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Sean picasso@madflower.com
Tue, 29 Aug 2000 14:57:10 -0400 (EDT)


Maybe we should take up the Lansing School District as a club project,
and get involved with the community. 



On Mon, 28 Aug 2000, Paul Melson wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 28, 2000 at 03:46:39PM -0400, Mike Rambo wrote:
> > We have Hawkeye and had started to set it up after seeing it at Holt but
> > have basically put it on the back burner as we've found that the higher
> > powers are not interested in investigating non-NT solutions.  As I
> > recall we were stuck at getting Hawkeye to see MySQL but I don't recall
> > for sure.  I do expect to one day get back to it just for the experience
> > if nothing else - though I do hope that one day folks will become a
> > little more receptive to non-NT solutions (though that might take
> > awhile).  I've not seen this particular system before - looks
> > interesting though.
> 
> 	That seems like a real shame, especially since 
> 	you don't need anything special to run it.  Ours
> 	is still running on an AMD K6/166 w/ 32MB of RAM,
> 	and I would be amazed if the load has ever broken
> 	0.10 even w/ the JavaScript chat rooms in use.
> 	You could easily throw it on a somewhat sup-ed up
> 	486 system, giving you newsgroups, FTP, chat, web
> 	space, and e-mail for nothing but the time spent
> 	on it.
> 
> 	On the other hand Linux is very intimidating to
> 	those who don't use it because they see long-term
> 	support as tenuous, whereas you can't swing a
> 	dead penguin without smacking an MCSE or two.
> 
> 
> PaulM
> 
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