seeking (student?) paid help March 10-11 at Boston Expo Center

[brlewis at ourdoings.com (Bruce Lewis)]

I did find the actual best person to help, a mom and long-time
ourdoings.comuser.  Someone just offered a third laptop, and if that
works out I will be
able to keep Linux visible during the show instead of dual booting.

I got an interesting comment from a writer who was looking over my
brochure.  I had a parenthetical comment about how Linux, Mac OS X and
Windows XP all provide easy ways to make zip archives.  She said some people
might not have heard of Linux and would not understand it was an operating
system if it was first in the list.  I had just put them alphabetically.  Do
BLU people encounter people who haven't heard of Linux?  It seems to me that
I've told a lot of people that I usually keep my laptop booted into Linux,
and I don't remember anyone asking what Linux is.  Am I just insulated from
the real world?


On 3/2/07, Martin Owens < doctormo at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> See I could show up and help, but I don't have a laptop (worth
> speaking of, a dead powerbook doesn't count) do let us know if you
> find someone.
>
> On 02/03/07, Bruce Lewis <brlewis at ourdoings.com> wrote:
> > On 2/28/07, Christoph Doerbeck < christoph at linuxsoup.com> wrote:Given
> the
> > right hardware ... you could run linux with full
> > virtualization and have all 3 platforms running on one machine...
> >
> > That's true, but if I had the resources to get the right hardware I'd
> just
> > use a third laptop.  In fact I have an old Thinkpad 600E that actually
> > boots, but it's running Debian with Gnome, and Firefox runs very slowly
> on
> > it.  Plus that wouldn't solve my problem of needing to take breaks.
> >
> > I've asked a mom who's been using my site for a couple years if she can
> > help, and she's still talking it over within her family.  If she can do
> it I
> > won't need student help, but in case that falls through I'm still
> looking.
> > The event is 10am-5pm on the dates named in the subject line, but even
> if I
> > could only get help 11-4 that would be enough.  You could show up, watch
>
> > what I do with people, and do the same thing.
> >
> > (Pardon if the quote from Christoph is badly formatted.  Gmail really
> seems
> > to want me to top post.)
> >
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