On Wed, 2006-11-29 at 07:55 -0600, Robert Citek wrote:
Robert Citek wrote:
Still to do:
- create gmail accounts. I've got the names. I just need to do it.
If
anyone wants to help out, I'd be happy to show you the process I
use.
Those are created and e-mailed to Dr. Walter and Dave.
On Wed, 2006-11-29 at 14:50 -0600, Robert Citek wrote:
Sean also installed Apache. So, we now have a webserver serving up our
experimental web pages:
http://bworks.dyndns.org/
Nice work, Sean.
I'll second that. Clean, lean, loads ASAP even on a dial-up
connection. :-))
Call it idle
On Wed, 2006-12-20 at 12:35 -0600, Robert Citek wrote:
Hello all,
I've got a friend that wants some computing and networking work done.
Don't know all the details, but the gist of it sounds like the
following:
1) clean-up an existing Windows install. My thoughts were to backup
the
data,
Tiger Direct, bless 'em, and yes, there are two $30 rebates involved,
it's $74.99 before rebates. But fifteen bucks for a 4GB drive? I
bought one (arrived this evening, packaging mentions it works with
Windows, Mac, and Linux ... nice to see them all represented).
On Sun, 2006-12-31 at 02:02 -0700, Robert Citek wrote:
PC-TEL 56K V.90 PCI Modem PCT789T-C LOT OF 10 PCS (buy it now
price
of $13.00)
[...]
Looks good with a max price of $1.30 each. Do you have a link to
the
eBay auction?
On Sun, 2006-12-31 at 10:17 -0600, John House wrote:
I proposed a table structure for a byteworks database.
Would it be prudent to put a grants table in that database?
Dan, what are the parameters of a typical grant? ...
restrictions...funding amount...
etc?
I am going to begin writing
On Tue, 2007-01-02 at 02:04 -0600, Robert Citek wrote:
I won the bid ...
That's great, Robert! -- covers most of another Linux class (maybe all,
depending on the head count).
I'll be in this coming Saturday, just not sure of the time yet. See you
then!
t.
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On Mon, 2007-01-08 at 10:11 -0600, Robert Citek wrote:
John House wrote:
If I showed up at about 5:30 could I go to the dungeon and begin
pulling
drives. Robert requested I do this.
Thanks, John, for doing this. This is the process that I have in mind:
1) if the box is labeled Wipe
On Sat, 2007-01-13 at 10:45 -0600, Robert Citek wrote:
Hello all,
Is anyone in the shop today? If so, what needs to be done?
Some items still in the ToDo queue from last week[1]:
- need to clone 13 linux drives for the students
I think the total count was 17? (15 plus 2 spares) --
On Sat, 2007-01-13 at 15:26 -0600, Sean Burns wrote:
Theresa, look forward to having you back next week. You're missed :).
I'll just have to make sure I'm back next Saturday. :-) There isn't
much of our elm tree left to fall and block our driveway again, so that
shouldn't be a problem.
We
On Sun, 2007-01-14 at 01:09 -0600, Sean Burns wrote:
On Sat, Jan 13, 2007 at 05:45:11AM -, Jacob Manes wrote:
Hey, I havent really started on the icons and stuff we talked about
on saturday, I have been really busy my school finals. I am open to
ideas and anything to help me get
On Wed, 2007-01-03 at 18:28 -0600, Robert Citek wrote:
Robert Citek wrote:
I know I've shown a few people how to clone the linux machines. But
in
looking through the wiki, it doesn't look as though I had written
anything down except for the scripts[1].
I wrote up two pages describing
On Mon, 2007-01-15 at 15:46 -0600, Robert Citek wrote:
Robert Citek wrote:
Robert Citek wrote:
I won the bid ...
Should be coming in on Friday:
http://www.fedex.com/Tracking?tracknumbers=074973461036527
They've arrived. I'll bring them in on Saturday.
Sweet! Between those and
On Wed, 2007-01-17 at 17:39 -0600, adelmand wrote:
[...]
An organization's first video is usually a
general promotional video that communicates the mission of the
organization and how it operates. For a non-profit, this usually
also involves some information about how the organization
On Thu, 2007-01-18 at 05:27 -0600, Sean Burns wrote:
Ah, it's nice when you have the day off and are able to stay up all
night working on something you enjoy.
Here's the final design. That's it. No more redesigns. We're sticking
with this. ;)
http://cowl.freeshell.org/byteworks/
Hey all,
http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash
According to CNET News.com:
Version 7 of the Flash Player was available for Linux, but Adobe, which
acquired Flash developer Macromedia, skipped version 8. Flash Player 9
features include faster program
On Thu, 2007-01-18 at 10:18 -0600, John House wrote:
[...]
Do we want to mirror our router config and OS, Teresa?
Once we can dedicate some hardware to it, I think that is a good idea.
Robert?
[...]
My note:
I still need to cultivate the ATT commercial contact to determine how we
can access
On Sun, 2007-01-21 at 00:00 -0600, Robert Citek wrote:
Sean Burns wrote:
Sean, do you remember about how much time it took? It may be worth
looking into seeing if we can burn all the files to a CD or flash drive,
then modify /etc/apt/sources.list to include that source for purposes of
On Mon, 2007-01-22 at 09:40 -0600, Robert Citek wrote:
Hello all,
Anyone know about a Lexmark Optra C710 printer being added to the BWorks
network? It has an IP address of 192.168.0.250. A routine scan of our
network picked it up.
Don't know about any new additions, but there used to be
On Mon, 2007-01-22 at 22:11 -0600, Robert Citek wrote:
Hello all,
I've updated the name server info for the domain. bworks.org should now
point to Sean's webpages. Give it a try:
http://bworks.org
Sweet!!!
Fantastic job, guys!
t.
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On Mon, 2007-01-22 at 21:54 -0600, Robert Citek wrote:
Dan pointed me to this link earlier and I thought I'd share it:
http://weblog.patrice.ch/articles/2005/11/18/using-squid-as-an-apt-cache
It very easily turns our existing squid proxy into a cached apt server.
What this means is that
On Tue, 2007-01-23 at 02:10 -0600, Sean Burns wrote:
[...]
I guess that's it. Except for making periodic content updates, we're
all done. The only thing I'd like to add, someday, is a News section,
perhaps making it the front page to ByteWORKS with the current front
page in an About section.
On Tue, 2007-01-23 at 10:28 -0800, John Wurth wrote:
What is an apt-cache and a squid proxy?
Doing a quick google search returns these explanations:
http://www.ccl.net/cca/software/UNIX/updating-redhat/apt-howto/how-to-use-apt-cache.html
apt-cache is a command to manipulate and obtain
On Tue, 2007-01-23 at 16:19 -0600, Robert Citek wrote:
[...]
Freegeek also has a nascent group up in the Chicago area (google or
check out wiki page for a link.) Maybe a road trip is in order this summer.
Road trip? Chicago? Portland? Sounds good!
t.
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On Wed, 2007-01-24 at 09:44 -0600, Robert Citek wrote:
Hello all,
Where do we have donation forms?
I dropped by the shop this morning and couldn't find any. I did find
one form that said Thanks for the monitor, but the company I want to
give the form to donated more than that. If we
Sean,
Just wanted to share some feedback -- one of my friends reviewed your
site, and here's what he had to say: apart from that[1]: Thumbs up for
the site. Very quick to get a good overview of what you do, where you do
it and why you do it ;-) Job done !
The [1] is that we can use a rewrite of
On Thu, 2007-01-25 at 14:23 -0600, Robert Citek wrote:
Hello all,
I picked up about 10 computers and monitors from a company that was
moving. Where's a good place to put them in the shop?
Can you stack them in the front room or the workshop room for now? If
the monitors all work, we can
Robert,
It occurs to me that I could take home 5-10 computers at a time. I can
clone disks, and then work on configuring sound and modems one at a
time, since they're not identical machines. But, I have plenty of time
during the week to work on things (it's getting away from home that's
the
On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 10:15 -0600, Robert Citek wrote:
Yikes, it took almost three days for a message from John to get to me
via the Yahoo!Group. Almost all of the time was spent at Yahoo:
A notice posted on the front page of the group, from Yahoo, reads:
We are currently experiencing a Groups
On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 10:01 -0600, Robert Citek wrote:
John House wrote:
It would be helpful as we do our triage to immediately mark good
equipment that we are not going to use. Instead of storing equipment
for long periods, we can get it to people who will benefit and get
ourselves
I saw on the 01/27/07 update that, although PC_TEL modems were put into
machines 11 and 12, and drivers compiled, that modem queries failed.
Question -- were these some of the PC_TELs that were bought by Robert
off of eBay a few weeks back?
Some links that may prove useful include:
Debian
On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 12:40 -0600, Robert Citek wrote:
David Herholz wrote:
Woohoo! That's great news. No, I have been unable to find a copy of
that document anywhere. I would love it if I could get a copy of it. I
don't mind retyping it, I just didn't want to have to recreate all the
On Wed, 2007-01-31 at 14:47 -0600, Robert Citek wrote:
adelmand wrote:
That's cool. The page is no longer up for speedy deletion, though is
still a candidate to be deleted. (anyone can remove this, though it
probably shouldn't be me.) Still working on the page, and of course
On Wed, 2007-01-31 at 16:07 -0600, Robert Citek wrote:
Theresa Kehoe wrote:
I was hoping we could link to it, but although it is still in their
online archives, it's not available for viewing (but you can download
the entire text for a mere $2.95!).
Even if you download it, it's
On Thu, 2007-02-01 at 16:00 -0600, Robert Citek wrote:
Sean Burns wrote:
freegeek link is fixed on the volunteer page. did you notice others?
I'll look a bit later. Actually, I'll probably dig out a script that
follows links. I remember reading it somewhere in my perl books.
Or maybe
Hey all,
next week is Graduation Week, and it was a scramble Saturday, we're a
bit behind. So, I took the 10 machines home with me when I left. Nine
of them are ready; the last somehow managed to slip through with no
modem (not one of the DSL-bound machines that are not supposed to have
Those of you who were in the shop last Saturday got to see this kit I
brought in.
Tiger Direct has it on sale again, $29.99 before rebates, $9.99 after
rebates.
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=526114Sku=ULT31436
Enjoy!
t.
--
*** Propositions arrived
Hey all,
thanks to Robert, who met me at the shop and helped unload, there are
now nine of the 10 needed graduate machines, stacked and labeled,
waiting in the shop. On top of them, there is the binder with the
inventory sheets, and a bag full of grocery bags (useful for sending
home
On Wed, 2007-02-07 at 11:37 -0600, John House wrote:
Theresa,
Please involve me in this also. I have a mission ... er, obsession ...
with clearing some of the storage space in the basement.
The key to using donations effectively is to use them or get rid of them
in my opinion. They
On Wed, 2007-02-07 at 12:08 -0600, John House wrote:
Can this be done on command line? I have built some boxes, but the last
one I tried is giving me fits on the FX86config-4 file. I can't get the
gui to open.
running scanmodem is always done from the command line, just open a
terminal, and
On Thu, 2007-02-08 at 14:06 -0600, Robert Citek wrote:
Hello all,
I have a friend who may be interested in buying a laptop from BWorks.
What is the process for selling equipment? That is, what forms of
payments do we take: cash, check, charge, PayPal, other?
As far as I know, we take
On Thu, 2007-02-08 at 09:13 -0600, Robert Citek wrote:
Also went through that box of modems I brought home, and came up with a
total of 14 that are probably Linux-compatible (at least, scanModem says
there ought to be drivers for them). That is nearly enough for the next
batch of
Thanks to OfficeMax, for putting their canned air spray on sale,
2/$9.99, buy one get one free (so, 4 cans for $10). And thanks to
Jacob, for digging out old ink cartridges out of the printers to be
recycled, as OfficeMax will give you $3 off per cartridge (up to a max
of 5 cartridges).
Ended
On Sun, 2007-02-11 at 21:43 -0600, Robert Citek wrote:
Hello all,
Since we were talking about doing a fresh install of Debian, I thought I
would transfer the notes of installing Debian from the CWELUG wiki to
the BWorks wiki and make some updates, e.g. use Flash 9:
Hey all,
Sean was asking me recently about Linux-compatible modems, and in
looking through our documentation, we don't have this information
compiled and gathered in one convenient place. So, start at the
beginning:
Hardware modems will work. We don't usually get donated hardware
modems. Most
On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 02:27 -0600, Robert Citek wrote:
Hello all,
We've just finished our first student session of the year. So, I was
wondering if it makes sense to have a roundup of what was accomplished
since the beginning of the year. What I mean by a roundup is that we
have folks
Office Depot - sale is for three days only -- 02/15/07 - 02/17/07.
APC BX 1500 Battery Backup UPS
SKU# 481872
Regular price is $170. On sale for $99.99 (after $70 instant savings),
then has further $50 mail-in rebate, for final price of $49.99.
Online description: This advanced battery
On Fri, 2007-02-16 at 11:13 -0600, Robert Citek wrote:
Dave and Cathy (or anyone else who knows),
bworks_shop@yahoogroups.com wrote:
Reminder from: *bworks_shop Yahoo! Group
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bworks_shop/cal*
Title: ByteWorks class - make up
On Fri, 2007-02-16 at 12:00 -0600, Robert Citek wrote:
[..] (well, and Jess wants us to build two Linux boxes with no modems, for
another non-profit org., and we need to build some more $99 machines
to sell, and get at least one printer ready to sell ... )
And I see those on the wiki page,
Hey all,
last time I tested modem support for Ubuntu, I had a 50/50 failure rate
with the same modems we could get running consistently under Debian.
Things appear to be improving. For my test machine, I used an
up-to-date Dapper Drake Ubuntu install, running on a fairly old
machine but with
On Sun, 2007-02-18 at 11:33 -0600, Sean Burns wrote:
Theresa, on the wiki page describing modem set up for Ubuntu, you have
this:
**
Conexant HCF (controllerless)
1. Installed, worked (at 14.4 free version). Some minor notes:
c. Can't use Linuxant's automatic installer program.
This is a request for all volunteers. Jess's adult class needs 10
Windows 2000 machines. As I recall, before Dr Walter left, he said they
were ready to go except that they needed modems.
There are only a few weeks left until these machines have to be ready.
Will any volunteer with some time to
Hiya, this came up in discussion on Saturday. I bought a replacement
battery for one of my APC battery backups from this place (cost me $10
versus $45 if ordered online):
Electro Battery Manufacturing Co.
12201 Dorsett Road
Maryland Heights, MO 63043
314-739-6700
Google maps:
On Tue, 2007-02-20 at 10:34 -0600, Robert Citek wrote:
Robert Citek wrote:
Theresa Kehoe wrote:
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=2329300Sku=M501-1220
Theresa Kehoe wrote:
Tiger Direct has it on sale again, $29.99 before rebates, $9.99 after
On Tue, 2007-02-20 at 11:55 -0600, Robert Citek wrote:
Is anyone maintaining the Windows portion of the classroom machines?
Specifically, is anyone ensuring that all the Windows machine behave the
same?
short answer -- don't think so.
t.
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On Tue, 2007-02-20 at 22:23 -0600, adelmand wrote:
Set up and tested one of these tonight, which is now the one on top
of the table with the red square on the yellow tape label. Also came
across one dead winmodem and two that I didn't have time to get a
driver for, both of which are
Hey all,
final count from the stuff I brought home is:
Modems:
- 3Com Serial (2) - Linux compatible
- Conexant HCF (1) - Linux compatible
- 3Com Winmodem (2) - Windows only
Hard drives:
- 6.4GB (1)
- 10GB (1)
- 20GB (2)
and two were boat anchors. The thing about those hard drives is, Sean
On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 13:16 -0600, adelmand wrote:
- 3Com Winmodem (2) - Windows only
These are good to use for the adult machines because the win2k
installs often already have the drivers for them.
:-)
Which is why I carefully labeled them '3Com Winmodem' and bagged them
separately.
On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 13:33 -0600, Robert Citek wrote:
Theresa Kehoe wrote:
and two were boat anchors.
What test did you do to determine they were boat anchors?
On the 10GB one, when I plugged it in, you could hear whir ... click ...
click ... THUNK THUNK whir click ... THUNK
On Thu, 2007-02-22 at 07:32 -0600, Robert Citek wrote:
Robert Citek wrote:
I'm going to be heading into the shop tonight. Specifically, I want to
work on the following:
- get Student013 running.
It's up.
- hang up the whiteboard
It's up. Just need some dry-erase pens. Any
On Thu, 2007-02-22 at 16:49 -0600, Robert Citek wrote:
Hello all,
I just tested the old drive from Student013 by plugging it into an
external firewire port and issuing these commands in one terminal:
[...]
The drive definitely went bad.
I put your scripts on the wiki:
On Thu, 2007-02-22 at 12:40 -0600, Sean Burns wrote:
Since the machines we give to the students aren't the fastest in the
world, I've been on the lookout for ways to increase performance with
what we've got. A couple things I've found that maybe we could put into
the master clone image:
On Thu, 2007-02-22 at 09:27 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
To get these printers I found five that did not work, and pulled the
cartridges from them.
I think Robert made a good comment last night: is there a better use of
time?
In my opinion, yes.
[...]
However, printers that
On Sun, 2007-02-25 at 17:07 -0600, Robert Citek wrote:
Hello all,
For cloning drives, are we using the image that is on the Shop machine
or should we create a new image?
I thought we were going to go with a new image -- didn't you build one a
few weeks back? If you need one, I can bring in
Hey all,
Let's focus on 1) getting as many zombies as possible ready to go; 2)
cloning a big batch of Debin hard drives; 3) start building Debian
graduate machines. If we build enough, we can aim for Robert's
suggestion of having a set of graduate machines ready to go before
classes even start.
On Mon, 2007-02-26 at 14:10 -0600, Robert Citek wrote:
Theresa Kehoe wrote:
Let's focus on
2) cloning a big batch of Debin hard drives
I should have all 16 drives cloned by Saturday.
If we build enough, we can aim for Robert's suggestion of having a
set of graduate machines ready
On Mon, 2007-02-26 at 16:51 -0600, Robert Citek wrote:
adelmand wrote:
More expensive than WITS for monitors over 25lbs, which I think is
most of them. :-(
UCity charges $5/monitor to Businesses and other Entities that are
located outside of University City limits:
On Tue, 2007-02-27 at 10:03 -0600, Robert Citek wrote:
Robert Citek wrote:
http://bworksshop.pbwiki.com/Debian%20image
Items marked with (done) are in the old image. Items marked with
x(done) are in the new image. What is not done in the new image are
some of the KPPP configuration
On Mon, 2007-02-26 at 21:54 -0600, Jerry W. Hubbard wrote:
[...]
How many boxes are needed? These boxes still need the final student
configuration and testing. What is the final checks we do on a windows
box? I would assume they are about the same as a Linux box.
These boxes have student
On Tue, 2007-02-27 at 21:20 -0600, Sean Burns wrote:
On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 12:40:43PM -0600, Sean Burns wrote:
[...]But here are just some basic benchmarks:
Looks like pre-linking might be worth it, then. Do we have any
benchmarks between KDE and Gnome in general, on the standard graduate
On Wed, 2007-02-28 at 13:48 -0600, Robert Citek wrote:
Sean Burns wrote:
Btw, this is on the HP Pavilion, 500 MHz, 256 MB RAM.
What OS/Distro? Can you redo the test with only 128 MB RAM?
It should be one of the graduate machine clones from a few weeks back
(this is one of the two machines
On Thu, 2007-03-01 at 19:46 -0600, Robert Citek wrote:
Hello all,
Is anyone else experiencing issues with the mailing list?
From looking at the messages, there are 8 from earlier today that I
still haven't received.
In case nobody else got them either, Dave H is desperately looking for a
sub
On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 01:52 -0600, Sean Burns wrote:
Looks like there are a few I haven't received either and one or two I
sent that haven't appeared. The only thing I can find on the matter is
this blog entry, but it's a few months old:
[...]
Yahoo Groups can be unreliable at times (some
On Mon, 2007-03-05 at 18:12 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]That said, I'm agreeable to any solution as long
as it's documented somewhere.
Agreed. A bit of tape sounds like the least labor-intensive solution,
IMHO.
If any of you are going to be in the shop during the week, could you
work
On Mon, 2007-03-05 at 22:14 -0600, John House wrote:
I will attempt to locate some shop towels and try to drop them by on
Wednesday also.
If you want to, that's fine -- but I already brought in an 8-pack of
paper towels last weekend. Not being able to clean the bathroom
regularly, given the
On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 22:47 -0600, Robert Citek wrote:
Robert Citek wrote:
I won't be in this Saturday. We're having guests coming in from out of
town.
Turns out I will not be in the shop for the next three Saturdays: March
10th, 17th, and 24th. Travel kicking in early this year.
On Wed, 2007-03-07 at 16:40 -0600, Robert Citek wrote:
[...]
What number did he dial? What was the name of the person who picked up
the computers?
He dialed the phone number that was on the printed certificate we gave
him last year. He didn't have a name, just that the guy showed up with
a
On Wed, 2007-03-07 at 22:10 -0600, Robert Citek wrote:
Theresa Kehoe wrote:
He dialed the phone number that was on the printed certificate we gave
him last year. He didn't have a name, just that the guy showed up with
a pickup truck.
There are only three volunteers that I know
Has anyone been able to look through the basement to find any further
likely candidates for the student machines? As of last Saturday, we
were 9 machines short of what we need to build.
Thanks to Robert's work, we should have enough sound cards if we can't
get onboard sound working, and we have
On Fri, 2007-03-09 at 11:18 -0800, John Wurth wrote:
If we have one why not. If it's someone in a position to benefit us in the
future then good. If not we did our good deed for the day.
Robert Citek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Member on another list wrote:
Anyone know where I can
On Sun, 2007-03-11 at 01:06 -0600, Robert Citek wrote:
Theresa Kehoe wrote:
On Sat, 2007-03-10 at 20:40 +, tmk_for_byteworks wrote:
Robert (and anyone else who's reading this who may know the answer),
I tried cloning some more Debian drives, as we've used all the ones we
had
- the Voices for Children guy picked up their first computer
- Jess sold another $250 machine
- 'warranty' repair came in, front USB ports no longer work; Dan is
looking into it, but we may not have the parts to fix it
- student from last summer's classes lost their login username/password;
I
On Sun, 2007-03-11 at 09:44 -0500, Robert Citek wrote:
[...]
I had a look at the cloning notes[1] and the cloning script[2]. Two
things I noticed: 1) you have to be root to access any device, and 2)
the target device is listed as /dev/sdb.
Regarding root, the notes aren't clear that one
On Mon, 2007-03-12 at 17:34 -0500, Robert Citek wrote:
Of the three, I was able to clone two. The one drive didn't even finish
wiping the partition table. So, I cloned a couple extras on slightly
larger drives. Total new clones: five.
So it's possible that I just ended up grabbing drives
On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 23:44 +, Jacob Manes wrote:
Ok, got it done today. I was panicking because I had school and
lots of homework. I got everything done and finished.
Jacob, well done! Just remember this quote: A lack of foresight and
planning on your part does not constitute an
- all the Linux graduate machines are ready for next Saturday.
- a fair amount of sales were made.
- some individual donations, a few of which were immediately priced and
put in the shop window.
Still needed:
- print up the Parents Handout/FAQ, 16 copies. It's a 6-page document
(if possible run
On Mon, 2007-03-26 at 08:10 -0500, Robert Citek wrote:
[...]Theresa Kehoe wrote:
- bring upstairs, test 15 keyboards/mice - gather up bags with
keyboards/mice/cords/cables/headphones (not getting speakers this
time) -- Robert may have done some of this in the last few weeks, not
sure
On Mon, 2007-03-26 at 10:04 -0500, Robert Citek wrote:
Hello all,
Here is an anonymized version of an e-mail sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
(anonymous donor) wrote:
To whom it may concern,
... We are currently making some upgrades to our infrastructure and
as such, have some old PC’s
On Mon, 2007-03-26 at 08:56 -0500, Jerry W. Hubbard wrote:
[...]
There is another machine I labeled needs work! and put on a
triage/repair workstation, which may be better to part out than to
burn up time testing it. Depends on who feels like a challenge.
What symptoms does it
On Tue, 2007-03-27 at 10:10 -0700, Kenneth E Walter wrote:
Apr 3 - back
:-))
We missed you!!
t.
--
*** Propositions arrived at purely by logical
means are completely empty as regards
reality. - Albert Einstein ***
On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 14:08 -0500, Robert Citek wrote:
Who has done a sale before and can guide me through it?
I haven't done one in a very long time (long enough that I know
procedures have changed since then).
Jess, Cathy, and Maggie would be good people to ask.
t.
--
*** Propositions
Hi all,
I have a truckload of computers courtesy of NOVA Marketing Services,
LLC. Mainly Gateways, some Dells, a few servers. Lots of peripherals
(keyboards, mice, etc). They have said they will keep our number, and
will definitely be calling us again in the future. I asked how they
found us,
On Sun, 2007-04-01 at 03:16 +, Jacob Manes wrote:
Hey guys, what a day! Sorry I bailed out so early but i had to help
the eberhardts (the guy with the 2 girls who helped with his cd
burner) hook up their computer at their house and go to compusa and I
helped them buy
a SWEET 19 LCD HD
brief Saturday update:
- fixed the two spare Debian machines with recurring odd problems. We
now have three pre-ready machines for the next set of classes.
- repairs: there were a few adult students with email problems. One
person had a machine that would not even start up at all. One machine
On Sun, 2007-04-01 at 10:56 -0500, Sean Burns wrote:
- repairs: there were a few adult students with email problems. One
person had a machine that would not even start up at all. One machine
had been left from a week ago on the triage/repair table, no notes, no
explanations as
On Sun, 2007-04-01 at 16:31 +, Jacob Manes wrote:
--- In bworks_shop@yahoogroups.com, Robert Citek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Theresa Kehoe wrote:
On Sun, 2007-04-01 at 03:16 +, Jacob Manes wrote:
Hey guys, what a day! Sorry I bailed out so early but i had to help
On Sun, 2007-04-01 at 15:20 -0500, adelmand wrote:
There are now two boxes for untested RAM on the shelf
- identified untested ram (ram that is labeled with the size and type)
- unidentified untested ram (ram that is missing the size or type or
both)
Thanks, Dan!
t.
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John.
Per your request, I have removed you from the BWorks_Shop list.
Theresa Kehoe
Hey all,
I've finally taken a look at the dokuwiki Dan set up. My opinion -- I
think we should migrate from pbwiki. It isn't an exact import, although
if we really want, we can use Interwiki links until we get things moved
over.
http://64.34.164.208/~bworks/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=bworks_wiki
I
On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 17:44 +, nneff wrote:
Question: Does anyone Can I tell the installer not to download
friggin' 500 MB of install packages, or is that just Debian's niche?
Unless Debian has significantly changed things, you should be able to
download a network install image, which
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