I'm faced with a problem that I'm sure some geeks would love to have, or rather, I've come to the conclusion that no one else is dealing with it and that if it's going to be dealt with, I've got to do it.
Those of you who came to the meetings at efn this summer may remember catching a glimpse of the back room with piles of components stcked over and under and around boxes of loose power cables and IDE ribbons. I did a fairly rough census of this junk pile and figure that there's somewhere between 25-30 computers worth of stuff in there. Computers built out of OPN/EFN stocks will be given to other Nonprofit Orgainzations and put to socially useful purposes. So this is not an open invitation to cherry pick old pentiums ;-) I'm looking for advice on how to systematically test components and also looking for volunteers who might be willing to give up part or all of a weekend in the second half of November to help me and several other volunteers blitz the job in a systematic way. At least some of them will be going towards being public access terminals at shelters and recovery centers and as office utilities (file and printing) for various nonprofit organizations. And of course they'll all be running Linux :-) Email me with suggestions as to how to test dozens of hard drives, cd drives, network cards and antiquated printers. If you're interested in volunteering. Or if you know of an organization that could use a database/webhost/office box. TIA, larry there's also a mild urgency in that if this is not done by the time we move EFN to it's new office, any nonfunctioning gear will be headed to the recycling. also, if we have the software ready we could certainly wire them into a beowulf cluster for an evening before we start handing them onto their final destination.... <html><head><title>html sig</title></head><body><div style="font:sans-serif; font-size:72pt;line-height:84pt;color:blue1;"><ul><li>sexy is good</li><li> linux is good</li><li>qed: linux is sexy</li></ul><hr><hr><hr><hr><hr><hr> <a href="http://www.efn.org/~laprice";>laprice at efn dot org</a></body></html>
