Skullspace workstations #4 and #5 have disappeared, at least as of
Monday when I was last in. Each featured dual-boot Windows XP and Ubuntu
(with multiple desktop environments)
I've looked well (don't repeat the search) and I'm sure they haven't
suffered the fate of on-site cannibalization. They had a nice, bright,
orange hand written label on top of each of them that warned not to
cannibalize them. The labels also identified them clearly as "Skullspace
Workstation #X".
Does anyone know if they've been off-site stolen or off-site borrowed?
If we don't think they're coming back, I'll get around to re-installing
Windows/Ubuntu on two of the off-site spares sometime. The spares are
another late gen P4 with DDR2 and a Core2 with DDR2 -- I'll also do
installs on something nicer if there's a donation in the wings.
(but, don't take this as a dumping invitation! We only want to have our
best 3 official skullspace workstations on site at a given time and only
in a working, dual-boot state)
And don't confuse this inquiry about sksp#4 and #5 with the two similar,
but different and non-Skullspace machines that have been lying on the
tables for a long time now.
(only one of which has a persons name on it)
Related note -- I did once upon a time (many months ago) find either
workstation #4 or #5 sitting abandoned on a table, open, and with some
other hard drive also sitting inside. I took that foreign drive out,
labeled it as "abandoned in workstation #X", and threw it in the member
storage closet, and put the workstation proper back on the tool shelf
where it belonged. Last I checked the owner hadn't come back for that
hard drive yet, but perhaps I have their attention now? Hello?
These workstations certainly are useful to have not only for the things
you can do directly on them, but as "tools" in their own right. There's
been a few times I've set up one or two and then nicely put back on the
shelf when done using, but the one time I used a workstation as a tool
is worth telling:
Ken had a 3TB SATA drive in a USB enclosure and wiped his original GPT
partition table. Strange thing was, the enclosure itself changed its own
behavior in reaction to this -- *drive as a whole* no longer showed up
as original size and attempts to build a new GPT partition table under
both Windows and GNU/Linux were hopeless because conventional tools on
each would respect this false report the enclosure gave about the drive
as a whole.
So, we pulled the drive from the enclosure, put it on a SATA channel in
a workstation where the overall drive size came out correct, built a
properly sized GPT partition table, put it back in the enclosure, and
all was fine.
And then we put the workstation back on the shelf with cover where it
came from.
Mark
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