I have to admit I have some difficulties myself. I work nights, and for the 
few PLUG meetings I've been able to attend I used my vacation/personal time. 
I've always learned something that makes it worth the tradeoff, but I would 
do it on a more regular basis if I could learn more beginner to intermediate 
stuff.  Many years ago, when the Z80a was the Hot Chip, my friends and I 
wrote our own software in either BASIC or assembly language, and freely 
exchanged our work and ideas. Everything was "open source" before Bill Gates 
turned home computer programming into an expensive Mystical Art to be 
practiced only by the initiated Wizards of Redmond. I see the whole Gnu/Linux 
thing as a way to get back into that, to "own" my computer again, and do what 
I enjoy without worrying about the software Nazis coming after me. I'm just 
having a little trouble connecting the Old world with the New.

 Stu

On Tuesday 12 April 2005 14:14, ec wrote:
> Even tho I personally cannot get home safely from
> either east or west side meetings due to riding a
> bike/bus...mostly due bus schedules into Downtown
> Scottsdale, I think the following item by Stu would
> get me VERY interested.
>
> I too, need some 'coaching' via informative type
> meetings to do much more than just install whatever is
> on the cd's and then stumble around. I have a messed
> up Mepis install that is 'limping' along and have
> forgotten what I did to mess it up!
>
> This is being written from a knoppix 3.6 release live
> cd and 2.6.7 kernal. Just because I happen to have
> that running, the Mepis is the usual version I am on.
>
> I guess I am in the 'middle' between a serious linux
> user home user and a 'fraidy cat' type. I really wish
> I had a close friend to help me break thru in
> understanding some of the stuff he mentiones.
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