[sf-lug] SF Lug meeting Sunday June 1st, 2014

[Bobbie Sellers]

On 05/29/2014 06:07 AM, John Strazzarino wrote:
> Missed by a month!  Meeting is June 1st.  And I will be there with 6 surplus desktop Dell Optiplex 620 for Noisebridge, transported by Jim S.
>
> Maybe a bit more coffee is needed?
>
> John
>
>
> Sent from my iPad
       June the 1st is of course correct.  Very hard to let go of a busy
May.

        If I could drink coffee I would but am hypersensitive to its
stimulant effects.
    I spent most of the day getting the old notebook ready to be passed
to a repair
shop where they might use the parts.  Formatted the hard drive which meant I
had to pull it from the old computer, install in a case connect to the
new computer
and walk the directories with Dolphin and copy some few items to my new
computer
and to ithe backup drives.  Then reverse the hardware bits after
formatting the drive.

     I was also on the new machine getting the CD/DVD R/W drive to work
producing
about 4 DVDs or CDs for use by various people. 
    Today I pull the drive from my Inspiron 4000 and wipe all the
personal data there
and maybe extend the partition for its possible repair.  Then it goes to
Goodwill whence
it sprang.
   
    bliss
>
>> On May 28, 2014, at 10:21 PM, Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever at dslextreme.com> wrote:
>>
>>    SF-LUG meets every first Sunday of the month from
>> 11 A.M. to 1 P.M. at the Cafe Enchante, 26th and Geary Boulevard.
>>
>>    These meetings are usually lightly attended with a high for the
>> year so far of 12 members.   If you have a problem come along
>> and maybe we can help but if not we can usually find someone
>> who can.
>>    Last week I got the latest issue of Linux Pro magazine which I will
>> bring along. This arrived on the news stand only about 3 weeks
>> late.
>>    It contains a double-sided DVD with open Suze 13.1 and
>> Mageia 4 which both are x86_64 versions.  Both are suitable for
>> installation on later model x86_64 machines.
>>     Many interesting articles.
>>
>>    Well have you heard of TAILS aka the amnesic incognito live system,
>> I downloaded an iso and made a bootable disk.   This operates online
>> only through TOR for maximum security.
>>     If you need more information check the URL below.
>>    <https://tails.boum.org/about/index.en.html#index1h1>
>>
>>    And then there is the Boot Repair Disk for fixing problems with
>> EFI/UEFI setups on more recent machines.
>>
>>    Now I belong to a general discussion list "Team *Amiga* and some
>> how the talk turned to the modern GUI which some referred to as
>> a "ribbon" interface and complained about how it takes away scant
>> usable space especially on the wide 1368 x768 display of consumer
>> model notebook devices.
>>     So using KDE I rearranged the interface to a columnar mode which
>> I am using now and hope to be able to show off at the next meeting. 
>> The actual use may show problems but I am gradually refining the
>> disposition of icons and pagers on dual task bars set to either side of
>> the display area.   KDE was not really designed for this but it seems to
>> work and gives me a bit more vertical space to show programs. A few
>> more lines of textual display.
>>    I presume as well that this computer bought on the 14th of May will
>> still be up and running.  It was an emergency buy since the SATA interface
>> on my old Compaq notebook failed.  I was not able to afford a lot of the
>> features I wanted in my next 'book but I have a .hdmi output, and 2 of
>> 3 USB ports are USB 3 and it has an AMD A10 4 core cpu.  Seems to run
>> a lot cooler than the Compaq and it is a full pound lighter.
>>
>>       Meeting times are strictly nominal which means that I try
>> to show up on time or actually ahead of time, in case I have
>> to trouble shoot my set-up.  We leave if no other  interested
>> parties show up up by 7:30 Monday nights or 12:30  PM on
>> Sundays.  On the other hand if you bring an interesting problem
>> or discussion we may hang out until long after the nominal time
>> to end the meeting.
>>
>>    Thanks for your attention!
>>
>>    Bobbie Sellers
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> sf-lug mailing list
>> sf-lug at linuxmafia.com
>> http://linuxmafia.com/mailman/listinfo/sf-lug
>> Information about SF-LUG is at http://www.sf-lug.org/