Greetings Members, Just a reminder that the next CLUG meeting is on the very next Monday evening.
I have offered our services to install a Linux distro on two identical machines for the Spreydon Baptist Pre-School on that evening. These are the machines which will be used by the children. Suggestions as to what child oriented packages should go into the software load, and a volunteer to do that would be much appreciated. Somebody from there will be bringing the machines etc. I have not heard anything more about this one. They may or not be coming. I will have a Knoppix with the install script and the stickers program ready in case they turn up. Anybody else got any good ideas about KidWare for pre-schoolers? Members who need help:- (1) Leo Byatt is having troubles with Mandrake-9.1. He is dual booting on a reasonably modern machine. He has been running as root on a day to day basis because the FTP user agent would not work properly otherwise. I think other things have therefore become 'discombobulated'. Help for Leo from a knowledgeble Mandrake guru would be appreciated. (2) Nick Brettell is coming with a portable with apm / acpi problems. It's been suggested that he need a kernel upgrade to a more recent or patched kernel. Help from someboody familiar with kernel builds and laptops would be welcome. Peter Elliott: Is that you? (3) My son and I would be very grateful indeed to be given a leg-up into the use of Blender, and possibly kpovmodeler & PovRay. The software is installed and as far as I can tell seems to work, but the human interface seems to be a work or art explicity dispatched from hell, and the dear old brain needs a bit of help to twig on. Pretty please. ------------ Have I missed anybody out? Please bring ALL your cables, mains and network, keyboard and mouse. AND a mains distribution board. In summary:- CLUG Clinic Meeting at 7:30 p.m. on Monday 30 June 2003. Sydenham Community Hall 25 Hutcheson Street Sydenham. Hutcheson Street is about 40 metres South of Brougham Street off the East side of Columbo Street. Tea or Coffee and Biscuits provided. Gold coin donation at door requested. -- C. S.
