[Bradford] Fwd:20 free print subscriptions

[David Carpenter]

Yeah, my pitch for the BCB days is this:

These are days when volunteers are coming into the station anyway, so
they are a ready made audience. what we want to do (IMHO) is:

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On 4 February 2014 16:56, John R. Hudson <j.r.hudson at virginmedia.com> wrote:
> One that I am doing is an Acer which always comes with two partitions;
> so I'm doing a dual boot, leaving all the XP files where they are with
> strict instructions not to use XP for the Internet. I am hoping that
> this way everything can be imported to Linux; if not, I will do an
> intermediate install of Firefox and Thunderbird on Windows and get them
> to harvest everything and then save it for use on Linux. Will report
> back on how it goes.
>
> I still have a free version of Partition Magic which will copy the
> user's folder and all its contents to a USB stick without the need to
> resort to the command line for other cases.
>
> John
> --
> On Tue, 2014-02-04 at 15:54 +0000, David Spencer wrote:
>> Yeah I'd be up for doing something!
>>
>> Someone I know is vaguely wondering what to do about XP, the concern
>> being that they've paid for Photoshop and other stuff, and don't want
>> to be taken to the cleaners all over again, so there is a bit of
>> public awareness out there.  I think what I would try would be Mint
>> and Wine.  (Thank goodness they didn't call it Linux Mistletoe).  Big
>> worries would be backups; carrying forward a decade of files spattered
>> around the 'c drive' and so forth; and not losing web logins etc.
>> Doing a nice job doesn't necessarily scale, and that's one of the
>> worries of a public event.  Some other concerns would be liability,
>> flakey hardware, and how to look the other way when you find someone's
>> stash of pr0nz.
>>
>> It would definitely be good fodder for both the radio and Linux Voice,
>> which gets us out of most of the worries ;-)
>>
>> We probably need a guinea pig.
>>
>> Tarra
>> -D.
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