[olug] Re: Interested in a Linux field trip?

Charles Bird thebirdman at operamail.com
Wed Apr 20 02:10:05 UTC 2005


   I'm feeling that June would be a good time as well. 
I'll even let u look at an old ACER Altos running SCO Open Server, I thinks its a 75Mhz pentium. Man that thing makes me nervous so dont look at it too hard or it might have a kernel panic.
   Looks like I maybe trying to get another Linux box in our uplink for dish control, currently we have an 8088 with 640k ram and two floppies running old dos and a Dish possiton control program writen in basic or qbasic. I think she is almost dead, and I want to convert the program over to a 486 running a minimal linux distro. I'll most likely do it at home then bring it in cause my boss doesnt like me on computers too much when I could be swearing at anything from sources changing sattalites and trying to find them on a mislabled entry in one of our recievers or having the cordless drill die when I'm holding a heavy 19"RM reciever in the cabnet, half in. 
   Its gonna be pretty busy from now until who knows when, and hopfully I will be able to get some lil linux boxes in there to preform specific tasks.

I noticed the mention of quicktime?  I recently noticed a "gnu/darwin" distro and a "Darwin" with out the gnu on Linuxiso.org, I'll start looking at that , its from apple and its opensource so I wonder if theres QTime on there?  hmmm....theres got to be a QTime compatable source out there that could be packaged for our linux customers(if there is any)well maybe just for geek demos and stand alone stream monitoring =D



----- Original Message -----
From: "Joe Gulizia" <jrguliz at yahoo.com>
To: "Omaha Linux User Group" <olug at olug.org>
Subject: Re: [olug] Re: Interested in a Linux field trip?
Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2005 05:30:20 -0700 (PDT)

> 
> It will at least be June.
> 
> The equipment still has to be installed in our uplink
> building (hopefully in May).  SCOLA has a major
> conference this next week and then that's the next
> major deal for me.  It will be SCOLA's first
> organizational use of Linux.  Jay @ Reboot is doing
> the job...so the distro will be probably be Gentoo.
> 
> At a later point we're going to (hopefully) need a
> bunch of MythTV type set ups....BUT one step at a
> time.
> 
> Myself and Charles Bird have pushed Linux due to
> uptime without freezing (aka crashing), the ability to
> customize without major bloat, multi-tasking ability
> and software costs (and if ever networked protection
> from most viruses).
> 
> Unfortunately, we have to have some Windows machines
> to view our Quicktime 6.0 streams Live.
> 
> More as things develop.
> 
> 
> --- Craig Wolf <cjwolf at mpsomaha.org> wrote:
> > This would be a great Saturday trip but I might be
> > able to swing a
> > daytime thing for what, half a day?
> >
> > Craig Wolf
> > Linux Web Server Support
> > Desktop/Network Specialist
> > 402-894-6283
> >
> > >>> rhurley at tmvgas.com 04/15/05 10:48 AM >>>
> > I would make extra effort to make a day trip out of
> > it.  As long as it
> > is focused on IT and/or education of IT, I can swing
> > it with my boss
> > with advanced notice.  Is this "Field Trip" still a
> > possibility?
> >
> > Rod Hurley
> > Network Administrator
> > Tenaska Marketing Ventures
> > ph:  402-758-6187
> > cell: 402-981-9561
> > fx:   402-758-6275
> > rhurley at tmvgas.com
> >
> >
> > >>> jrguliz at yahoo.com 4/15/2005 5:47:12 AM >>>
> > When I sent this to you I was originally thinking in
> > place of one of the OLUG meetings BUT maybe it'd be
> > better on another day/time of day.  I don't know how
> > many could make it out during a day trip though. Either way I'd 
> > need to get a rough count before
> > hand.
> > Thoughts?
> >
> > --- "Jon H. Larsen" <relayer at levania.org> wrote:
> > > On Wed, 13 Apr 2005, Joe Gulizia wrote:
> > > > > Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 19:25:21 -0700 (PDT)
> > > > From: Joe Gulizia <jrguliz at yahoo.com>
> > > > To: relayer at levania.org > > Subject: Interested in a Linux field trip?
> > > > > > By June SCOLA should have 5 machines set up in
> > our
> > > > uplink building being used for video insertion
> > of
> > > > titles and full page text, text documents and
> > > video
> > > > clips.  We should also have the touch screens
> > > > functional at that point in time.  It's a trip
> > > into
> > > > Western Iowa but I belive worth the trip.
> > > > > > > > Let me know.
> > > > > > Joe Gulizia
> > > > I would be interested. Let me know when the date
> > is
> > > finalized.
> > > > Were you going to put this to the OLUG list?
> > > > Jon L.
> > > > -- > Jon H. Larsen  - relayer -at- levania -dot- org
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