[sf-lug] Today's meeting Sunday 2 March 2014 -- archiving using GUI

[jim]

     Bill wants his old Firefox bookmarks back.
He upgraded from ubuntu 10.* to Ubuntu 12.04
and discovered that his /home/<him>/ directory
seems completely empty.
     Firefox bookmarks are listed in
/home/<him>/.mozilla/firefox/*.default/bookmarkbackups
     It seems that Bill's problem could have been
addressed by backing up his home directory
before running destructive processes (such as
  upgrading).
     I don't know what GUI program (Ubuntu 12.04)
can archive ("make a tarball") files in a directory
tree (e.g. /home/bill/ ).
     If you do, please reply to the list, and thank you.



On 03/02/2014 04:50 PM, Bobbie Sellers wrote:
> Hi LUGgers,
>
>         10:35 A.M. I arrived followed shortly John Strazziano,
> then Ken Shaeffer and wife,  Maestro, Yong, Jason, Mickey,
> Daniel, Jim, Mikki,  Bob and Eric  finally.
>
>     John had a couple of laptop computers he was trying to dispose
> of but he kept one.
>     We tried several distributions on those.
>
>      Daniel wanted to install Fedora but it would not give good
> results on the Dell machine so finally PC LOS in 32 bit version worked 
> fine and he will install it when he has some time.
> This could boot 64 bit versions of some systems but not the
> ones we wanted to use originally.
>
>     Ken was just helping everyone but especially
> Yong and Mickie.
>
>     Maestro wanted a 32 bit version of Fedora 20 and after some
> experimentation yesterday I bought along the Jam spins which
> seemed more adaptable.  Then he spent a lot of time working with
> Mikki finding drivers on line for it using my Compaq.  I was running
> back and forth trying to help Daniel with the new install then
> showing him a few details of the KDE Plasma desktop environment.
>
>     We had an accident in that one member knocked over
> another's decaf soy latte but the damage was soon repaired
> and if the proper cap had been kept on the cup the spill might
> not have been as disastrous.  A fresh decaf, et al and we were
> good to go.
>
>     Jason had a friend's laptop computer on which Windows
> was to be deprecated totally and then with a magazine disk,
> which I supplied, he installed Mint!  It was a fine light machine
> with excellent response.
>     Jason also has some 3 GiB external drives he wishes to sell or 
> trade for other equipment.  He has lots of 8 GiB SD and Micro SD cards 
> as well for similar trade or sale.
>
>     Mikki McGee was having a problem with the WiFi on her ASUS Eee  
> PC.   Maestro, Jim and Ken all worked on it
>
>     Jim was showing off his new Zareason machine which he has made 
> some changes to lately as he mentions in his own post.
>
>     We were having a lot of fun until about 1:30 PM when we broke
> up and the last members of the group packed up their gear. Jim brought 
> his car around and with as many people as we could cram
> in stopped first at the FrankenArt studio where hot dogs were had
> by at least 3 of the riders.  Jim dropped off Jason near Post and
> Hyde then dropped me a couple of blocks along.
>
>     If anyone is interested next meeting will be the 17th of this
> month and I will have at least Kali-linux on hand.  I am planning
> on getting Kubuntu which is KDE running over the Ubuntu system
> instead of Unity.  More information about those ISOs will be
> posted with the next meeting announcement.
>     I must say that without the assistance of John in helping
> set up a 3 table area for us it would have been much harder
> to get 11 members together.  The Cafe Enchante was extremely
> crowded and busy today.
>
>     If I left anything out of these notes about the meeting please
> inform me or the LUG asap.
>
>     Thanks for your attention!
>
>     Bobbie Sellers
>
>
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