[sf-lug] notes from meeting of Monday 15 February 2016

[maestro]

i did not 'bring' robert.
he was asking about the group to the barista and i overheard him thus
pointing to our nest of penguins.



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On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 10:46 AM, Bobbie Sellers <
bliss-sf4ever at dslextreme.com> wrote:

> Hi LUGers,
>
>     I got to Cafe Enchante by 5:40 PM, no problems
> with setting up my notebook and getting online.
> Started working on these notes by 5:50 PM
>
>      Very crowded this evening in the Cafe Enchante..
>     Only one table open in the usual row of tables
> we meet at.  Aaron helped with this when the crowd
> was still thick.
>
>     As you may remember I was having a problem with
>     Hibernation(suspend to disk) so this afternoon,
>  after 4 PM, I put my notebook into Suspend (suspend
>  to memory) and it started up as soon as I opened it up
>  and logged  right onto the Cafe Enchante WiFi
>  network without any intervention by myself...
>      Only used 2% of my battery in the hour or so it took
> me to get here.
>     I tried this again on the way home and it was not so
> successful.
>
>     6:04 PM Maestro arrived.
>     He brought along Robert who is a beginner with Linux.
> I wrote a copy of Knoppix to DVD for him and gave that
> to him as well as copy of Linux Mint 17.3 xfce
> Sadly I forgot to tell him about the cheat file on the iso
> which should be printed out unless one has an eidetic
> memory.
>
>     Aaron showed up a few minutes later and helped with
>  the seating arrangements.  by moving a table.
>
>     6:25  Jim Stockford came in. Discussing which languages
> Robert might wish to learn.  Mainly discussing the scripting
> languages but touched on others.
>
>      Aaron was working on his very compact laptop
> attempting to run Devuan in a Virtual Box.
> Devuan in case you have not heard is a Debian fork
> devoted to the avoidance of systemd and the use of
> sysvinit. <http://devuan.org/>
>
>      Well shortly after 7 PM Robert took off to get some
> rest before it was time to go back to work or school.
>     Maestro left by 7:40 PM.
>     7:45 PM I started packing up my computer et al.
>     Jim went after his car.
>     7:50 PM Aaron and I moved the extra table back.
>     Jim picked us up and gave me a ride home while
>  taking Aaron on to the BART station.
>
>     Anyone wishing to expand on my remarks
> please let us know before my misperceptions are
> taken for the whole truth,
>
>     Next meeting will be on Sunday March 6, 2016.
>     More about that on February 29th.
>
>     Thanks for your attention.
>
>     Bobbie Sellers
>
>
>
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