[frgeek-michiana] Getting rid of stuff

From: "Rick L. Tribble" <rtribble@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <frgeek-michiana@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 20:30:20 -0400
If we're not going to have a yard sale, then we might sell the monitors by the 
pallet on ebay.  It could be local pickup only or freight shipping might be 
arranged.

rick

-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Brown <tbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 07:58
To: FreeGeek Michiana <frgeek-michiana@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [frgeek-michiana] Warehouse Report - 2008/05/13

:: Vector 5.9 Light

Goose loaded a test box with VL 5.9 Light. The install was a bit slow 
because we had 64 MB of RAM to work with, the specified minimum memory 
for VL Light. The CPU was a P2/400.

Two problems appeared immediately: Swap wasn't activated, and there was 
no GUI browser.

The swap partition was there but had not been formatted or turned on. 
Goose ran mkswap and swapon on /dev/hda1. Then he downloaded and 
installed Firefox from the VL 5.9 repository. VL 5.9 Light uses the same 
repository as 5.9 Standard, and slapt-get is the default package 
manager. The desktop manager automatically added the application to the 
"start" menu.

We don't know whether the two problems were caused by "pilot" error or 
bugs in the installer script. The ISO is clearly labeled "beta 1." 
Although VL Light works with 64 MB of memory as advertised, it would 
benefit from more RAM.

:: Vector Standard 5.9

So far everybody likes 5.9 Standard. The eye candy is impressive. Again, 
it detected sound cards which troubled 5.8. Since none of us are yet 
using 5.9 Standard on a daily basis, we don't have in-depth reviews. But 
on first blush, the impressions continue to be positive.

Since none of the senior volunteers has asked for the Gateway laptop 
which Goose is relinquishing, he plans to install VL 5.9 Standard on it 
to see if it handles wifi well.

::  Steel Delivery

I need to empty the first gaylord at our steel recycler this week. Our 
steel gaylord is full to overflowing, and Kevin and I plan to start a 
second steel gaylord on Thursday.

Goose asked whether we have a balance in our account at the recycler and 
whether we can get payment.

:: Food Bank Project

Mike wants to tweak the kiosk. He intends to strip all unnecessary apps, 
libraries and kernel modules from the live CD. He will also research 
supported wifi hardware in case wifi is required.

:: Perley Presentation

There were about a dozen adults at the meeting. The meeting started late 
because some of the parents received letters informing them their 
children will be transferred to McKinley primary center to consolidate 
English as second language (ESL) support services. Of course, they 
wanted to discuss the transfers right away. Second, their only available 
digital projector was missing the video cable. Forest responded to an 
emergency call from me and dropped off his projector.

In my presentation, I emphasized the PTO is responsible for recruiting 
people for the Freebox classes. FGM will hold at least one class per 
month in the 2008-2009 school year if the PTO supplies us with people 
and we have enough computers.

The current Perley PTO coordinator is leaving. A new coordinator will be 
hired and trained this summer. The PTO elected a parent leader who will 
provide continuity. I will keep in touch with the parent leader over the 
summer so that we are up and running next August.

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