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Re: ms_meme's neighborhood
« Reply #2610 on: August 30, 2012, 09:40:22 PM »
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An article in the magazine with a picture of the lady using Linux should suffice, ask Parnote I think he will agree   ;D   ;D   ;D

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Re: ms_meme's neighborhood
« Reply #2611 on: August 31, 2012, 06:54:07 AM »
This is fantastic!!!  Jr and me are very proud of you.   :D
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Re: ms_meme's neighborhood
« Reply #2612 on: September 01, 2012, 02:05:31 PM »
Great work, ms_meme!  Just saw this after getting back home, and could not have hoped for better news.  Linux advocacy is a thing with me, so I've got to say it - I am so proud of you!  Way to go!

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Re: ms_meme's neighborhood
« Reply #2613 on: September 08, 2012, 04:39:56 PM »
Converting a friend to Linux
Was always on my mind
Bit by bit step by step
It really was a grind

You thought I was a fibbin'
A new user I did find
But now I'm here to repeat
What I did - just to remind

One thing I didn't tell her
Because she is so refined
I kept it very secret
About all the Bacon Rind   ;D





This is my friend's laptop.  We had a 3 hour session the other day.  Time flies when you are having fun.  I got scolded when I came home for playing so long.   :(

I tried to take the picture with the PCLinuxOS logo, but somehow all the dust on the screen got in the way. (I dare anyone to say their screen is dustless.   :o  )



She has a cat Nikkie who seems very impressed with the new OS. We installed Minime and spent a lot of time practicing downloading from Synaptic. Of course I put the fear of Root in her right from the beginning.  ;)
I for sure wanted her to have Gimp and Inkscape and have referred her to MeeMaw's wonderful Gimp tutorials in the PCLinuxOS Magazine.  :D

We made a Folder for Nikkie and downloaded some kitty pictures for her. Then installed Gwenview and admired what we did.



Three months ago my friend fell and broke her ankle and is only now beginning to walk again. So she has spent a lot of time recently on the computer.  She is honestly happy with her 'other' installs on another computer and another laptop.  ;D

But when this laptop was diagnosed as 'sick', I thought it was a good time to get someone to nurse it back to health and put Linux on it.  So far so good.

My journey with Linux started four years ago and I still have far to go. I know it isn't easy and you do have to put in effort and time to make it work.  I just want my friend to have fun and enjoy the ups (and downs) that I have had and hopefully will have for many years to come.  :)
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Re: ms_meme's neighborhood
« Reply #2614 on: September 08, 2012, 05:24:06 PM »
Have her down load the gimp 1st issue pdf. It will make good reading for her.

http://gimpmagazine.org/issue1/

Sort of sit there and instruct while she downloads and saves.


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Re: ms_meme's neighborhood
« Reply #2615 on: September 08, 2012, 05:33:26 PM »
Have her down load the gimp 1st issue pdf. It will make good reading for her.

http://gimpmagazine.org/issue1/

Sort of sit there and instruct while she downloads and saves.


I think it is ms_meme who is interested in Gimp.   ;D    Wishful thinking on my part.  :P   Her response is, "What in the world is Gimp?"

Sigh, my work is only beginning.  :o
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Re: ms_meme's neighborhood
« Reply #2616 on: September 08, 2012, 06:04:07 PM »
HIP HIP HOOOOOOOO RAHHHHHHHHHH FOR MS_MEME !!!!


Well done. ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Re: ms_meme's neighborhood
« Reply #2617 on: September 08, 2012, 06:08:17 PM »
Well played ms_meme   

I'm sure soon your friend will be another well known community member
I shall pass this way but once;
any good therefore that I can do,
or any kindness that I can show
let me not defer nor neglect it,
for I shall not pass this way again.

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Re: ms_meme's neighborhood
« Reply #2618 on: September 09, 2012, 08:05:30 AM »
HIP HIP HOOOOOOOO RAHHHHHHHHHH FOR MS_MEME !!!!


Well done. ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D


The easy part got done.  :P  It's what's yet to be done.... :o

Well played ms_meme   

I'm sure soon your friend will be another well known community member


Crow, I honestly don't think I can tell her about the Forum.  I mean this friend thinks I am quiet and respectable.  She believes I am serious and proper.  Around her I am always reserve and upright. It could be a bit of a shock to her. She is my neighbor and it might just be best not to reveal that occasionally I sneak off to another Neighborhood.   ;D ;D 
May have to give a lot of thought before exposing myself.  ;)


Look who had another birthday.  ;D  SWEET 17
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Re: ms_meme's neighborhood
« Reply #2619 on: September 09, 2012, 08:31:21 AM »
The Forum is not to be revealed to the outside world. It would create a panic unseen in the realms of history.  :o
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Re: ms_meme's neighborhood
« Reply #2620 on: September 09, 2012, 08:46:39 AM »
The Forum is not to be revealed to the outside world. It would create a panic unseen in the realms of history.  :o

Let 'em panic, I say.  Let that Linux light shine, y'all.  Anybody feared o' the light, well... they just ain't right. ;D

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Re: ms_meme's neighborhood
« Reply #2621 on: September 09, 2012, 10:26:33 AM »
I think ms_meme is right, we must care that long maintained image.... well, some should, not me  ;D
I shall pass this way but once;
any good therefore that I can do,
or any kindness that I can show
let me not defer nor neglect it,
for I shall not pass this way again.

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Re: ms_meme's neighborhood
« Reply #2622 on: September 09, 2012, 02:02:20 PM »

Crow, I honestly don't think I can tell her about the Forum.  I mean this friend thinks I am quiet and respectable.  She believes I am serious and proper.  Around her I am always reserve and upright. It could be a bit of a shock to her. She is my neighbor and it might just be best not to reveal that occasionally I sneak off to another Neighborhood.   ;D ;D 
May have to give a lot of thought before exposing myself.  ;)


Look who had another birthday.  ;D  SWEET 17

With me, it would be just the opposite. This forum is about the closest I've ever been to being serious and proper.  ;D ;D ;D
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Re: ms_meme's neighborhood
« Reply #2623 on: September 09, 2012, 02:44:44 PM »

Crow, I honestly don't think I can tell her about the Forum.  I mean this friend thinks I am quiet and respectable.  She believes I am serious and proper.  Around her I am always reserve and upright. It could be a bit of a shock to her. She is my neighbor and it might just be best not to reveal that occasionally I sneak off to another Neighborhood.   ;D ;D 
May have to give a lot of thought before exposing myself.  ;)


Look who had another birthday.  ;D  SWEET 17

With me, it would be just the opposite. This forum is about the closest I've ever been to being serious and proper.  ;D ;D ;D

Yeah, it's always the quiet ones ya gotta watch...  ;)

Later On,
D
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Re: ms_meme's neighborhood
« Reply #2624 on: May 01, 2013, 02:36:31 PM »
ms_meme, where are you?
How you doing?

For my ms_meme:
Erik Satie "Trois Gymnopédies"
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