Re: West Highschool Robotics

Yeah, and as mason pointed out there wouldn't be 100 highschoolers
alone, this would be for ALL the teams and all of the AREA members and
such. We have tried to get sponsers, but there are very few people
corporations or other businesses that want to sponsor us. A few did but
more like the lumberyard donating wood to make a crate. In kind donations..
Piet van Weel wrote:

>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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Received on Thu Dec 30 20:13:49 2004