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On 16/11/10 09:29, Vivi Griffin wrote: > I have been very quiet for some time for various reasons, including working > on a contract job and having spent some months organising a house move. Now > installed in my new home, I have been spending some time installing a new PC > for a good friend of ours, as a Christmas present. She currently uses Suse > but, I have installed Kubuntu 10.04 for her as all the new things I wanted > her to be able to do seem to work well. > > Some of the new functionality she will have with the new PC includes : > > A webcam and skype > Team Viewer remote control (so, I can help her with any issues more easily) > DropBox for online backups (currently she doesn't backup at all & she > doesn't have anything very confidential on her PC) > > I found that turning a barebones install into a fully working desktop / > laptop system with all useful software installed and working is quite a time > consuming process. In the past, I have done this over time but, doing it all > in one go was quite different. In the process of installing & testing the > PC, I found out lots of useful information about what works well and what > doesn't. It occurred to me that sharing this information could save others > doing an install lots of time, searching it out. > > Therefore, I thought it may be a good idea to have a workshop on this topic > where members could share their knowledge on this subject. > > I now live in Moretonhampstead so, Newton Abbot is not far for me to get to. > However, if just a few people are interested, I would be happy to host such > a workshop at my home although numbers would need to be fairly limited as > our house is not huge. > > Initially, I just wanted to test the water to see if anyone would be > interested? > > Viv > > I would be interested as long as there isn't a clash with rugby, I am booking the 27th off to go to exeter so cant book too many weekends off, however there should be a few weekends free in 2011 where there are no games on. Paul -- Paul Sutton Cert SLPS (Open) http://www.zleap.net 17th September 2011 - Software freedom day -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq