[ELECTRON] Electron Club, excess bandwidth and computers

[Ben Dembroski]

I might be guessing here, but I think the linux machine Bob mentioned 
might also be one of my old donations.  :)  You'll know if it is if it's 
got a cpu fan speed control knob in one of the PCI slots.

If it is that computer.  It's pretty old.  AMD athlon something, with 
maybe one gig of ram.  When I built it, it was for doing real-time video 
processing and editing, so it was reasonably high-end.  It could still 
be very servicable as a general internet / office doc / light image 
processing / text editing / kind of machine.

Sorry I can't be more specific with the specs, I haven't looked at it 
for a looooong time now.

Best,
Ben D.

On 06/01/11 13:44, Martin McGrath wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto: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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