[frgeek-michiana] Re: P3/Internet
- From: "Chuq Jackels" <chuq00@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <frgeek-michiana@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 19:03:19 -0400
From our conversation with Management they would do all of the wire running
required with their forklift and guys.
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[mailto:frgeek-michiana-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Tom Brown
Sent: Friday, March 19, 2010 5:11 PM
To: frgeek-michiana@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [frgeek-michiana] Re: P3/Internet
Perhaps you, Phil and I can find the P3 gaylords and move them close to the
workshop door. If you already know where the P3s are located, that will make
the task easier.
I'll need to speak to SBWD management: Are they are willing to let us use
their bandwidth? At what price? And, where to run cable and connect to their
network? I believe SBWD has a scissor lift, but they probably won't let us
use it because of liability issues. So we'll probably need to coordinate a
daytime cable install.
Tom
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[mailto:frgeek-michiana-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of john jones
Sent: Friday, March 19, 2010 16:56
To: frgeek-michiana@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [frgeek-michiana] P3/Internet
If its ok with everybody else on Tues id like to set up a table for just p3
and startin weedin through some of them to see whats workable,ive noticed we
have tons of ethernet cable we have alot of long pieces with no ends with
some ends and a crimper and some extenders we have enough to make it to the
DHL office,how u ask?we put the scapel together enough to reach into the
rafters and neatly zip-tie it to the exisisting pipeage and route it to its
destination,just an idea......
--- On Fri, 3/19/10, john jones <rainman121065@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
From: john jones <rainman121065@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [frgeek-michiana] Ubuntu/P3
To: frgeek-michiana@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Friday, March 19, 2010, 11:28 AM
Ubunto does work in p3 i have one with ubuntu had it for like 3 months
already and it hasnt given me any problem and is just as fast as it was
the day i loaded it,its just the ones we get in are older then dirt and
tedious and time consumming to fix parts arent a problem we have tons of
power supplys ram/vc/ec/ect for p3 but at 8 hours a week its almost
virtually impossible to put out any production
--- On Fri, 3/19/10, Tom Brown <tbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
From: Tom Brown <tbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [frgeek-michiana] Re: Warehouse Report - Thursday 03-11-2010
To: frgeek-michiana@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Friday, March 19, 2010, 5:48 AM
Don't we have P3 systems to refurbish?
I'm focusing on recruiting volunteers and haven't started a marketing
campaign to generate more computer donations. Remember, there is a
substantial lead time before corporations dispose of assets. We've turned
down several large donations of P3 and P4 systems this winter and spring. If
we are limited to P4 systems, and we don't get enough P4 donations this
summer, we won't have computers for Title 1 in the fall. The plan is to have
plenty of systems prepared so we hit the ground running in Title 1 schools
this fall. We refused donations in a significant portion of 2009, and we
missed the 2009-2010 academic year so our stock is apparently low. If Ubuntu
doesn't run well enough on P3s, we are may be in danger of missing another
academic year.
btw, we were not invited to participate in the IUSB electronics collection
this year. I'll try to find out what happened. Perhaps they thought we would
contact them first; in the past they contacted us. The IUSB collection event
is April 9.
Goodwill is shipping 34,000 pounds of computer electronics each month to
Dell. With that kind of activity, it isn't going to be easy to start
donations flowing to FGM again. Plus, Goodwill is soliciting businesses
which has been our domain.
Tom
Phil Goldbach wrote:
> I've been searching high and low for those power supply testers, with no
luck. I did locate our power supplies but been focusing on finding the
testers. Next time I'm at the warehouse, I'll look again for a bit, but if I
can't find them by then, I would suggest that FGM invests in purchasing a
few more. They may turn up, though, most likely at the bottom of a gaylord.
Can only get so far by climbing around and looking through them.
>
> I further suggest that we start going through all the gaylords and
preparing for an ADEC pickup. We may find some useful stuff, as I recently
found the plastic jugs that had the audio cables, CMOS batteries,
processors, etc. I do know there are a few more P4s out in the storage
area, but other than that, that's about it. We do have a lot of stuff for
deman though.
>
> We do have several Freeboxes that need updating. I have to ask, how often
are there updates for the distro of Ubuntu we're loading onto the Freeboxes?
If they're few and far between, then why not download all of the current
ones, and put them onto the warehouse server, and set up a network there to
pull the updates from the server as was suggested for VL 5.9? Then bring in
the new updates as necessary. I think that would work better in the long
run, especially if we have to rush some out the door instead of loading them
at the warehouse, having volunteers take them home, update them, then bring
them back.
>
> Phil Goldbach
>
> "Men cry not for themselves, but for their comrades."
>
> --- On *Mon, 3/15/10, Mike Cook /<mikecook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>/* wrote:
>
>
> From: Mike Cook <mikecook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [frgeek-michiana] Warehouse Report - Thursday 03-11-2010
> To: "frgeek-michiana" <frgeek-michiana@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Monday, March 15, 2010, 11:26 AM
>
> I opened the warehouse at about 6:00PM, Dan and his son had
> arrived earlier.
>
> Volunteers attending: Dan and his son Dale, Phil was there with
> his girlfriend and our newest Board member Carol attended. We also
> had a volunteer who said she had been there on Tuesday and needed
> someone to sign her sheet. She stayed only briefly and her name
> escapes me at the moment.
>
> Dale worked on recycling the better part of the night with Dan's
> assistance.
>
> Dan also worked on QA and installation on several freeboxen.
>
> Phil spent quite a lot of time looking for power supplies and our
> PS testers as we have several boxes needing power supplies.
>
> I worked on repairing some of the systems we had set aside with
> problems and I showed Carol how we deban and refurbish a system
> and showed her the basic construction of a PC and the
> identification of the components .
>
> Of the systems I looked at I sent 1 to deman with a bad
> motherboard. I believe the processor may be good. Two additional
> systems required power supplies which we were unable to locate.
> The last system I looked at contained a Nvidia AGP graphics card
> which was incomparable with the open source drivers in Ubuntu. I
> replaced the Nvidia card with an ATI AGP card and was able to get
> Ubuntu up and running.
>
> Dan and I continued to attempt to sort out the QA instruction
> sheet used for final testing. I have still not completed revisions
> on the sheet.
>
> Dan also told me that we have been removing the bottom menu bar
> and relocating the top bar to the bottom edge. I'm not sure this
> is a good idea as the pager and window selection buttons are
> located on the bottom bar this makes it harder to switch between
> open applications and desktops. We may want to look at this issue.
>
> The warehouse closed at about 9:30PM
>
> Thanks to all!
>
> Mike
>
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