[sf-lug] Report of meeting of Monday, 20 April 2015
jim
jim at well.com
Mon Apr 20 20:21:16 PDT 2015
Shame on you, Ron. Bobbie gave me two DVDs
that she made for you. I've got them with
me at home.
On 04/21/2015 01:16 AM, Ron Wellman wrote:
> Hi LUGgers,
>
> I arrived about 6:45 PM and Bill H. and Mikki were there before me
> with problems.
> Mikki could not access the wireless at the Cafe Enchante/
> After I made sure the configuration was correct, but we
> could not get onto the wireless connection I made when I
> turned on my machine.
> So finally I had Mikki shutdown, disconnect her power
> supply, pull her battery (which she had no experience with).
> After that the battery was re-inserted and the power
> applied and the little older machine went right to wireless.
>
> Maestro showed up as we were going though that exercise.
> Then we had further discussion about history, cookies and
> tracking in Firefox.
> Maestro is having some problems with his optical drive in
> the older notebook he uses. I am not sure he made much
> progress with that. But he did give Mikki a lot of advice about
> tracking and cookies. Mikki finally got the blur on her machine
> and can turn it off or on or totally remove it.
>
> Mestro kept looking for a Firefox extension "do not track me"
> and I managed to find the name had been changed to " blur" and
> he finally realized it was installed under the new name. Likely the
> name was changed as he was updating and never noted the
> change.
>
> Bill was having a problem with Thunderbird and its behavior
> of downloading mail at start-up. I went through the preferences
> and server settings and got that straightened out for him. Then
> he spent most of the rest of the meeting downloading his mail
> from an old Webmail server that had filled up. Over 1300 e-mails.
>
> At 7:45 PM we started to pack up our equipment and Bill was
> kind enough to give me a ride home.
>
> So if anyone has any emendations or correction for this account
> please send them to the list asap.
>
> Next meeting will be at Cafe Enchante Sunday April 5 2015 from
> 11 AM to 1 PM. Hope to see some of the best people there.
>
> Bobbie Sellers
>
>
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