[Chester LUG] LUG social reminder and t-shirts

Thu Jul 26 11:47:37 UTC 2012

Ha ha. I was actually referring to what 400 quid would get you in RS world,
not how VMs work :)

You could run a few "interesting" websites on it perhaps ;)

On 26 July 2012 12:46, Michael Crilly <mrcrilly at gmail.com> wrote:

> Well they're VMs, so "what you get" depends on the VM size. If you like,
> we can sit down and I can go over the basics of Virtualisation with you? ;-)
>
> If I go for the smallest 256MB VM, that costs about £8/month including
> VAT, but excluding traffic (£0.02/GB). So I can get £400 / £8 worth of VMS,
> give or take a bit for bandwidth.
>
> At the minute I haven't set any up, but I will be playing around with high
> availability and MySQL clustering etc :)
>
> - MTC
>
> On 26 Jul 2012, at 12:22, Stuart Burns <stuart.james.burns at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> In that case, tell us, what do you get for £400 and what do you put on em
> lol
>
> On 26 July 2012 12:13, Michael Crilly <mrcrilly at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Rackspace are awesome, Stuart. The perks are great (like £400/month a
>> month of free VMs on the Cloud infrastructure) and there's loads to learn.
>> I'll be doing the quality checks on new solutions, which will generally be
>> big-arse clusters etc :-)
>>
>> - MTC
>>
>> On 26 Jul 2012, at 12:01, Stuart Burns <stuart.james.burns at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> I see.
>>
>> Maybe we should put tour dates on the back, but we would have to do a
>> tour then, with much beer!
>>
>> I will take a shirt too btw.
>>
>> So Mike, hows the new job working out. They working you hard and have you
>> grown the Linux guru beard yet ;)
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Stuart
>>
>>
>> On 26 July 2012 11:41, Les Pritchard <les.pritchard at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> He's just referring to the large print on the back, but they'll still
>>> have the Tux logo and Chester LUG name on the front. To be honest, I'm
>>> probably going to go for that too.
>>>
>>> Thanks Mike for being the first customer!
>>>
>>> Les
>>>
>>>
>>> On 26 July 2012 11:37, Stuart Burns <stuart.james.burns at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>> Err Mike, without the text, its not a LUG shirt is it ;)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 26 July 2012 11:31, Michael Crilly <mrcrilly at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I'll take a white one, as described, but without the text on the back.
>>>>> Large in size please. I will PayPal cash :-)
>>>>>
>>>>> - MTC
>>>>>
>>>>> On 26 Jul 2012, at 11:15, Les Pritchard <les.pritchard at gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> > Hi,
>>>>> >
>>>>> > Firstly a quick reminder that the next social meet is tonight at the
>>>>> Falcon Pub, Lower Bridge Street. I will be there for about 7.30, so see you
>>>>> later.
>>>>> >
>>>>> > On the t-shirts front, I've been chatting to the clothing company
>>>>> about the options. Now we could get basic t-shirts made up with prints, but
>>>>> we could also have nicer polo shirts with an embroidered logo. These would
>>>>> last longer and be more suitable for everyday wear, rather than a t-shirt
>>>>> for the event.
>>>>> >
>>>>> > My idea is to have the Tux logo on the front with "Chester LUG"
>>>>> underneath. If any of you remember seeing my company polo shirts or the Red
>>>>> Hat one, these would be the same make and similar logo size.
>>>>> >
>>>>> > I was thinking about having "Chester LUG" printed in large letters
>>>>> on the back, but if you want one to wear outside of the event you may not
>>>>> want this!
>>>>> >
>>>>> > For a polo shirt with embroidered logo on the front and optional
>>>>> text on the back it will be £15. You can choose from a variety of colours.
>>>>> If you are interested please let me know ASAP. I'd like to collect money
>>>>> tonight from anyone interested so we can get them done in time, or if you
>>>>> can't make it you can always Paypal it over. For those of you who are
>>>>> further away, I'm happy to discuss popping them in the post.
>>>>> >
>>>>> > Thanks
>>>>> >
>>>>> > Les
>>>>> >
>>>>> >
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