[sf-lug] Meeting of 16 September 2013 and some barely related topics,

[jim]

    One aspect of Jason's problem that I've 
seen before is that of the enthusiastic 
friend, who, in this case, set up Jason's 
computer for him because he, the friend, was 
expert. This friend created an encrypted 
directory or filesystem and somehow he and/or 
Jason got balled up with Jason now in a bind. 
    The friend seems no longer to be available 
to help out. 
    I think it is risky to let someone else 
set up your machine for you. Better to ask 
them to tell you what you should do, no 
matter how painful the process. 



On Fri, 2013-09-20 at 08:44 -0700, Bobbie Sellers wrote:
> Well this was a very small meeting.
> 
>      Only Jason and Jim showed up besides myself.
>      Jason can listen to his encrypted music using a live CD but
> so far was unable to copy the files from or decrypt the encrypted partition
> where his entertainment files live.   The OS on his hard disk failed and 
> will
> not boot due to a related problem.  He tried some things out about copying
> the tunes off the encrypted partition and by doing so learned a bit more.
> 
>      I brought along my ASUS Android Tablet. I am still working at getting
> this device ready to try GNU/Linux.  Managed to find and download a tool
> but that was all I did.   I run into the same problem as with other "extra"
> computers in that I only have so much time to work with this device. So
> before the meeting I had only been able to spend a couple of hours since
> the last meeting.  I have spent more time since the meeting with it 
> trying out a rooting tool but had no luck.  But slowly getting better 
> understanding of the
> problem I am attempting to deal with.
> 
>      Have also watch a lot of video about beginners or near beginners being
> introduced to various operating systems of the past and present.
>      Know better about several topics including Arch Linux and CrunchBang
> aka #! 11 which is very sparing of system resources handy for older low 
> specced
> computers.  One of the older systems introduced in this series is Amiga 
> OS 1.1
> from 1985.   I started with 1.2 and updated immediately to AOS 1.3.
> Some of you might want to look at these at the URL below:
> <http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=9SEc3wnO60o>
> I was interested in the ArchLinux because it is one of the Linux distros 
> suited for
> use on a tablet.   The title of this particular video is "Mum tries out 
> CrunchBang Linux 11 (2013)".  She also tries out a lot of other stuff. 
> And it might be good
> for people who try to set up machines for relatives or paying customers 
> to watch
> to see how little of a computer some people want when "Mum tries out 
> Arch Linux".
> Her son is very knowlegeable.
> 
> Jim's new Zareason notebook looks very nice but with Ubuntu 12.04 on
> it i was lucky to be able to find the Console(Terminal) icon. The only nice
> thing I can find to say about Ubuntu is that the color scheme is very 
> nice if
> you like red.   But the GUI seems to be fairly inflexible with a task 
> bar at
> the top of the screen and a left side bar that has a iconic menu that 
> will let
> you attach icons  of the program  you are most interested in using to 
> that bar.
> No way to by-pass the icon menu for a text menu it seems.
>      The specifications on this notebook seem to be low.  It seems to 
> have a
> 2.5 GHz Intel i3 (dual core processor) and while it has 8 GiB of ram it has
> what appears at first to be a small hard drive of 120 GiB. However the
> hard drive is actually a Solid State drive.  It boots with _great_ speed
> something I have not seen since the Commodore 64 which is a another
> kettle of fish altogether.
>      Congratulations Jim you picked a winner.
>      Next meeting at Cafe Enchante will be on October 6.
> 
>      Bobbie Sellers
> 
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