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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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