I would love to see one running Ubuntu or Linux Mint. And if you need any help
just get a hold of me, would love to do it.
--- Original Message ---
From: "Omar Rassi" <[email protected]>
Sent: January 13, 2014 9:47 PM
To: "SYN/HAK discussion list" <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [SH-Discuss] Computers for Synhak... a work in progress, needs
your assistance!
They do but for Windows XP and Vista and most of the OEM license stickers
are unreadable. If someone wants windows installed, I'll find the one with
a readable license first.
On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 9:42 PM, Justin Herman <[email protected]> wrote:
> Many of these computers have OEM licenses for windows.
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 9:37 PM, Omar Rassi <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Alright so there has been some considerable time since all those
>> computers came in and not much has happened with them, so I came up with an
>> idea for them that would be very nice to have at the new space. I love
>> doing computer stuff for Synhak, I really can't stop myself even if I try...
>>
>> I'd like to set up one laptop per "area" (i.e. one laptop for the craft
>> room, one for the machine shop, one for the electonics lab, etc.) This way
>> you won't need to stop and walk away to go to the computers if you need to
>> look up something, they don't need a large area for set up and aren't
>> tethered to one corner. I still plan to set up at least two desktops in a
>> common area for public use with our current Windows licenses installed so
>> anyone that uses them will be comfortable. I will install on these laptops
>> Fedora 20 KDE unless a different OS is requested by at least 3 different
>> members. The reason for this OS choice is the Synhak sysadmins are most
>> familiar with Fedora and Windows. If a Windows OS is requested, we'll have
>> to vote on a proposal to spend the cash on that ($12 Admin fee from
>> techsoup.org per license, and before you ask, yes the company checks out
>> and its legit).
>>
>> As far as the laptops go, they need 2.5" SATA hard drives. I have two I
>> can give to synhak, AND, the big kicker here is power supplies for them.
>> They are a little less than $30 new at Tigerdirect
>> http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=7847505&CatId=608
>>
>> Tomorrow I'll be getting together a list of how many hard drives and
>> power adapters we'll actually need to accomplish this goal. If it can met
>> by donations that would be great, if not as stated earlier, a proposal to
>> spend the money would need to be voted on. I'm estimating it would take me
>> about 3 to 6 months to complete this since that's how long it took me to
>> get things set up the last time I did this with the desktops.
>>
>> Or if no one likes this idea or finds it redundant since we have a
>> computer lab with desktops, then no movement will take place on this.
>>
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