On Friday 21 January 2005 05:12 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: > On Friday 21 January 2005 10:02 pm, JR wrote: > > My landlady gave me her laptop for the weekend to setup for her. It's 2.8 > > Ghz but runs slower than my 800Mhz machine - I'm assuming it's all the > > virus scanners, adware removal daemons and so on. > > > > I'm thinking of installing mdk10.1 on it and getting everything working, > > but she knows nothing about computers at all and I dont have time to > > teach her - so my questions really are > > > > 1) On windows, wireless networks in the vicinity are auto-detected so you > > can connect to them. Can this be done easily under linux? She will be > > quite mobile. > > Depends on the wireless nic, but my cisco card is pretty good about > connecting to open networks. I was at my brothers house a few weeks ago, > and instead of wiring up through his cable modem, I just used his neighbors > DSL line ;) > > > 2) Is it fair to leave a linux AND computer newbie alone with linux in > > the world of windows when you dont have time to explain how to use what > > you've set up? I dont mean to insult the woman but she literally knows > > nothing bar how to use the mouse and type in a word processor. > > No, I don't think it is fair. It maybe okay if a person is open to change, > but my experience with people like this is that they are not able to deal > with the change. They simply want everything to be the same. IMO, there > is a greater than 90% chance that she will be mad. > > > 3) Do I really want to spend my first free weekend in ages installing > > linux again! > > I wouldn't :)
Thanks for that Greg. I think I'll settle for a happy medium. Use firefox as the webbrowser, thunderbird for mail and openoffice for wordprocessing. Ill wait till the new MSOffice 'lookalike' comes out. 'Cross-eyed drunk in the night club with the cheapest admission' it is so! Regards, Jarlath -- Copyrighting allows people to benefit from their labours, but software patents allow the companies with the largest legal departments to benefit from everyone else's work. Andrew Brown, The Guardian.
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