[frgeek-michiana] Warehouse, Tuesday 02-16-2010
- From: Richard Zimmerman <csxt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: Free Geek Michiana <frgeek-michiana@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 22:51:32 -0500
OK, the warehouse was open tonight!
Present: Goose, Dan, Dave, Adrian, Tom
Tonights project, get two systems ready for English / Spanish testing...
Things got off to a good but crazy start when I walk into the building
and find out we don't have to garage door anymore! It's in pieces
everywhere and the hole has already been plugged up. So, no moving
material anywhere tonight.
Tom stopped by with out bilingual volunteer Adrian. He has Ubuntu
experience but not Vector Linux.
Again, we were off to a confusing start but things finally started clicking.
I grabbed my VL 6.0 STD cd and ripped a copy. Then used xfburn on the
Debian server and started pumping out cd's.
After swapping out a bad system we now have TWO systems for the English
/ Spanish testing
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Mike,
For Thursday night, we need to final test the two systems labeled
Carol? and tidy them up. The HP computer, you will probably need to YANK
the modem / Sound card on it and replace with a straight pci sound card.
I tried EVERYTHING I can think of an NO sound is coming from that
computer. The Gateway hasn't been final tested yet.
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We started to load two systems, side by side with VL 6.0 STD. One in
English, one in Spanish.
With Adrian's help, he confirmed what I was thinking... The SCREENS are
exactly the same, just re-worded and grammar corrected for Spanish.
However, the Spanish installed CRASHED With a fatal GUI error. We all
agree it was a Spanish language installer issue. I took a picture to
submit with a bug report. Adrian suggested reinstalling in English, then
switching later to Spanish.
As we were hardware troubleshooting the HP box for the crappy on board
video issue, Adam reinstalled VL 6.0 STD on the Gateway machine in
English. As expected, no problems. Once that was done I logged in as
guest but switched the language to Spanish (Mexican). Holy crap! There
was like 65 languages to choose from abut it did seem to work!
Vector Linux 6.0 STD is the way to go for multi-language support! (So it
seems right now)
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Mike,
If Adrian comes on Thursday, ask him to log into the Gateway w/
Spanish and test it) I think his suggestion is dead on right!
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In the end, everyone got exposure and some training on installing Vector
Linux. Dave and Dan did some dman. Adrian, adam and myself worked on
Adam's computer at various points and he left w/ VL 6.0 STD installed on
it for him to play with.Dan, Adrian and Adam took home a VL 6.0 STD cd
home to load and learn more about.
Dan is amazed at how much easier VL 6.0 STD is to load verse the older
VL 5.9!
That's about it. Hopefully in a week or two we'll be accessing out
inventory again. We still have computers to fix and load yet so I'm not
too concerned as yet about getting to the inventory.
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Mike,
If your report says those systems are ready, I'll coordinate with
Tom over the weekend to get them into his hands for delivery.
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Unless Adrian finds something really amiss, I think we have a winner
with VL 6.0 STD for the bilingual issues. Hopefully wicd will play nice
with the networking.
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Tom,
Is there anything else that can be done to see if we can get
Internet going?
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Thank you to all who attended tonight. Good work across the board!
Richard
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Richard "Goose" Zimmerman, ke4rit
Mishawaka, IN
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