[wplug-announce] Installfest Saturday May 21 10am-5pm CMU NSH 1507 - sponsored by PCCLUB.COM

[Beth Lynn]

Hello,

Western PA Linux Users Group invites you to an Installfest
on this Saturday May 21, 2005. It will take place in
Carnegie Mellon University's Newel Simon Hall, room 1507
and will run from 10am until 5pm. The host will be Beth Lynn
Eicher. The co-host will be Jonathan Billings.

Please scroll to the bottom for more information on pcclub.com's 
sponsorship of the May 21 installfest.

Attention:
The WPLUG installfest are free and open to the public. All who attend
are guests of the hosts of this event, please cooperate with them at all
times. Please use common sense during the WPLUG event, as you may be
asked to leave by the hosts if you abuse the facilities.
The full policy can be found on our website...
http://www.wplug.org/pages/installfestpolicy.html

No registration is required. If you have any questions or would like to 
borrow a particular version of Linux, please post to our general mailing 
list wplug at wplug.org and someone will help you out. Please subscribe before
posting by filling out the form on this website...
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Please visit our Maps and Directions page
http://www.wplug.org/pages/wplugmap/
Please note that our phone number is currently 412 268 7564
If you've never been here before make sure you print out the
directions!

Please show up earlier rather than later to ensure that you can get help.
For example, if you show up much later than 2pm it is likely that you will
not have enough time to install and configure.

Installfest, as well as all WPLUG meetings, are open to the general
public. If you just want to see what Linux is about or you've been
a Linux guru for years, the WPLUG installfest is for you.

For those who don't know, the purpose of an installfest is to
facilitate new installations of Linux as well as troubleshoot, upgrade,
or generally provide help with an existing installations.  If you just
want to just show off your new hardware or some software goodies, that's
cool too. So bring your machine and have some fun!

As well as your machine, you will want to bring your monitor, network
cables, power cables, surge protector, mouse, keyboard, media, etc.
Don't worry, there will be a cart on hand to haul all of your stuff in.

As always, installfests need volunteers to help with the installs and 
generally be available for questions.  So even if you don't feel like
bringing your own machine, come and help others out!

Pizza lunch will be served around noon compliments of pcclub.com
Don't make me stand up on a chair this time! PEEET-ZA!

PCCLUB.COM Sponsorship Info:

PCCLUB.COM is a national PC hardware chain that happens to have a local 
store in the Robinson shopping area. They are a full service hardware shop 
selling custom built systems and repair service. For the do-it-yourself 
person, they have many PC components in stock for sale at competitive 
prices.

*) PCCLUB.COM be purchasing breakfast (donuts, danishes, coffee) and lunch
(pizza). 
*) PCCLUB.COM giving out t-shirts, mouse pads, business cards.
*) PCCLUB will have a separate table to show off a number of components 
and systems.
*) PCCLUB.COM will assemble the systems and install Linux and/or FreeBSD 
for demonstration.

Here's some details on the products that PCCLUB.COM be showing off:

- Gigabyte GA-K8NF-9 Motherboard featuring the Socket 939 and nVidia 
NForce4 Chipset w/ PCI-Express:
http://www.pcclub.com/product_detail.cfm?itemno=A4830946
http://www.giga-byte.com/Motherboard/Products/Products_GA-K8NF-9.htm

- The AMD64 3200+ CPU featuring the Zalman CNPS7700-Cu 120mm Pure Copper 
CPUFan
http://www.zalman.co.kr/eng/product/view.asp?idx=145&code=005009

- ThermalTake Shark Full Tower Aluminum Case:
http://www.pcclub.com/product_detail.cfm?itemno=A1311700
http://www.thermaltake.com/xaserCase/shark/sharkmenu.htm
http://www.thermaltake.com/xaserCase/shark/silver/silver.htm

- Corsair 512MB TWINX512-3200LLPT XMS3200 2-3-2-6 2x184 DIMM Platinum
http://www.corsair.com/corsair/products/specs/twinx512-3200ll.pdf

Hope to see you there,

Beth Lynn Eicher

Upcoming Events
May 28 10am-2pm Gum Subversion
June 4 10am-4pm Gum MythTV
June 11 10am-2pm Popular Demand: Regular Expressions

If you have any questions pertaining to this or other wplug event, Beth 
Lynn can be contacted at bethlynn at wplug.org