As part of my efforts to widen the community, I've been setting folk up with Ubuntu for email and text processing etc. One of the people is my next-door neighbour, who I actually lent an old Compaq laptop with Lucid (10.04LTS). The payback is she looks after our condo unit for us when we are away. Currently we're in Arizona until mid-Feb, and in a phone conversation (we also phone to keep in touch) she mentioned it is "not working". If there's anyone in Sandy Hill willing to take a look (either it's simple, or the Compaq has given up and gone to old-laptop heaven), perhaps they could get in touch with me off-list and we'll arrange intro. Best, JN