Re: $20 for Chris's drive space project?

2007-09-22 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On 9/23/07, Don Gould <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Do we need to put the pot around for some drive space?. Not yet. We have some 50Gbytes available for our use. Thus we have enough space to hold a large enough archive to get a good indication whether this exercise has value or not. > How many more

Re: $20 for Chris's drive space project?

2007-09-22 Thread Don Gould
DSE had them on special for $300 the other day, but you can get 320gb WD disks for about 120-140, that works out to be another 100gb for the same $$$ Chevhq Car wrote: Has anyone thought of a portable 500gig usb2 esata enclosure? Can build one for about 360$ = = = Original message = = = Do we

Re: $20 for Chris's drive space project?

2007-09-22 Thread Chevhq Car
Has anyone thought of a portable 500gig usb2 esata enclosure? Can build one for about 360$ = = = Original message = = = Do we need to put the pot around for some drive space? How many more disks could be squash into those machines? I'll put up $20 towards some drive space. 5 other people want

Re: $20 for Chris's drive space project?

2007-09-22 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
> Lenny = the current Debian testing. 23 CDs at the moment. Who would walk into the community building to get a pile of CDs of half-baked of any distro which is out of date by the time it hits the disk? My suggestion would be to use the disk space more wisely. Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann

Re: $20 for Chris's drive space project?

2007-09-22 Thread Philip Charles
On Sunday 23 September 2007 14:39, Don Gould wrote: > Philip Charles wrote: > > On Sunday 23 September 2007 13:06, Don Gould wrote: > >> Do we need to put the pot around for some drive space? > >> > >> How many more disks could be squash into those machines? > >> > >> I'll put up $20 towards some d

Re: $20 for Chris's drive space project?

2007-09-22 Thread Don Gould
Philip Charles wrote: On Sunday 23 September 2007 13:06, Don Gould wrote: Do we need to put the pot around for some drive space? How many more disks could be squash into those machines? I'll put up $20 towards some drive space. 5 other people want to match me and we can go get a 320gb disk.

Re: $20 for Chris's drive space project?

2007-09-22 Thread Philip Charles
On Sunday 23 September 2007 13:06, Don Gould wrote: > Do we need to put the pot around for some drive space? > > How many more disks could be squash into those machines? > > I'll put up $20 towards some drive space. > > 5 other people want to match me and we can go get a 320gb disk. > This might h

$20 for Chris's drive space project?

2007-09-22 Thread Don Gould
Do we need to put the pot around for some drive space? How many more disks could be squash into those machines? I'll put up $20 towards some drive space. 5 other people want to match me and we can go get a 320gb disk. Cheers Don Christopher Sawtell wrote: On 9/23/07, SegnaroSoftware <[EMAIL

Re: Image files of Linux and Unix on St. Albans Neighbourhood Resource Centre computers.

2007-09-22 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On 9/23/07, SegnaroSoftware <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a few distro isos and other handy isos I can contribute (although > some may be out of date): "few" - Wow! We have only 50Gbytes of storage available so I have had to make the decision that we can't store files which are not current.

Re: Image files of Linux and Unix on St. Albans Neighbourhood Resource Centre computers.

2007-09-22 Thread SegnaroSoftware
I have a few distro isos and other handy isos I can contribute (although some may be out of date): OpenCD-4.0.iso OpenCD-7.04.iso lamppix-mini-1.1.iso DeveLinux-0.1.iso dsl-3.1RC1-syslinux.iso dyne-2.2.iso gnoppix-stable-i386.iso hurd-live-cd-20051117.iso Overclockix_LTSP21.iso slampp-lite-2.0.

Re: Image files of Linux and Unix on St. Albans Neighbourhood Resource Centre computers.

2007-09-22 Thread Raffael
Volker Kuhlmann wrote: >> Canterbury University has repo of various Linux distros available on the uni >> network. If you are interested in what they have e-mail me and I'll get a >> list of what's there. > > This is only of use to those with network access to the campus network. > Make sure to ma

Re: Image files of Linux and Unix on St. Albans Neighbourhood Resource Centre computers.

2007-09-22 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
> Canterbury University has repo of various Linux distros available on the uni > network. If you are interested in what they have e-mail me and I'll get a > list of what's there. This is only of use to those with network access to the campus network. Make sure to make this clear if you put online

Re: Image files of Linux and Unix on St. Albans Neighbourhood Resource Centre computers.

2007-09-22 Thread Christopher Sawtell
Many thanks. That would be interesting. I've just made an executive decision that we are not interested in maintaining a historical archive, but other than that all-comers are welcome, In particular *BSD distributions other than FreeBSD and PC-BSD which we have already. On 9/22/07, Aaron Chri

Re: Image files of Linux and Unix on St. Albans Neighbourhood Resource Centre computers.

2007-09-22 Thread Aaron Christensen
Canterbury University has repo of various Linux distros available on the uni network. If you are interested in what they have e-mail me and I'll get a list of what's there. Aaron On 9/19/07, Christopher Sawtell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Greetings CLUGgers, > > The recent thread which bemoa

Re: workstation power consumption

2007-09-22 Thread yuri
On 21/09/2007, Roger Searle wrote: > Marginally on / off topic I guess... I am interested in quantifying how > much it costs to leave a computer running over night, and therefore what > the power saving is per year to an organisation if computers that are > otherwise left running all night are tur