[Bradford] Fwd:20 free print subscriptions
Nick Rhodes
nick at ngrhodes.co.uk
Thu Feb 6 12:54:26 UTC 2014
John,
There was a request for 100 words for Linux Voice about what our LUG is
doing in March - I was thinking about putting in our Life after XP
plans/efforts.
On 6 February 2014 12:45, John R. Hudson <j.r.hudson at virginmedia.com> wrote:
> Already done.
>
> http://www.bradlug.co.uk/life-after-xp/
>
> I have just had a call from one of the people who wants me to install
> Linux and so I hope to complete the first today. I will save the hwinfo
> file that Partition Magic generates.
>
> John
> --
> On Thu, 2014-02-06 at 11:28 +0000, Nick Rhodes wrote:
> > Can somoene get 100 words done by close of today ?
> >
> >
> > I could craft together a Windows error dialog tonight:
> >
> > Windows XP has reached end of life.
> > Would you like Bradlug to help you:
> >
> > [Install Linux] [Cancel]
> >
> >
> >
> > On 6 February 2014 09:04, John R. Hudson <j.r.hudson at virginmedia.com>
> > wrote:
> > I have my laptop set up with all the more lightweight
> > alternative
> > distros. So I could bring that to demonstrate.
> >
> > John
> > --
> > On Wed, 2014-02-05 at 10:46 +0000, David Carpenter wrote:
> > > Do'h done it again...so..
> > >
> > > 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:
> > >
> > > 1) Present them with the problem - XP end of life - no
> > internet
> > > 2) Try/Demo a linux alternative and get feedback
> > >
> > > From this we should be able to gather their pro's and con's
> > and work
> > > out where the difficulties in migration might lie.
> > >
> > > My hope is that
> > > a) some people will be genuinely interested in Linux any way
> > > b) some people will be interested because they have XP at
> > home
> > > c) on the balance of things, there may be enough people that
> > start to
> > > be persuaded that Linux could be the way to go for the
> > station as a
> > > whole
> > >
> > > I do think they have an opportunity to be the first station
> > to run
> > > entirely on free and open source software, and that this
> > would bring
> > > attention/funding/support (e.g. from Canonical perhaps?)
> > >
> > > BTW BCB are not aware of these plans yet so it may not
> > happen, but if
> > > people are interested I'll put it to them later this week.
> > > Cheers
> > > David
> > >
> > > On 5 February 2014 10:33, David Carpenter
> > <david.carpenter at nornir.co.uk> wrote:
> > > > 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:
> > > >
> > > > 1)
> > > >
> > > > 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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