Hi, I'm Curious John Love Cosmos! Some of you know me from sudo already but
I haven't made an intro to the list. Greetings! :-)
An acquaintance has a bunch of old hardware from his workplace he'd like to
donate if anyone can facilitate that. Here's a list:
57x 1U Polywell servers (P4 or core2duo)
9x 1U low power servers (cyrix CPU)
15x 1U extended chassis server (P4 or core2duo)
1x 1U KVM; rack mount sliding fold-out monitor/keyboard
9x 2U HP proliant SCSI server (quad core)
5x 1U HP proliant SAS server (quad core)
1x 1U Dell server
1x tall tower PC
1x wooden desk
Also has a couple boxes of misc; hard drives, VESA wall mount, cables, etc.
Let me know if you'd like me to put you in touch to coordinate
pickup/drop-off!
-@curiousjohn
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Are you going to Maker Faire on Saturday?
I need someone to transport sudomate to the noisebridge booth at maker
faire, as they have ordered and are paying for 20L of it. I unfortunately
wont be going myself.
Max
So right about now, Sudo Room court is in full effect* ...
For those who weren't paying close attention to the news about the Oakland Police Department this past week, let me try to condense and read in between the lines. In case there was any doubt as to the unprecedented mess they/we are in: Two police chiefs resigned; Oakland made first in the country for robberies; news came out that only one person is in charge of coordinating burglary response; and the long-awaited police reform report was pulled from publication. (Raw footage of Fri. press conference - http://news.yahoo.com/video/raw-video-oakland-officials-address-221600024.h…)
Our police chief friend Howard "It's Unconscionable" Jordan of LockPickGate (http://oaklandwiki.org/Lockpickgate) announced his retirement suddenly on Wednesday, the same day that the Wasserman-Bratton Report was supposed to come out. Since he's three years short of being eligible for the top pension (75% of salary) for life, he claimed undisclosed medical reasons and getting to spend time with his family (where he lives somewhere other than Oakland). Anthony Toribio was named interim chief on Wednesday, and announced his resignation on Friday. Sean Whent is our new interim police chief as of Friday (https://local.nixle.com/alert/4999940/?sub_id=894092).
Thomas Frazier, who was appointed the Compliance Director by the federal court who fell short of a federal takeover of the OPD, had just announced the re-opening of investigations into police misconduct, including ones related to Occupy Oakland, the week before. Part of the deal the federal judge struck was that the Compliance Director has important authority over the OPD, including the ability to recommend the firing of police chiefs. (http://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/frazier-to-reexamine-police-misconduc…). Frazier was the one who delivered the scathing report about the OPD response to Occupy about a year and a half ago (http://www2.oaklandnet.com/oakca1/groups/cityadministrator/documents/webcon…).
The press conference for the release of the Bratton Report, which was supposed to come out on Wed., was cancelled and turned into a press conference for Jordan's early retirement. While the full report didn't come out, the six-page summary was posted by local CBS News (http://cbssanfran.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/bratton_group_report_051813.p…). When Oakland hired the Bratton Group to do the report, there was significant protest among Oakland communities because of Bratton's support for "stop and frisk" policing (euphemism for racial profiling) and "zero tolerance" policies. He's generally known as the top cop that brought LA & NY crime rates down significantly during his tenure there. Robert Wasserman ran the community meetings because of the community backlash against Bratton (http://oaklandlocal.com/article/wasserman-lays-out-general-plan-crime-preve…).
So is there anything that Sudo Room can do? Anything other than what other groups are already doing in trying to bring accountability to the OPD? A couple things in the Bratton Report (reprinted at OccupyOakland.org at http://occupyoakland.org/2013/05/bratton-group-report-may-8-2013/) come to mind. I think folks on this could have a lot of productive things to say about the Compstat Process, a computerized crime tracking system, which Bratton points to as key to improving crime response. The effectiveness of Compstat and how it can be optimally used and the drawbacks in how it is being suggested to be used has not really been discussed anywhere, as far as I can tell.
There is also reference to significantly increasing camera surveillance all over Oakland - getting more info about that will be very useful. Makes me think that now would be the ideal time to finally get our surveillance tours going - identifying surveillance cameras around downtown and taking people on tours pointing them out as they walk around. Before posting such a list on Oakland Wiki or something, we would want to narrow down those listed to ones that are aimed at public areas (or private ones that also capture public space).
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*http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70lH373A1NU
Hi All,
I recently came across a definition of Hackers and Makers and wanted to
share the concept with the Sudo Community.
Hacking can be defined as: Finding ways be make something perform a
function it was not indented to.
While Making can be defined as: Building new things.
The basic idea being that Hackers take existing things and get them to do
the unexpected, while Makers build new things. Makers can hack and Hackers
can make.
I like these definitions. Thoughts?
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Andrew Lowe
Cell: 831-332-2507
http://roshambomedia.com
http://www.instructables.com/id/1x1x1-LED-Cube/
"In the course of history, it becomes necessary to create something new to
advance the state of humanity.
The wheel, agriculture, and electricity were all transformative inventions
that seem downright simple today. But without them, we'd be munching our
nuts and half-rotted carcasses in the dark. Even the simplest project can
transform the world.
With that, we bring to you the 1x1x1 LED cube. Beauty in simplicity.
Absolute control over the fundamentals of microcontroller programming.
Saying "Let there be" and making it so like the PG chapters of Genesis.
As Antoine de Saint-Exupery skillfully points out, "Perfection is Achieved
Not When There Is Nothing More to Add, But When There Is Nothing Left to
Take Away"
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Andrew Lowe
Cell: 831-332-2507
http://roshambomedia.com
This was a great weekend
I'm happy we can put this stuff up on a mailing list and our wiki and not someone's social networking 2.0 site crammed with ads. ;)
I hear Rusty's complaint of cleanliness. and I want to speak in defense of
Oakland Nights Live. I didn't see you at Oakland Nights Live, so I imagine
you showed up after the event was over?
I saw them vacuum and pick up and vacuum the common area too a high level
of cleanliness. Maybe the front ground floor entry way was more dirty.
Rusty perhaps you could be more specific about what was wrong, because I
have a different understanding of their cleaning practices. Maybe it got
dirty inbetween when you saw it and when they cleaned it. If so then I feel
you are speculating on where the dirtiness came from.
Jenny, . I also didn't see you at ONL, and during the hour following. I
read that you sent an email to Oakland Nights Live with the phrasing "we
can no longer..." at some point. I feel upset that you did so because I
want messages claiming to be from sudo as "we" to be approved by all
sudoers before they're sent. I would like to request that you don't send
messages on behalf of sudo without consensus in the future.
Thanks,
Max
Hey Everyone,
Andrew and I saw late last night that the space was really messy and there
were piles of stuff everywhere. I was wayyy to tired to do anything about
it, but it was really bad, especially with all the left out bottles, food
on the floor, and etc. Romy and Jordan already started cleaning up earlier
today, but they shouldn't be doing that. It also wreaked of cigarette
smoke in the front hallway to the building.
Can someone forward this email, so that the host of this event knows that
this is an ongoing issue, and that we have gotten several complaints from
the landlord, George?
-Rusty
