[Discuss] Busy thread suddenly...

[Patrick]

On Wed, 14 Nov 2007 14:52:56 -0800
"Michael" wrote:

>     Just peeked in the door and saw the troubles. I don't know what I
> might be able to do to help, but please throw my hat in the ring as a
> potential volunteer. Like some others, I am no longer a computer
> industry person, just a hobbyist, but I used to design websites and
> various promotional layouts, and I was a photographer in the artistic
> realm for a short while. I have also done volunteer PR work for a local
> arts group, but I found their interests and mine did not meet.

Sounds like you'd make a great Publicity Coordinator, if you're
into that, or at least a very helpful person to have around.  Time
permitting of course; we all have other things we need to do,
bills to pay and such.

> Considering my interests today, I suppose the logical question to ask is
> 'when is the next meeting?'

Second Tuesday of any month.  Looks like that'll be 2007/Dec/11.

> 
>     I have been helped by many on this thread, and as many have said
> before me, it would be a shame to lose such a valuable resource.
> 
>     That said, now onto a completely different topic. After much
> reading, and lots of HDD formatting, my T61p is now committed to
> Mandriva 2008. I finally succeeded in getting Kubuntu 7.10 functioning
> at runlevel 5 yesterday evening, but the adept updater was so
> non-functional, and the install itself seemed so fragile, I decided that
> I would stay with the animal I know. Mandriva 2008 has a few annoyances,
> but they are things I can work with. 7.10 was unfortunately nothing but
> a series of brick walls for me. too bad, because I really like Mark's
> entire Ubuntu effort.

Sorry to hear that.  Was it more hardware/software compatibility
issues, or just that it's too different from what you've already
used?


> 
>     Chat soon, Michael.

Thanks,

Patrick.

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