One of them (workstation 4 or 5) was used to run games at Freeze Frame. It will be coming back (intact) with the Skull-o-tron :)
On 5 April 2013 11:30, Mark Jenkins <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > ______________________________**_________________ > SkullSpace Discuss Mailing List > Help: > http://www.skullspace.ca/wiki/**index.php/Mailing_List#Discuss<http://www.skullspace.ca/wiki/index.php/Mailing_List#Discuss> > Archive: > https://groups.google.com/**group/skullspace-discuss-**archive/<https://groups.google.com/group/skullspace-discuss-archive/> > -- *Nathan T. Wild* Ralph Brown Community Centre Inc.
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