-----Original Message-----
From: John Hebert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 12:03 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [brlug-general] Need someone to fill in for me at
nextNewbiesmeeting; broken leg
--- "Richards Jr, Edward C." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Howdy,
>
> I broke my leg last Saturday and will be
> getting surgery on it next Tuesday morning.
>
> What the HAIL did you do, get into a butt kicking
> contest and loose?
Went hiking with some friends, attempted to jump a
steep muddy ditch, did a Wile E. Coyote half-way
across. Smashed the tops of my tibia and fibula,
having surgery next week to pin all the pieces
together again. Thank the gods for wireless Internet
access and loving wives.
Dayum! And your wife must be a saint.....Get well soon and if you need
some help, give a shout.
> I will be glad to help with this activity if I am
> available, but I am presently on 24 hour callout for
> a substation installation for one of our clients, so
> I could be called at a moments notice and have to
> leave immediately. I have a computer with a drive
> bay in it that is available for the demonstration
> whether I am there or not. It is the same one that I
> used for the Xandros demo back in December. Its not
> a hot rod but all the hardware is well supported. It
> is an AMD K6-700, 384 meg ram, two video cards,
> CD-ROM drive, CD burner, Sound Blaster PCI 128 (I
> think), network card, and whatever hard drive we
> decide to put in there. I have installed Mepis a
> couple of different times and am reasonably well
> versed in using and configuring it.
Ed, consider yourself volunteered if we can get at
least one more volunteer. I sincerely appreciate you
offering that box for the demo as it is definitely
well-suited for the task. If we have one more
volunteer, we at least have someone to take over if
you get called out and the same person could make sure
you get the machine back. You shouldn't need a
monitor; as you know the CCCC office is well-equipped
for this kind of demonstration. I do recommend you get
there early to do a smoke-test.
Early and smoke tests are my motto when I am the dude that has to be in
front of everyone. I'll run through it over the weekend as well. When you know
who that other person is going to be, I would suggest that he/she and I get
together over the weekend and let him/her take my machine just to guarantee
that it gets there even if I don't. The construction schedule for this
substation calls for testing of all of the protective relays starting on
Monday, so I may get tagged. Yes, my test machine is well suited for these
kinds of things and it can be made available at anytime for such. Since I
installed a drive bay in my main machine too, I seldom turn the test machine on
anymore unless I am also doing something on the main box and don't want to shut
it down. Is the plan to have everyone bring in their machines and actually do
an "InstallFest" on the users machines using Mepis, or were you planning on
just showing how to do it? Do you have any kind of a lesson plan for the meeti!
ng? Were you planning on showing how to use the second Mepis CD and using
apt-get, Synaptic, and/or Kpackage? If you can't get someone to back me up, I
should be 100% available the following Monday. We are scheduled to bring this
substation on line on Thursday, March 18th and bring the plant back up the same
day so, baring any unforeseen problems, I should be back to my regular schedule
the following week.
Thanks Ed! You are a great example of Linux advocacy.
The kind words are appreciated. Get well soon.
Ed Richards
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