Re: [Gambas-user] Need a Ubuntu/Linux teacher
John-679 wrote: Hi All I am new to Linux. I am using Ubuntu 9.10. What I am looking for is a kind person to help me off line with Linux and Ubuntu. Hi John. I develop and sell Linux-based desktop and laptop PCs for a living and have been using Linux exclusively for about three years. I supported Windows for seven years at a couple of mortgage companies so I unfortunately also come from a strong Windows background. Linux is certainly a different beast, and while the previous posters' comments are valid and useful you may contact me if you'd like to rapidly get the gist of the way Linux works, or to figure out how to do something specific quickly. Feel free to call or email. If you don't receive an answer please leave a voicemail and a callback number and I'll return your call. Have a good week, and welcome to Linux and GAMBAS. - Kevin Fishburne, Eight Virtues www: http://sales.eightvirtues.com http://sales.eightvirtues.com e-mail: mailto:sa...@eightvirtues.com sa...@eightvirtues.com phone: (770) 853-6271 -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Need-a-Ubuntu-Linux-teacher-tp26655310p26806834.html Sent from the gambas-user mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev ___ Gambas-user mailing list Gambas-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gambas-user
[Gambas-user] Need a Ubuntu/Linux teacher
Hi All I am new to Linux. I am using Ubuntu 9.10. What I am looking for is a kind person to help me off line with Linux and Ubuntu. No I do not intend to use this list as my Linux learning aid. Other than this one message I will never ask this list for this type of help again. Yes I could join a Ubuntu mailing list. I am sure there are many very good Ubuntu mailing lists out there. I just do not want to join yet another mailing list. Anyone interested in helping me out please contact me direct. Just so that you know I do not know Linux but I do know computers. My first computer was a vic-2o. I like most new Linux users have come from the Windows world. I can make a Windows box sing. Thank you for your time in reading this message. Again from now on any message I send to this list will be about Gambas and nothing else. -- Let us hope we never witness the Silence Of The Hams 73 DE John KB2SCS Packet:kb2...@wa2pnu.#nli.ny.usa.noam E-Mail:kb2...@arrl.net Web Page: http://www.qsl.net/kb2scs -- Join us December 9, 2009 for the Red Hat Virtual Experience, a free event focused on virtualization and cloud computing. Attend in-depth sessions from your desk. Your couch. Anywhere. http://p.sf.net/sfu/redhat-sfdev2dev ___ Gambas-user mailing list Gambas-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gambas-user
Re: [Gambas-user] Need a Ubuntu/Linux teacher
On Saturday 05 December 2009 13:39:43 John wrote: Hi All I am new to Linux. I am using Ubuntu 9.10. What I am looking for is a kind person to help me off line with Linux and Ubuntu. No I do not intend to use this list as my Linux learning aid. Other than this one message I will never ask this list for this type of help again. Yes I could join a Ubuntu mailing list. I am sure there are many very good Ubuntu mailing lists out there. I just do not want to join yet another mailing list. Anyone interested in helping me out please contact me direct. Just so that you know I do not know Linux but I do know computers. My first computer was a vic-2o. I like most new Linux users have come from the Windows world. I can make a Windows box sing. Thank you for your time in reading this message. Again from now on any message I send to this list will be about Gambas and nothing else. Hi John, If you are fluent in Windows and PC in general, you do not need teacher! Just some more curiosity and wish to try out new things. I started my journey in the Linux world in year 2000 with SuSE, meanwhile I am using Ubuntu... You can learn virtually EVERYTHING just by asking uncle google ;-) This is the way I learned a lot. my recent google searches mysql odbc install on ubuntu - best hit was on howtoforge raid on ubuntu mysql on ubuntu I wish you success and lot of fun on your journey! very best regards Emil P.S. There are lot of books written, my favorite is Linux from Michael Koffler (it is in German, but there is translation available). Meanwhile it is old, but I mean it is good introduction in Linux. But you can look out for some other ... good luck -- Join us December 9, 2009 for the Red Hat Virtual Experience, a free event focused on virtualization and cloud computing. Attend in-depth sessions from your desk. Your couch. Anywhere. http://p.sf.net/sfu/redhat-sfdev2dev ___ Gambas-user mailing list Gambas-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gambas-user
Re: [Gambas-user] Need a Ubuntu/Linux teacher
2009/12/5 John kb2...@optonline.net: I can make a Windows box sing. I tend to agree with Emil, lots of searching and reading on google is advised, but temper it with your own knowledge - some of the stuff out there is just downright wrong. I was a Windows developer and have decades of experience with it. I learned linux and gambas by trial and error and I am still learning by trial and error to this day. This weekend alone I installed no less than six linux distros; Arch, Gentoo, Sabayon, kubuntu and Mandriva (can't remember the sixth), only to learn that I should have stayed with Ubuntu :) Ok, I learned something else too in the process. I can install qt4 on Ubuntu and have gambas create lovely qt-based apps instead of being forced to use the awful GTK engine. Yes, I could have just used kubuntu but KDE is really bloody ugly and overly complex IMO :) Anyway, that said, google, persevere and ask when you're truly stuck. There is certain je ne sais quoi about discovering for oneself what is probably common knowledge amongst the gurus. -- Join us December 9, 2009 for the Red Hat Virtual Experience, a free event focused on virtualization and cloud computing. Attend in-depth sessions from your desk. Your couch. Anywhere. http://p.sf.net/sfu/redhat-sfdev2dev ___ Gambas-user mailing list Gambas-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gambas-user
