[Tech] Update Abigail's lab

Abigail Rudner arudner at efcps.net
Wed May 6 17:30:59 PDT 2015


Thank you AMAZING CHRISTIAN ~ you are so kind, we really appreciate it!
~ all the best  and be safe till I see you again :-) ar

On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 5:20 PM, Christian Einfeldt <einfeldt at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Sean and I updated Abigail's Linux lab today.  The changes are reflected
> in the lab spreadsheet, to which you all have access.  If you don't have
> access for whatever reason, just let me know, and I will give you access.
>
> Essentially, we installed Lubuntu 14.04 on two new machines today and used
> them to replace the machines that were in positions 5 and 24, because those
> machines only had 500 MB of RAM and were very slow as a result.
>
> Abigail thought that machines 19 and 20 were slow, but I am going to have
> to speak with her about that again, because those machines are actually 2
> of the faster machines in the lab.  The spreadsheet shows that they have 3
> GB and 2 GB of RAM, respectively, and I tested both machines, and found
> them to be fast.  I was not able to reproduce the problem that Abigail was
> seeing, and so I left those machines in place.
>
> Position 24 now has 2 machines in place.  One of them is merely a
> pedestal, namely, the old pizza box style machine that was there, but it is
> unplugged and just sitting there.  Beside it is one of the Partimus
> machines donate by J. David Eisenberg, which is working and has 1 GB of RAM.
>
> Abigail now has 2 machines installed and ready to serve as back up
> machines if other of her machines go down.  Those are the two machines
> sitting on the counter behind her desk, and those machines have been
> labelled accordingly.  Abigail, if one of your production machines goes
> down, all you have to do is unplug the bad machine and plug in the good
> machine and you are ready to go.
>
> The machine that was formerly sitting in position 5 is now sitting
> unplugged behind Abigail's desk.  It could either be end-of-lifed or
> donated, or kept as an emergency back up machine.
>
> There is now only 1 more machine that is running 500 MB of RAM, and it is
> in position 3.  I ran out of time to test it today, but next time I come, I
> can test it and replace it, or Abigail could replace it with one of the
> machines behind her desk.  Those machines both have 1 GB of RAM, and both
> are fully installed and tested and ready to go.
>
> --
> Christian Einfeldt
>
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