Re: West Highschool Robotics

In fact, when I was in 4th or 5th grade I was in the lego league. Thats
a really neat program, I loved it, I bought my own mindstorms kit and I
played with that for like 2 years ;-)..
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 20:13:52 2004