[Chester LUG] LUG social reminder and t-shirts

Thu Jul 26 12:56:48 UTC 2012

Yeah it was a Cloud Server I had the problems with, but for comedy reasons
I left that out :-)

On 26 July 2012 13:53, Michael Crilly <mrcrilly at gmail.com> wrote:

> Haha! Did you have a VPS or a Cloud Server? :-) there's certainly a
> difference.
>
> - MTC
>
> On 26 Jul 2012, at 13:42, Les Pritchard <les.pritchard at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Judging by my last VPS with RS £400 would get me 50 emails a month telling
> me the host server had failed so my VPS(s) had to be rebooted :-p
>
> Now you're there Mike I know that will all be sorted!
>
> On 26 July 2012 12:49, Stuart Burns <stuart.james.burns at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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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