I started this thread following last weeks discussion about equipment
for the impending resource center that I'm working on in Riccarton.
Which of course will all be running LINUX.
Update: The CCC is currently working through the hurdles to give us a 6
month trial of the idea. This would lead us to putting in a funding
application for July 07 - 08.
Westfields has said that I should deliver a shopping list and they would
see what their storage rooms hold in the way of gear.
CCC are also looking at desks and chairs.
The machines have all been donated, I've got enough disks, a switch and
now I even have flex and plugs to make cables - though more flex and
cables wouldn't go a miss as I've had to pay for the sockets myself.
http://www.netspec.com/helpdesk/wiredoc.html - if anyone would like to
sit down and make them up.
I've talked with Riccarton High re starting LES up again this year. I
am planning that the kids will build the OS on the machines - which of
course is all LINUX
TODAY...
I spent part of the day pushing the next link of UTP through two units
to get the next user on the community network, which is of course
powered off a LINUX server.
Neil and I have been building a concept he calls 'Bigfilestore'.
Thanks to Ben I now have hundreds of gigs of data that will be able to
be shared across the 'Islands' as we get them on line.
STILL IN PROGRESS...
I'm still working on wifi research to understand the best and CHEAPEST
solutions for delivering OSS around my neighbour hood.
By the end of the month there are going to be a number of 'Islands'
around the city that you can pull up to and download FOSS to your hearts
content.
This might have been done sooner but I left Neil a GPS dongle and that
threw him off track for weeks while he's played with GPS under LINUX,
which is very kewl!
I also showed off how kewl XGL is on MDV2007 so Neil had to go one
better and get it running on Ubuntu... I know, we shouldn't be having
fun with LINUX, we should be simply concentrating on pushing it out
there along with faster net connections.
APOLOGY.
I do apologies to list readers if there's not enough hard core LINUX and
GNU in these threads presently....
This is my fault completely, I have failed to be content with just
running Linux on 8 of my dozen or so computers and am wanting to push it
further in to my neighbourhood.
Anyway... I must fly, as I have to go help a man set up a GPS dongle
under LINUX and steal some GPL software off another list member so I
know where the 'mans' been in 3D (ask Neil).... oh and drop some
printing off to yet another list member who's been kind enough to give
Joanna and I his printing work so we can keep funding the efforts in our
little part of the world.
Cheers Don
Christopher Sawtell wrote:
On Sunday 11 February 2007, Rik Tindall wrote:
Where's Chris "drifting OT" Sawtell when we need him?
Reading, with considerable interest, the technical discussions about the
interconnecting cables used to network _Linux_ computers, until the thread
was so rudely hijacked by a politico pushing his barrowload of irrelevant
opinion.
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CS
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