I picked up the Pavilion et al that was sitting under the office steps and brought it, my Gateway, and my flatscreen to Denise and Sven's. Sven wants to setup the testbed in their basement: it's musty, but it does have one grounded outlet, and wireless reaches down there. Sven to clean out.

Installed Ubuntu 6.06.1 on Pavilion. Sven's memory won't fit in Gateway. Sven has SCSI PCI card and cable. Replied to Ron Joffe about getting one of his drives. Sven also has an old Dell. Wanna test the Gateway's HD in that or the Pavilion: but I forgot to bring tools, and Sven has none, so I can't get out the damn Phillips-heads holding the drive in.

Hardware inventory:

• my Sony 17" flatscreen
• DFC Pavilion 14" CRT
• DFC Pavilion 66 MHz, 128 MB RAM, 8 GB HD
• Sven's Dell Dimension 4100, "probably dead"
• Sven's memory module (too big for Gateway)
• Denise's Compaq Presario, may have bad video
• Sven's PCI SCSI2 card
• ? Brett's PC (pledged)

Done ~4pm. Next session: 5pm W 12 Sep @ Castle before webspace session w Brett. Todo's for next session (numbers are for ID only):

1. clean out basement (sven, this weekend)
2. bring extension cords, power strips, tools (tom)
3. get Joffe HDs (tom or sven)
4. get ungraphical setup chops (ifsetup, etc) (all)
5. bring 50-100' ethernet cable and hub (tom)
6. get key to basement south door from landlord (sven)
7. drop cable from router (in Blue's room) outside through basement south door
8. put SCSI controller and drive in Gateway, attempt to revive