Re: List of tech consultants?

Bryce Verdier wrote:
> Is there something specific your trying to do? Because maybe some of 
> the people on the list might be able to help you out.
Well, I'm trying to escape the Microsoft Menace before Vista arrives and 
the WGA program raises total havoc with legitimate XP systems. However, 
I have five distinct problems:

1. My major hobby (anime fandom) requires a great deal of DVD burning 
and duplication. There are certain Windows programs I have come to 
depend on that have no known Linux analogue. I probably shouldn't 
specify which programs here -- you never know who is listening.

2. I have a Canon Pixma MP150 Printer/Scanner/Copier. I do not know 
whether there is a driver for it, and it is a USB device which 
complicates matters a bit.

3. There are some Windows games that I do not wish to give up. There are 
obscure wargame and sports simulation titles, and while they are not 
graphically intensive on the level of, say, the EA Sports Madden series 
their file structures are built heavily around the Windows OS (so that, 
for example, it looks for a Windows address for scenarios, saves, 
seasons, etc.). I am wondering whether, even with emulators, the file 
structure would defeat any effort to play these games.

4. I am a frequent customer of DriveThruRPG.com, which watermarks PDF 
files  to mark legitimate ownership. Would these watermarks pose a 
problem for Linux PDF readers, and are there Linux software packages 
that support cut-and-paste from PDFs to other software.

5. Even though I have 850GB total storage between two internal and one 
external hard drive, I am still uncertain of how I can migrate my data 
between OSs.

Those, in a nutshell, are my difficulties. Other than that, I have what 
I need -- my disks of Ubuntu Linux 6.0.6, a cable broadband connection, 
and everything that goes with it. Asdie from perhaps having another 
250GB external drive to back up my C: drive onto, which I will not be 
able to get my hands on for a while, I have what would be required for a 
transition; except the expertise.

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