[Gllug] Free pooter bits

Justin Perreault justinperreault at dl-jp.com
Fri Oct 21 14:28:08 UTC 2005


On Fri, 2005-10-21 at 13:49 +0100, Justin Perreault wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-10-20 at 12:16 +0000, SteveC wrote:
> > Pick up from Camden:
> 
> > Dell ex-university machine, P3 833, no HDD. generic video card in it,
> > 128 meg ram
> 
> > Dell 17" monitor
> 
> > Dell old laptop, backlight busted, keyboard barely works. I was using it
> > as a datalogger - long battery life with two batteries in it. I think its
> > 128 meg and 4 gig. I need to `cat /dev/urandom > /dev/hda` before you
> > get it.
> 
> > 4 or 6 DIMMS of unknown sizes or working or not
> 
> I can gladly take these bits off your hands if they are available still.
> I am especially interested in the laptop as I hope to be able to fix
> it. :)
> 
> I am over in Kilburn Park area so Camden is just one bus away. :)
> 
> > A PS/2 keyboard and mouse if you can show me (or I do it by then) how to
> > get my usb mouse and keyboard speaking to debian.
> 
> I am currently using an USB mouse on my FC3 box, and using a using a usb
> mouse via usb2ps2 dongle through a KVM switch on a group of 4 machines 3
> are FC3 and one is Astaro. All worked out of the box.
> 
> Maybe posting your difficulties with the USB not working will get a
> response for that which was not picked up by people uninterested in more
> computer stuff. Hope that helps, I do not need a keyboard or mouse
> though.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Justin
> 

Doh! I did not intend this to be a reply on-list.

Justin

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