Ted Roche writes:
Branching the One Laptop thread...
On May 27, 2006, at 10:27 PM, David Ecklein wrote:
I don't understand this fixation on laptops. These are commodities
for the
I would rather see an effort mounted to refurbish the many usable
desktops
that are going to the
Ted Roche wrote:
At Hosstraders earlier this month, the sponsors had a trailer where
they accepted discards for a group that made money salvaging the
donations. Does anyone recall who that was?
NH Disabled Veterans
-Heather
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gnhlug-discuss
Branching the One Laptop thread...
On May 27, 2006, at 10:27 PM, David Ecklein wrote:
I don't understand this fixation on laptops. These are commodities
for the
I would rather see an effort mounted to refurbish the many usable
desktops
that are going to the dump every day.
LUG members
On 5/29/06, Ted Roche [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
However, there's a lot of resistance to these
contributions: concern over support, toxic waste disposal, security,
etc.
It's a complicated situation. The Windoze world has more problems
with recycling hardware than Linux, but even if you don't
On Mon, May 29, 2006 at 06:37:04PM -0400, Ben Scott wrote:
At Hosstraders earlier this month, the sponsors had a trailer where
they accepted discards for a group that made money salvaging the
donations. Does anyone recall who that was?
No idea, but I've been told that, in the past, they
It might also be interesting to demonstrate Linux in theham radio environment, running stuff like kpsk (for PSK31),and so forth.Remember, that many of the hams there don't need to be taughthow to read their e-mail, or be shown a "new" way to access it(except perhaps using WinLink2000 and AirMail,
Bayard,
Several times in the past few years we have demonstrated Ham Radio applications
or had lists of them, courtesy of the work of Ed Lawson who would set this up
and make sheets of paper with Ham Radio applications on it.
I was not suggesting that we move away from doing that.
Maybe we
