I'm trying to Find anyone who lives in San Antonio

officers@satlug.org

Is the e-mail address for officers of the San Antonio Linux Users' Group.

In reply to all three replies to my query, yes I have tried SATLUG, or at least recomended it to my friend, as it happens they meet at the University where she did an Adult learning course.

I was hoping, as I thought I'd seen a reference to someone who is a regular here, being from San Antonio, that I could find someone I more or less know, to help.

My friend's son is using the computer ok, but some hands on help so he can understand what he's working with would be good. And there a re a couple of questions he asked me on the phone, that are specific to laptops, and I can't answer them without the machine in front of me.

Tracyanne:

Helios is in Austin. That's a far ways away, but at least in the area. He may be able to find someone for you.

Quoting:Helios is in Austin.

Yeah I know, that's only just down the road from San Antonio, I forgot about that. Thanks.

I was just there In October - if I'd had some notice, who knows...

We've been so slammed with our K4K issues that I haven't had time to check my messages until now and I'm sorry it took me so long to do it. Yes, I will be more than glad to help, just give me a way to get ahold of her and I will take care of it immediately.

Ken

Thanks Ken, I managed to talk her through the problem on the phone.

It turns out her ISP was being unco-operative (The drongos don't support Linux. I told her to go with Clearwire as soon as tyhey are available in Her area). All that was necessary was for her to go into network and Internet on DrakConf and select DHCP - the network was still configured for my LAN.

If you wouldn't mind being available, for when I can't talk her through something over the phone (I'm using skype so it only costs me a dollar or two for an hour or two of talk).

If you PM me here, I'll give you my skype name, and we could talk for free computer to computer.

I'll ask my friend if it's OK to give you her phone number.

Got your message when I got home with number. I will make contact today and let her know I am available for rendering assistance. Are we talking Mandriva here? LOL...something tells me I need to spend a bit more time in that partition. Oh...quick question. When you install mandriva, does it automagically pick up other Linux systems? Some of these distro authors need to get over theirselves and start making that happen. Theirselves? is that a word? huh...I guess it is now.

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Thanks ken, Yes we are talking Mandriva, 2007.1 to be precise.

Quoting:When you install mandriva, does it automagically pick up other Linux systems?

As far as I'm aware, although it been a while since I've installed any dual boot system.

BTW her name is Charlotte

@Ken (Helios)

http://forum.mandriva.com/viewtopic.php?p=420108#420108

Not exactly definitive but not many comments extolling the virtues of Beagle. Most seem to prefer Find.

Most seem to prefer Find.

I cannot for the life of me figure out why. One-after-another tests with identically cleared cache's prove that slocate gets not only more relevant results, it gets them on the average of 15 seconds quicker. Case in point...using find, I began a 5 drive search for a file called reconstructor. my search string was reconstruct, with no boxes checked...just a raw search. Find found one jpg called reconstruct. Slocate found the file itself..

go figure.

slocate works from an index of all files on the system. find does a raw search. So slocate will always be faster. It can miss new files, which is why most distributions include cron jobs to run updatedb regularly. Some reasonably simple regular expressions will help both commands zero in on what you want- just google a bit to find gobs of them. I haven't found a graphical search tool that's worth the bother yet.