[Discuss] OT Volunteering for School Presentations

2012-10-23 Thread Mark Woodward
I just did a presentation at my daughters 1st grade class. It was about my career in computer science and technology. I brought the robot, because lets face it, all performances are improved by props. The kids were REALLY excited about it. Most questions were kiddish, of course, but there

Re: [Discuss] OT Volunteering for School Presentations

2012-10-23 Thread Drew Van Zandt
It may be possible to involve the Artisan's Asylum in some school programs, especially if you have some organizational energy to help out with it. We're down for it, just most of those who are the volunteering sort are already oversubscribed. * Drew Van Zandt Artisan's Asylum Craft Lead,

Re: [Discuss] OT Volunteering for School Presentations

2012-10-23 Thread Daniel Barrett
I did two 20-minute presentations for my daughter's elementary school class on computer programming. They have a Science And Engineering Week where parents are encouraged to come into class and make presentations. In the first one, I explained zeroes and ones (calling them lightswitches), how

Re: [Discuss] OT Volunteering for School Presentations

2012-10-23 Thread Ben Eisenbraun
On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 12:15:08PM -0400, Daniel Barrett wrote: In the second, I demonstrated the Logo programming language and drew some spirograph-like pictures. In one magic moment, one of the children deduced the need for loops (Instead of writing the same instruction 10 times, can you

[Discuss] free up space on a RedHat RHEL 5 system

2012-10-23 Thread John Malloy
Does anyone have suggestions on how to free up space on a RedHat RHEL 5 system? It is an ext3 file system It's root partition is totally (100%) full /var is on a separate partition. I cannot seem to locate any unnecessary file to delete. Any ideas? Thanks! John Malloy

Re: [Discuss] free up space on a RedHat RHEL 5 system

2012-10-23 Thread Dan Ritter
On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 02:12:03PM -0400, John Malloy wrote: Does anyone have suggestions on how to free up space on a RedHat RHEL 5 system? It is an ext3 file system It's root partition is totally (100%) full /var is on a separate partition. I cannot seem to locate

Re: [Discuss] free up space on a RedHat RHEL 5 system

2012-10-23 Thread Tim Lyons
On Tue, 23 Oct 2012 14:12:03 -0400 John Malloy jomal...@gmail.com wrote: login as root cd / run du --max-depth=1 -x -h . Look for the biggest user of space and cd into that directory (e.g. /home) run the du command above again, Should point you in the right direction. --Tim Does anyone

Re: [Discuss] free up space on a RedHat RHEL 5 system

2012-10-23 Thread Scott Ehrlich
On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 2:18 PM, Dan Ritter d...@randomstring.org wrote: On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 02:12:03PM -0400, John Malloy wrote: Does anyone have suggestions on how to free up space on a RedHat RHEL 5 system? It is an ext3 file system It's root partition is totally (100%) full

Re: [Discuss] free up space on a RedHat RHEL 5 system

2012-10-23 Thread David Rosenstrauch
+1 on what Tim said to identify the folder tree that's hogging the most disk (e.g., /home). Next step then would be to take the culprit, move it to a different disk, and tell fstab to mount it at boot. HTH, DR On 10/23/2012 02:24 PM, Tim Lyons wrote: On Tue, 23 Oct 2012 14:12:03 -0400 John

Re: [Discuss] free up space on a RedHat RHEL 5 system

2012-10-23 Thread Mick Timony - Verizon
Some tips for freeing up space: 1. Remove older unused kernels and related source files and header files. 2. Remove unused or unnecessary packages. 3. Clean up /tmp (if it's mounted under /) a reboot should do the trick. If /boot is mounted under / and you've upgraded kernels over the years then