Hey I am close to you at 101 in Minnetonka. if you get someone to come over, I can bring my machine over and both of us can pick the fellows brain. I had a stroke but am using LINUX. Is this like a Linux block party? *smile* Wil Pike wrote: > Newbie here... I've been to 3 installfests so far with limited success at > each and attempted a Beer-Meeting (ugly results - had the wrong night or > something....). The last 2 Karl (Carl?) has assisted me (quite well, I might > add) - no, I don't know his last name, but the red-headed one. > > Anyway... I've watched the 'switch' Apple commercials for too long as I sit > thru yet ANOTHER 'download the Winders drivers' nightmare on a 'new' box > I've put together... I'll not bore (or would that be entice?) you with the > details at this point except to say it's pretty close to top-shelf > components across the board... Exasperation (being the combination of > 'expitives' and 'perspiration') finally set in when I was unable to get the > thoughtfully-included software to operate either the CDRW OR the DVD drives. > I've been working under the mantra of 'Micro$oft-free by the end of 03', > trying to slowly slide into a comfort zone with Linux (started with > Mandrake, more recently with RH) doing dual-boot setups... (I HAVE > successfully setup an older 400Mhz machine as a RH-ONLY system, but that is > the extent of my 'good' luck with Linux so far... *sigh*). > > So (for the few of you that may still be following this rambling...)... it > now comes to this. My immediate past results have me ready to jump into the > great by and by of Linux where I will either fall to my death on the > rocks... or learn to fly. As it currently stands, however, I am seeking a > guru who works for pizza-and-beer prices to do a little tinkering on this > box to get it Linux-enabled dual-boot... I have no 'release-loyalty' that > couldn't be swayed by much more than 'my favorite release is...' as I REALLY > want to get this going!! (and, IMHO, it's a pretty cool stash of parts I've > acquired to make this thing go, so there'd be the fun of playing with it > once it was working...). > > I'll open the bidding at a 6-pack of your favorite barley-pop and (at least) > a small size of your favorite pizza... any takers? IF it matters to the > bidders, I live near 169/62 just outside Hopkins... *crossing fingers and > sitting back to wait on the bidding now...* > > Wil > > "If you are in that trade of helping others to laugh and to survive by > laughter, then you are privileged indeed." - Chuck Jones > > _______________________________________________ > Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -- WOW will you look at this, a NEWBIE using PINE!!!! ------ http://USFamily.Net/info - Unlimited Internet - From $8.99/mo! ------ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20021024/e722299e/attachment.htm