[sf-lug] SF-LUG meeting notes from Monday November 16, 2015

[Bobbie Sellers]

On 11/18/2015 09:23 PM, Todd Hawley wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 2:29 PM, Bobbie Sellers <
> bliss-sf4ever at dslextreme.com> wrote:
>
>>      I demoed the latest Quirky Puppy Werewolf64-7.3,
>>      Looks just like any other Puppy but for the scary werewolf mascot on
>> the page.
>> Green to cream with all the volumes iconified at the bottom of the page
>> over the
>>   task bar.  Little cartoons of internal hard drives, external drives are
>> represented
>> as cartoons of USB drives.  Click on them  folder icon opens windows with
>>   file manager capabilities. So that you can go from iconified to detailed
>> listing of
>> files.
>>
> That was a nice looking desktop. :) Sorry to hear it doesn't have UEFI
> capability yet. Hopefully soon.
>
>      One matter that I perhaps failed to convey to the attendees
>> was that at Office Depot you can get a 4 GiB USB key in the
>> form of a Penguin which looks a lot like Tux.  They have other
>> interesting forms as well from comic universe as well as a
>> USB mustache.
>>      The Penguin comes with a short key chain to keep
>> the penguin head with USB connector attacked to the body
>> with an insertable spacer.  These are priced at about $8 but
>> there is a sale on now and I got 3 of them for about $20.
>>
> The sale might have been at the Office Depot at Portrero that was going out
> of business. There no longer are any Office Depots (at least in SF) because
> they merged with Office Max awhile back. I was at the Office Max on
> Harrison earlier this evening and saw the Penguin flash drive, except it
> had 8 GB and was selling for $14.99.
>
> -th
     Todd,while the vagaries of the corporate world are actually beyond 
me, on
Third Street, a half block South of Market, there is a thriving Office 
Depot.
     That is where I found this little penguin.
     The Office Max is still open on Harrison at 13th and I think that while
some Office Depots will close others will remain open and some Office
Max stores will close while others remain open.
     I think the result will be Office Depot Max!
     But that is for the future.

     bliss