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Honest advise, dont buy it even if you have money. I bought 120Gb for 69.99
after rebates and went bad in one week. A lousy product and compnay to dealt
with.
Regards
Rafiq
From: Bryce C <
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Reply-To:
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To: PLUG <
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Subject: RE: Peoria Schools can't afford to replace stolen computers
Date: 16 Oct 2003 14:46:36 -0700
Yesterday's Fry's Electronics ad had a 60Gb Western Digital for $40
after rebates. Sorry but I don't have $40 to spend on myself right now
but if someone else does, there's a deal.
On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 12:16, George Gambill wrote:
> Hans,
>
> I am not familiar with "LTSP-like" but I can setup an LTSP box (static
IP).
>
> For 9 clients, a 800 MHz Pentium class box with 512 MEG ram (might squeak
by
> with less) and 60 Gig Hard Drive should server well. Anyone got one of
> those who is willing do part with it. We can always add memory.
>
> I am experienced with Etherboot NIC's. They can boot from a floppy
(cheesy)
> or from a ROM chip onboard the NIC.
>
> If the school has a non-Linux DHCP server (and I think it probably does)
we
> will need to deal with the ROM chip to configure them to ignore the
> not-Linux DHCP. With floppies (cheesy) this is a piece of cake. With
ROM
> chips, we will need someone with a ROM burner (that is on my wish list).
>
> One thing, my experience shows that GNOME has (or at least had) a memory
> leak with LTSP. I had to convert the LTSP system to KDE. No flames
please.
>
> Other question. Will a server scheme work. Is there an Ethernet in
place?
> Is there cabling in place? Can the boxen(s) be located close to each
other
> such that a hub will work?
>
> Also. I bought a 16 port Hub (not switch) at a thrift shop (can't resist
a
> bargain) the other day that I could donate.
>
> Anyone got an 800 MHx box around (or do they)???
>
> Anyone got a 60 GIG Dirve to donate (or do they)?
>
> In short, if we can come up with the box, I will volunteer to set up the
> server. Will want help with the clients. Clients are the easy part.
>
> George
>
> -----Original Message-----
> > Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 10:31:35 -0700 (MST)
> > From: "der.hans" <PLUGd@LuftHans.com>
> > Subject: Re: Peoria Schools can't afford to replace stolen computers
> >
> > Am 16. Oct, 2003 schw=E4tzte Lee Einer so:
> >
> > >
> > http://netscape.digitalcity.com/phoenix/news/article.adp?artic
> > le=3D139416=
> > 0&_dci_e_t=3Dincoming&_dci_a_l=3Dmy.netscape.com/index2.psp?cp
> > =3Dmyfresh
> > >
> > <http://netscape.digitalcity.com/phoenix/news/article.adp?arti
> > cle=3D13941=
> > 60&_dci_e_t=3Dincoming&_dci_a_l=3Dmy%2enetscape%2ecom%2findex2
> > %2epsp%3fcp%3=
> > dmyfresh>
> > >
> > >
> > > It would be great if we could cobble together a few Linux boxes and
> > > donate them...
> >
> > They lost 9 of 45 computers. That means they still have a
> > few. AZOTO can
> > donate a few boxen for LTSP clients ( thanks to UAT for that
> > donation ).
> >
> > One or more of their remaining computers could be used to
> > serve up the LTSP
> > setup.
> >
> > Note, they may need a LTSP-like rather than LTSP, but the
> > physical setup
> > remains about the same.
> >
> > Do we have a couple of people with experience with this type
> > of setup who
> > will volunteer for this? Please respond on list or write me
> > at AZOTO.org.
> > LuftHans is my username there.
> >
> > Once we have a couple of volunteers lined up, and only then,
> > we can contact
> > them and start finding out what their needs are and how we can assist.
> >
> > Anybody got kids in that district? In that school? It'd be
> > good to have
> > someone local for the contact person. Living in/near Peoria
> > would be good
> > enough. Having kids in the school system would be better.
> >
> > If we volunteer to help, we have to be prepared to see it
> > through and help
> > them if they let us. If we're not going to follow through
> > it's better to no=
> > t
> > volunteer in the first place.
> >
> > ciao,
> >
> > der.hans
> > --=20
> > # https://www.LuftHans.com/ http://www.AZOTO.org/
> > # It's up to the reader to make the book interesting.
> > # An author has only the opportunity to make it
> > uninteresting. - der.hans
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