[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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