Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-edu (179 mails)

[Nigel Pauli <nigel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 31 January 2002 10:58, Malcolm Herbert wrote:

> is it worth organising another workshop in Sandwell ? try to make it
> free, bring you own servers and clients and see what we can get
> working?

Yes, very much so! I went to the first one last year and found it was 
great. I've got 5 or 6 redundant boxes around 200 Mhz in a dry but 
unheated storeroom. Once the weather warms up a bit again I'm going to 
get stuck into them again. What I'm missing is the higher spec server 
but I'm just going to use one of the boxes as a server simply for a 
learning exercise dry run.

What I've learnt so far:
1. Physically getting into some of these old boxes can be a hell of a 
job - they really had some daft cases last century!
2. Bits and bobs are often missing / not working so have a supply of 
floppy drives, mice, keyboards lined up - I use redstore.

Nigel
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Nigel Pauli - I.T. Manager
St. John's School, Northwood, U.K.
http://www.st-johns.org.uk/