[GRLUG] Tech support!

[Steve Romanow]

On 11/12/2010 7:43 AM, Michael Mol wrote:
> Have her bring it to the Saturday Social, where a few of us hang out
> socially. I'll take a look at it. As long as it doesn't need to be
> opened up, I might be able to fix it there.
>
> The Saturday Social is every Saturday, from 2-6PM, at the
> Subway/Biggby in Grandville.
> http://wiki.grlug.org/index.php?title=Main_Page#Saturday_Social
>
> On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 7:13 AM, Godwin<godwin at grandrapids-lug.org>  wrote:
>> Hi David, I'm going to forward this to the list for you, however, please
>> join if you wish to post in the future.
>>
>> thanks,
>> G-
>>
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>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: "David J."<davidj at mckendrick.ca>
>> To: grlug at grlug.org
>> Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 14:00:27 -0600
>> Subject: Tech support!
>> I know, I know -- you guys get bothered with this kind of BS often
>> enough at family dinners&  such.. but hey, at least this laptop is
>> linux ;)
>>
>> A friend of mine in the grand rapids area toasted her laptop on a ubuntu
>> update, and needs a local nerd to take a peek into it. Fairly certain
>> it's a quick fix of just using sysresccd or something similar to chroot
>> in and run some apt-get updates -- or worst-case-scenario, installing
>> the latest ubuntu and importing her settings (evolution / desktop data
>> is the key stuff she can't lose).
>>
>> Was hoping one of you would be up for helping her, I'll happily paypal
>> $$$s to have it handled. Would need to be handled in a public place,
>> without a 'drop-off and pick-up' style arrangement as you're all
>> strangers.
>>
>> Any takers?
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>> David J. McKendrick
>> Skype: dandgoliath
>> Twitter: davidandgoliath
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