[ELECTRON] Electron Club, excess bandwidth and computers

[Bob]

Martin Ben
It's not that one. I will bring it up when my mate gets back, should be 
next couple of days - it the machine is no good we can always use the 
screen. Bob

PS Happy new year to all at the Electron.


On 06/01/2011 13:51, Ben Dembroski wrote:
> 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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