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charset=ISO-8859-1"><div class="gmail_quote">Daniel Smith <dan@todayintech.co.uk> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi Rick,<br>
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Glad the meeting went well.<br>
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How many more PCs do we need as I still have a load of RM Ones here
that I can test and I have one fully working at the moment? I also
have some laptops, some have various issues but they will need
testing.<br>
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Kind Regards<br>
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Dan<br>
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Exeter LUG Meeting write up.
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The move to our new home has gone reallywell. Harri Sharp met us
at the Exwick Ark pre-school, and we discussed our hopes, along
with their conditons.
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Lets start with the conditions.
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Access to the building is via the Key Holder, Rick T. We have full
use of the Kitchen, Conference room, and Office / Workshop. The
Kitchen must always be left in anl 'as we found it' state or
better. Similarly with the conference room.
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Should we come across any personal items belonging to school
staff, these are to be respectful left undisturbed.
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We can have access to the room any evenings that it is unoccupied;
which currently is all the time. Should the group wish to meet, or
indeed organise events, etc... We do not forsee there being a
problem.
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We have been provided with draw space in the kitchen where we can
keep our tea, coffee, sugar, hot chocolate etc...
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The conference room has Network, and WiFi (once Mark finishes
configuring the access points, thanks Mark). We have the
projector, and a large area of wall. This means that we can do
interactive sessions, like an Introduction to C, or BASH Shell
scripting, Well if you can think of it and put it into Impress
there are desks, with power and plenty of space for laptops so
that we can do things hands on.
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In the office workshop, there are 4 PC workstation which we are
welcome to use, running Linux Mint and a large workbench for
building, repairing, and hardware hacking too.
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We have been given space under the work bench where we can store
computers ready for testing, breaking etc....
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On the back wall of the workshop we have 3 shelves where we can
store, tools, components, and other small items. I would suggest
we think about getting some medium sized containers to house these
things and ensure that they sit nicely on the shelves.
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THe Arks IT Systems.
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We are almost there with their system setup, Mark Evans delivered
a Gigabit PCIe Netowrk card for the ltsp server. So it is
understood that we should be able to complete the build on this.
We will need to pick through the other server items with a view to
rescue and repair what we can. The ARK have asked for 2 thin
clients to be set up in the Music room, with the Kids Desktops on
them.
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Ideally it has been suggested that we look to build a samba / Lamp
server to act as a backup machine for the PC's and the LTSP
server, and to handle print sharing.
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The Ark have also got hold of 4 Smart boards, although they have
no projectors for them yet. Suggestions, and ideas on how to get
one of these up and running for the main hall area would be
welcome.
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Harri asked if would could make one of the PC's dual boot, so that
they can run some communications software they have benen given. I
suggested that we could try installing it in WINE if she provided
the disks. It's our choice, they would just like to be able to use
it. I understand that Malcom, and Sam may well bring Windows XP
OEM install discs so that we can setup dual boot machine.s. We
have 5 desktops from Devon Wildlife Trust that have Win XP Licene
keys.
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We agreeded that with regard to the £50 pc programme, these would
now use Linux Mint the 'Matel edition, and failing that the XFce
edition, if performance is too low,
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The feedback we have had so far with Lubuntu has not been that
positive and very often people can't find their way around it.
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In addition Linux Mint has a very good PDF Manual, that would be
very easy to develop an introductory course, and with our new
facilities we could provide an introductory training course., for
those taking a £50 PC.
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More to follow in regard to suggestions for the February meeting
and finishing the Ark Project.
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Comments and Feedback welcome..
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Cheers
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Rick
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<p style="margin-top: 2.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; border-bottom: 1px solid #000"></p><pre class="k9mail"><hr><br>Exeter mailing list<br>Exeter@mailman.lug.org.uk<br><a href="https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/exeter">https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/exeter</a><br></pre></blockquote></div><br clear="all">Just a thought, XP support ends in April this year, maybe not such a great idea to be installing it. However educational establishments can get Windows 7 cheap (possibly use the XP licences as a part of a Windows 7 Pro upgrade).<br>
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-- <br><br><div>Sent from my Sinclair ZX Spectrum</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>A good point but these old machines will never run Win 7, they only have 512mb RAM, hence why WINE would be my preference, if we can got it to run the software.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Cheers</div><div>Rick</div> </body>