A friend who reads this blog is going to come to my place briefly and see Linux in action.
I will be demo’ing:
1. Tomboy
2. Beagle
3. Deskbar
4. Virtual Desktops
5. XGL/Compiz
6. Software installation
7. Multiple DEs
8. It’s Free
Here’s the specifics of this:
1. Tomboy: Creating and linking notes
2. Beagle: Searching for a phrase which is in multiple documents of different types (probably her name as it’s already in a Tomboy note and in the filename of an image)
3. Deskbar: Adding the Deskbar to the Gnome panel, using it to start e-mails, search the web, search with Beagle, run programs.
4. Virtual Desktops: Run different types of programs over different desktops and switch between them
5. XGL/Compiz: Wobbly windows, Cube, maximise, minimise, close, make windows transparent, Expose, how to crash X in 5 minutes 
6. Software installation: Synaptic for searching, browsing, and how to install and update.
7. Multiple DEs: Log out of Gnome and log into KDE. Explain differences between DEs and that people prefer one over the other. Bash KDE mercilessly :-P Do a "switch user" and log into XFCE. Switch between the two DEs. Do a Switch User and log into Gnome. Switch backwards and forwards between DEs. More KDE bashing.
8. It’s Free: Give her two Live CDs. One Ubuntu, the other I don’t know yet; probably something which uses KDE like Mandriva One. Wish I had a non-corrupt copy of PCLinuxOS. Wish I hadn’t given away my only copy of SimplyMEPIS.
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In other news, I got this spam from someone I once mistakenly e-mailed:
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hey, go here and we both get a free &lowercase_product_short_name;
pretty pretty please 
http://www.getitfree.net/xpepsxbqq
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Wasn’t it nice of him to offer me a free lowercase_product_short_name?
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