Way to much brain power for a Friday, I think a beer is in order after reading all of the great posts today. Obviously I wasn't posting :oD I spent the better part of last Sunday de-bugging an XP Home PC as a favor. The guy wants to change the way he uses his computer. He has 5 - 6000 pictures on this XP Home machine so he wants a laptop for eMail and web surfing. John said "Gates stuff gets to many guy's wanting to break it, I'm not a computer expert, I don't want to figure out how to fix it." In return for fixing his computer John is going to help the Cub Scouts build Pine Wood Derby (PWD) cars, John is a great wood worker. He asked about a MAC (John and his Wife are their 70's) and wondered if I ever got any MAC's to sell "Very Rare". He was interested in Linux but thought it may be to hard to use. I showed him a Debian distro with KDE, he couldn't tell the difference between KDE and M$ Windows. He understands installing M$ Windows applications would not work without more work then he is willing to do. Anyone ever think about approaching the senior community about secure computing with Linux? I'm a little shy of selling someone a Laptop with Linux on it. I'm not up to doing support of anything right now, I'm to busy. Supporting the elder community on Linux would be a challenge Other related Topic... I was wondering if anyone would be interested developing software to time the PWD cars using standard PWD timing devices. The timer has a serial output for collecting data. Having OSS to time PWD cars would be very cool. Let me know if you’re interested in the PWD project, I have the timer and track so it may be a real fun project. A beer meeting with a PWD car race, that might be way to much fun :-D Sam. _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list