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|| Current Ubuntu/Linux Version || Xubuntu 12.04.1 (x86 netbook), [[http://www.vectorlinux.com/|VectorLinux]] Light 7.0 (Desktop), A Flavor To Be Determined of Ubuntu 12.04.1 ([[http://www.digikey.com/product-highlights/us/en/texas-instruments-beagleboard/685|BeagleBoard-xM]]) || || Current Ubuntu/Linux Version || Xubuntu 12.04.2 (x86 netbook / [[http://www.digikey.com/product-highlights/us/en/texas-instruments-beagleboard/685|BeagleBoard-xM]]), [[http://www.raspbian.org/|Raspbian]] ([[http://www.alliedelec.com/Search/ProductDetail.aspx?SKU=70229569|Raspberry Pi Model B]])||
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I have currently bricked a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SheevaPlug|SheevaPlug]] and am hurriedly attempting to repurpose my [[http://www.digikey.com/product-highlights/us/en/texas-instruments-beagleboard/685|BeagleBoard-xM]] to bridge the gap. Thanks to the SSH client I found for my [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_e71x|my old-timey Nokia smartphone]], I still have remote access to a number of things including machines in-house. The desktop is a hand-me-down that has outright crashed booting the LTS live CD but yet somehow booted the installers for [[http://www.vectorlinux.com/|VectorLinux]] Light 7.0 and [[http://www.mageia.org/|Mageia]] 2 successfully. My desktop provides experience in other Linux traditions to help broaden my horizons. My netbook from System76 runs Xubuntu 12.04.1 and travels with me frequently. I bricked a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SheevaPlug|SheevaPlug]] and repurposed my [[http://www.digikey.com/product-highlights/us/en/texas-instruments-beagleboard/685|BeagleBoard-xM]] to bridge the gap fulfilling desktop and server roles. My [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_e71x|my old-timey Nokia smartphone]] is dead and [[http://reviews.cnet.com/smartphones/nokia-2720-fold-blue/4505-6452_7-33896908.html|an old flip phone]] is being utilized with my e-mail being bounced on occasion to the phone via the magic of an MMS gateway. The hand-me-down desktop that previously was in use running [[http://www.vectorlinux.com/|VectorLinux]] Light 7.0 has been put into storage due to power budget issues involving a month-on-month tripling of kilowatt-hour usage. No, I cannot really say I have a ton of consistently working equipment at the moment.

Right now my netbook serves up what it can and travels with me. The [[http://www.digikey.com/product-highlights/us/en/texas-instruments-beagleboard/685|BeagleBoard-xM]] is functioning as a desktop with some server functions. There is a Raspberry Pi that initially served as a general purpose server but has been redirected to running [[http://packages.debian.org/mediatomb|MediaTomb]] as part of an in-home project. An Arudino has been purchased by a benefactor which will allow some work in experimentation along the lines of building perhaps a timebase focusing on [[http://www.nist.gov/pml/div688/grp40/wwv.cfm|WWV/WWVH]] or some other project that comes to mind with what junkbox parts I do have on-hand.

Equipment donations via [[http://amzn.com/w/35SWMCWPMXDJE|this configured Amazon wishlist]] are graciously accepted in this time of cutbacks and continuing equipment failures. As I am not currently gainfully employed, anything received is gratefully appreciated with a cheerful heart. I plan to resume studies but that is uncertain at this time as to how it may proceed.
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 {*} member of the [[https://launchpad.net/~not-canonical|Not Canonical]] group on [[https://launchpad.net|Launchpad]] where I note I am not employed by Canonical

 {*} member of [[https://launchpad.net/~xubuntu-doc|Xubuntu Documentation]] team
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 {*} member of the [[https://launchpad.net/~not-canonical|Not Canonical]] group on [[https://launchpad.net|Launchpad]] where I note I am not employed by Canonical  {*} transitioning into serving as listowner for [[http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PNLA-L/|PNLA-L]]
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 {*} member of [[https://launchpad.net/~openbox-desktop.team|openbox-desktop]] team
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 {*} Look at how to un-brick the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SheevaPlug|SheevaPlug]]  {*} Locally evangelize Ubuntu and its many flavors further <-- '''BLOCKED''' ''as per discussion of local deficiencies in Ashtabula County relative to public safety and community security and how that damages the lowest level of Maslow's Hierachy of Needs''
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 {*} Evangelize Ubuntu and its many flavors further  {*} Concluding preliminaries so as to run for office of Township Trustee at the November 2013 general election to help govern the township I live in
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 {*} Complete paperwork to go back to school by Summer 2013 if possible

Name

Stephen Michael Kellat

SIP

1580 on sip.sdf.org

IRC

skellat on irc.freenode.net

Jabber

alpacaherder on jabber.org

identi.ca

alpacaherder

Website

skellat.freeshell.org

Gopher

gopher://sdf.lonestar.org:70/1/users/skellat/

Email

skellat@sdf.lonestar.org

Launchpad

Stephen Michael Kellat

Current Ubuntu/Linux Version

Xubuntu 12.04.2 (x86 netbook / BeagleBoard-xM), Raspbian (Raspberry Pi Model B)


About Me

I am the Head Writer at Erie Looking Productions and present The Burning Circle, the podcast of the Ohio LoCo Team. The podcast now has over sixty episodes and has been active for over a calendar year. Outside the Ubuntu realm I have presented since December 2007 LISTen: An LISNews.org Podcast which deals with more general issues in the realm of library and information science.

I bricked a SheevaPlug and repurposed my BeagleBoard-xM to bridge the gap fulfilling desktop and server roles. My my old-timey Nokia smartphone is dead and an old flip phone is being utilized with my e-mail being bounced on occasion to the phone via the magic of an MMS gateway. The hand-me-down desktop that previously was in use running VectorLinux Light 7.0 has been put into storage due to power budget issues involving a month-on-month tripling of kilowatt-hour usage. No, I cannot really say I have a ton of consistently working equipment at the moment.

Right now my netbook serves up what it can and travels with me. The BeagleBoard-xM is functioning as a desktop with some server functions. There is a Raspberry Pi that initially served as a general purpose server but has been redirected to running MediaTomb as part of an in-home project. An Arudino has been purchased by a benefactor which will allow some work in experimentation along the lines of building perhaps a timebase focusing on WWV/WWVH or some other project that comes to mind with what junkbox parts I do have on-hand.

Equipment donations via this configured Amazon wishlist are graciously accepted in this time of cutbacks and continuing equipment failures. As I am not currently gainfully employed, anything received is gratefully appreciated with a cheerful heart. I plan to resume studies but that is uncertain at this time as to how it may proceed.

I have been an Ubuntu Member since March 15, 2012.


Activities


Pending Matters

  • Ubuntu Learn Perl

    Ubuntu Learn Python

    Ubuntu Locally evangelize Ubuntu and its many flavors further <-- BLOCKED as per discussion of local deficiencies in Ashtabula County relative to public safety and community security and how that damages the lowest level of Maslow's Hierachy of Needs

    Ubuntu Concluding preliminaries so as to run for office of Township Trustee at the November 2013 general election to help govern the township I live in

    Ubuntu Complete paperwork to go back to school by Summer 2013 if possible


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