[cumbria_lug] Another Meetup?

[John Patterson]

Hello,

WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF CUMBRIA LUG?
When living in Buckinghamshire I belonged to Maidenhead IGPUG but as 
Commodore faded away we morphed into a PC club but still with some Amiga 
activity back then.  The whole ethos of this group was mutual assistance 
with PCs and Amigas.  *Is this what Cumbria LUG does for Linux users? * 
If so I would like to attend your meeting.

LINUX NEWBIE
I am a newbie to Linux in my late 60's, at present dual-booting XP and 
Ubuntu 10.4 Desktop but I have dabbled with earlier Ubuntu and Kubuntu 
desktop distros over about a period of three years.  I've also had a 
look at other distros using LFX and other magazine's live DVDs.  I'm not 
a newbie to computing however, I go back to the days of 8 bit machines 
and needing to write our own programs in Basic as useful commercial 
software had not then been invented, apart from a few games.  As (IBM) 
PC 386s first became available, I ditched 8 bit and was an early user of 
Windows 3.0 and still occasionally find knowledge of DOS useful for 
tinkering.

LINUX DABBLER FOR YEARS
While I have been dabbling with Linux for several years, I cannot get 
either of my Canon printers to work with  the buntu family of distros 
and until I can produce printed output Linux will not be a productive 
tool for me.  Now if someone was to say that using xyz distro will make 
short work of this problem, or to say they are the administrator of a 
large network with several Canon laser printers and this is how you do 
it, that would change everything.  BTW I have visited many of the forums 
and like most users of Canon, have got nowhere to date.

Please keep me in the loop.

John Patterson
*Penrith*

Mark Wickens wrote:
> I have a BBQ - I'm sure I could arrange something in the Windermere area
> if people are interested.
>
> If not, I'll bring a vax along (as promised) wherever the next meeting
> is.
>
> Mark.
>
> On Wed, 2010-07-14 at 17:38 +0100, Derek Kaye wrote:
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>> I'm back in the area now (working in Lancaster) so could come to a
>> South Lakes meet :)
>>
>> Derek
>>
>> Steve3 wrote:
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>>> Probably a good time of year for BBQ Linux
>>>
>>> Kind regards
>>> SteveT
>>>
>>> On 14 Jul 2010, at 16:55, Karolis <kpocius at gmail.com
>>> <mailto:kpocius at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>>>> Let's do it! Where ad when? :)
>>>>
>>>> On 14 July 2010 16:52, David Priestley <stig-clug at spodbox.org
>>>> <mailto:stig-clug at spodbox.org>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>      August will be 6 months since the last meet.
>>>>
>>>>     Any interest in another one?
>>>>
>>>>     DP
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