[tech] Arctic, New Webcam Box

[James French]

Hi All,

Trs and I had a look at arctic this evening, and ended up swapping
it's old drive back into it (which made it a happy mac once more).
Thanks to MSH who rocked up and did what trs and I were too apathetic
to do - take the case off a second time to reconnect the power button.
Arctic has been reinstalled and has home directories and logins
working although I'm yet to install any applications I'll do it
tomorrow or thursday probably. As the disk is small once more, I won't
install any major games, after-all, apollo will play them much better
and arctic is probably better suited to a life as a web browsing box.
Amusingly (well at least to me), arctic has found it's way into the
same corner nautilus did when it was supplanted, bringing arctic full
circle in it's life.

Secondly, I've donated my old e-pc to the club as a small low power
USB-webcam box. I setup ubuntu on it this evening (debian isos seem to
have mysteriously vanished from mirrors.uwa and the ubuntu port has
acquired some gremlins - a problem for another night). DAA then setup
webcams on it remotely although the second of the logitech usb cameras
appears to be partially busted and the other USB camera we've got
makes it hard lock. Still, USB webcams aren't exactly _expensive_ so I
might look at getting another one to go with it.

Frenchie

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James French
0x21st UCC President
frenchie at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au