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Re: [LUG] Lighthouse LTSP update

 

There was a bacon buttie run? I missed that too! Though the offer of coffee was shouted loudly enough lol I guess you were concentrating hard.

Tom, if i forgot to say Thanks for the lift, i say it now. I often do but i dont mean to. :(

Anyway, was fun, so next time you need a hand, give me a shout!

2010/1/24 Rob Beard <rob@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Hi folks,

I thought I'd update everyone on the goings on today the The Lighthouse with the LTSP project there.

Tom, Paul, Rhia and I were at The Lighthouse testing the donated PCs to make sure we could find some that actually worked.  We were aiming for around 6 PCs ideally and had about 7 or 8 PCs of varying specs to play with.

In total we got 4 machines working which wasn't bad going.  A couple of the machines had leaking capacitors and one of them decided to go bang, literally, with sparks which was interesting.

But we're one step closer now.  I'm not sure if it's worth getting the capacitors on the two dodgy motherboards replaced or not.  We thought it's probably a good idea to replace the PSUs anyway in case any more go pop since they're fairly cheap anyway, and since we have reasonable cases we may be able to get some boards to stick in them (I see eBuyer.com have some Athlon 64 3200+ motherboards and CPUs for £37 each in a bundle, and since we have a couple of sticks of 512MB DDR memory kicking around, it might be worth investing in a couple of these boards).

So all in all it was a pretty good day, although I'm a bit disapointed I missed the tea and bacon buttie run.

Rob


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