| Free Republic 3rd Qtr 2024 Fundraising Target: $81,000 | Receipts & Pledges to-date: $21,146 | |||
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| Woo hoo!! And we're now over 26%!! Thank you all very much!! God bless. | ||||
Posted on 04/14/2003 1:08:17 PM PDT by Mo1
It's Time for our Second Quarter FReepathon - Thread 3
Posted on 04/07/2003 6:33 PM EDT by Jim Robinson
Howdy everyone,
Are you ready for another FReepathon?
Good news:
John and Tami negotiated a new contract with our bandwidth supplier and got our bill lowered a couple thousand per month! Our monthly expenses are now totalling just under $20,000, so we're setting the target for this Freepathon at $60,000. We have approximately $18,000 (and growing) per quarter coming from our monthly donors so we will only need to raise a little over $40,000 this time. Hopefully, we can do this in a week to ten days.
We went over the goal last quarter and we used part of the extra money to purchase and install two new servers. We now have a total of five servers running Free Republic. John can post the details, but basically, we have two servers being used as web servers, two as database servers and one for the search engine. There may be some sharing and overlapping of duties, but that's the general configuration.
John also found a way to compress the files before serving them so we are able to effectively move 20mbs of data through our 10mbs line. In other words, we've doubled our capacity and halved our bandwidth cost!
Way to go John and Tami!!
(Just in time too! We hit the 10mps X 2 capacity a few times during the peak periods of the last couple of weeks).
And finally, we've added two new high capacity disk drives (I believe they're 72 gigabytes each) and just as soon as John gets the upload and file management programs ready to go, we'll be able to offer our donors directory space on their accounts to upload pictures, graphics, and music files, etc. I believe this is going to be a very popular feature!
Looking forward to another great fundraiser!
Thank you all very much for your continuing support and dedication to the cause!
Jim
Thank you Freepers from
Ohio
New York
Washington
monthly from North Carolina
Nebraska
Maryland
Texas
Texas
Missouri rushed us FOUR 1 GB ECC SDRAM modules for a grand total of FOUR GIGABYTES OF RAM. Simply amazing. I still have disk drives running that are just that size, and this stuff is RAM. I'm drooling. :-)
Way to go Missouri!
Memory is probably the most critical component of a database server. The more memory the server has, the less often it needs to communicate with the MUCH slower disk drive. And the more interesting things we'll be able to do, software-wise.
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U.S. Administrator Eager to Begin Iraq Transition
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The retired U.S. general charged with heading an interim administration in post-war Iraq (news - web sites) expressed concern over what he described as the slow start of the transition effort in an interview published on Tuesday.
"Actually, I wish I had been in Baghdad a week ago," Lt. Gen. Jay Garner said in an interview with USA Today in Kuwait City. He told the newspaper that he hopes to be in the Iraqi capital this week.
"My fear right now is every day we delay we're probably losing some momentum, and there's perhaps some vacuums in there getting filled that we won't want filled," Garner said in the interview.
Although the main fighting in the war apparently is over, Garner said most of his staff would remain in Kuwait until it is safe in Iraq.
"There are still a lot of pockets of resistance in Baghdad, so the (U.S.) commanders are a bit reluctant to let a bunch of civilians in there." But he said: "maybe we ought to take a little risk and get in there."
About 35 officials from Garner's Office for Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance arrived in the southern Iraqi port of Umm Qasr last Tuesday. Most of the rest of his team of more than 200 mostly U.S. officials remain at a base in Kuwait.
"By the end of April or beginning of May we will have cells down in every province" of Iraq, Garner said in the interview.
Garner was in the southern Iraqi city of Nassiriya on Tuesday to discuss post-war rule with Iraqi factions in what his spokesman said would be a "test case" for the planned U.S.-led administration that will rebuild Iraq and restore civil services for its 26 million people.
Mon Apr 14, 6:59 PM ET
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Comic Rodney Dangerfield (news) has been taken off a respirator following brain surgery and his first request to doctors was to tune in to talk show host Jerry Springer, Dangerfield's agent said on Monday.
Dangerfield, 81, underwent the risky procedure -- intended to improve the blood flow to his brain -- a week ago at UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles as a prelude to a heart valve replacement scheduled for next week.
He spent the week following the surgery in an intensive care unit, and was "smiling and elated" to be breathing on his own, his publicist Kevin Sasaki said on Monday.
"His spirits are great. He is lucid and communicative ... and grinning from ear to ear," Sasaki said. The portly actor asked doctors to dial up "The Jerry (news - web sites) Springer Show" -- his favorite TV fare -- as soon as he was off the respirator, Sasaki said.
Since his surgery, Dangerfield has received good wishes from his own fans, including fellow comedians Jay Leno (news - Y! TV) and Jim Carrey (news), Sasaki said. Doctors expect to move Dangerfield to a private room by the end of the week, Sasaki said.
Dangerfield's latest film, a romantic comedy called "The Fourth Tenor," was released on video the same day he went into the hospital.
He also is working on his autobiography, tentatively titled "Rodney Exposed."
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