Margaret Frances Hoskins Long

My beloved sister born 1919, crossed the Jordan last night at 10.30 p.m. whilst being cared for in Cheltenham General Hospital. Two sons and their wives were at her bedside and she was comforted I am sure. I was in touch with her eldest son, David, in Forth Worth,Texas.
She will I believe, be re-united with her dear brother David and John her husband and all the family long since departed.

I shall miss her and so shall we all.

May she rest in peace and rise in glory. Alleluia

18th December Virtual Box

I spoke against this contrivance at the club on Wednesday, as I think a distro on a machine in its own right is easier to handle. e.g. I have several distros on memory cards and just swap the card for a diferent distro. But here I am with Kubuntu on my Eeepc900 along with Mandriva on the same card! It certainy works, but my poor brain is having a hard time!

I haven't used Kubuntu for ages, it uses KDE instead of Gnome. So if someone asks the question about the difference, we can see for ourselves using the vitual box.

So farI have Mandriva, Debian5, Mint, Xandros Ubuntu and now Kubuntu. I tried Crunchbang but it wouldn't boot!

Sunday 5th December

2 events worth noting!
Fay Zee has joined the Rustington lug mailing list. She is the lugmaster of the East Grinstead lug and also attends the Sussex and Surrey lug meetings.
She has also put me on to the Faversham luh (www.flug.org.uk) where many interesting things are going on.

7th meeting of the new rustington lug

We invited Desmond Armstrong to give a presentation at our weekly meeting and made an effort to publicise the event. We do have 27 names of people wo have attended or expressed interest and we had hoped for a good turn out. Alas the weather turned nasty and we had a few apologies. There was a plus in the fact that Derek had planned to attend another group on networking but due to the weather it had been cancelled!
In the end we were down to 7, but 7 is a lucky number.
Desmond and I shared mobile phone numbers and after 2 talks on the phone he agreed to set off. During the protracted waiting period my phone ran out of air time, but Derek was on the qui vive and answered Desmond once. He finally arrived at 4 pm and we were at the meeting by 4.15.
He kicked off with an introduction and then went for Pitivi, Flphoto, Gimp, Scribus, get i-player and then a Jacqui-Lawrence Advent Calendar! We overshot by 20 minutes so he had a full hour!
Fortunately the Woodlands Centre staff had gone home so we were ok. After a round of applause and a request for Desmond to come back again they let him go.
He stayed with us at home until he left ater lunch on Friday. I learned so much that my head is filled with Linux of all shapes and sizes. Especially Mandriva and F-secure not to mention Clonezilla.
Well done Desmond, a man with determination and a mission!

Thanks Desmond from all the rustington lug members.