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<\/a><\/p>\n19 notebook computers donated by Intuit, 14 of which are now installed with Ubuntu Linux!\u00a0 Thanks Intuit!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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These computers were donated to Partimus by Intuit<\/a>, so many thanks to Intuit for that!\u00a0 More details about the Intuit donation can be read here<\/a> and here<\/a>.\u00a0 This donation is going to make a big difference for Maria Jenerik’s classroom, because there was a fire in one of the buildings<\/a> housing the Creative Arts Charter School, so space is at a premium<\/a> at the Creative Arts school.\u00a0 Thanks to Jim Stockford of Systemateka<\/a> for introducing Partimus Board member Christian Einfeldt to Steve Camuti of Intuit.\u00a0 Steve orchestrated the donation through the halls of Intuit.<\/p>\n Today we put in 17 hours of work installing Ubuntu on those 14 computers; and running wire and cable to hook up the three additional machines.\u00a0\u00a0 Thanks again to James Ouyang and Maestro for your great work!\u00a0 We are particularly grateful to James Ouyang for getting the wifi router running.\u00a0 Maria Jenerik was really thrilled to see that she is now able to get access to the Internet wirelessly in her classroom.\u00a0\u00a0 Thanks, James!\u00a0 Sometimes such small things make a big difference.\u00a0 Getting the wifi running was the key final bit to making the Intuit notebook computers work well for Maria and her kids.<\/p>\n This work today in manually installing the notebook computers was just a temporary bridge step until we are able to mass install a uniform configuration across all of the machines to be administered remotely by our Partimus gurus.\u00a0 It was a really important bridge step, because now Maria Jenerik will be ready to go with her kids on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today was a really great day (Saturday 2012.8.18).\u00a0 Two volunteers by the name of Maestro and James Ouyang (@jyouyang) came to the Creative Arts Charter School today to help get the school ready for the start of the new school year on Monday, 2012.8.20.\u00a0 Together, we were able to manually install 14 of 19 notebook […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1],"tags":[36,61,76,62,77,52,67,21],"class_list":["post-371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-uncategorized","tag-fire","tag-intuit","tag-james-ouyang","tag-jim-stockford","tag-maestro","tag-maria-jenerik","tag-steve-camuti","tag-ubuntu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.partimus.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.partimus.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.partimus.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.partimus.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.partimus.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=371"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/blog.partimus.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":374,"href":"http:\/\/blog.partimus.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371\/revisions\/374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.partimus.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.partimus.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.partimus.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}