[ELECTRON] Electron Club, excess bandwidth and computers

[Martin McGrath]

I've booked the room for 18/01/2010.

I plan on building a system using the computer very kindly donated by Ben
(thank you), this will relace the  and rebuilding the existing linux machine
with a supported version of Ubuntu (from a currently unsupported version).

Please consider this a reminder if you need anything backed up, either let
me know what and where it is or do it yourself before the date mentioned
above.

Bob, do you have any further information on the linux machine + flat screen
monitor you had mentioned before? It may be a more powerful machine than the
existing Ubuntu machine.

Simon, where do we stand with the bill for the excess. Is there a way people
can make donations to cover this?

Thanks

Martin

On 22 December 2010 14:43, Martin McGrath <mcgrath.martin at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I've spent quite some time here over the last couple of days investigating
> potential causes of bandwidth excess problem.
>
> There are two machines currently connected to the router in the club room.
>
> 1. Compaq 5221, AMD K6 380Mhz, 320MB RAM. Running Windows XP, missing lots
> of patches, no Antivirus software installed.
> 2. Ubuntu based machine, reasonable spec CPU, 512MB RAM. Running an
> unsupported (ergo unpatched) version of Ubuntu.
>
> In the interests of security please don't operate a Windows PC without anti
> virus software installed, it's just common sense.
> Please user Firefox as your default web browser.
>
> The XP machine had no application software other than uTorrent (a bit
> torrent client) and CClean installed.
> This machine is terribly slow, I've earmarked a machine to replace it which
> is significantly faster and we have more RAM in the cupboard which I can
> fit.
>
> Do we really need a Windows machine in the club? I'd like feedback on this
> please.
> A linux machine is just as easy to use for everything this machine could
> have been used for, and far easier to maintain.
>
> The XP machine passed a full system virus scan and three rootkit scans.
>
> I plan to upgrade the Ubuntu machine to a version of the operating system
> which is at least supported. If anyone has data they'd like backed up please
> do so, or let me know where and what it is and I'll do it for you.
>
> The room still has it's WIFI point, at the moment secured with WPA-PSK, the
> details for which are on the poster on the right as you enter the room.
> I plan on investigating this more at a later date.
> I disabled the WIFI point on the modem running in the comms room. There was
> no point in us having two.
>
> I'm not convinced that anyone would waste time cracking the WPA passphrase,
> given that there are two other open access points in the area.
>
> I plan on documenting and laminating some notes about EC kit, the network,
> the computers etc. I'll get round to this once I've fixed up the systems in
> question.
>
> Snail mail has arrived for the following people, I've left it in a neat
> pile on the table:
>
> Mitch Miller
> Glasgow Social centre limited (two items)
> Robert Hamilton
> Jonathan Agnew (two items)
>
> When I arrived yesterday the place was a bit of a mess. There were chairs
> all over the place, some rubbish on the table, an old mug of what I assume
> was coffee and papers scattered over the desks.
>
> I've done a little tidying but I've got other things I need to be doing at
> the moment.
> The room is a space for all of us, please tidy up before leaving.
>
> Have a nice Christmas and a safe New Year.
>
> Thanks
>
> Martin
>
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