Re: [MLUG] Allow myself to introduce...myself

[Tresalizbeth <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Welcome Gabriel from one of the few women on the list.
Don't worry about obvious questions too much, it's only 30 lashes with 
the proverbial wet noodle.  They haven't kicked me off yet and I know 
I've asked my share of newbie dumb questions and someone elses too!!
Teresa
(aka dangerous idiot) :-)


Gabriel Wilkerson wrote:

>Hello MLU's.  I just wanted to introduce myself and
>ask a couple of small questions.  My name is Gabe and
>my wife and I moved to Columbia at the end of last
>year.  We're having a grand old time so far.  Recently
>I just got the spark again to try out Linux on my
>laptop.  Last time I used linux the newest thing out
>was Redhat 7 and Corel linux had just reared it's
>head.  So now I've started out trying a few distro's,
>namely Mandrake 10 Community, Debian 9r3 and Fedora
>Core 1.  I've settled on Fedora for now.  It's gone
>pretty well.  I'm using an IBM 600e with an Orinoco
>gold wireless card.  Everything is going great except
>for my sound card. But that is a known issue with
>these laptops, I've been to every damn page on the
>internet about it and I still haven't gotten mine
>sorted out.  But don't sweat that yet, I don't want to
>ask about that yet.  Here's my 3 questions, oh great
>linux genies.
>
>1.  What AIM client do you use under linux?  I'm
>trying to use GAIM but it won't connect to my msn, and
>it occasionally just stops communicating I believe. 
>I'd like to try another client.
>
>2.  Does anyone have a suggestion about where to look
>for an easy guide to upgrading my kernel to 2.6?
>
>3.  I want to move my linux install from this 6g drive
>to my 20g.  How can I transfer from 1 laptop hd to
>another and preserve my linux install?  I'm thinking
>something like copy entire 6g drive over network to
>ftp server on dekstop, boot from cd or floppy to
>format new 20g hd to ext3, then ftp old 6g drive
>contents onto new drive... Can I do that?
>
>OK!!  BREAK!!!
>
>That was a lot, I know, but it's been building up in
>me this last week.  Any help is appreciated, but heck,
>just ignore the questions and say hi at least. :)
>
>Later, 
>Gabe
>
>
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