[Falkirk] Meeting de-briefing

[kemal]

WWWWWWWaaaaaaHHHHhh !!! Jonanthan thinks my notebook is like a toilet
seat.....sniff sniff...anyway i was ever so grateful fro the help i WILL
write to these euro MEPs and i will be going 17apr not sure about EDI tho
coz you never said where or when......Big thnaks and Greetz also to He who
must be worshipped and obesance (hope thats right) must be paid ..big GOD
MQUIN..i am humbled before your superior knowledge i sing you praises in the
holy tabernacle and all that ....
Jonathan i cannot get mplayer to install.......next project?
thanks
kemal
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jonathan Riddell" <jr@jriddell.org>
To: <falkirk@mailman.lug.org.uk>
Sent: Sunday, March 23, 2003 11:01 PM
Subject: [Falkirk] Meeting de-briefing


>
> Last Thursday...
>
>  - Kemal brought along his toilet seat style iBook and we installed Yellow
> Dog 2.3 on it.  Mostly smooth apart from (you'd never guess this...) X
> configuration.  Worked fine for booting off the CD but the final install,
> which should have been configured to the iBook, failed for X.  Resorted to
> copying the XF86Config file created when booted off CD onto the hard disk,
> which involved playing around with mknod.  One day X config will be easy.
>  - Gave a brief introduction to Linux to a half Italian couple, obligatory
> Knoppix CD was presented
>  - Discussed software patents, everyone thought them stupid, nobody had
> done anything about it
>    Kemal promised to write to his MEPs though, I'll be checking up on you!
>    Addresses at http://www.europarl.org.uk/uk_meps/scot.html
>    Inspiration at http://jriddell.org/patents.html
>                   http://swpat.ffii.org/
>
>    It only takes 10 minutes to write a template saying "EU directive on
> patentiability of computer related inventions is a bad idea"  and send it
> off to the 7 MEPs.
>
>  - Laura entertained us with tales of late night helldesk answerphone
> messages
>  - Other chit chat
>
> Next meeting is 17th April, which is also the day my dissertation is due
> in.  Only 10404 words to go.
>
> Anyone going to Linux2003 in Edinburgh?
>
> Jonathan
>
>
>
>
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