[sf-lug] Meeting notes for Sunday, 3 September 2017

[Bobbie Sellers]

Hi LUGers,

     Well we had fairly good meeting today.

     I got to the Cafe Enchante about 10:45 AM and begin to setup at

a couple of the small square tables but as I was about to plug in I

noticed the largest table was free and moved to it.

     No problems powering up but I had never connected to WiFi on either of

my freshly installed distribution.   Before I could begin to work on that

about 11:00 AM Aaron showed up and started to setup.

     Aaron had several disks and a magazine to return to me.

     So I got back to Debian Edu 9.1 and found that the task bar was the

main problem as the network indicating display was almost invisible and

finally I found it and got online very quickly.

     11:10 AM Ken Shaffer and wife showed up both looking good.

Ken is not happy about losing the use of Unity on his Ubuntu and I

expect others feel similarly   We briefly discussed the possibility of

a mutual net acquaintance showing up but we have greated

expectations of that happening on Monday the 18th of September.

     11:20 AM Mike joined us for a snack and some discussion of varied

topics.

     I got back to the community pclinuxOS64 tde 2017.06 and

managed to get it online which took a bit longer than I anticipated.

I don't really know Trinity DE that well. despite that it forked back

when KDE Plasma 4.x.x was introduced.

     11:40 AM Shari came in for help with her WiFi networking problems

Ken did most of the work on this.  Like my problem with Debian 9

this was due to the difficult of spotting the task bar/dock panel

widget. Once it was located Shari rebooted and did this herself.

She left about 12:25 PM, Shari had a bad time finding a place

to park her car.  Took her about 45 minutes.

     12:35 PM Jim Stockford arrived, for a nice snack and some

discussion.   I raised the question of the Intel Management

Engine shut off command recently discovered.  I had heard

(rumors which I did not really believe) of this clever device

earlier but turning it off sounds good. Subverting it to use

as a anti-intrusion, anti-malware device for  Linux and even

the Microsoft program launcher would be a very good idea.


         Any additions or corrections by the attending members

are of course welcome.


     So the next meeting will be on Monday the 18th of

September from 6-8 PM at the Cafe Enchante.

     Hope to see some of us there.


     Bobbie Sellers





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