I have a stack of 3 486 laptops with No hds or power supplies or batteries I will give, but I can't afford to pay shipping.
I also have a 386 20mhz Compaq Laptop with a 40meg ESDI drive I will give if you pay shipping.
my email is lstrunk@myrealbox.com
I was at this big warehouse place in Dayton, Ohio,
(I can't remember the name) BUt they had all kinds of old stuff laying around. Besides about a 100 showcase freezers and fridges, I spied a few slurpee machines, a cotton candy machine, a cookie oven dealie, and quiet a bit of other crap.
I am setting up a lab of 30 machines for internet surfing at my school. They are p200's with 32megs of Ram. I decided to go with XFS basically because I know SGI has been using it for a long time, and therefore, most of the bugs are probably worked out of it. For the Lab, I am using Redhat 7.1 XFS with IceWM as the window manager. The system boots, runs an autologin script I made, and goes into IceWM with Netscape.
I was using Blackbox, but I decided not to, because I didn't look "Windowish" enough, and I didn't want people confused by it. IceWM looks great, runs fast, and has a little Penguin for the start button. It took me about a month now to get all the net cards in the 30 computers (along with other stuff) and now all I have to do it haul them over to the middle school, and ghost them with the image I have on CD.
I am very happy, because I have been working the bugs out of this project since August, and am almost done. Next Wensday I hope to have all the machines done with. Then I get to find out how easily kids can trash linux. But, I didn't secure it that much, because I feel as if they want to mess it up, all they would have to do is boot with a floppy and nuke the partitions. And it only takes a few minutes to re-ghost them. The 486 lab they have now has been surviving for 5 years now with no reinstall, so I think I'm safe.
Does anyone have any comments that would help me out?
I'm building my own car alarm.
Its a Pbasic stamp from Parrallax.
14 i/o pins, 4 of which go to relays to blink the dome light, horn, 120 db piezo siren, and voice chip hooked to a 80watt amp and 8" woofer. I have a motion detector, Shock detector, dome light detector, and a key ring remote. I am still working on it, but I am making the PCB myself.
I got an LCD from a company in Florida.
It looked like someone had used the box for a football. Thankgod the LCD wasn't broken.
Next time use Fedex. And, after some high up UPS employee sees this on slashdot, I'm sure you'll get your money.
I am the co-director of my school tech dept.
We have to log all of our computer fixes that we do throughout the day.
I need something in which I can type the problem, the fix, and the date. Anyone know of such a beast?
I have tried that driver on several distros, and when I install it and start up Xawtv, I just get wierd colors, but I can make out my movement, so I know its kinda working.
I have a palm III which I used for school for a time. I wear Khaki pants alot, and I just kept it in the pocket on the side of the leg. After about 2 weeks, it irratically would stop detecting stylus taps, and then it would turn on, and the screen would be all warped, and I would just flick the side, and it would go back to normal.
Strange stuff.
Hacks maybe?
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I saw this had an ATI chip in it, maybe there is some way to hook it to a CRT?
What about a Harddrive like that one webstation that came out from Circuit City a few years ago.
Or maybe a keyboard? I've always hated game controllers, they never fit my hands right.
I've always wanted to make a Paintball rifle.
4 feet of rifled PVC, 4x scope, Bazoka style should rest, the works. I'm gonna power it from a mini-propane tank.
My friends always make fun of me for wanting to do it, but when I snipe them from a 1/4 mile away, they'll regret it.
I don't think its a flaw, but its not a feature either. Probably what happens is that it just runs out of resources, and can't open any more windows.
Linux just has better resource managment, but I'm sure it has its limit aswell.
Won't this suck to much resources if it using the Linux Kernel and Xfree?
I thought one of the points of Beos was to run on minimal hardware with a microkernel and everything?
I would like to see more support for QNX. I've been toying with it, and if it had support for my laptops Yamaha/opl3 soundcard, I might actually switch completly over to it.
I'm setting up a computer lab in my school using Redhat Linux. Its strictly for WEbsurfing, so I'm using IceWM and Netscape, which starts automatically, and I have an autologin script.
I was using Redhat 7.1 with XFS, but now that Redhat 7.2 came out with Ext3, I'm considering switching, and re-ghosting the machines.
Is Ext3 more stable than XFS?
Is the Kernel that came with the SGI distro of Redhat 7.1 stable? Or should I switch to 7.2 with Ext3? Which would I be better off with in the long run? Which will run the longest? And survive the most power outages? (this is going in the 7-8th grade building).
Thanks
I use Freesco (a free linux distro on a floppy) as my router/firewall. Anyone here ever used it, and know how crackable it is?
I have all external services off, but I'm still kinda worried as to how easy it would be for someone to mess with it and get on my internal net.
your editor wars ammuse me.
While I know enough vi to get by,
I usually just use MC's editor.
I have been meaning to try Emacs for a while, but I really don't edit that much stuff.
I thought all that xmms was was a port of Winamp to Linux? And that they were based on the same source.
So, if winamp is getting ported now, can you use regular Winamp for windows plugins? That would be great
I'm one of the school tech dudes,
and recently the Cad teacher came to me and asked to have Word put on one of the NT boxes in the Cad lab so he could type out a letter.
So, instead, I put on Abiword, he used it, liked it, and I haven't heard a word since.
I have a sb16 (I know, I know) attached to a ancient Zenith AMp. The Amp is attached to 6 sets of speakers. Front, back, and two channels above me. The amp is so powerful, half volume shakes the house.
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I have a stack of 3 486 laptops with No hds or power supplies or batteries I will give, but I can't afford to pay shipping.
I also have a 386 20mhz Compaq Laptop with a 40meg ESDI drive I will give if you pay shipping.
my email is lstrunk@myrealbox.com
trust me, no one will ever guess my password,
and, they are little 7th graders, I'm plenty safe.
I was at this big warehouse place in Dayton, Ohio,
(I can't remember the name) BUt they had all kinds of old stuff laying around. Besides about a 100 showcase freezers and fridges, I spied a few slurpee machines, a cotton candy machine, a cookie oven dealie, and quiet a bit of other crap.
I am setting up a lab of 30 machines for internet surfing at my school. They are p200's with 32megs of Ram. I decided to go with XFS basically because I know SGI has been using it for a long time, and therefore, most of the bugs are probably worked out of it. For the Lab, I am using Redhat 7.1 XFS with IceWM as the window manager. The system boots, runs an autologin script I made, and goes into IceWM with Netscape.
I was using Blackbox, but I decided not to, because I didn't look "Windowish" enough, and I didn't want people confused by it. IceWM looks great, runs fast, and has a little Penguin for the start button. It took me about a month now to get all the net cards in the 30 computers (along with other stuff) and now all I have to do it haul them over to the middle school, and ghost them with the image I have on CD.
I am very happy, because I have been working the bugs out of this project since August, and am almost done. Next Wensday I hope to have all the machines done with. Then I get to find out how easily kids can trash linux. But, I didn't secure it that much, because I feel as if they want to mess it up, all they would have to do is boot with a floppy and nuke the partitions. And it only takes a few minutes to re-ghost them. The 486 lab they have now has been surviving for 5 years now with no reinstall, so I think I'm safe.
Does anyone have any comments that would help me out?
I'm building my own car alarm.
Its a Pbasic stamp from Parrallax.
14 i/o pins, 4 of which go to relays to blink the dome light, horn, 120 db piezo siren, and voice chip hooked to a 80watt amp and 8" woofer. I have a motion detector, Shock detector, dome light detector, and a key ring remote. I am still working on it, but I am making the PCB myself.
I got an LCD from a company in Florida.
It looked like someone had used the box for a football. Thankgod the LCD wasn't broken.
Next time use Fedex. And, after some high up UPS employee sees this on slashdot, I'm sure you'll get your money.
I am the co-director of my school tech dept.
We have to log all of our computer fixes that we do throughout the day.
I need something in which I can type the problem, the fix, and the date. Anyone know of such a beast?
I have tried that driver on several distros, and when I install it and start up Xawtv, I just get wierd colors, but I can make out my movement, so I know its kinda working.
But wouldn't they have insurance for something like this?
I have a palm III which I used for school for a time. I wear Khaki pants alot, and I just kept it in the pocket on the side of the leg. After about 2 weeks, it irratically would stop detecting stylus taps, and then it would turn on, and the screen would be all warped, and I would just flick the side, and it would go back to normal.
Strange stuff.
I saw this had an ATI chip in it, maybe there is some way to hook it to a CRT?
What about a Harddrive like that one webstation that came out from Circuit City a few years ago.
Or maybe a keyboard? I've always hated game controllers, they never fit my hands right.
Put some cotton wadding behind it maybe?
I've always wanted to make a Paintball rifle.
4 feet of rifled PVC, 4x scope, Bazoka style should rest, the works. I'm gonna power it from a mini-propane tank.
My friends always make fun of me for wanting to do it, but when I snipe them from a 1/4 mile away, they'll regret it.
Nice big bar magnet oughta take care of that problem. But, would it effect the chips or anything?
No, its:
Bill: "Release the robot Richard Simmons"
Smithers: "HIS ASS IS GONNA BLOW!!!"
I don't think its a flaw, but its not a feature either. Probably what happens is that it just runs out of resources, and can't open any more windows.
Linux just has better resource managment, but I'm sure it has its limit aswell.
Won't this suck to much resources if it using the Linux Kernel and Xfree?
I thought one of the points of Beos was to run on minimal hardware with a microkernel and everything?
I would like to see more support for QNX. I've been toying with it, and if it had support for my laptops Yamaha/opl3 soundcard, I might actually switch completly over to it.
It would seem to me that they would want to use a Real Time OS, such as QNX. Last I checked, I don't remeber of being able to make Linux Realtime.
I'm setting up a computer lab in my school using Redhat Linux. Its strictly for WEbsurfing, so I'm using IceWM and Netscape, which starts automatically, and I have an autologin script.
I was using Redhat 7.1 with XFS, but now that Redhat 7.2 came out with Ext3, I'm considering switching, and re-ghosting the machines.
Is Ext3 more stable than XFS?
Is the Kernel that came with the SGI distro of Redhat 7.1 stable? Or should I switch to 7.2 with Ext3? Which would I be better off with in the long run? Which will run the longest? And survive the most power outages? (this is going in the 7-8th grade building).
Thanks
I use Freesco (a free linux distro on a floppy) as my router/firewall. Anyone here ever used it, and know how crackable it is?
I have all external services off, but I'm still kinda worried as to how easy it would be for someone to mess with it and get on my internal net.
your editor wars ammuse me.
While I know enough vi to get by,
I usually just use MC's editor.
I have been meaning to try Emacs for a while, but I really don't edit that much stuff.
I suppose they don't accept "sex machine" as a valid computing platform, do they?
I thought all that xmms was was a port of Winamp to Linux? And that they were based on the same source.
So, if winamp is getting ported now, can you use regular Winamp for windows plugins? That would be great
I'm one of the school tech dudes,
and recently the Cad teacher came to me and asked to have Word put on one of the NT boxes in the Cad lab so he could type out a letter.
So, instead, I put on Abiword, he used it, liked it, and I haven't heard a word since.
I have a sb16 (I know, I know) attached to a ancient Zenith AMp. The Amp is attached to 6 sets of speakers. Front, back, and two channels above me. The amp is so powerful, half volume shakes the house.