November 2018 - vcf-midatlantic

Festivus Keurig Pods
by Jeffrey Brace 30 Nov '18

30 Nov '18

If you want to use the Keurig, please bring pods. I have hot chocolate, but no coffee ones. -- ========================================= Jeff Brace Vice President Vintage Computer Federation

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Update: Festivus Eve!
by Evan Koblentz 29 Nov '18

29 Nov '18

I'm going to the museum tomorrow around lunchtime-ish. Will be doing a bunch of prep and more warehouse work too. Steve A. is coming after 4pm to help for a couple of hours. The more helper, the better. I am staying overnight rather than going home and coming back in the morning. Originally I wasn't goind to do that this year, but I am thoroughly enjoying the real-life Tetris game of warehouse projects.

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Modern Computers available at Festivus
by Jason Perkins 29 Nov '18

29 Nov '18

Fellow Festivites, It's a Festivus Miracle! I've got a number of retired systems from work that are 3-5 year old Core i5 and i7 w/ 4-8gb of ram. Rather than send them to the recycler, I'd like to get them in the hands of someone who can use them. I've got at least 10 systems. Is there any interest? Evan suggested taking auction style offers for the systems, which sounded good to me. 100% of the offer will go to VCF. Thanks! -- Jason Perkins 313 355 0085

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Festivus Movies
by Jeffrey Brace 29 Nov '18

29 Nov '18

I will be bringing the Viva Amiga DVD to show. Does anyone else have any specific requests? Feel free to bring any DVDs that you would like. If desired, I have access to Netflix, Amazon Video, YouTube Premium. As per Festivus tradition the Feats of Strength will determine the order of what we watch ;) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dS7-jcsB_WQ -- ========================================= Jeff Brace Vice President Vintage Computer Federation

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Snipe-It
by Andrew Diller 29 Nov '18

29 Nov '18

Snipe-IT itself requires not much at all- it's minimum requirement is PHP 5.6 or later and MySQL. Apache HTTPD is the easiest to setup for PHP execution. I'm running mine on a little Dell Optiplex 160 which is a core-solo cpu with 2G of ram, and it's also doing a few other things (like a jvm for a Confluence wiki I use), all running on ubuntu 14.04. Snipe-it has a fully hosted SAAS at: https://snipit.io/ (which I'm sure you've seen). I'm sure it could also run nicely on a DigitalOcean $10 a month droplet if you don't want a server sitting on the floor of the Infoage space. As for modifications, it's PHP which is one of the reasons I'm going to use it for my things- that it probally the most modifiable of the options I had looked at when I was researching it. -andy > On Nov 29, 2018, at 2:18 PM, Evan Koblentz via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vcfed.org> wrote: > > > From: Evan Koblentz <evan(a)snarc.net> > Subject: Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Snipe-It > Date: November 29, 2018 at 2:18:17 PM EST > To: martin.flynn(a)compdecon.org, Eric Rangell via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vcfed.org> > > >> Eric, >> Quick question - how well does the current version of Snipe-It run on Ubuntu Server 18.04.1 LTS on top of ESXi? >> Might be usable to track stuff in the Makerspace (also at Infoage in Building 9059) > > I don't know if they have a server version. We were shopping for a cloud-based product. > >

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Orig Mac disk drive does not stop/bangs head
by Bill Degnan 29 Nov '18

29 Nov '18

Hard to explain but when I power on my orig MAC the drive races to the front and attempts to keep going, causing the drive head pad arm to virbrate and the drive motor to keep spinning. The drive was working earlier. Is there a fix? Bill

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Snipe-It
by Evan Koblentz 29 Nov '18

29 Nov '18

> Eric, > > Quick question - how well does the current version of Snipe-It run on > Ubuntu Server 18.04.1 LTS on top of ESXi? > > Might be usable to track stuff in the Makerspace (also at Infoage in > Building 9059) I don't know if they have a server version. We were shopping for a cloud-based product.

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One volunteer needed, special mission
by Evan Koblentz 29 Nov '18

29 Nov '18

I'd like one person to come tomorrow afternoon, help me finish Festivus setup, and then we'll sort books the rest of the night. VCF will cover your overnight fee and you'd get first dibs at the massive surplus pile.

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Orig Mac disk drive does not stop/bangs head
by Herb Johnson 29 Nov '18

29 Nov '18

> when I power on my orig MAC the drive races to the > front and attempts to keep going... is there a fix? My guess is, this is a Macintosh 128K and "the drive" is the 400K floppy drive. "the fix" is to diagnose the problem. Try another 400K floppy drive externally, or a 800K external floppy drive - see if they work the same way. If so, you may have some kind of 68000 processor motherboard problem. Or a loose internal floppy cable. If external drives work, then see what's going on with that internal drive. Maybe the track 00 sensor is bad or its little cable isn't connected well. Or the head stepper has lost a phase and is running backwards (desperately seeking track 00 while running to track 99). "The Dead Mac Scrolls" suggests if the screen is dark and you have odd behavior, you may need to fix/replace the analog card, specifically the flyback transformer. But you'd likely report a dark screen, so that's not likely the problem. The book doesn't seem to list your floppy drive problem. Herb -- Herbert R. Johnson, New Jersey in the USA http://www.retrotechnology.com OR .net

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Festivus setup
by Evan Koblentz 28 Nov '18

28 Nov '18

I was at the museum from 1pm to 5pm today mostly doing warehouse stuff. Dan J. helped set up for Festivus at 8pm after the InfoAge staff meeting. We moved some furniture out of the room that we use for videogames. Dan left, and then Jeff B. came over at 9pm. We set up most of the tables and moved a bunch of party supplies into place. We were there until 11:30pm. I'm going to be there early Saturday to finish. Tony said he'll be over around 9:30am, but I am hoping to get one or two helpers earlier than that (8:30am). Any volunteers?

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