[GLLUG] Meeting Thursday, September 7

Karl Schuttler rexykik at gmail.com
Thu Sep 7 16:25:20 EDT 2006


I prefer thumb screws to power cables, myself. LRFs (little rubber
feet) are great too.

On 9/7/06, Jim Fick <jfick at mphi.org> wrote:
> If you leave the cables laying around together, they will breed like
> rabbits.
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-user-bounces at egr.msu.edu
> [mailto:linux-user-bounces at egr.msu.edu] On Behalf Of Thomas Hruska
> Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2006 11:33 AM
> To: Charles Ulrich
> Cc: linux-user at egr.msu.edu
> Subject: Re: [GLLUG] Meeting Thursday, September 7
>
> 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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