[Tfug] Next Meeting

[Paul Scott]

Bill Maginnis wrote:
 >
 > I'm the recent recipient of a laptop (EMachines, given to me by a
 > woman at work who had "problems" with it (??)) I have tried in vain
 > to load any of the Linux distributions (Mandrake, Red Hat, Debian) I
 > have on it with no luck. Tried booting from CD and booting from each
 > disto's boot disk--no go. I resorted to putting Win98 back on it. My
 > wife will probably use the laptop to do her PowerPoint demonstrations
 >  for her teaching, but I would like to see if any of the Linux
 > "office" products will open original Office XP (or 2000 or 97)
 > PowerPoint and Excel files. If a Linux office product can do that,
 > then I'll make the laptop a Linux only box.

OpenOffice will do that.  I'm even using it to check homework for an 
Office XP class I am teaching (until I get to the Access part).

 > Not a huge internal hard
 > drive, so I don't know if it's feasible to make this a dual boot PC.
 > With that said, could somebody jump-start my installation at this
 > Sunday's meeting? I'd appreciate any and all help.

I will certainly help.  You may get a better offer or they may all be 
playing games.

 > Would anybody like
 > to split the cost of a no-cheese (or soy cheese), vegie pizza? I
 > can't do the cheese thing.

I don't do much pizza at all and often bring my own snack.

Paul Scott