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| DATE | 2004-09-11 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir Secretary NYLXS
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| SUBJECT | Subject: [hangout] Re: Volunteer needed urgently in Brooklyn
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Paul et al, I just got off the phone with this fellow and
you might see what we can do for him. He brings up a number
of issues, but for me, the main issue is that we want to
develope talent and users, and to work with the school
in a complete partnership. I have no problem comiting
NYLXS manpower, but we need a payback with involvement of
student body and facilty to develop a long and lasting
benificial situation for students.
He feels there are technical and policy issues involved.
Our charted goal is to encourage education about Free Software.
Let me know what you think.
Ruben
On Sat, Sep 11, 2004 at 06:43:30AM -0700, David Poleshuck wrote:
> I have a great "opportunity" to install Linux on 12
> servers--also a large headache. There are 12 (we have
> more that are currently working?so we will wait on
> those).
>
> I just became the computer coordinator as of last week
> (only got some of the passwords on Friday). I teach
> three periods a day instead of five now.
>
> Two of the previous techs are gone and one stayed.
>
> He will be in charge of the infrastructure (wiring,
> routers, backbone, wireless) and administration
> computers.
>
> We have determined that these 12 servers need to be
> reloaded. There are no domains, users or directories
> on any of them! (The good part is that I can therefore
> install Linux everywhere with no resistance.)
>
> I (with the help from other school techs) taught
> myself the basics of Samba and Linux this summer.
> After feeling very confident this summer (I not only
> got Redhat Enterprise AS up and running on two
> computers as a domain server, but reinstalled it on
> both), I ran into a problem: RAID!!!!! I didn't have
> any servers at home. One of the reasons I chose Redhat
> was because of Dell's association with it. All the
> servers are Dell--all different flavors.
>
> (I am not a complete newbie having worked with AT&T
> Unix from 1979-1982 running on a PDP and with
> computers from 1967--but have only worked with Linux
> for three weeks this summer on my own).
>
> Although, Dell seems to have Raid drivers, there are
> so many for each server. My student volunteers (who
> have limited experience with Linux but want to learn)
> been trying with no success. I haven't had time yet.
>
> My brother suggested that some of the Linux user
> groups have volunteers. We have 12 servers in my room
> ready to be loaded (and an agreement to the
> autoupdating licenses later--but that's not really a
> serious problem right now--we do own two copies but
> for $50/year, you don't get support).
>
> Any idea of who to contact? I found your email address
> on the NYLXS website.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Dave Poleshuck
> Brooklyn Technical High School
> Cell: 718-938-0398
>
>
>
>
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