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mdlbearThey rolled up the radio promptly at 2pm Friday, and I've been off the net since then. More later (maybe). Luckily the Portland airport has free, fast wireless; I have about another 20 minutes to boarding.
Friday afternoon I hooked up with a small tour going to FreeGeek. Fascinating operation -- they take in used computers (in any condition), recycle what can't be made to work, sell a few in their store, and give away the rest. After a volunteer has built six computers (which includes trainng, from the ground up), they get to keep one. Debian GNU/Linux, of course.
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cflute. Dinner, driving tour of Portland, ice cream, minor adventure getting the backup key out of the lockbox, house tour, music. Detail later, maybe.
Spent all day Saturday walking, mostly on the waterfront. From the access point behind the convention center, up the East Esplanade past the OMSI to where it ends at the opera house, then over whichever bridge that was (map's packed -- details and pictures later) to the park along the other bank. Detour to find Powell's travel store, which is gone. Obsolete map. Detour to Powell's main store. Feed the addiction. Up past the Broadway Bridge. Back to the hotel over the Steel Bridge walkway. Thai food in Chinatown -- the waiter recognized my penguin button and Freegeek flier -- turns out he volunteers there. Crash and burn, a tired but happy bear.
Got to bed around 11 -- good thing; there were people coming and going all night; woke at 2:30 or so. Snatches of sleep until I finally gave it up around 6:30. Coffee and a maple bar at the Coffee People. Out to the airport. And here I am, with about 5 minutes until my plane boards.
Friday afternoon I hooked up with a small tour going to FreeGeek. Fascinating operation -- they take in used computers (in any condition), recycle what can't be made to work, sell a few in their store, and give away the rest. After a volunteer has built six computers (which includes trainng, from the ground up), they get to keep one. Debian GNU/Linux, of course.
Spent a delightful Friday evening with
cflute. Dinner, driving tour of Portland, ice cream, minor adventure getting the backup key out of the lockbox, house tour, music. Detail later, maybe.Spent all day Saturday walking, mostly on the waterfront. From the access point behind the convention center, up the East Esplanade past the OMSI to where it ends at the opera house, then over whichever bridge that was (map's packed -- details and pictures later) to the park along the other bank. Detour to find Powell's travel store, which is gone. Obsolete map. Detour to Powell's main store. Feed the addiction. Up past the Broadway Bridge. Back to the hotel over the Steel Bridge walkway. Thai food in Chinatown -- the waiter recognized my penguin button and Freegeek flier -- turns out he volunteers there. Crash and burn, a tired but happy bear.
Got to bed around 11 -- good thing; there were people coming and going all night; woke at 2:30 or so. Snatches of sleep until I finally gave it up around 6:30. Coffee and a maple bar at the Coffee People. Out to the airport. And here I am, with about 5 minutes until my plane boards.
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Date: 2005-08-08 11:52 am (UTC)But yeah...that sounds cool...the FreeGeek.
Alas they're all the way over in Portland ó_ò
I'd like to get a spare computer if possible so I can toy with Unix based systems (need to learn all the redumentary basics first)
Would like to have a system on that sort of OS permanently as oppose to rebooting my main computer or whatnot ~_~;;
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Date: 2005-08-09 08:26 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-08-09 08:30 am (UTC)Built the sucker to last...
The rest are 10+ yr old.
Siblings toting around laptops now =\
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Date: 2005-08-09 05:14 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-08-10 12:19 am (UTC)The one that my family ISN'T using atm is a 133MHz PI with only 32MB EDO RAM and not sure ho wuch HD space.
Having Win2k on there was hard enough =\
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Date: 2005-08-10 07:00 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-08-10 08:28 am (UTC)Eventually I hope to just obtain a system and fiddle with such =\
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Date: 2005-08-10 08:50 am (UTC)I find that something in the 2GHz/512MB range is more than enough; for example a $150 Lindows box from Fry's with an extra half-gig of RAM. You can put together something for $300 or so. These days they come with a 40GB hard drive that you can divvy up for playing with multiple distros.
freegeek is fascinating
Date: 2005-08-08 02:26 pm (UTC)And thanks generally for great reports from that event.
Re: freegeek is fascinating
Date: 2005-08-09 08:14 am (UTC)