Hi
I have about 8gig left on my plan with about 3 days to go. Send the URl
for the distribution and I'll download it and burn in to CD for the
resource centre.
Regards
Graeme Kiyoto-Ward
Steve Holdoway wrote:
Maybe there's an opportunity here to extend the services offered by the St.
Albans gang??? I know there's a games-centric version of Fedora 8 just come out
( sorry, couldn't get away with downloading *that* one at work (: ), and with
Christmas around the corner.
Christopher/Wesley/Edwin + any others who I've unintentionally left out...
wocher rekkon??
Steve.
On Tue, 20 Nov 2007 15:55:22 +1300 (NZDT)
Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The Computer Broker will sometimes discount their ex lease boxes if you
don't want the OS, and many of them come in OS and OSless options straight
off the floor.
Even the ones without an OS seem to have a license sticker, which
presumably means you can install the licensed OS, although i note the
opinion of someone on NZLUG who had read the licence who said that after
the second owner, the license was no longer transferable (ie the third
owner had to buy another licence). Anyway there is more than one MS
license and I guess you need to read the actual one that pertains to the
actual machine.
In buying ex-lease gear I look at the hardware price in the knowledge that
I don't give a rats thingamy what version of windows i can run on it. If
the vendor will take a few dollars less without the OS on board, thats
cool, but I look first and foremost at whether the hardware is worth the
price.
One time the broker did discount me a box with no OS. The guy was going to
reformat the hard drive to remove whatever abomination had been installed
on it, and I said "I'm in a bit of a hurry, theres no way I am going to
run that piece of crap, I promise I'll take it off as soon as I get home"
He grinned and handed me the box (and of course I kept my word, its now
running mythtv).
Nick
On Tue, November 20, 2007 3:30 pm, Edwin F wrote:
There was a discussion on the NZLUG recently about the availability of
OS-less ex-lease boxen - apparently, most of them suffer from the MS
tax due to their old licenses being no longer transferrable, or
something to that effect.
I thought I would throw it out there that I am in the process of
starting a small ex-lease thing, and I would gladly supply cheap,
OS-less boxen if the demand is there, and perhaps somebody would like
to contact existing ex-lease sellers around Christchurch about
supplying OS-less boxen for a lower price and compile a Linux-friendly
supplier list on the CLUG wiki?
Hope nobody minds, but...
== blatant plug time ==
I have a bunch of these boxen, currently:
Intel Celeron 2.0GHz
512MB DDR RAM
40GB HDD
Broadcom GigE
CD-ROM Drive
Floppy Drive (remember those? -- neither do I)
They came with 17" CRTs, too, so those can be had providing it is
being picked up or the extra shipping is paid (for... uh... across
town)
These I can supply for ~$200 each, give or take.
== blatant plug time ends ==
Thoughts?
Cheers,
Edwin.
--
Nick Rout
