[ubuntu-us-ut] ubuntu-us-ut Digest, Vol 42, Issue 6

[Chris R.]

Charles, Thanks so much for the publicity about the Bring Your Dead Computer
Back Life Day. It's cool to know that other people think this is a fun idea
as well.

The club has a lot of energetic participation so we will try to pull this
off as well as we can.

Someone mentioned driver problems with modems.  This really can be a
sticking problem (I have my own horror story to share on the topic for
anyone who comes down on Nov. 14th).  We're hoping most of the systems that
get brought in will have network cards or ports.  Audio drivers can also
need some troubleshooting but I have personally overseen 20 resurrections
like we're envisioning here on systems from the late 90s and everything has
worked perfectly each time.  The help pages are usually well ordered and not
too difficult to execute. We'll keep our fingers crossed.

We're glad to hear that some of you Utah LoCo members might be able to make
it down.  The nifty discs from Canonical will really impress the locals as
well so I hope those get to you and that you might shoot some down.

Regarding this:
"Would it be possible to allow remote root access (via SSH) to these
computers so that the more experienced folk can help out as needed
remotely? I'm thinking about driver issues and other fun things like
that."

This sounds like a great idea but it is beyond my technical savvy
personally.  I will contact one of our local Unix fellows I know and see if
he can help arrange this. He's great with terminal commands in Ubuntu.  I'll
keep you posted.

Thanks very much for being so welcoming and receptive of our first message
to the group.

-- Chris
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