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Re: [LUG] The only Linux User In The Village - not any more !

 

Kevin,

Thanks very much - I will mention your kind offer to him. He is not
terribly IT literate (yet anyway) but, in the future may get more
ambitious.

Viv

On Sun, 2007-01-28 at 10:47 +0000, Kevin Lucas wrote:
>       I hope all goes well with the convert.  I run the Village Shop & PO in
> Minions Cornwall. We use Fedora for all except one application which is
> the Samms ER308 Till, This has some MS only SW to access the data on the
> Till which produces reports which I am unable to import in to MySql
> database.  So I have Win98 to do this! Every thing else is run from
> within a browser and MySql. I do the Vat, Wages, Ordering, Fax, Accounts
> and Cashing up all on Linux. 
> If your man at the Village shop wants any advice just ask.
>       
> 
> On Sat, 2007-01-27 at 20:04 +0000, viv wrote:
> > To my knowledge, we are the only Linux users in our village
> > (Sticklepath, West Devon). However, a friend of ours who runs the
> > village shop has asked us to re-install his laptop. He bought it
> > installed with Windows XP which is now claiming itself to be an illegal
> > copy and he can no longer use his laptop. I am not sure what the problem
> > is exactly but, we have showed him our Kubuntu set up and he is very
> > keen for us to put this on for him instead. Another convert !
> > 
> > Viv
> > 
> > 
> -- 
> Kevin Lucas <kevin.lucas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Minions Shop (Cornwall's Top Shop)
> 
> 


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