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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Snipe-It
by Tony Bogan 30 Nov '18

30 Nov '18

> On Nov 30, 2018, at 1:21 AM, Laura S. Reinhard <laurakid7(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > > While I am beginning to doubt my “belonging” in this group, primarily because my experience in IT has been limited to individual artists and their Macs and developing databases for them in FileMaker to keep up mailing lists (when people used to use mail). > Ditto!! I’ve done patient databases (and HCFA form completion etc) for several doctors and chiropractors. I also have setup and maintained VERY small Mac networks since the thinnet days. My point being I have knowledge, but it pales in comparison to the collective experience in this list. > I often sound like I know less than I do, Unfortunately for me I always sound that way because it’s true!! ;-) > Why say all of this? Two reasons. First, I didn’t formally introduce myself to this list and since I will be at Festivus am worried that “they’re all gonna laugh at me”. Please don’t spend another second on such thoughts. I am a user, not a programmer/coder or engineer (electrical or otherwise) nor do I work in IT or any field remotely related to 99% of the topics in this list. I run passenger boats (and in the past fishing boats) for a living. My experience with computers is predominantly as a user (some have said power user with the amount of things I do and have done, but I would not) who reaps the benefits of what many people on this list and others help create and maintain. (excluding the late 70s and early 80’s during the early days of hacking, cracking and phreaking but that’s another story) My reason for saying this is while not intimidated (not really in my nature to be intimidated, which has created some of its own problems in life, but I digress) i too felt somewhat out of place when confronted with the overwhelming amount of knowledge and experience in this group. Sometimes I’d wait till the end of a detailed discussion like the “cloud” one going on, and respond with a “Dad lets me play video games slow in the driveway” as I felt overwhelmed. But I quickly learned that this group of men and women are as happy to impart that knowledge and experience onto others as they are to discuss it with their peers in their respective fields. Join me at festivus and we can sit there like Fluke Starbucker, Ham Salad and Princess Anne-Droid shrugging their shoulders saying “I can’t understand a word he’s saying” when Darph Nader is speaking. Tony

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Anyone need game port to midi adapter or matched 32 bit XEONS
by Kelly Leavitt 30 Nov '18

30 Nov '18

I have a spare game port to midi adapter if anyone needs it. I'll bring to Festivus. Also, anyone need a matched pair of SL72C 2GHz 32 bit Xeon processors? See everyone Sunday Kelly

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Snipe-It
by Neil Cherry 30 Nov '18

30 Nov '18

I have to make this quick. Laura, don't worry about your background. This is a place where you can learn as you go. The only thing you need to qualify is curiosity and the love for the old computers. Unfortunately you do have to put up with the old guys. (I remember when we didn't have 2 bits to rub together ...). I hope we see you tomorrow at Festivus. See everyone else also. -- Linux Home Automation Neil Cherry ncherry(a)linuxha.com http://www.linuxha.com/ Main site http://linuxha.blogspot.com/ My HA Blog Author of: Linux Smart Homes For Dummies

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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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