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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I'm probably the best person to answer this at this
point....</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The current wireless.org.au (w.o.a) was set up very
quickly - by three people working on it at the same time, and completed
overnight. This was because of a hardware failure, and we had no presence. We
had to compromise flexibility for a quick turnaround.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Back then, MW was hosted on w.o.a - but for both
political and functionality reasons, MW was moved to melbourne.w.o.a.. w.o.a is
kind of in limbo at this point until the server is replaced with Evolution
4.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Evolution 4 is the 4th complete rebuild of the
w.o.a server since version 1 back in 2000... E4 will have new hardware (and we
may need some help obtaining a few items - specifically 2 x new 80Gb hdd's, raid
card etc) but will be based on a dual P3 800, probably 1Gb of RAM... This should
keep up with requirements for the forseeable future.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>On the software side, the security will be greatly
improved, as well as runing latest versions of everything. All groups will be on
their location.w.o.a url, as well as generic mailing lists such as <A
href="mailto:list@melbourne.w.o.a">list@melbourne.w.o.a</A>, <A
href="mailto:list@geelong.w.o.a">list@geelong.w.o.a</A> etc etc. This will
hopefully make thing much simpler for both existing groups, and new groups to
use the services of w.o.a...</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>As for using nodexxx.w.o.a, under the future plans,
it will not be possible to do this, as it is not group specific... it may happen
later down the track as nodexxx.melbourne.w.o.a, but I can't confirm anything at
this stage.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>Signed,<BR>Steven Haigh<BR><A
href="http://wireless.org.au">http://wireless.org.au</A><BR>(Visit <A
href="https://wireless.org.au">https://wireless.org.au</A> to install our Root
Certificate.)</DIV>
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<DIV>You can lead a fool to wisdom but you can't make him think.<BR>We have
enough youth. What we need is a fountain of smart.<BR>I am root. If you see me
laughing, you better have a backup.</DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=saandss@iinet.net.au href="mailto:saandss@iinet.net.au">Steven</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=melbwireless@wireless.org.au
href="mailto:melbwireless@wireless.org.au">melbwireless@wireless.org.au</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, November 01, 2003 10:35
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [MLB-WIRELESS] node names -
conventions and sub domains</DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=388432623-31102003><FONT face=Arial
size=2>HI,</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=388432623-31102003><FONT face=Arial
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=388432623-31102003><FONT face=Arial size=2>I was wondering
why since the naming convention for node is nodeXXX.wireless.org.au or
XXX.wireless.org.au (XXX=node ID) then why not make the sub domain link to a
web page on the Melbwireless web site. For example, the address
XXX.wireless.org.au could link to the wiki page for that node. Or at least
make that sub domain available for the node owner for
uploading/editing.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=388432623-31102003><FONT face=Arial
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=388432623-31102003><FONT face=Arial size=2>Is this possible.
I don't see that it would be to hard to add the sub domains or is there a
policy against this.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=388432623-31102003><FONT face=Arial
size=2>Regards,</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=388432623-31102003><FONT face=Arial
size=2>Steve</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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class=388432623-31102003><FONT size=+0><FONT face=Arial
size=2>nodeFSE</FONT></DIV>
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