[Bradford] Fwd:20 free print subscriptions

[John R. Hudson]

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
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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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