I know someone with a LA36 DecWriter II (http://hampage.hu/pdp-11/1105.html) to give away. He bought it for $2300 in 1976, and put a 300/600/1200 baud serial...
What a nostalgia trip! As a neophyte computer sciences student, I spent many happy hours typing in my programming problems on a DecWriter II connected to a...
http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/08/09/HNfreespire_1.html?source=NLC-OS2006-08-09 or http://tinyurl.com/k9jsh if the above link is broken. :) -- Allen D....
(Normally I wouldn't do this but I am making an exception.) I am passing this along in case some of you have anything to donate to the victim library. ... ...
Hi Folks -- I'm a member of a committee that is scouting for possible conference speakers at the "Connecting NH Libraries" conference scheduled for May 17 and...
Hello All, I have a topic I'd like to discuss. If you were going to design "the ultimate live CD" for someone, what would you include? Maybe if we get enough...
... This is a bit of a tough question. I'm partial to Debian derivatives because of the ease with which one can update/install software via the apt-get ...
Hi guys, long time lurker. I think this live cd idea is a great one. ... I have two favourites: Knoppix - Has awesome hardware detection, but is a mix of...
Just my 2 cents to point 2: Apps: my favorites are: * Koha * MyLibrary * some OpenIsis stuff since it is used in developing countries And the Live CD should...
I think that individual machine live cd's abound. From feather and DSL to Knoppix and Ubuntu, they are already there. What's missing and would be a great tool...
Hi all -- I'm not sure if it matters what particular flavor of Linux is used as much as whether or not a significant number of librarians can be induced to try...
... Now this is the kind of discussion we need. There was a recent discussion on Slashdot. http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/12/23/2041202 I don't...
Allen - thanks for the pointer to Slashdot - I'll forward the original article to our tech person at the New Hampshire state library, as several libraries in ...
Another Linux/Slashdot discussion. http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/12/26/0851218 -- Allen D. Tate Head of Computer Services Ohio Township Public...
... IBM and Novell both support linux. If the system is properly documented, your life should be much easier, no matter what OS you use ... That's a much more...
Well, I was going to be content to quietly lurk on this topic, but your discussion has drawn me in. I have to admit, that when I look at the idea of...
Joe Knueven
jknueven@...
Dec 29, 2006 5:34 am
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KOHA sounds great - any idea where I can get it? KOHA.org is no longer up and the sourceforge page has no data. Mr. C ... your ... the ... main ... right ... ...
Hi Matt, It looks like someone forgot to renew Koha's domain registration... oops! Hopefully they'll get that taken care of soon. For now, however, it looks...
Matt--you can also download Koha here, at the project's cvs repository: http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/koha And to add my $0.02 to the discussion--you...
Cindy Murdock
cmurdock@...
Jan 2, 2007 4:13 pm
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Cindy -- Thanks for the short history -- that was very helpful. Since Windows OS comes pre-installed on just about every computer you can buy, I would need...
The patrons seem to be fairly content with the public thin clients. At least, I haven't heard any complaints and they're usually busy all day long; we've been...
Cindy Murdock
cmurdock@...
Jan 2, 2007 10:42 pm
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Cindy- I'd like to hear what hardware and underlying software you are using for your thin client system. "Freeing yourself from basic PC maintenance tasks...
Mike Kastellec
mkastellec@...
Jan 3, 2007 5:25 am
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http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/01/01/01OPopenent_1.html?source=NLC-OPENT2007-01-02 -- Allen D. Tate Head of Computer Services Ohio Township Public Library...
Mike, For the server we have dual 2 gHz AMD Opterons (running a 64-bit kernel), 16 gb RAM, and a RAID5 array with 3 36gb disks. The thin clients generally...
Cindy Murdock
cmurdock@...
Jan 3, 2007 4:14 pm
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I am very pleased with the path this particular thread has taken. I would like to see folks write articles for the website or start other threads that they'd...
Technology Specialist - Columbus, OH OHIONET, a nonprofit library network with members in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia, seeks a Technology Specialist...
Matt Polcyn
MattP@...
Jan 10, 2007 6:30 pm
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I got this from TechRepublic.com ... *Nine reasons why 2006 wasn't a lost year for Linux* I found myself reading an article on Mainframe.gr explaining how 2006...
Haven't read the article or any slashdot comments but am passing this along anyway. :) http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/29/1740259 -- Allen D. Tate ...
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