10 Nov
2019
10 Nov
'19
8:46 a.m.
Regrettably I'll be out of town but the topic is of special interest to
me.
Mike,
Would you be willing to have a conversation off line? (I'd be happy to
forward any or all of such a hypothetical conversation that you think is
worthy to the list. (My intent is not to be secretive but simply not to
clutter the list with stuff that might not be of interest to others.)
Sincerely,
Alex Kleider
On 2019-11-09 20:07, Tom Most wrote:
Hello NBLUG members! This November we have a talk and
our annual
elections:
When: Tuesday, November 12th, 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM
Speaker: Mike Higgins
Location: Sonic, 2260 Apollo Way Santa Rosa, CA 95407 through metal
gate,
arrive by 7 and see http://nblug.org/locations for more information
Mike writes,
I am looking at upgrading or replacing my old
tired servers. One
possibility is to replace them with small, nimble, low power systems.
I have experimented with a Raspberry Pi, a converted “Thin Client” and
a “Mini PC”. All three of these would fit in a shoebox with room for a
dozen more. (I'll bring the shoebox to the meeting for show-and-tell).
A stack of them would use about as much power while running as an old
server tower uses when it is turned off. I'll talk a little about my
major use of these servers (implementing land in the Open Simulator
game) but I'll talk mostly about my trials and tribulations of getting
Ubuntu to run on these small but powerful computers. I know just
enough about Linux system administration to be dangerous to myself, so
if someone jumps up at the meeting to tell me how stupid I am and how
I did everything wrong, I will be overjoyed to hear the correct way to
set these up.