds at a healthy
level, thus donations usually open when B.A.T. ry sees it reasonable to raise
more funds: typically a situation when the budgetting and the year's
operations
need funds. Thus, they're never open just to "raise cash" for the organization
without a purpose.

That being said, B.A.T. ry has ordered a new server to run BatMUD, mostly due
to the latest break-up and newfound instability of our older web server
(which was bought in 2001 and had been running stable ever since..until now,
that is). The second server is facing some serious memory problems, thus the
board saw it necessary to renew some of our older hardware. The new machine
has yet to arrive and it will take us some time to relocate it into the
server-room.

Also, if you're a non-Finnish player and are experiencing a bad network
connection to BatMUD (currently) even though you have a good connection
elsewhere, please let us know about it so we can evaluate our options.

The server does not boast overly much more performance than the current AMD
Opteron 250s, but still gives us some more leverage especially on the
storage-side. Some of the "vitals" of the arriving machine:

A 2U-sized rack server with Dual 3.8GHz Xeons (2MB L2 cache), 8GB DDR2 memory,
an U320 RAID controller with 6x 146GB 15KRPM U320 SCSIs, a Remote Access
Controller, etc.etc.


Yours,

Amarth Shadowstring

 
 
 
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