[Discuss] Busy thread suddenly...

[Michael]

On Thu, 2007-11-15 at 15:50 -0800, Patrick wrote:

> 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.



    I will be at the next meeting with cash in hand. The idea of
helping/being Publicity Coordinator sounds like just what I need right
now, and if I can finally give back to the community that's helped me so
often ... well that's just gravy. :-) This next meeting sounds like it
will be huge.

    As for my Kubuntu experience, I suspect it's a bit of both. I seem
to own each and every piece of hardware that chokes the Ubuntu OS's, and
my lack of depth in terms of command line fixing doesn't help. I am able
to research bugs down, like this latest one, but the sheer volume of
them was overwhelming. With my current Mandriva install all the bugs are
either graphics card related, and therefore beyond anyone's ability to
fix easily, or not too difficult to fix with a bit of the Google. I
might well end up on Kubuntu, but not until it learns to play nice with
my Thinkpad and it's GPU. In spite of all these burns, I would still
consider switching when Ubuntu releases it's next LTS.

    Anyway, see you all at the meeting, Michael.