On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 12:11:36 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Vikki Roemer) wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 09:32:46AM -0500, BruceG wrote: > > Anyway - you might want to include a few distributions, as not > > everyone may be interested in Debian. I found Mandrake, SuSE and Red > > Hatto have a very good look and feel. With RHL moving towards > > Project Fedora, and Fedora Core at 1.0 - you may see interest in > > both Debian and Fedora. > > I was planning on working with whatever distro the customer already > had installed. I have a little (granted, very little) experience with > RH (7.2), and if/when I get a laptop I'd put Slackware on it for a > little while, just to get some experience with it, and I'd also put > RH on it just to stay in practice. ..I advice you stick to one distro for your clients, Debian Sarge should be out before you get your feet wet.. > > Only reason I'm bringing it up is that once a client (or friend) has > > DSL in, and if they have a laptop - they will bring up wireless. > > > Hmm, I'll look into it. First I've got to finish HS, get a job, and > get together some money to get a laptop, etc. Meanwhile my parents > have to get DSL. ..*dsl lines makes good wifi hub hook-ups. > > The other thing to look at is volunteering at a church, or if you > > are part of a homeschool group. Maybe put up a website or a forum, > > and use that experience to fill out your resume. > > I don't go to church anymore (used to be Catholic, now I'm an > atheistic Buddhist), but I do belong to a homeschool group and I'm > already maintaining a website for them. See > http://bchomeschool.homelinux.com/ > > > I found that volunteering gives me experience in things I don't do > > that often: replaced hard drives, PD's LAN infrasctructure and ..uh, "PD" being preceded by their local cities??? ;-) > > replaced defective hubs (bad power and too many hits), replaced bad > > cable, set up a Payroll PC(don't forget power-up passwords and disk > > passwords for those kinds of animals). > > > > Finally - it might be cool to do a desktop install on a PC for your > > church or whatever civic group you might belong to. I found that our > > church got some donated PC's and re-uses them. My next project is to > > install Linux on one, just to give a taste of what it is and what it > > does. ..another way is always keep a Knoppix or your own remaster of it, handy, if you weed out enough bloat, you can put it on a credit card size cd and use that as a your business card. > Hmm, if only the homeschool group had a place to keep the computer, > it'd be interesting to do that. See, we don't have a permanent > meeting place-- we depend on nice churches in the area for a place to > have our co-op classes(parents teach various classes on various > subjects-- everything from anatomy for elementary schoolers to trivia > (the class I'm taking this 6 weeks) to chess), and we use the electric > company's meeting room for our group's monthly meetings. ..so they have space, power and wires. ;-) -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ;-) ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
