[HLUG] HLUG Meeting - 16th April 2008

[Ralph Jones]

Hello one and all, 

Sorry I missed this months meeting, but work called!:( 

I'm in touch with a lady off the Freecycle group, who was looking for
some parts to make up a PC for her son (HDD, monitor, mouse). I've
offered, and she's accepted, to install the HDD. As I don't have any
Windows disks myself, I also offered to install Linux (Ubuntu) on the
HDD once I had the PC up and running, which she also accepted.

It's mainly for her son, who wants to do school work (OOo; KOffice),
internet (FF) and MSN (not sure about this - Jabber, Kopete, etc). Btw,
it's a 1G Mhz processor (P3?) with 512Mb of RAM.

Your thoughts please:
- should I tell her to splash out on a legal copy of Windows off eBay?
- should I proceed to install Linux, and show the lad Ubuntuforums and
Linux questions?

Bearing in mind, as a truck driver, I won't be around that regularly to
help if he gets stuck.

Didn't there used to be a beginners guide magazine, which came with a
distro on a CD/DVD? Is it still available (I saw my last copy in Hfd
WHSmiths about three years ago, I'll have after breakfast).

More questions to follow :)

Anon.

- Btw, have you heard the good news yet?
- It's Friday!
 
On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 22:01 +0100, Julian Robbins wrote:
> Paul Stenning wrote:
> > I like the idea of hosting them at people's homes or other locations 
> > for the ones where we don't have use of our normal room though.  This 
> > would make a nice change a few times a year.
> Hi Paul
> 
> Yes its a good idea. At the Shropshire LUG, they used to have an August 
> barbecue at the Lugmaster's house each year.
> 
> I don't know if I can stretch to that, but I'm happy to host a LUG event 
> at our new (ish) house up in Shobdon, north Herefordshire in the Summer.
> 
> Lovely sunsets, and you can see for miles around !! Remind me if I 
> forget ...
> 
> Julian
> 
> 
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Paul
> >
> >
> > Mark Broadbent wrote:
> >> Hi All,
> >>
> >> Very kindly, George has offered to host our April meeting at his 
> >> house.  Unfortunately I will be unable to make as I'm going on 
> >> holiday this weekend and work is somewhat hectic. :-(
> >>
> >> The address is:
> >> Hatfield Court
> >> HR6 0SD
> >>
> >> George, could I get you to specify what time you would like people to 
> >> attend.
> >>
> >> Thanks
> >> Mark
> >>
> >
> 
>