I just want to know, when will we know about power? have we contacted the person we need to yet? <div>On 3/7/06, Frank Dolinar <<a href="mailto:frank.dolinar@comcast.net"> frank.dolinar@comcast.net</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Hey, folks,     Tom Skelton is an old friend of mine.     If you can provide me with some options (he's got a busy schedule) for when he can meet with the principals who are trying to get this room set up, we might be able to get some problems solved.     I wouldn't expect that trying to meet with the entire Thursday night crew is likely to be particularly productive.     Besides, if the hotel is presented with a well thought through evaluation of the situation, they may decide they'd rather not have fuses blowing in the middle of a weekend and help find alternatives.     And, as another old friend told me once, "Anyone can kvetch.  What alternative solutions have you thought of?"             (..and, no, I don't yet have any alternatives myself, but I'm thinking..) -- Frank Charles Ulrich wrote: > Clay Dowling wrote: > >> This is fairly uncool.  It makes it a lot harder to ensure the >> security of >> the public terminal equipment and it's going to give us huge power >> issues. >>  I would also anticipate a good deal of competition for space when the >> gaming starts, possibly including displacing terminals.  It's entirely >> possible that we can secure the room and won't have any problems, but >> I'd >> raise this issue with the ConCom. >> >> Clay > > > I'm trying to establish a dialogue with Tom to find out more > information about his requirements and plan ahead so that there won't > be any surprises when we start setting up the room. The preliminary > lounge layout (based on what we came up with at the meeting on the > 28th) assumes that he'll have 9 or less. If that's the case, then > space won't be an issue. > > Power is still something of a variable (gaming machines or not) until > we get more info from the hotel. Can someone make a good guess at how > many amps an average PC with 17" monitor will pull? > -- "Dream big, aim high, and learn everything you can along the way." -- Frank Dolinar *=======================================================* *  Frank Dolinar               <a href="mailto:frank.dolinar@comcast.net">frank.dolinar@comcast.net</a> * *  PO Box 886                              517.351.1899 * *  East Lansing, MI 48826-0886                          * *=======================================================* _______________________________________________ linux-user mailing list <a href="mailto:linux-user@egr.msu.edu">linux-user@egr.msu.edu</a> <a href="http://mailman.egr.msu.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-user"> http://mailman.egr.msu.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-user</a> </blockquote></div>