i have a box of old macbooks, some could be made to work, some work.. there are
also a couple of ancient macbook pros maybe... all Intel CPUs so yes they can
run linux. Most are 4GB RAM maximum though. I also have a ton of power
adaptors but again they need soldering to work.
free if you're not just going to throw them out, but you can't keep them at
sudoroom! must take them home.
https://sfbay.craigslist.org/eby/sop/d/oakland-bunch-of-old-macbooks/695536…
-jake
we really need to fix the north wall bottom plate & a large section of the
roof over sudoroom before the rainy season comes or we're going to have
leaks this winter
any volunteers?
:/
Hello Sudo Room, Adam & I worked on the back shop area, which is why the
tools and material is a bit messy. There is still a bit of work to do.
Please pardon the mess while it is being sorted and organized. I will be
back later this afternoon to continue sorting and organizing.
Thanks
Rayc
To all concerned,
Spaz has been throwing a lot of parties at Omni Commons, and Sudoroom
has been sponsoring them. As a member collective, our sponsorship
gives them the privilege of bypassing many rules and oversight of
Omni's commons working group.
But at last night's Sudoroom meeting there were many concerns about
continuing to sponsor these parties, especially the most recent party
on Saturday night 8/31:
* Loud noise after hours (11pm on friday/saturday) should be confined
to the basement, but there was amplified music in the entrance hall
all night. It undoubtedly disturbed our neighbors, which puts the
whole building at risk. In the future someone will need to do outside
sound checks with a proper sound meter througout the evening, keep
logs, and be ready to share them
* The relationship between SPAZ and SKAST was not clear - at first we
thought SKAST was just curating an art show at a SPAZ party, but now
it looks like SKAST was actually throwing the whole party, which meant
the people running the party didn't have a sense of ownership or even
know what the rules were. This is a bad idea and also an abuse of our
sponsorship.
* There was nobody clearly responsible or able to keep control of the
crowd - Joe was a point person who was trying to tell people to turn
down the music but everybody ignored him
* There was alcohol flowing freely, but they did not have an ABC
license or insurance for this. Even when the party is BYOB we are
still legally responsible for the presence of alcohol.
* There were probably too many people. You need to limit attendance by
counting in and out guests
* The party leaked into the rest of the building, and many people were
going into non-party areas such as the ballroom, sudo/ccl & upstairs.
This creates more risk and more mess for everybody to clean up.
* People left a huge mess - even after several Omni volunteers working
*ALL NIGHT* it was still not clean enough for an event the next day.
The activists who got up early Sunday for a nonviolent direct action
training, preparing for next week's climate strike, did not have the
best experience at Omni and they should not need to deal with the
consequences of someone else's drunken benders.
* Communication with others at Omni has been poor. If spaz people
can't make it to the Commons WG meeting, then you all need to figure
out a better time to talk to each other (e.g. not 5 pm when people are
just getting off work).
* Omni recently forced out a member collective, in part because of
similar concerns about unpermitted boozy events. If we don't hold
every group to the same standards, then we are hypocrites.
We love spaz, but we cannot keep sponsoring these events until
everybody has met in person and resolved these issues.
Thanks,
Yar on behalf of Sudoroom
the ventilation for the new laser cutter is not cutting it
it's stinking up the room & ballroom & making me nauseous
i told the guy using it but he didnt seem to care
Hey all,
It's been a while since we've had a real Sudoroom meeting. There are a
couple of pending Omni proposals & issues that need our attention:
* Almost 6 months ago, Helen proposed a process for Omni delegates to
resolve conflicts and remove members from working groups. We owe it to
her to finally make a clear decision on this.
* Omni's figurehead corporate entity needs 3 new officers (president,
secretary, treasurer) and we need more volunteers for these roles
* We need to figure out new rules for giving Omni keycards to people -
I proposed letting members vouch for non-members, which doesn't seem
fully workable, but the discussion must continue
We could meet this week 8/21, next week 8/28, or the week after 9/4. I
know more people will be in town 9/4 but the downside is that we have
a delegates meeting the very next day. If anybody has blocking
concerns for any of these proposals it would be rude to wait until 9/4
to voice them.
Thanks,
Yar
last night there was a constant beeping sound in sudoroom
it was traced to a UPS in the server rack.
the type of UPS was the oldest cheapest kind with no buttons or functions, it
didn't even have USB or any way to notify equipment that power had failed...
so I unplugged it from the wall for a second and everything went down, so i
followed through and removed it from the system and plugged everything back in.
After a while of still no internet, i realized that the router PC was not on
because it's a dell desktop that has not been configured to turn itself on
after being plugged in. I pressed the power button and everything went back to
normal.
Of course i'm sure that dell is "temporary" but we should probably either boot
it into BIOS mode and set it to "auto power on after AC loss" or take a safety
pin and short the PS_ON# green wire (possibly a different color since it's a
dell) to black (ground) to force the power supply ON no matter what.
oh and also a sign of some sort.
to be clear: the UPS was not working and wasn't hooked up properly anyway. A
UPS needs to tell the computers it's powering that the power has failed so they
can safely shut down before power goes off.
-jake
