[sudo-discuss] donated PCs - which ones are fastest?

[Hol Gaskill]

sounds like we're going to be metabolizing some of the hardware that has been building up in storage...excellent (a la mr. burns)


Apr 24, 2013 12:14:01 AM, di.franco at aya.yale.edu wrote:
I also burned a few months ago a variety of about 8 piquant distros the cds of which are on the shelves and the images are in a folder on the 3d printer workstation desktop.

On Apr 23, 2013 11:47 PM, "William Budington" bill at inputoutput.io> wrote:
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I can burn a bunch of CDs/DVDs of the latest distros and bring a USB DVD
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reader to install.  I'll definitely be down to help people install Linux
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and get acquainted with some command-line basics.  Excellent!!!
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On 04/23/2013 11:25 PM, Jenny Ryan wrote:
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> Yay!!! I've been wanting to suggest this one for awhile. I'll be
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> note-taking for the NoBAWC meeting earlier that day so will definitely be
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> around to help set up. If some folks could bring in or donate USB sticks
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> with Linux distros on them, that would be especially cool. In fact, I may
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> even use this an an opportunity to seed the Pyre project, which has been on
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> the backburner for a good year's time, and buy some thumbdrives for the
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> Civilization has crumbled, and everywhere all things are burning.
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> You have a multi-tool, a tiny laptop, and a 32GB USB stick.
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> What's on the stick?
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> More at http://thepyre.org - Feel free to contribute to the ongoing wiki at
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> http://thepyre.org/wiki! :)
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> On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 7:51 PM, Marina Kukso marina.kukso at gmail.com>wrote:
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>> all right guys, you asked for it...may 18th!
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>> https://sudoroom.org/wiki/page/Today_I_Learned#May_18_Fix-It_Day.21
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>> - marina
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>> On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 7:13 PM, Naomi Most pnaomi at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> I can pitch in to that -- I wouldn't dread it at all!  Only thing is, if
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>>> it happens on a Saturday, I'll have to bring Calvin along, which means it
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>>> would be helpful to have another kid or 2 there (Ray?) to play with!
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>>> --Naomi
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>>> On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 4:36 PM, Sonja Trauss sonja.trauss at gmail.com>wrote:
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>>>> Yeah im down. that sounds great.
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>>>> On Apr 23, 2013 4:24 PM, "Ray Lai" raymond.wm.lai at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>>>  A linux install & inventory day sounds like a great idea. I volunteer!
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>>>>> I volunteer!
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>>>>> - linux install day
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>>>>> - hardware assessment & repair (can b combined with the above)
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>>>>> - the art of intuitive troubleshooting (and believe me it is ultimately
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>>>>> an art)
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>>>>> Cheers,
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>>>>> Ice Cream Man
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>>>>> On Apr 23, 2013, at 3:49 PM, William Budington bill at inputoutput.io>
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>>>>>> It'd be cool to have a Linux installfest / fixup day!  Folks can bring
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>>>>>> their own computers to install Linux on and we can provide the
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>>>>>> installation media.  Today I learned sounds like a good place for it.
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>>>>>> Bill
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>>>>>> On 04/23/2013 01:47 PM, Marina Kukso wrote:
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>>>>>>> hey hol, thanks for kicking off the dreaded repair discussion. would
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>>>>>>> be interested in a "fix it day" today i learned sometime soon?
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>>>>>>> - marina
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>>>>>>> On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 12:34 PM, Hol Gaskill hol at gaskill.com>
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>>>>>>>> Hi Folks,
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>>>>>>>> We might have somebody coming by to showcase a kinect/arduino based
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>>>>>>>> project and from my undestanding it runs on PCs "the faster the
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>>>>> better"
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>>>>>>>> Anyone know offhand which of the armada of donated boxes might be
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>>>>>>>> powerful?  Planning to set one up tonight.
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>>>>>>>> Also in general, we should do a survey of which computer parts esp
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>>>>>>>> monitors are functional.  Would be nice to have a row of desktops
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>>>>>>>> the common area...I think they have a bar-like configuration at the
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>>>>>>>> with a few PCs.
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>>>>>>>> Cheers,
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>>>>>>>> Hol
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