RE: West Highschool Robotics

That's really cool that ya'll are working on FIRST. I'm still working with
the FIRST LEGO LEAGUE down here in Oregon, which gives younger kids a taste
of science. ( http://www.ortop.org )

Unfortunately there is nothing I can do from this distance; however, I would
STRONGLY encourage any business owners/companies in the area to SPONSOR and
provide support for the team.

Look here for more information:
http://www.usfirst.org/

I'm sure that either Keeper or Mac can get you in contact with the
organizers of the local FIRST efforts.

Piet van Weel

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: aklug-bounce@aklug.org [mailto:aklug-bounce@aklug.org] On Behalf Of
>> Mac Mason
>> Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 2004 11:41 PM
>> To: aklug@aklug.org
>> Subject: Re: West Highschool Robotics
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 04:15:39PM -0900, Keeper Nott wrote:
>> > Hey all. I'm a member of West Highschool's Robotics team and right now
>> > were trying to put together a linux server. I know the most about
>> > computers, linux, and I am lead programmer and so I have been given the
>> > responsibility of setting up the linux box. We finally got some stuff
>> > together and we do have a box, but its got a processor running at about
>> > 133 hertz, about 32 megs of ram, and not much else. We really need a
>> box
>> > that can support our needs.
>> Greetings from an alum of East High's FIRST program, and ex-server admin
>> for that team. (I done gone and graduated, see)
>>
>> Anyway, I think you underestimate a 133 machine. Our server ran full
>> web, ftp, squid (to get around irritating district firewalls),
>> phpBB, NFS, and Samba on a 200mhz box with 32 megs of ram. It was a bit
>> tight, but a carefully-worded debian install was enough.
>>
>> And unless I've been out of the loop for a very long time, there's no
>> way there are a hundred people doing FIRST at the high school level in
>> Alaska. (As much as I'd like to hear that there are)
>>
>> So just go and do it. At the very least, if the load is way too large,
>> you'll already have the system built and you can drop the drive (or copy
>> the contents of the drive) into a faster box.
>>
>> --Mac
>> (Icebreakers, Team #374, '01, '02, East-SWS '02)

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