[Moodle] A server for the moodlefest - and Open Day spruiking

[Roland Gesthuizen]

I just picked it up from the ComputerBank and cripes .. that huge
black box must be made out of recycled BHP steel girders, railway
sleepers or is powered by a neutron star! Talk about robust .. thanks
for the warning Ken. The volunteers there do a splendid job to work
towards a sustainable future.
     http://vic.computerbank.org.au/

I will now take a dim view on anybody that dares to throw away any
hardware in a dump-master or give it away to become future defacto
landfill by the roadside (our school now takes back any old IT gear we
give away to close the loop). I'll next organise the school caretaker
to shuttle a trailer load of old IT junk to them one saturday to reuse
or recycle.

I now have a small collection of a five computers / servers in the
back of the car .. all ready for us to rebuild and rescue from
landfill so lets have fun and build upon our inner noob-ness. I also
looking forward to the Monday education min-conf .. there is an
impressive range of speakers turning up at this conference and plan to
take my kids to the open day on the following Saturday. When will the
fun stop! :-)

Regards Roland

On 21/01/2008, Kent Beveridge <kbeveridge at stbc.vic.edu.au> wrote:
> A netfinity, I remember that one from a little while ago....do you know which series it is? They were a pretty good line even if not exactly cheap!
> A bit slow, noisy and bulky by today's standards but heck, what isn't !
> I'd love one of those for my kids to pull apart and see inside! (yes I know it is basically just a motherboard and some expansion boards but why spoil the fun!)
>
> I guess the installfest is still on for Saturday, can the location and times be given out please for those of us coming from country regions... need to arrange where to park my learjet and organise my elephant taxi!
>
> Also again, the miniconference details are still needed for Melb Uni on Monday28th..time start, registrations, building locations etc ASAP please...
>
> Kent.
>
> Kent Beveridge,
> I.T. co-ordinator
> St. Brigids Catholic Sec. College
> Horsham
> email.. kbeveridge at stbc.vic.edu.au
>
> |<3|\|7  b3\/3r1D93 ?  ;-)
>
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> From: moodle-bounces at edulists.com.au on behalf of Donna Benjamin
> Sent: Mon 1/21/2008 4:32 PM
> To: Roland Gesthuizen
> Cc: The Moodle Users' in Schools Mailing List
> Subject: [Moodle] A server for the moodlefest - and Open Day spruiking
>
>
>
> Hey - I salvaged an IBM Netfinity Server from computerbank for  the
> moodle installfest on the weekend.
>
> Does someone want to arrange to pick it up from me?
>
> Unfortunately, there's no way Peter or I can make it there - but hope it
> goes really well!
>
> Also - openday on Feb 2 - we need some help getting the word out to
> teachers / schools / families :)  Here's some posters / flyers
>
> http://linux.conf.au/openday
>
> - Donna
>
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Roland Gesthuizen - ICT Coordinator - Westall Secondary College
http://www.westallsc.vic.edu.au

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