[sudo-discuss] Hardware for the masses

[Marina Kukso]

this is amazing! thank you ed!

i'd love to help get as many of these set up as i can. feel free to email
me offlist with some more info about what's needed to get these set up.

question for anyone: forgive my ignorance, but are the small
library/classroom spaces downstairs slated for a particular collective
right now or are they available? (also, is there a map that shows what
collective is in what space?)


On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 4:50 AM, Matthew Senate <mattsenate at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Awesome!
>
> Perhaps La Commune would be interested in hosting a few for general usage
> in the entrance cafe/bookstore?
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 10:09 AM, Ed Biow <biow at riseup.net> wrote:
>
>>  My crony Gerald & I picked up about 15 'puters from Youth Radio
>> <https://youthradio.org/> today, and brought them to the sudoroom.  We
>> also grabbed about 7 monitors and a bag full of cables.  These boxen look
>> pretty sweet, dual core, Windows 8, 4 GB of RAM.  I was planning on
>> installing some version of Trusty Tahr (*buntu 14.04) or maybe Debian
>> testing and then using a live disc (redobackup <http://redobackup.org/>)
>> to blow the image on the rest of the machines after testing the memory and
>> hard drives.  Brian, the IT bloke at YR is replacing the machines with
>> NUC <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Next_Unit_of_Computing>s.  It looks
>> like there are another 30 or so of these Dells available to us when they
>> get readied. If we can spare the table space maybe we can set up a few
>> machines for visitor browsing in a quiet corner somewhere. And we should
>> have some nice boxes for the Oakland kids' computer center.  The four boxes
>> I have ready to go are mostly pretty funky, missing panels, or very loud,
>> etc.  I'm sure we can find them a home, though. I also have a few more
>> expendable desktop Linux machines at home.  Finding rodents, power cords,
>> monitors & keyboards may prove a bit of a challenge, though I have a few
>> extra keyboards and power cables.
>>
>> I'm planning on going camping in August, but in September I'd like to
>> start hosting a weekly Linux install fest/trouble shooting session on
>> Friday afternoons at 4 PM.  Folks can bring their Linux problems in for
>> troubleshooting, and I can bring pizza back from a pickup I make at 8PM
>> from a local collective.  Maybe if nothing else is going on we can cap the
>> evening with a tech/polit-related flick to go with the pizza, perhaps even
>> a round of frosty malted beverages. As I mentioned before, maybe we could
>> use some always-on machine to act as a proxy for deb files, so we could
>> update machines at 11MB a second instead of pounding our limited internet
>> bandwidth.  I'm familiar with approx and apt-cacher, though there are
>> others.  I'll bring up the idea during one of our weekly Wednesday meetings
>> soon.
>>
>> Einstein & campaign staff
>>
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