[Infopoint] talks etc

[alan c]

Richard Smedley wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-04-04 at 21:49 +0100, alan c wrote:

>> I then took it to the shutdown state and made the statement that this 
>> machine did not have a hard drive fitted(!) And  taking the side off, 
>>   showed the unconnected cables. This situation is a bit of a shock to 
>> Windows users.
> [snip]
> 
> It sounds a great demonstration :-)
> I hope you don't mind if I "pinch" some of it for use
> myself, sometime :)

No problem at all.
What impressed some attenders was the fluent plugging in and 
unplugging of hard drives - to be sure, one needs a well practised 
sequence and no fluster. I also went through the bios recognition of 
hard drive changes each time, just to be sure, in case automatic 
recognition did not work well enough.

An important factor was to get a demo machine which was fast enough - 
to install in 20 minutes or less. Most of my everyday machines are a 
lot slower than that..... so the demo used one of my two best machines.

-- 
alan cocks
Ubuntu user #10391
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