Re: [clug-talk] Fwd: [Calgary-Hackspace] Free Geek Calgary?

2011-05-24 Thread Scott Thistle
I would be interested in helping/donating/etc. I guess we contact this person Kent/Kenter? -- Scott Thistle sc...@tekkie.org http://www.linkedin.com/in/scottthistle On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 11:21 AM, Shawn wrote: > Reposting here for any who may be interested. > > --

Re: [clug-talk] dealing UUID with spaces

2011-05-24 Thread Ralph Boland
John's idea of using a backspace was a a good idea and I should have thought of it. Alas, it doesn''t actually work as Justin pointed out. I got the UUID from /dev/disk/by-uuid and used that in /etc/fstab as Justin proposed. Worked like a charm. I also looked in /dev/disk/by-label and found: HP

Re: [clug-talk] dealing UUID with spaces

2011-05-24 Thread Mel Walters
I ran into a multiple same point mount and saw reference to this solution: 1/ as you (ie mwalters) umount smb4k/SOMECOMPUTER/Media/ 2/ as super user (su) umount /home/mwalters/smb4k/SOMECOMPUTER/Media/ No way of really knowing if you were in a similar enough situation, but it worked for me at the

Re: [clug-talk] Fwd: [Calgary-Hackspace] Free Geek Calgary?

2011-05-24 Thread Mel Walters
The Alberta Government's E-waste program only deals with scraping what they get http://www.albertarecycling.ca/ http://environment.gov.ab.ca/info/faqs/faq6-Electronics.asp Setting up a FreeGeek here would be better for the environment, better for those needing affordable computers, and better for

Re: [clug-talk] Fwd: [Calgary-Hackspace] Free Geek Calgary?

2011-05-24 Thread Scott Thistle
While I would like to help, I cannot run it as I have a $dayjob and a hectic schedule. I have some older gear that might be of use (Acer Aspire One - bad SDD but Chromium works fine from USB - HP NetServer LPr, not sure specs). Also an old 15" Dell LCD that works ok (1024x768 res). -

Re: [clug-talk] Fwd: [Calgary-Hackspace] Free Geek Calgary?

2011-05-24 Thread Shawn
Don't forget there are existing places that do recycling. ERA (http://era.ca/) would be a good place to start. On 11-05-24 04:28 PM, Scott Thistle wrote: While I would like to help, I cannot run it as I have a $dayjob and a hectic schedule. I have some older gear that might be of use (Acer Asp