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In article <CzJBvs.sM@kd3bj.ampr.org>,
C. T. Nadovich <chris@kd3bj.ampr.org> wrote:
| norman@pagesat.net (Norman Gillaspie) writes:
| 
| > 
| >Complete installation is simple and easy, and can be completed in as little 
| >as 1 hour with ordinary screwdriver and pliers. 
| > 
| 
| I really like Norman's system (I have been using it for a month or two)
| and I agree with most everything he says in his post, but "1 hour"
| installation is a gross exaggeration. 

Yeah, that sounds pretty optimistic to me, too. But possible, if not at
all typical.
| 
| If you have never been a Usenet administrator, you can have no concept
| of the difficulties involved in managing 100-200 MB per day of news.
| This alone requires full days, if not weeks of work, even if Norman
| himself flew to your site to install the dish. 

Unless you have a need to carry everything, why bother? And even if you
do, a simple 1GB drive will handle 5-7 days news. Of course if you run
an operating system with only 64k files per filesystems (like SCO), you
will have to learn how to have not only multiple filesystems, but
multiple partions full of multiple filesystems (about 10 f/s works
well). You also need a much bigger disk, since the free space will not
be spread evenly, but will drop to zero a lot on some filesystem.
| 
| If you are not running a Unix based system, you will have trouble.  If
| you are not running at least 16550 UARTs, you will have trouble.  (I
| have an i486, SVr4 Unix, and a Digiboard intellegent serial card.  My
| load average over 24 hours is 35% CPU/IO utilization to support the
| feed.) If you expect a plug-n-play system on a typical Windoze consumer
| PC, you will have trouble. 

What on earth are you running for software? I run about 100MB a day
through my office 486, and the load is virtually invisible.
-- 
Bill Davidsen (davidsen@tmr.com) UNIX Codger
	Will solve problems for money.
Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward.