[ubuntu-uk] Mums, Was: Ubuntu UK Science Museum Visit - WiFi Available!

[Jon Reynolds]

The thought of giving screencasts a go had crossed my mind, but then I
don't have a tidy Windows setup on which to make them. Really must
convince her to try ubuntu. 

I think the problem with ubuntu on my parents computers (have nearly
convinced my dad to try - will push him for at least dual-boot) is they are worried about support if things go wrong. 

I would help as much as I can but I live 200 miles away and don't get
there very often unfortunatelyt. So at the mo, if my dad's computer
starts playing up he  says he is happy that he can just put it in the
car and take it to the local computer shop to sort out. I doubt they
will help him if it is running Ubuntu, unless they are very lucky and
the guys in the shop happen to be linux users.

But if I get them bothon dual boot so they could revert to windows if
needs be...

Jon

On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 01:08:19PM +0000, Alan Pope wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 25 March 2010 12:37, Thomas Ibbotson <thomas.ibbotson at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Are these personalised screencasts or are they freely available?
> 
> I'm not sure whether to make them public or not to be honest. I've
> made some decisions about her desktop which people might disagree
> with. For example I've installed Picasa as the photo manager rather
> than F-Spot, and Thunderbird as the mail client and Chromium instead
> of Firefox as the default browser.
> 
> If I do make them public they'll likely not be on
> screencasts.ubuntu.com but on some other site, maybe my blog, I don't
> know yet.
> 
> > They might be
> > interested in watching screencasts to tell them how to do simple
> > things. In particular they would like to use their digital camera with
> > Ubuntu. Currently this is the only thing they reboot into windows for.
> >
> 
> I removed the whole digital camera issue by telling Mum to just put
> the memory card in the slot, and Picasa just automatically imports the
> photos for her. No faff.
> 
> > How do you automatically deliver the screencasts?
> >
> 
> I installed dropbox and signed her up for it. I then made a folder
> which is shared between me and her. So any screencasts I put in the
> folder will magically appear on her machine next time she goes online.
> 
> Cheers,
> Al.
> 
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