[oclug] Home user needs Linux help (fwd)

[David F. Skoll]

Mail I received -- anyone want to help?  Please reply to
<croombefp at cyberus.ca>, not to me.

--
David.

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Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 17:35:03 -0400
From: Croombe F. Pensom <croombefp at cyberus.ca>
To: dfs at roaringpenguin.com
Subject: Linux help

Hi Mr. Skoll

I am writing to you in response to your regular column in the magazine
Monitor which I read regularly.

I am trying to switch from Windows_98 with all its bugs, faults, crashes
and other horrors, to Linux. I have a separate, new, empty machine on
which I have loaded Mandrake Linux 9.0 which loaded quickly and found
all my peripherals.

However, I am having trouble running various things such as my high
speed internet connection via Bell Sympatico, my digital camera, my
scanner. I am also having trouble loading new applications – they load
OK but I cannot find out how to activate them from the desktop (I am
using KDE).

So, my question  is : do you know anyone who can come to my home (for a
fee of course) and get my Linux desktop up and running for me?

Many thanks

Sincerely,

Croombe F. Pensom
29 Bunting Lane KANATA ON K2M 2P7
613-591-7008
croombefp at cyberus.ca