Re: [LUAU] a new use for hosef donations (used PCs)?

2006-04-10 Thread Jim Thompson
On Apr 8, 2006, at 10:15 AM, Hawaii Linux Institute wrote: Julian Yap wrote: Wayne, Swing by McKinley sometime on Saturday. We can have a chat/run through of Samba.We can install it on a spare donated machine. My wife is out of town that may give a window to do just that. It's all

Re: [LUAU] a new use for hosef donations (used PCs)?

2006-04-09 Thread Vince Hoang
On Sat, Apr 08, 2006 at 10:15:15AM -1000, Hawaii Linux Institute wrote: I am probably old enough to be your grandpa, so please don't take my words too seriously. One of the key issues in Samba is to manually edit the config file. Most samba configs should have the home share setup by default.

Re: [LUAU] a new use for hosef donations (used PCs)?

2006-04-08 Thread Jim Thompson
On Apr 7, 2006, at 9:11 PM, Hawaii Linux Institute wrote: Jim Thompson wrote: There has been a lot of recent discussion about what to do with PII machines. Lets build a cluster. (Where can we find the room/power/AC?) You can do a rough and tumble calculation. To match a lowest-

Re: [LUAU] a new use for hosef donations (used PCs)?

2006-04-08 Thread Hawaii Linux Institute
Jim Thompson wrote: Dude... they're providing their own power. That will make things even worse. If you're going to go all MIPS/watt on us, I'm going to start talking about reconfigurable computing. ___ Will be more than happy to entertain your

Re: [LUAU] a new use for hosef donations (used PCs)?

2006-04-08 Thread Hawaii Linux Institute
Jim Thompson wrote: If memory serves, I'd queried why you deemed it important that the number of processes on a desktop OS be minimized. At the outset, you want to minimize the number of processes running on a desktop machine so it will boot faster. Beginning version 10.0, SuSE uses parallel

Re: [LUAU] a new use for hosef donations (used PCs)?

2006-04-08 Thread Julian Yap
--- Hawaii Linux Institute [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jim Thompson wrote: If memory serves, I'd queried why you deemed it important that the number of processes on a desktop OS be minimized. At the outset, you want to minimize the number of processes running on a desktop machine so it

Re: [LUAU] a new use for hosef donations (used PCs)?

2006-04-08 Thread Julian Yap
Wayne, Swing by McKinley sometime on Saturday. We can have a chat/run through of Samba. We can install it on a spare donated machine. It's all pretty simple if you stick to the GUI utilities with RedHat distros. Maybe there's a specialized Linux Samba Server distro? I'm taking classes

Re: [LUAU] a new use for hosef donations (used PCs)?

2006-04-08 Thread Hawaii Linux Institute
Julian Yap wrote: Wayne, Swing by McKinley sometime on Saturday. We can have a chat/run through of Samba.We can install it on a spare donated machine. My wife is out of town that may give a window to do just that. It's all pretty simple if you stick to the GUI utilities with RedHat

Re: [LUAU] a new use for hosef donations (used PCs)?

2006-04-07 Thread Hawaii Linux Institute
Jim Thompson wrote: There has been a lot of recent discussion about what to do with PII machines. Lets build a cluster. (Where can we find the room/power/AC?) You can do a rough and tumble calculation. To match a lowest-powered ( cheapest) Sempron you can find in the market, you will need