[tech] Arctic, New Webcam Box

[Adrian Chadd]

(Eww top-posting.)

How about fund raising a new disk for arctic? A new $LARGE PATA
disk should be sub-$100.



Adrian

On Wed, Nov 14, 2007, James French wrote:
> 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
> 
> -- 
> James French
> 0x21st UCC President
> frenchie at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au