[Leaplist] Thank you!

[Hank Lambert]

Patrick,
    Thanks for these updates. I missed the installfest because I had to 
work. Having these updates are nice between missed Installfests'.

--Hank

patrick wrote:
> Hello Bryan, missed you today at the Installfest.
> Hello Leapers! Missed a few of you, and met some new attendees!
>
> I missed the last two meets, due to illness the first time, and on the
> second,  due to moving, and still setting up and finishing all the
> 'honey do' list items in the new home!
>
> ryan, the 2 DDR2 memory sticks you got for me is fantastic in Nancy's
> new AMD X2 5600+ system!
>
> It screams on internet downloads, and on installs of applications!
>
> Could a lack of memory actually caused slow downloads on my Road Runner
> Broadband?  I mean, all my other systems do up to about 384kbs on
> downloads, but, on similar sized downloads after the addition of dual
> channel memory, her computer hasn't time to calculate and display the
> speed, before it is done, and installed!
>
> Thanks also, to the fine fellows (and ladies!) who attended, and showed
> interest in Linux!  Briana, I think you left your sunglasses, and
> someone (Alex?) lost and earring retainer for pierced earrings.
>
> Enrique puts lost and found stuff somewhere at the School, and if you
> want to contact him, I can call him for you and arrange for you to pick
> them up.
>
> There was some fun, and some games, and new discoveries, like SLITAZ.org
> distro of Linux that I simply must check out, said to run on even old
> hardware like greased lightning!  25MB ISO... Hope to see how it
> measures up with Mini-Knoppix and DSL (in two 50MB versions).
>
> Thanks to everyone who brought SWAG and FREEBIES!  Thanks for some
> legacy hardware! Got a K6-350 system up fast, using DSL!  Might be OK
> for "Child's Play", a suite of games for young children!
>
> Hoping to assist HOPE in Seminole County, and perhaps set up a computer
> education class for the Oviedo branch.  Services are for those families
> on the edge of losing their homes, due to loss of jobs in the family,
> and a job search can succeed with use of the Internet.
>
> Of course, all donated systems will run GNU/Linux!  Families without any
> computer system will receive a complete one that will be the fastest of
> the group available.
>
> Thank you to whoever brought the marble cake, as an afternoon snack it
> was "just right" for many Leapers!
>
> Stay dry, warm, and, don't shower or bathe if you hear thunder or the
> weather reports are of lightning within 5 miles of you!
>
>
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