[frgeek-michiana] Lab Notes, 1/25/05
- From: Tom Brown <tbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: FreeGeek Michiana <frgeek-michiana@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 10:04:37 -0500
Lab Notes, 1/25/05
:: Warehousing Decision
John, Mike, Ed, Terry, Al, Karen and I weighed the merits and demerits of
each warehousing offer and made a consensus decision. We favor the offer
made by River Bend Hose Specialty (RBHS). However we have one potentially
deal-breaking concern: How likely will RBHS withdraw their offer over
security issues. I will discuss our concern with RBHS' president this week.
If the RBHS offer falls apart, then we will accept the General Sheet Metal
Works offer at South Bend Warehousing & Distributing.
No matter which warehouse offer is accepted, we'll begin laying down
pallets and gaylords in the next few weeks.
:: Kid's IBM PC
The Sally has an IBM PC disguised as a PlaySkool-like workstation with a
special keyboard and mouse. Somebody ripped the mouse off its wire, and the
keyboard doesn't work. Capt. Iola asked us to fix it. Terry couldn't get
the kids' keyboard to work. So he installed a new mouse and a regular
keyboard from our stock.
:: Al's Sound Problem
One of Al's PCs is full of good stuff, but the sound system won't work. I
told Al last week to bring the box in for a gentle massage by our experts.
Rick, Al and I worked on it. We determined that the on-board sound
subsystem is broken. Rick installed a PCI sound card from our stock. It's
all good now.
Well, sort of. On reboot the XP OS returned to the previous sound card. We
chose the newly installed PCI card a second time and rebooted. It seems to
have stuck.
:: Testing Boxes
The rest of the evening we tested boxes and upgraded a few (added RAM and
hard drives) to minimum FreeBox standards. Our goal is to test all the
boxes in inventory and determine which are scrap, FreeBoxes and higher-end
upgrade machines. We don't want to wrestle with hardware issues when we are
under pressure to build 8 FreeBoxes for a weekend class.
:: Karen Trains on Testing
John Mansfield instructed Karen in component identification and POST and
boot testing. Karen started cleaning FreeBoxes and has moved up. She has
some Blaster instruction, i.e., installing Vector Linux on hard drives.
Tom
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