[GLLUG] Meeting Thursday, September 7

[Thomas Hruska]

Charles Ulrich wrote:
> Caleb Cushing wrote:
>> plans to attend... bringing gentoo package server. actually are we
>> going to be able to install on desktop machines at this? given our
>> location? are we bringing network cables?
> 
> We should be able to install on whatever hardware can be brought through 
> the door. I'll bring a keyboard and monitor just in case and Jeff 
> usually has network cables and a switch in his box of GLLUG goodies. 
> (I'll double-check with him.)

I have yet to see anyone suggest the second most important thing:

Network storage...lots of it.  If college students show up, they are 
going to have 20+ GB in multimedia, papers, etc.  Whether the data is 
legal or not isn't our concern - making sure their data gets safely 
transferred from Windows before installing Linux is (and back again). 
Burning their data to CD/DVD is probably out of the question (20GB is a 
lot of data to burn).

Possible options:  Everyone does Samba shares?  FTP servers?  Whatever 
people do, they should be comfortable with doing it and be familiar with 
issues with cross-platform interactions.

Laptops don't usually have a lot of free hard drive space.  For example, 
I've only got 40GB and a good chunk of that is used up by installed 
applications.  Thankfully, I'm only going to be installing VMWare Player 
and Ubuntu under current Windows installs, but I'll be setting up a FTP 
server.  I'll share a decent amount of the space to anyone who needs 
storage for user data.

Everyone will want a good drive scrubbing tool that is DOD 5220.22-M 
compliant when we are done.

I can bring a router if we need extra LAN ports and I've got plenty of 
patch cable to choke a horse.  A few horses actually.  Rhetorical:  Why 
is it that power cables and CAT-5 are the most collected items?

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