<div dir="ltr"><div>John,<br>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.<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra">
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 6 February 2014 12:45, John R. Hudson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:j.r.hudson@virginmedia.com" target="_blank">j.r.hudson@virginmedia.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Already done.<br>
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<a href="http://www.bradlug.co.uk/life-after-xp/" target="_blank">http://www.bradlug.co.uk/life-after-xp/</a><br>
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I have just had a call from one of the people who wants me to install<br>
Linux and so I hope to complete the first today. I will save the hwinfo<br>
file that Partition Magic generates.<br>
<br>
John<br>
--<br>
<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">On Thu, 2014-02-06 at 11:28 +0000, Nick Rhodes wrote:<br>
> Can somoene get 100 words done by close of today ?<br>
><br>
><br>
> I could craft together a Windows error dialog tonight:<br>
><br>
> Windows XP has reached end of life.<br>
> Would you like Bradlug to help you:<br>
><br>
> [Install Linux] [Cancel]<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
> On 6 February 2014 09:04, John R. Hudson <<a href="mailto:j.r.hudson@virginmedia.com">j.r.hudson@virginmedia.com</a>><br>
> wrote:<br>
> I have my laptop set up with all the more lightweight<br>
> alternative<br>
> distros. So I could bring that to demonstrate.<br>
><br>
> John<br>
> --<br>
> On Wed, 2014-02-05 at 10:46 +0000, David Carpenter wrote:<br>
> > Do'h done it again...so..<br>
> ><br>
> > These are days when volunteers are coming into the station<br>
> anyway, so<br>
> > they are a ready made audience. what we want to do (IMHO)<br>
> is:<br>
> ><br>
> > 1) Present them with the problem - XP end of life - no<br>
> internet<br>
> > 2) Try/Demo a linux alternative and get feedback<br>
> ><br>
> > From this we should be able to gather their pro's and con's<br>
> and work<br>
> > out where the difficulties in migration might lie.<br>
> ><br>
> > My hope is that<br>
> > a) some people will be genuinely interested in Linux any way<br>
> > b) some people will be interested because they have XP at<br>
> home<br>
> > c) on the balance of things, there may be enough people that<br>
> start to<br>
> > be persuaded that Linux could be the way to go for the<br>
> station as a<br>
> > whole<br>
> ><br>
> > I do think they have an opportunity to be the first station<br>
> to run<br>
> > entirely on free and open source software, and that this<br>
> would bring<br>
> > attention/funding/support (e.g. from Canonical perhaps?)<br>
> ><br>
> > BTW BCB are not aware of these plans yet so it may not<br>
> happen, but if<br>
> > people are interested I'll put it to them later this week.<br>
> > Cheers<br>
> > David<br>
> ><br>
> > On 5 February 2014 10:33, David Carpenter<br>
> <<a href="mailto:david.carpenter@nornir.co.uk">david.carpenter@nornir.co.uk</a>> wrote:<br>
> > > Yeah, my pitch for the BCB days is this:<br>
> > ><br>
> > > These are days when volunteers are coming into the station<br>
> anyway, so<br>
> > > they are a ready made audience. what we want to do (IMHO)<br>
> is:<br>
> > ><br>
> > > 1)<br>
> > ><br>
> > > On 4 February 2014 16:56, John R. Hudson<br>
> <<a href="mailto:j.r.hudson@virginmedia.com">j.r.hudson@virginmedia.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> > >> One that I am doing is an Acer which always comes with<br>
> two partitions;<br>
> > >> so I'm doing a dual boot, leaving all the XP files where<br>
> they are with<br>
> > >> strict instructions not to use XP for the Internet. I am<br>
> hoping that<br>
> > >> this way everything can be imported to Linux; if not, I<br>
> will do an<br>
> > >> intermediate install of Firefox and Thunderbird on<br>
> Windows and get them<br>
> > >> to harvest everything and then save it for use on Linux.<br>
> Will report<br>
> > >> back on how it goes.<br>
> > >><br>
> > >> I still have a free version of Partition Magic which will<br>
> copy the<br>
> > >> user's folder and all its contents to a USB stick without<br>
> the need to<br>
> > >> resort to the command line for other cases.<br>
> > >><br>
> > >> John<br>
> > >> --<br>
> > >> On Tue, 2014-02-04 at 15:54 +0000, David Spencer wrote:<br>
> > >>> Yeah I'd be up for doing something!<br>
> > >>><br>
> > >>> Someone I know is vaguely wondering what to do about XP,<br>
> the concern<br>
> > >>> being that they've paid for Photoshop and other stuff,<br>
> and don't want<br>
> > >>> to be taken to the cleaners all over again, so there is<br>
> a bit of<br>
> > >>> public awareness out there. I think what I would try<br>
> would be Mint<br>
> > >>> and Wine. (Thank goodness they didn't call it Linux<br>
> Mistletoe). Big<br>
> > >>> worries would be backups; carrying forward a decade of<br>
> files spattered<br>
> > >>> around the 'c drive' and so forth; and not losing web<br>
> logins etc.<br>
> > >>> Doing a nice job doesn't necessarily scale, and that's<br>
> one of the<br>
> > >>> worries of a public event. Some other concerns would be<br>
> liability,<br>
> > >>> flakey hardware, and how to look the other way when you<br>
> find someone's<br>
> > >>> stash of pr0nz.<br>
> > >>><br>
> > >>> It would definitely be good fodder for both the radio<br>
> and Linux Voice,<br>
> > >>> which gets us out of most of the worries ;-)<br>
> > >>><br>
> > >>> We probably need a guinea pig.<br>
> > >>><br>
> > >>> Tarra<br>
> > >>> -D.<br>
> > >>><br>
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