on the goodwill front, take a few photos and forward those along with your letters to GW corp to your local newspaper.
either they will change their ways or people will stop donating
----- Original Message -----
From: Chris Mohler <cr33dog@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Friday, December 29, 2006 11:40 am
Subject: Re: donated computers lab setup
To: For users of Fedora <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Good Will Industries used to slap FC3 on theirs, in Roanoke VA.
> Great> people to do so. They'd sell an entire outfit for $100. I
> doubt FC5 or
> > FC6 would install though. Happy New Year to you, too. Ric
> >
> I've taken to calling our local GoodWill "IllWill" instead, as they
> just chuck 90% of the donated hardware into the trash, and
> threaten to
> call the cops when I dig it out. The *big* stinker is that they cut
> whatever cords they can get their little paws on, so I end up leaving
> most of the monitors...
>
> I've written to corporate a couple of times and never gotten a reply.
>
> Back to the OP - I also recommend LTSP. I have a pile of "garbage"
> P1s and P2's that work just fine as terminals. Once you have the
> server set up, adding another terminal is as easy as determining the
> NIC's chipset and spitting out a boot floppy a la rom-o-matic.net.
>
> One major caveat: sound. In theory, it works. In practice, there's
> too much lag.
>
> Chris
>
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