Hello,

I've been with C4C since early last summer.  I've been doing home refurbs since we moved out of the Boys and Girls club.  I'm committed to doing 3 computers a week but my record was 11.  6 laptops and 5 desktops.  I documented my methods using a server to clone the machines and it's stored somewhere on the website.  Also here http://pierrekerr.ca/docs/HomeRefurb.pdf

This week I did some on-site troubleshooting of a dial up modem that wouldn't.  I posted my experience on the website's Home Refurb forum under the title "Don't Forget the Obvious".

I did some lengthy battles with a box full of modems a while back trying to get them to work under Linux.  "Win" modems all (want one?).  No luck.  Since then I have had success buying USR hardware modems model USR5610C on E-bay.  The last lot I bought was $12 for 5 and I actually received 6 with $10 delivery from the States.

I also did a service call to a young blind man.  He was going to buy one of C4C's servers but it ended up dying so instead I fixed his server.  He's got Linux certification and is quite a techie.  He's offered to help us out.  Now I'm testing VInux, an Ubuntu based distribution for the Visually Impaired.

Now let's see how this new list behaves.

Pierre