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Re: [LUG] Holsworthy Meeting

 

On 14/04/17 18:51, mr meowski wrote:
On 14/04/17 08:18, Neil via list wrote:

PS. Dippy here forgot .. I think there's an offer standing for a BIOS
debug .. will chuck kb/mouse/etc in the car just in case!
BR,

Michael.

Looking forward to seeing you. I will be asking questions about my
inability to get to the BIOS on my desktop computer, but I will not be
bringing it to the meeting. Big Apple has given me a list of
instructions and I will bring a print out of it with me. I think it
would be too difficult to do anything like that at the pub.

I know it's not my computer and I'm of course not going to this meeting
but... MJE is a long time Gentoo user and anyone who can put up with
that is pretty much a dead cert for a quick BIOS tweak like this Neil. I
remember you saying that it was a pain getting all the cables plugged in
for your desktop but if you take a couple of decent well-lit phone
camera pics of the back first (you could even label up the cables and
ports if you're feeling super-organised) and then sling your box in the
car for the meeting, I estimate that it will probably take him all of
about 2 minutes tops to sort it for you. Especially as he's even
prepared to bring along all the peripherals as well!

It's funny to vouch for someone I've never met but MJE obviously knows
what he's doing to be fair. As long as you can handle plugging the thing
back in once you get it home it sounds like a win to me.

Cheers

Your friend as always, "Big Apple"

Thanks for that. One thing is that we meet in a local pub, and there will be plenty of customers there. Not the ideal situation for messing about with a computer.

And, secondly, I live by car about two minutes from the pub so if I talk nicely to Michael maybe he could come round for a short time and sort me out.

Just a thought,

Neil



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