Re: [Hampshire] Hello

2009-12-15 Thread Kevin Safford
On Tue, 2009-12-15 at 12:00 +, Bob Beattie wrote: Hello HantsLUG, (Surrey, you have been copied) It was good to see more Hants people coming along to Saturday's event. JohnW from Surrey LUG has prompted those users in the Eat of Surrey to re-examine local venues, since the trip to

[Hampshire] Hello

2009-12-14 Thread robert.beattie
Hello HantsLUG, (Surrey, you have been copied) It was good to see more Hants people coming along to Saturday's event. JohnW from Surrey LUG has prompted those users in the Eat of Surrey to re-examine local venues, since the trip to Farnborough can be quite a distance for some 'Easterners' ; as

Re: [Hampshire] Hello

2009-12-14 Thread Hants LUG Chairman
On Monday 14 Dec 2009, robert.beat...@nokia.com wrote: Hello HantsLUG, (Surrey, you have been copied) It was good to see more Hants people coming along to Saturday's event. JohnW from Surrey LUG has prompted those users in the Eat of Surrey to re-examine local venues, since the trip to

Re: [Hampshire] Hello to my fellow county men/lady's

2009-12-09 Thread T Brownen
John Lewis There were Brownens in Bransgore, Christchurch and Milton back in the early 1800s, there were Brownens in same places in 1901 so you may well be a true Hog ;-) Thank you John I am indeed a descendant from them. and Sean (down in Hordle, not a million miles from Brock) Know it well I

[Hampshire] Hello to my fellow county men/lady's

2009-12-05 Thread T Brownen
Hello to all I was born near Totton in a ww2 naval hut in the forest I am told we were bombed out twice but to young to remember. My G parents were foresters in the south Brock area. I started in computers in 1969 with Plessey Poole thats after R.A.F training in digital electronics. My first

Re: [Hampshire] Hello to my fellow county men/lady's

2009-12-05 Thread Sean Gibbins
T Brownen wrote: Hello to all I was born near Totton in a ww2 naval hut in the forest I am told we were bombed out twice but to young to remember. My G parents were foresters in the south Brock area. I started in computers in 1969 with Plessey Poole thats after R.A.F training in digital

Re: [Hampshire] Hello to my fellow county men/lady's

2009-12-05 Thread john lewis
On Sat, 05 Dec 2009 18:44:21 + T Brownen trevatx...@aol.com wrote: Hello to all I was born near Totton in a ww2 naval hut in the forest I am told we were bombed out twice but to young to remember. My G parents were foresters in the south Brock area. There were Brownens in Bransgore,

Re: [Hampshire] Hello

2008-10-09 Thread Owain Clarke
On Tuesday 07 October 2008 23:02:43 Becky Taylor wrote: Err... my history... not good. I have never had one history lesson. So things like dates, people, I'm not good at, but random facts I'm ok. :-D I was just shying off admitting my age I expected you not to know. But

Re: [Hampshire] Hello

2008-10-09 Thread Lisi
On Thursday 09 October 2008 09:07:27 Owain Clarke wrote: On Tuesday 07 October 2008 23:02:43 Becky Taylor wrote: Err... my history... not good. I have never had one history lesson. So things like dates, people, I'm not good at, but random facts I'm ok. :-D I was just shying off admitting

Re: [Hampshire] Hello

2008-10-08 Thread john lewis
On Wed, 08 Oct 2008 10:05:20 +0100 Jacqui Caren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am also curious about how long members have been 'into' linux (or other computer technology). FYI: BD March 1960 I started Poly 1988ish and remember working with Autocode at Poly! In those days 4K was a lot of

Re: [Hampshire] Hello

2008-10-08 Thread Becky Taylor
I am also curious about how long members have been 'into' linux (or other computer technology). FYI: BD March 1960 I have been into computers for about 2 years, and linux for 1 year. I remember it must be about a year, because I kept driving my poor ICT teacher mad by complaining all

Re: [Hampshire] Hello

2008-10-08 Thread Bob Dunlop
Hi, On Wed, Oct 08 at 10:05, Jacqui Caren wrote: ... I am also curious about how long members have been 'into' linux (or other computer technology). FYI: BD March 1960 I started Poly 1988ish and remember working with Autocode at Poly! ... I think you need to check that date. 1978 is just

Re: [Hampshire] Hello

2008-10-08 Thread Vic
I can't see why any teacher would want to prevent you having access to Linux. My missus is a teacher, so I get to see both sides of the fence :-) Part of the problem seems to be that ICT (how I hate that term) is often seen not to be a proper subject; there may be no distinction between the

Re: [Hampshire] Hello

2008-10-08 Thread Jacqui Caren
Lisi wrote: On Tuesday 07 October 2008 23:17:12 Steve Kemp wrote: I'm actually more curious about the relative age spread amongst the LUG members. Well, assuming that 14 is now the youngest, we have 14 to 79 or 80. I am also curious about how long members have been 'into' linux (or other

Re: [Hampshire] Hello

2008-10-08 Thread Paul Stimpson
On the subject of school/work IT stupidity: One of the girls here moved over from another part of the company nearly a month ago. Her login got changed because of the move and she couldn't connect to the email server any more. Her new manager contacted support and asked or her email account

Re: [Hampshire] Hello

2008-10-07 Thread Jacqui Caren
Becky Taylor wrote: Hello, I'm Becky, and am new to the HLUG. Er well quick intro I guess... I am Welcome! If I post things a bit wonky, would appreciate it a lot if you'd tell me. Wonky is good! I am sure I spend half of my walking like wonky. Jacqui -- Please post to:

Re: [Hampshire] Hello

2008-10-07 Thread Sean Gibbins
Jacqui Caren wrote: Becky Taylor wrote: Hello, I'm Becky, and am new to the HLUG. Er well quick intro I guess... I am Welcome! If I post things a bit wonky, would appreciate it a lot if you'd tell me. Wonky is good! I am sure I spend half of my walking like wonky. Wonky

Re: [Hampshire] Hello

2008-10-07 Thread Laura Cowen
On Tue, 7 Oct 2008 18:35:43 +0100, Becky Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I'm Becky, and am new to the HLUG. Er well quick intro I guess... Sorry if my emails are a bit odd, I read all the rules on the HLUG website about posting and keeping it neat and stuff, and I'll try to keep to

Re: [Hampshire] Hello

2008-10-07 Thread Paul Stimpson
Hi Becky, Welcome to the gang. I'm Paul and I'm from Farnborough. Distro of choice here is whichever one I can get to work on my machines. Current crop is FC9/Kubuntu Hardy on my laptop and Debian Etch still doing a great job on my server. If I can only unbreak the wireless on FC9 I'll be in

Re: [Hampshire] Hello

2008-10-07 Thread Hugo Mills
On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 09:03:22PM +0100, Becky Taylor wrote: Usually a mixture of sitting around chatting, eating biscuits, looking at PCs, fixing and breaking them, and giving and listening to technical talks. Depending on the venue these all sometimes happen in different areas,