[Bradford] Fwd:20 free print subscriptions

John R. Hudson j.r.hudson at virginmedia.com
Thu Feb 6 13:03:21 UTC 2014


Sorry, didn't understand what was wanted. If the IT Stuff people know
what they are doing, a few teasers would be in order. Not sure that we
know what we are going to do at the Monday meeting.

John
--
On Thu, 2014-02-06 at 12:53 +0000, Nick Rhodes wrote:
> 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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