On Monday 02 May 2005 17:00, Cameron Nikitiuk wrote: > With all due respect to Barnaby (that is if he is till monitoring us) and > his presentation the other day I think it is important to say thanks and to > show how the FLOSS comunity contributes in way's we often don't see. > > Lisa & I were at WFXWeb picking up a new system for her when a CLUGGITE > walked in asking about a car in the parking lot. We said that it was ours > and that we knew about the the thing hanging down that we had nicknamed > "Flappy." > > Without thinking this CLUGGITE (I think it was Graham Monk, but I have been > doped up on muscle relaxants for a few days so my brain is like > putty...putty as in the material not the terminal program)...grabbed a > peice of cardboard and a couple of zip-strips and in a few minutes "Flappy" > was gone. Only reason we hadn't done it up until now is that we are never > home very long anymore. > > Anyways...thanks to Graham...and to all those other FLOSS'er's out there > that contribute silently to advancing FLOSS principles and community. > > Regards, > > Cameron & Lisa > > PS - Just to tie this into Linux. The newer 700Mhz system was being > purchased as a replacement for an aging 200Mhz box. The new system will be > running WIndows 2000 as its primary OS but will be running a number of open > source applications as standard. Lisa has also agreed to dual-boot it with > a Linux distro. Also, the 200Mhz box will likely be upgarded a bit an > given to my dad (in his 60's) for a solitare-ish box. For both of these I > am thinking a WIndows-like distribution so likely something like Lindows, > Xandros or something similar. Any suggestions? >
You're welcome, I should point out 2 things, however, 1. Certain amount of enlightened self interest at work, could have broke off and hit MY car! I know it's only plastic but still. 2.Paul and Len (VFXWeb) quite happily let me use the cardboard and let me have the zipties to fix it. Anyway, I was pretty certain without looking it wouldn't take but a second or two, and running on caffeine as I was, COULD NOT leave it alone. graham _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
