On 24 January 2011 16:09, Magnus Manske magnusmanske@googlemail.com wrote:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-12265173 Anything worth salvaging?
Is it even under a CC-ish licence?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/forums/A639056/conversation/view/F77636/T8018187
"However, H2G2 is unusual. It is a pre-existing community that the BBC brought into its fold, not a community that the BBC set up from scratch. So rather than closing it, we've decided to explore another option. This process has been referred to elsewhere as the "disposal" of H2G2. I'll admit this is not a great choices of words, but what is means is that we'll be looking for proposals from others to take on the running of H2G2."
The actual machine it runs on is a years-out-of-warranty Dell server running Windows 2000. Not sure if it still has an outboard USB disk in the back. What I mean is, it's ridiculous levels of bespoke and already running on something that should rightly be a discard.
- d.