Hey, count me in. I feel the same way. Will help any way I can. Want to get
together for coffee some morning and talk about it. (I can bring my
Powerbook.) I live at Broadway Place Apartments on West Broadway between
Charnelton and Lincoln. The Bistro downstairs has great coffee, espresso,
etc.
Dennis
On Wednesday, February 6, 2002, at 02:31 PM, Jim Beard wrote:
> Hi Dennis,
>
> I've been using OS X now for a few months and loving it. I've been
> talking with a few different people about trying to start an OS X users
> group mailing list and have had some ok feed back. We could probably get
> efn or euglug to host a list if we asked nicely :)
>
> Jim
>
> On Wednesday, February 6, 2002, at 01:22 PM, Dennis Eberl wrote:
>
>> Been away from Linux since my temper flare up re 9/11. Hope I am forgiven.
>> I forgive you all.
>>
>> Anyway, I'm moving and want to get rid of a lot of Linux books (some with
>> CDs), magazines, license plate frames, little "Linux Inside" blue gizmos
>> you put on your computer (I gave Stan some last year to give to you guys;
>> I don't know what you call them), and two Linux training videos to the
>> group if you would like to have them. Don't know who decides these things;
>> hence,
>> this general post.
>>
>> I've gotten very much into using OS X ("Darwin" *nix) on my Apple
>> Powerbook as my all time favorite web development platform. You can go
>> from Aqua (the new Mac GUI) to a terminal screen in a single click and
>> you can boot up into command line only *nix terminal mode. I have Perl,
>> Python, PHP, MySQL,
>> and Apache installed (Zope, also, but I like PHP and using BBEdit so
>> much I can't stand working in Zope). Basically, the Mac now lets you work
>> much as you can using Gnome or KDE (or whatever) and command line Linux.
>> Very cool.
>>
>> Anyone working with or interested in Darwin (BSDish *nix) please drop me
>> a note. Maybe we can get some informal get togethers going. The Eugene
>> MUG (Mac User's Group) doesn't seem interested. Actually, doesn't seem to
>> be very active (I could be wrong).
>>
>> Did anyone get my two 19.2 K baud wireless modems working? I am sure (if
>> you didn't fry them) they can be gotten to work. You have to be able to
>> read the schematic as these are OEM units with a power wiring change. I'
>> ve been working with RF since I was twelve so if anyone is interested I'
>> d be happy to be of help.
>>
>> Also, I have two dual 200 MHz Pentium Pro IBM IntelliStation Pro's I want
>> to sell. One has 128 MB of ECC RAM, CD ROM, floppy, keyboard & mouse, and
>> an Adaptec SCSII controller (a 2940 if I remember correctly) with one 1
>> GB (68-bin) and one 4.5 GB SCA (80-pin) hard disk. The other unit is
>> identical save it has only 64 MB ECC RAM, the keyboard only (dead mouse)
>> , and no 4.5 GB drive (i.e., 1.2 GB only). (VOS has some very cheap SCA
>> SCSII drives available, I found.) Both machines have Red Hat v7.1
>> installed, which really flies using dual processors. $450 OBO for both.
>>
>> I also have two 16 modem rack mount units with USR Robotics 28.8/33.6
>> modems and two 64 port Computone terminal servers for sale if anyone is
>> interested. I paid way too much for this stuff, but would be willing to
>> sell them fairly cheap if anyone wants to play "ISP". One of the
>> Computone units is brand spanking new. All cables are available.
>>
>> Dennis Eberl
>> (541) 686-2975
>>
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