[BLUG] How cheap can you build a box?

General question, only tangentially linux related:

I was talking with a colleague about the possibility of building a
dedicated appliance for a certain application. They'd need to deploy
a number of them, so they'd like them to be inexpensive. It would use
a touch screen monitor, not necessarily have any networking, and not
need impressive computing power. I thought "my netbook could do it",
but then I thought, my netbook has all kind of things that we don't
need, like fold-up portability, a webcam, etc. And we definitely
wouldn't need the latest-greatest processor speed either. Although we
wouldn't want used equipment either...

So, the question basically comes down to: what's the cheapest system
you could buy/build that would

* run linux
* attach to a monitor
* have usb ports

We really wouldn't need a Hard Drive, a 16G SD card would be fine.

The simple, easy solution would be to get something like this:

http://www.amazon.com/ASUS-ETP1602C-BK-X0163-Touch-Screen-Desktop/dp/B002VY8OS8

so, if we can't significantly beat $380, there's no use. And that's
including the touchscreen monitor, which will be at least $100, so
with no monitor it's gotta be down well below $300, preferably below
$200. But, couldn't you get a motherboard, a not-super-fast CPU, some
kind of a case, and a USB Interface for less than that? Thoughts?

Another option is an iPad, or preferably a iPad-like Android device,
which seem to be "soon but not quite yet". Thoughts on those?

David
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[BLUG] Ubuntu 10.10 release party! 7PM Saturday Oct 23

The latest version of Ubuntu, version 19.10 (Maverick Meerkat) was
released on Sunday, October 10, 2010. In celebration of Maverick's
release, the Indiana Ubuntu Local Community team is holding a release
party at the Claddagh Irish Pub at 3835 E. 96th Street on the Northside
of Indianapolis starting at 7:00 PM on Saturday, October 23, 2010.

Please RSVP at
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/IndianaTeam/MaverickReleaseParty
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[BLUG] Cannot suspend Dell Inspiron Ubuntu 10.10

I installed 10.10 on my Dell when it was released and had been having
no problems with suspending. Closing the lid or choosing suspend from
the menu worked. Starting yesterday, though, suspend no longer works.
If I close the lid or choose suspend from the menu, the screen goes
black and the computer locks. It also seem like it is using near 100%
of the cpu (although I can't test since the system is frozen), because
the fan turns on full speed and the laptop gets warm the longer I
leave it in this state. Googling brought up this bug report:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/522998 but I'm
not sure that it is related to my problem. If anyone has any ideas
(or other tests I can run to help troubleshoot) I would appreciate it!

Ben
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[BLUG] Linux counter

There is a new effort to count the number of Linux users. I know I
know there was already counter.li.org. But this one might get more
momentum since the old counter has been kind of forgotten.

http://www.dudalibre.com/gnulinuxcounter?lang=en

Make sure you take a moment to get yourself counted.

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Mark Krenz
Bloomington Linux Users Group
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[BLUG] CS Linux Meeting (SoIC)

Hey BLUGgers,

We're doing another CS Linux session tonight, on the X Windows system
and Desktop Environments. We may also get a bit into package management
if time allows. If anyone is interested, please stop by. We're meeting
6 P.M. @ Lindley Hall 030 (STC Lab).

Aaron W. Hsu

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Re: [BLUG] Reminder about BLUG meeting tomorrow

Yes, it is tonight at MCPL at 6:30 p.m. I just dug up Mark's e-mail from yesterday and replied to it. Sorry for contributing to any confusion.

~Jared

On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 4:17 PM, Paul Purdom <pwp@cs.indiana.edu> wrote:

Mark Krenz wrote:
>   Thanks for reminding me of that. I try to reserve the room for a half
> hour before so that there is time to setup.  If you want to get there at
> 6 and chat, that's fine.  But I won't start presenting until around 6:30.
>
> On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 07:35:10PM GMT, Jared Schlemmer [schlemmj@bloomington.in.gov] said the following:
>

I assume that this meeting is tonight in spite of tomorrow in the subject.

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Re: [BLUG] Reminder about BLUG meeting tomorrow

Mark Krenz wrote:
> Thanks for reminding me of that. I try to reserve the room for a half
> hour before so that there is time to setup. If you want to get there at
> 6 and chat, that's fine. But I won't start presenting until around 6:30.
>
> On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 07:35:10PM GMT, Jared Schlemmer [schlemmj@bloomington.in.gov] said the following:
>
I assume that this meeting is tonight in spite of tomorrow in the subject.

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