... So, how did things work out with the graduate machines? How many were sent out with the kids? What hardware was in the machines? What software? I ask...
I took 2 calls later Saturday afternoon (4/29) from parents unhappy with the functionality of the machine their kids received. I told them to bring the boxes...
... Definitely. Do we have contact information for the students and their parents? How was this done in the past? That is, was there any follow up with...
... All were completed Saturday 22nd; five went home that day, two were to be picked up later (one got picked up that I know of Saturday 29th) ... Modems: 1...
... Were the HDDs a minimum of 4 GB? Were the CPUs at least 400 MHz? ... OK. I'll have a look through the high-lights. ... Sure. Expected. Nothing can be...
... least, ... ... Would this be the next ... Correction: I am agreed we should look into all reasonable alternatives. I am more than happy to look at...
I have 4 machines I set up with Kubuntu as a present for your next round if that makes any difference! IBM P3 1GHz if I remember right. Look them up: Type...
... This was probably all discussed before I joined the list, but if you don't mind my asking: what are BWorks' priorities for choosing a distro? How are you...
Dustin Laurence
laurence@...
May 3, 2006 7:40 pm
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... I would recommend that rather than try to "fix" those boxes, instead we have them exchange them for boxes that are known to work. If we have time and...
... It would definitely help us evaluate Kubuntu. Do you have instructions on how you set them up? ... That machine sounds a bit at the high-end of the kind...
... No instructions needed usually, load the CD and let it install. But here the CD wouldn't boot, so made a boot floppy to start it all. ... Yes, down to...
... So, a default install. Fair enough. And this was Kubuntu, not Ubuntu nor Edubuntu nor Xubuntu, right? And it not Ubuntu followed by an install of KDE,...
... Gavin, if you recall, the specifications for graduate machines are P-II machines with 128MB of RAM. "Down to about 600MHz" is probably better than what we...
Hello all, I'm not getting all the e-mail messages that are sent to the group. I was browsing the bworks_shop message archive and noticed that there were...
I think I am getting all the messages, anyway I have the digests sent to a separate gmail account so I can look at them from home too. (Course I can just log...
... No, I'm not. But I have no way to verify what's happening. Or do I? The current chain looks like this: (start point) my laptop -> local mail server ->...
Haven't had time to try modems, but I did scrounge up a box of about 10 PCI modems and a few ISAs So these machines can go to volunteers (as loaners) who want...
One of the students pulled a goofy one -- installed a CD-burner into his computer, and then plugged in the floppy power plug into the hard drive where the...
If/since kids are going to do stuff to their computers: 1. We need to put a little bit of the hardware class back into the course, with more warnings. 2. They...
... Yes, I can. I'll upload the driver file to the YG site later today and also on the BWorks section of the CWELUG Wiki. You just untar it and run two...
Hello all, Just wanted to let you all know that Karl setup a new router/fw/IDS at BWorks on Saturday using IPCop. Worked great from within the shop, but...
KPL was originally a popular Windows only Programming Language tutorial. It allowed kids to quickly create games with sound and great graphics. There is an...
Here is the email: "Please create an account for BWorks on your web-store and we will add credits for 30 modem licenses to it once you confirm the email ...
That's great! Did you or someone else send in a request? Nice of them to donate the licenses. Now we can recycle the various Connexant chip modems. How many at...
... I wrote them and asked for a donation -- he wrote back asking how many licenses we needed ... That's the thing about asking for donations, the worst thing...
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