donated computers lab setup

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on the goodwill front, take a few photos and forward those along with your letters to GW corp to your local newspaper.
 
either they will change their ways or people will stop donating

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Chris Mohler <cr33dog at gmail.com> 
Date: Friday, December 29, 2006 11:40 am 
Subject: Re: donated computers lab setup 
To: For users of Fedora <fedora-list at redhat.com> 

> > Good Will Industries used to slap FC3 on theirs, in Roanoke VA. 
> Great> people to do so. They'd sell an entire outfit for $100. I 
> doubt FC5 or 
> > FC6 would install though. Happy New Year to you, too. Ric 
> > 
> I've taken to calling our local GoodWill "IllWill" instead, as they 
> just chuck 90% of the donated hardware into the trash, and 
> threaten to 
> call the cops when I dig it out. The *big* stinker is that they cut 
> whatever cords they can get their little paws on, so I end up leaving 
> most of the monitors... 
> 
> I've written to corporate a couple of times and never gotten a reply. 
> 
> Back to the OP - I also recommend LTSP. I have a pile of "garbage" 
> P1s and P2's that work just fine as terminals. Once you have the 
> server set up, adding another terminal is as easy as determining the 
> NIC's chipset and spitting out a boot floppy a la rom-o-matic.net. 
> 
> One major caveat: sound. In theory, it works. In practice, there's 
> too much lag. 
> 
> Chris 
> 
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