Would this be an appropreate play to get help getting
mysql up and running on SuSe?
Marshall
--- "Eric \"Shubes\"" <
plug@shubes.net> wrote:
> (my apologies for the formatting problems -shubes)
>
> Alexander Henry wrote:
> > I have some new language in the press release.
> >
> >
> >
>
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> >
> > Community event: Phoenix Linux User's Group (PLUG)
> Installfest.
> >
> > FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
> >
> > CALENDAR POSTING
> >
> >
> >
> > SHORT FORMAT - CALENDAR FORMAT -
> AZIPA/AZTECHLIST/TECHOASIS FORMAT
> >
> > 8/28 (Saturday 10:00am - 5:00pm) Phoenix Linux
> User Group (PLUG) Installfest. Where: University of
> Advancing Technology: 2625 W. Baseline Tempe, AZ
> 85283 (Baseline Road, just west of I-10 and Pointe
> Hilton South Mountain, south side of Baseline). The
> Phoenix Linux User's Group and the Arizona Open
> Technology Organization (AZOTO) would like to invite
> you to our monthly Linux Installfest. Bring your
> PC, Mac, or other for one-on-onehelp to get your
> machine running Linux, and to learn how to use
> Linux. If you're interested in Linux for home,
> please stop by and see our demos. If you are
> researching Linux for business use, especially small
> business, please contact Alexander Henry below, and
> we will arrange a specific demo. RSVP appreciated,
> indicate interests: Alexander Henry
> <ahenry@red7usa.com> PLUG:
> http://plug.phoenix.az.us AZOTO:
> http://www.azoto.org
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > LONG/ARTICLE FORMAT
> >
> > (Phoenix, Arizona) -- DATE
> >
> > The Phoenix Linux User Group (PLUG) and the
> Arizona Open Technology Organization (AZOTO) are
> holding their monthly Linux Installfest Saturday,
> August 28, from 10:00 A.M. to 5:00 P.M. at the
> University of Advancing Technology (UAT), 2625 W
> Baseline Tempe, just west of I-10. Free and open to
> the public. Bring your P.C. for free one-on-one
> help with installing Linux. The Linux Installfest
> also features demos to view Linux for those
> considering switching to Linux for home or business
> use, as well as Knoppix CD's to try Linux at home
> without damaging your PC or files. While noRSVP is
> required, if you are considering attending, an
> e-mail to the event coordinator stating your
> specific interest would be greatly appreciated.
> Please e-mail Alexander Henry <ahenry@red7usa.com>
> with "Installfest"in the subject line. The
> PLUG/AZOTO Installfest is held at UAT on the last
> Saturday of every month.
> >
> > "PLUG and AZOTO, in the past, had only held
> bi-annual install conferences," says Alexander
> Henry, PLUG member and event coordinator. "These
> install conferences were huge, and included not only
> one-on-one installationhelp and Linux demos, but
> presentations and giveaways. The members at PLUG
> and AZOTO are impressed with the success of
> switching to monthly installfests," Alexander Henry
> continued. "The public responded positively to this
> move, and our turnout is steadily increasing." The
> larger installconferences will still be held. Henry
> also cited greater worldwide interest in Linux,
> support from large companies such as IBM and
> Hewlett-Packard, and exponentially increasing
> Windows virus outbreaks has raised greater interest
> in Linux. Henry continued that in the future, given
> demand, larger computer setup demonstrations as well
> as regular group tutorials would be held.
> >
> > Linux is a free Unix-type operating system
> originally created by Linus Torvalds with the
> assistance of developers around the world. Developed
> under the GNU General Public License, the source
> code for Linux is freely available to everyone.
> Apart from the fact that it's freely distributed,
> Linux's functionality, adaptability, and robustness
> has made it the main alternative for proprietary
> Unix and Microsoft operating systems. IBM,
> Hewlett-Packard and other giants of the computing
> world have embraced Linux and support its ongoing
> development. More than a decade after its initial
> release, Linux is being adopted worldwide as a
> server platform primarily. Its use as a home and
> office desktop operating system is also on therise.
> The operating system can also be incorporated
> directly into microchips in a process called
> "embedding" and is increasingly being used thisway
> in appliances and devices. Countries such as China,
> India, Germany,Singapore, Brazil, and many more are
> ad
> opting Linux as their official operating system in
> both servers and
> desktops. Some governments are adopting economic
> policies around a
> future boom in Linux.
>
> .) alternative "to" instead of alternative "from"
> .) replace "adopted" with "utilized"
> .) "primarily as" instead of "as ... primarily"
> .) replace "Countries" with "Governments", or
> possibly "Governments in
> countries" (Countries aren't adopting, are they?)
> .) I have a problem with the last sentence here. Can
> this statement be
> backed up? Even if so, I'm not sure it's a good
> thing (adopting economic
> policies based on any kind of boom). If there's a
> boom, there'll be a
> bust (economically speaking). I think that simply
> pointing to the growth
> of Linux (however you want to measure it) would have
> better impact.
>
> >
> > "My take on the Open Source movement," Henry says,
> "is that it's a model for the new economy. When
> Henry Ford tasked himself with taking academic
> research in materials science, physics, and
> engineering and producing something people could
> use, at that time in history the only way to do
> sowas to start with real estate, plant, and capital
> equipment, then apply an amount of material,
> management, and real labor to each car produced
> onthe assembly line. Today, to take research
> produced by investments by DARPA, the Department of
> Energy, Bell Labs, etc. and apply it to
> somethingusable, you don't need any of this. You
> just need to do a 'copy and paste'. The cost for
> producing the product is already sunk, and there is
> novalue added in making a copy. In fact, anyone who
> invests so much and works so hard at producing this
> research only to have the research go completely
> unused is harmed very badly." Henry provides
> another example, "Tgen was recently given a two
> million doll
> ar endowment to find a cure (or at least a greater
> understanding) for
> Autism. Once they find this cure, the last thing
> Tgen would think of
> doing is to print the procedure for the cure on
> holographic copy-proof
> certificates, sell them for $10,000 a copy, then sue
> anyone who
> practices the cure for Autism without a copy in
> their pockets at the
> time the cure is practiced. But this happens
> routinely for software
> products."
>
> This is a bit esoteric, IMHO. Leave it in if you
> like, but I don't think
> it adds anything meaningful. Sorry, Alex. I would
> like to discuss it though.
> >
> > Henry continues, "Here's how Open Source works on
> an individual level. Think of a junior accountant.
> She takes some information, reorganizes it, does
> some calculations, then places it somewhere else.
> She will realize one day that she can write a script
> to do the same thing, and save herself from this
> boring work. So, she still spends eight hours a day
> doingher normal job (otherwise face termination),
> and invests her spare time at home writing this
> script. By the end of the month, she applies her
> script, reducing her eight hour job to a thirty
> second procedure on a computer, and (assuming her
> employers think like entrepreneurs and not like
> 'Pointy-haired Bosses') her time is free to pursue
> something more productive, or hopefully something
> that requires human judgment and not simple
> number-pushing. Today, like no time in history,
> does every individual have the power to script their
> position out of the company to leverage their labor.
> Better yet, if our junior account
> ant shares her script with the entire accounting
> community, she can in
> return receive scripts that she can apply for her
> employers: potentially
> one script from every junior accountant in the
> industry." Henry again
> points to IBM and Hewlett-Packard as real-life
> examples of large
> companies embracing this new economy. "They are
> kind-of
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