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On Thursday 17 January 2008 16:51, Rob Beard wrote: > Grant Sewell wrote: > > Oh, we have some "old" machines for them to work on. Most of them have > > some severe problems - I've even had one which had a knackered VGA BIOS > > on the onboard display adaptor, only 2 PCI slots, both of which were > > needed. Hmm. Oh, and the College seem to have an agreement with Dell > > now, so we don't have "old machines" anymore. :( > > > > In the end I got them to install in a virtual machine on the laptops > > (since they're the more powerful machines we have around, at the > > moment), and then we were faced with how to get VirtualBox's tunnelled > > network interface to work when bridged to a wifi card. :s > > > > We're getting there... slowly. > > > > Grant. > > Would the college allow you to take donations of old machines from LUG > members? > > Just thinking, if we between us in the LUG could get some old P3 or > similar machines maybe a few of them could be re-used? > One thing Becta was concerned about (see earlier post) was the licensing model(s) offered with M$ stuff. You actually have to pay M$ licenses for other (non M$) machines on the network. So giving them a box configured with Linux get M$ money!!! Great 'work' if you can get it! Tom te tom te tom > Rob -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html