[BLUG] Old PCs

I'm trying to do some house cleaning over the next few weeks. Among
other things, I've got anywhere from 8 to a dozen or so older PCs.
We're talking PIIs and PIIIs here, and possibly a couple of Pentiums,
486s, and I think there's even a 286 or 386 machine in the pile. I
also have some loose motherboards of the same sort of vintage. None
will have memory or hard drives. The PC carcasses *I think* all have
CD drives, as well as processors. I also have a few CRT monitors.

This stuff is spread throughout my house (its a big house) and is
nowhere near ready for anyone to pick them up. That would be at least
two or three weeks down the road. But I want to know if anyone here
is even interested in having this kind of stuff (free of course). I
live just off SR46 in Bartholomew County (Columbus) just a few miles
past the Bartholomew/Brown county line.

Otherwise if no one is interested, conveniently one of my clients is a
large scrap metal processor and I'm just going to start carrying stuff
over there every time I pass it.

David
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Re: [BLUG] new to the mailing list

On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 10:48 AM, Dave Cooley<dcooley@kiva.net> wrote:
> BLUG doesn't have much of a structure; there are no "dues" or any official
> "membership", and there isn't really a leader.  We'll get back to having
> meetings again soon (as soon as somebody plans one).

About time for another "meeting" at Yogi's, me thinks.

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Re: [BLUG] To all 'screen' lovers

On Fri, 3 Jul 2009, Kevin Ratcliff wrote:

> I learned something new (to me) about screen recently. Maybe
> everyone but me already knew this, but you can connect to a
> serial port with it:
>
> stty 9600
> screen /dev/ttyS0
>
> Handy when you need to connect to a switch or router or
> something in a pinch and don't have a system with minicom or
> equivalent.

That may be just what I need. wine-1.1.23-1.fc11.i586 can
now do almost everything with my legacy GPS/topo map suites
*except* the most important : actually swap data with my GPSs --
and sometimes it even does that.

The problem has long seemed to be that wine is pretty
buggy when it comes to serial ports, and my old cables have to
use one. (USB/serial adapters don't cut it.)

Wine 1.0, if not earlier, could install, launch, and run
at least two (fortunately, the two best imnsho) of my suites; but
the connection has long eluded it.

Anybody been playing with such, especially Garmin?
Methinks it and a laptop would be great to have, anywhere South
of Nashville and East of Bedford....

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On Fri, 03 Jul 2009 10:48:51 -0400, Dave Cooley <dcooley@kiva.net> wrote:

> BLUG doesn't have much of a structure; there are no "dues" or any
> official "membership", and there isn't really a leader. We'll get back
> to having meetings again soon (as soon as somebody plans one).

Well, I've been playing with a new text editor that isn't usually seen in
the normal Linux circles called Acme (from Plan 9), and if someone hasn't
already presented on it, I'd be glad to give a presentation of it, if
someone wants a reason to host a meeting. :-)

Aaron W. Hsu

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Re: [BLUG] To all 'screen' lovers

On Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:25:29 -0400, Mark Krenz <mark@slugbug.org> wrote:

> Anyone ever run screen in ubuntu recently? They have this special
> config that has some status info at the bottom and a config menu to
> change profiles. I didn't know you could do that kind of stuff with it.

I've always heard of tmux over screen. But as I understand it, they're
both pretty cool.

Aaron W. Hsu

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Re: [BLUG] To all 'screen' lovers

On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 12:25 PM, Mark Krenz<mark@slugbug.org> wrote:
>  Anyone ever run screen in ubuntu recently?  They have this special
> config that has some status info at the bottom and a config menu to
> change profiles. I didn't know you could do that kind of stuff with it.
> Pretty cool.

I learned something new (to me) about screen recently. Maybe everyone
but me already knew this, but you can connect to a serial port with
it:

stty 9600
screen /dev/ttyS0

Handy when you need to connect to a switch or router or something in a
pinch and don't have a system with minicom or equivalent.

Kevin

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[BLUG] To all 'screen' lovers

Anyone ever run screen in ubuntu recently? They have this special
config that has some status info at the bottom and a config menu to
change profiles. I didn't know you could do that kind of stuff with it.
Pretty cool.

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