[clue-tech] Installfest wrap.

[David L. Anselmi]

We had a good installfest last Saturday.  And for those who like the big 
blue room, you'll note that we left you the nicer day to expose yourself 
to the elements.

For those who didn't come because you don't like installfest, let me 
know why.  Maybe we can make it better (but we'll probably just say, 
"where's the patch?" ;-)

About 15 people came, counting wives (but not kid).  Dennis showed off 
his EEE.  Pretty cool.  We had a decent number of gurus (including David 
Wilson complete with Fedora) so it was pretty easy going.

There were 5 fresh installs of Hardy Heron that all went pretty 
successfully.  One was specifically to fix wifi on an old Kubuntu 
install and Collins took care of the ndiswrapper magic.  Two others 
needed firmware for the b43 driver and installing Ubuntu's fwcutter took 
care of downloading and installing that, no magic required.

And two systems got set up to share a FAT partition with their Windows 
boot-mates, despite the gurus forgetting where file ownership and 
permissions are stored for FAT (hint, it ain't anywhere in the partition).

chown: changing ownership of `/share': Operation not permitted...  What 
the %$#@!

Four of us (plus wife & kid) had dinner afterwards and that was cool too 
since we skipped lunch.  A guy in a Fedora wanted to order lunch but he 
was too slow to say so.  And he skipped dinner for some theater event. 
Sigh.

The next installfest will be in July, watch here for the actual date.

Dave