On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 4:24 PM, Daniel Fussell <[email protected]> wrote: > Wait aren't we forgetting the initiation rites? > > You must run throughout the Wilk in clothes laden with sequins arranged > from no less than 5 different distribution CDs (current or past versions > are acceptable), while alternately praising open source, and chanting in > binary. You may substitute sitting/staffing a UUG club > promotion/install-fest booth for running through the Wilk, but the rest > is still mandatory. > > or > > You and a small group of friends must dress as ninjas and surround > Richard Stallman at a public conference of your choosing. Assign one > ninja to record video of you challenging Richard to a "Free Software > Song" sing-off, and the resulting impromptu performance. Give the > resulting content to Stuart Jansen to present at the next UUG meeting. > > or > > Install the distribution of your choice on the family computer. Claim > the daemons made you do it. Dualboot and prior backups are optional, > depending on your tolerance for mortal peril. Write about the > experience and post it to the UUG mailing list, and at least one other > general-public forum (The Daily Universe, KSL, SL Tribune, Time > Magazine, etc.) > > or > > Some other activity to prove your metal, and at least as entertaining as > the aforementioned. Such activity must be approved in advance from the > club leadership. Approval is of course, easier to obtain if you > volunteer for service in a club leadership position. > > Depending on the circumstances surrounding your previous Ubuntu install > experience, you may have partially completed option 3. Go getem' tiger! > > We look forward to seeing you at the next meeting. It will be held > sometime in the near to distance future. Unless it isn't. In which > case it won't. Be sure to bring your secret handshake and SSL decoder ring. > > ;-Daniel Fussell
Well, I did get Ubuntu on our family computer, for a while. I'll write a more dramatic narrative later, but I took a hard drive from an "experiment" computer of mine and put it in the family computer. I put the family PC's WinXP drive as slave, or /dev/sdb. Then I installed Ubuntu (and grub) on the new drive. By making Ubuntu the primary drive, Grub wouldn't overwrite the NT bootloader. I never got anyone to use Ubuntu, and I eventually reclaimed the drive and used it somewhere else. This was about half a year ago. But I have succeeded in getting my sister to use Firefox and Gimp on her computer. What say you? Timothy Wood -------------------- BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. ___________________________________________________________________ List Info (unsubscribe here): http://uug.byu.edu/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
