[ubuntu-us-nc] asheville news

[Amber Graner]

Mike, sounds like a plan.  Good Luck on Monday.  Thanks for all your efforts
there in Weaverville and doing the legwork on the meet and great in
Asheville.

See ya on the 5th!
akgraner

On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 11:56 PM, Daniel Caleb
<techknow at internalkernel.com>wrote:

> Sounds like a plan... I'll be there. I'm indifferent as to the time, any
> works
> for me. I don't know to many others in this area that would be
> interested...
> but hey, coffee and computers... I'm in.
>
> In regards to your project, I put some comments in below... Cheers...
>
> On Friday 07 August 2009 23:31:17 Mike Holstein wrote:
> > looks like we will be having a meet and greet in asheville on saturday
> > september 5th... right now i have the space reserved for 11am to 2pm, not
> > that we need 3 hours for it... so, if you would like to come, and have
> some
> > preference as to a time that morning/afternoon, let me know... also, if
> you
> > know some folks over this way, let 'em know about it, and feel free to
> > share any of my info with them... the space is the firestorm
> > cafe<http://www.firestormcafe.com/>downtown asheville... very cool
> > place, although it might be a little hard to
> > find if your not familiar with asheville... its kind of a co-op type
> thing
> > where the workers part-own it, and they run ubuntu on several public
> > internet terminals, as well as the business computers... i'll send more
> > details as needed, and as i get the time nailed down...
> >
> > ...also, an update on the Woodland Hills Church Learning Center ubuntu
> > project i'm working on... i've had the computers for a week or so, and
> i'm
> > taking them back on monday... i ended up with 3 decent dells (around
> 1ghz,
> > with 512 ram) and the printer is working well, and i set up samba on
> there
> > so windows computers (and hopefully macs, but i did not have a successful
> > test from osx 10.3) can connect to the printer... i set up a dropbox
> > account for them to sync files... i put a booklet together about how to
> > connect a windows machine to the printer (with screenshots from xp) and
> how
> > to find and make a folder in the dropbox folder... i also did some
> > screencasts showing how to open, create, save, and print a document in
> > OpenOffice (also opening firefox, and some dropbox activity)... i'm going
> > to try and get everything nailed down on monday so the staff can kick the
> > tires... the kids don't come til thursday... i think monday i'm going to
> > put them on static IP's, and lock down the UI a little more, and try
> doing
> > some stupid things and see if i can make something break... I've already
> > answered some questions in the past from the staff like "my spell check
> > doesn't work, all it does is underline the words", so i'm expecting some
> > problems, but i think ubuntu will be more natural feeling than windows
> > 2000... anyway, wish me luck...
>
> If the machines are all consistent hardware-wise, why not set up a custom
> livecd with the basic install for these machines. That way, per machine
> backups would basically just be the /home/user folder, /etc and parts of
> /var.
> A quick rsync script inserted as a cron job could handle that daily... If
> they
> really mess anything up, then just install from the livecd and restore the
> backups. Check out remastersys for creating a livecd.
>
> Sounds like you have everything else pretty much handled, that'd be a fun
> project...
>
> Daniel
>
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