[Wolves] Pretty cool Wolves-Lug meeting

[Chris Fox]

On 8 Nov 2007, at 09:41, ArchLinuxUser dick_turpin wrote:

> At the last minute, about 6.00pm, last night I discovered I had a "Get
> out of jail free" pass and headed off to the Wolves-Lug (Wolverhampton
> Linux User Group) meeting.

[snip]

> Alex Willmer had a Fujitsu Amelio laptop with a broken screen which he
> was giving away, he was installing Ubuntu by using an external screen
> and I took great delight in scaring the life out of him by pretending
> the install had frozen, crashed and generally fecked up. :-)

As much as it nearly gave Mr Willmer a heart attack, I've always found 
that watching the output of terminal 2 (Ctl-Alt-F2, or it might be 3) 
is a handy way of monitoring Ubuntu installs. It gives a 
package-by-package account of what the installer's up to in more detail 
than watching the main Curses-based installer.

> Adam Sweet gave away a supposedly (I've seen a mail this morning
> saying that it actually works) broken strawberry G3 iMac which was fun
> to watch four grown men spend 20 minutes taking it apart only to
> discover the replacement hard drive had been left at home. Lol

Actually figuring out how to get into the b********* was the hardest 
part. Unfortunately it needed more brain than brawn, which was why we 
were strugging at the LUG! Once I swapped the drive over, it was a 
piece of cake - Shove in an OSX CD (which I also didn't have at the 
meeting!) and away i went.

Next job - shove Xubuntu on it!

> As was to be expected I was surrounded by a sea of *The Brown Distro*
> which was another reason for me to regret not bring the one true faith
> of ArchLinux to this heathen coven I found myself in.

It's not "The Brown Distro". It's called The One True Distro. Show a 
little respect ;-)

> I really wanted to stay longer but had to go as it was way past my bed 
> time.

Me too - I was up late enough tinkering with this thing as it was!

> My thanks to Dave Morely for a pretty cool meeting, as I said if its
> at your place in two weeks I'll come along.

Yup, was a really good meeting. Hopefully next time we'll actually get 
Dave's talk!

Chris
(is hating Freedom and using Mail.app, which is quite nice actually)