[GTALUG] November Meeting Notice

[Alan Heighway via talk]

Hello GTALUG,

Due to a misunderstanding we were unable to hold the AGM in October as
planned.  However we are on track to do so at our November meeting,
followed by a talk by our own Dave Collier-Brown titled "You Don’t know
Jack about Application Performance."

Our AGM proceedings will start with a treasurer's report, then a vote on
the merger CLUE, and conclude with filling vacant board positions (with an
election if required).  Only paid GTALUG members can participate in the
voting.

This is a perfect time to sign up or renew your membership.  To do so send
an Interac e-transfer to members...@gtalug.org for $20 with your Name and
email address.  That's it, you are a voting member!

Thank you, and I hope to see you at our next meeting.

Alan.
*A*lan *H*eighway 
heighway.ca
   VA3WAH / VA3YKZ

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Re: [GTALUG] sigh, hardware resources?

[Kevin Cozens via talk]

On 2023-10-21 02:19, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote:

Someone may know how to break the WinXP password from a Linux system.
If Win XP mattered, I assume that it could be re-installed.  But I
don't think Karen cares about Windows.


There is an article in Wikipedia about breaking the password of a WinXP box. 
What would be easier would be to look at the information provided about how 
to set a new password.


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Re: [GTALUG] sigh, hardware resources?

[William Park via talk]

Hi Karen,

Here is what I can give you:

- Newegg says it takes DDR400.  If it can take DDR2-667, then I got 
4 x 2GB sticks for you.


- IDE 3.5" floppy drive.


On 2023-10-21 01:04, Don Tai via talk wrote:

IBM Thinkcentre M50 8189
2xP4 3.2Ghz, serial port (not tested)
similar to 
https://www.newegg.com/ibm-thinkcentre-m50-business-desktops-workstations/p/N82E16883108249 

-OEM XP install dates this to maybe  2003, so 20 years old.

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Re: [GTALUG] sigh, hardware resources?

[D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk]

Don: thanks for offering a computer to Karen.

It has an AGP slot (empty) and 3 PCI slots (empty).  Not quite old
enough for ISA.

Someone may know how to break the WinXP password from a Linux system.
If Win XP mattered, I assume that it could be re-installed.  But I
don't think Karen cares about Windows.

If I remember correctly, Win XP doesn't have include a free-standing
DOS (it is based on Windows NT).  The last Microsoft OS which included
DOS was probably Windows ME.

I wonder if any drivers are an issue for MSDOS-7.x (what Karen seems
to run).

Video drivers for DOS itself are surely not needed.  But for programs
that try to do graphicy things, a driver might be needed.  I don't
know if Karen uses a program with such needs.

Sound drivers are more of an issue.  Karen seems to want sound.  There
wasn't really a standardized way of doing sound in DOS.

Disk drives should just work, I think.

Is the drive CD and DVD?  Can it burn?  The one at newegg only reads
and only CDs.

How much RAM?  The newegg model has 512MiB -- plenty for DOS, not so
much for Linux.

How much HDD?  The newegg model has 40GB of disk -- plenty for DOS.

Karen: does this look like a computer you can use?
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