[Watford] Next meeting

Alain Williams addw at phcomp.co.uk
Tue Jul 31 23:07:21 BST 2007


On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 09:03:06PM +0100, David Pead wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I plan to get along to the next meet (7/8/07). Cliff mentioned the  
> possibility of setting up the venue with broadband and a web site,  
> Perhaps we could brainstorm along those lines and get a proposal  
> together along with costs etc? An internet connection would be nice  
> for future meets, no?
> 
> Dave "The Noob"
> 
> PS I think I've found out the restart problem with my box (Ubuntu on  
> a silver G4). It appears that I 'have' to have a monitor plugged in  
> for a reboot!
> 
> This is what I believe I need to run a headless server on my mac:
> http://tvtool.info/go.htm?http://tvtool.info/english/dummy_e.htm

Are you sure that there is no BIOS/setup option that says 'boot w/out
monitor' ?

> With refernece to the above link, I seem to remember some of you  
> members being from an electronics background, any chance you've got a  
> few (3)  75ohm resistors kicking around and a soldering iron with a  
> bit of solder? I'll find an unused VGA connector we could pull apart!

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