[Sussex] [Fwd: Re: Sussex sub Joihn Gregory <john at john-gregory.uklinux.net>]

[Geoff Teale]

John,

I took the liberty of forwarding this to list as I think this is what
you intended rather than replying to my home address - apologies if that
is not the case. 

-----Forwarded Message-----
> Dear Geoff
> 
> Thanks for your welcome.
> 
> Although I have been involved with computers at work since 1978 when we 
> used teletypes, punched paper tape and a line printer, it is only in the 
> last 3 months that I have started to use Linux (SUSE 9.0) with KDE.
> 
> I am a semi retired agricultural engineer specialising in land drainage, 
> water supplies, irrigation and farm waste disposal.  I took early 
> retirement from ADAS (then a govt service and part of MAFF) 9 years ago 
> and set up my own consultancy business.  I retired for the second time 3 
> years ago and 6 months later was offered a 3 year contract running a 
> research project near Horsham  -- so I am still working one or two days 
> a week.  It was this job which  provided the impetus to try Linux.
> 
> The whole project involves 2 universities, 2 research organisations and 
> it's day to day management is the responsibility of my old company 
> ADAS.  Up till then I had used Win 98 and Lotus Smartsuite.  I had to 
> change to MS Office which caused me endless problems including a very 
> near miss with a virus which hit most of the other participants.  That 
> was when I changed to Linux and Open Office.  As soon as I have mastered 
> converting Office macros then Office 95 will go.
> 
> I am having some problems with Linux.  I only have a laptop and I find 
> connecting to my Linux ISP difficult. I am struggling with a PCMCIA card 
> modem and, more often than not, I cannot log on to the network.  At the 
> moment, dare I say it, as a matter of expediency I log on from W******.  
> If anyone has any tips they would be very gratefully received.  The 
> built in modem is a winmodem and although identified by Yast refuses to 
> work at all.  Interestingly my PS2 mouse works better with Linux than WinXP
> 
> At present I am busy converting my old Salford Fortran77 field 
> engineering programs from a version run from dumb terminals on a Prime 
> system to run on my laptop.
> 
> I look forward to meeting you at one of the Horsham meetings.
> 
> John
> 
> 
> 
> 
-- 
Geoff Teale
general: <tealeg at member.fsf.org>
home   : <geoff at tealeg.uklinux.net>
work   : <gteale at cmedltd.com>
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