[Cialug] AmesLUG: January 13th Meeting: BYPD - get help!

[Jonathan A. Kollasch]

On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 02:00:06PM -0600, Matthew Steven wrote:
> That would be "Bring Your Problem Device" - if you have some piece of 
> hardware that is not behaving and you're ready for some other expert 
> eyes on the problem, bring it all to the next AmesLUG.
> 
> Don't just bring the device that is puzzling or amusing you, bring what 
> it belongs with so we can have essentially a full troubleshooting 
> environment.
> 
> And for the rest of the crew, bring your troubleshooting brains, and 
> we'll see what needs fixing and try to help people out. If you could 
> volunteer to do any of the following, please speak up!
> 
> 1) Need one person to bring a few USB sticks and CDs of recent Freenix 
> distros (Ubuntu, *BSD, etc) so we're prepared to do reinstalls if necessary.
> 
> 2) Need someone to bring a small LCD monitor with a vga connector and 
> adapter for DVI, mouse and keyboards that will work on just about 
> anything, so that others need only bring their boxen in without accessories.

I can volunteer a 17" LCD and a USB "wireless desktop".  Maybe I'll also
drag along various conductive power and data conduits that might be useful.

> 3) Got another idea for something that will help? Let's hear it!

Caffeine?  Nah, I wouldn't get to sleep at a reasonable hour.

	Jonathan Kollasch