Hi, If you are looking someone in the Waikato and not Auckland then I suggest maybe coming along to a wlug meeting - https://www.meetup.com/WaikatoLinuxUsersGroup/ or maybe Hamilton Computer Club https://www.meetup.com/Hamilton-Computer-Club/ (especially the workshop). Cheers, William. On Sun, Jun 5, 2016 at 12:18 AM, Jonathan Wood <jonathanwood27(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi there,
I'm willing to help if you are in the Auckland area
I have a good knowledge of setting up Linux desktop/laptops and could also have a look at your old machines for you
Jonathan
On 4/06/2016, at 11:54 PM, Michelle <michelle400(a)orcon.net.nz> wrote:
Hi,
My name's Michelle. I've been using Linux on and off for the last few years. I'm looking for someone who would help me set up a computer with linux on it.
I rang round all? or most the PB tech stores, they didn't have anyone who was up to the task. I rang a store where a guy was into Linux but they're too busy. I sent an email to a guy involved with one of the distros I want but even though it's on the web to contact him to pay for help he hasn't got back to me. A man kindly pointed out to me two computers from PB tech that he says will work but as you can see from the post I've had some trouble with computers not working or not working properly and I want to pay some money for someone to try the distros and experience that it works on a computer for sure.
I had a Dell on which I set up Puppy with no problem whatsoever. The computer died and so then I took the puppy distro and the other disto I'd bought (can't remember what) and tried to install them on 2 older computers I had but it didn't work. I don't know why, maybe it was because one of the distros was on a USB drive and not compatible or maybe both computer hard drives were stuffed?
After that I bought a mini-pc (I think it was supposed to run linux) but it didn't work at all. Then I bought a tablet but after a month or two it stopped working or pretty much? Stopped working. So I just used a phone for about a year and last year bought a brand new Toshiba laptop.
The problem with this was two fold:
1. It was a laptop. 2. It was a Toshiba (oh how I hate Toshiba)
I had known that not all computers were readily compatible with linux but after my easy experience with the Dell I wasn't too concerned. I bought two linux distros on different media and hoped/assumed? that something would work – it didn't. I bought another say 2 or 3 distros and managed to get the Mint to install on this Toshiba.
It wasn't until after this annoying endeavor that I found out online that: - laptops are less compatible than desktops with linux and that - Toshiba out of the maybe top 6 or 8 computer manufacturers is consistantly about the least compatible with linux ( I HATE TOSHIBA)
I don't happen to have a few spear thousand dollars sitting around to enable me to buy a computer and try and set it up with the distros I want, find it dosen't work, buy another computer, find it doesn't work, buy another and finally find one that works with the distros I want.
So I am sending this message and hoping someone can help me set up a computer with the two linux distros I want. I don't know how that would work. Maybe someone is about to buy a new computer and can try these distros before they put theirs on, maybe someone has a partition on their computer that is spare and can try it there, maybe they own a computer shop or work in a computer shop or at a university or polytech with computers or computer parts around.
So for anyone who may be willing to help me here is what I would like:
- I'm up for paying up to 700 but would prefer to just pay say 400 or 500.
- a desktop (not the modern ones that are a computer plus other thing/s but just a computer
- not a toshiba
- Whonix to run on top of Qubes. Whonix is great for anonimity and Qubes is designed for security/safety.
- I have a DrayTek vigor 120 modem. I connect it via DSL. When looking into whonix I read that it is complex to configure and setup, so I was hoping that you might have such a modem or access to one and set it up with whonix and then tell me how you did it.
- I don't want the computer to come with wifi or bluetooth or any similar thing. I don't want it just not running, I don't want it there at all.
- I'm wanting to install 3 old encyclopedias. I was reading about the new versions online and people were recommending old ones. I've bought Encarta 2004, 2001 and Encyclopaedia Britannica '98. To run them on I've bought Windows 98 second edition and Windows NT (first edition?). If you have or could borrow these windows OS could you see if you could get them running in whonix or qubes?
- One or both of the encyclopedias need 2 DVD players so I'd like at least 2 DVD players with one being a recorder.
- I'm not looking for a high end computer. As long as it will play youtube, that's fast enough. BUT I would appreciate hearing any recommendation about if I just add such and such for $100 or $150 it would go much faster. I'd like 500GB hard drive at least and I've been recommended to get 8GB RAM at least.
I wouldn't buy the computer off you but rather if you could tell me what computer/computer parts worked, I'd pay up to $150 for the info. If 10 different people told me what worked of course I couldn't pay 10 different people $150. So to prevent two or more different people working on it at the same time, if you are willing to help me out could you please let me know and I could post a message just asking that no one else start working on it.
It would be nice to have a choice of say two or three computers. So perhaps someone could say there is this computer or that one and I could ask you to try installing Whonix and Qubes on one of them. Or maybe there was a choice of two computers in parts and I could be told the parts of one computer and the other and I could choose the parts for one.
It doesn't have to be brand new. As long as I can still buy it or the parts new it could be up to two years old.
Thank you to anyone willing to help Michelle Gorringe. _______________________________________________ wlug mailing list | wlug(a)list.waikato.ac.nz Unsubscribe: https://list.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/wlug
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