Now that I have a new motorcycle I am going to come up to Calgary for some CLUG meetings. It was different when my 4x4 truck would cost $120 round trip but now I think I should be able to do it for only $20 and a fun ride. I will let you know when I am planning on coming to Calgary.
On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 9:46 AM, Kin Wong <kw...@csa-pdk.com> wrote: > Wow Royce - nice story. Are you able to come to the May meeting and tell > the story or maybe create an audio file of it in your own voice? I wanted > to do a talk on storytelling as it applies to marketing open source. > > > On 3/23/2011 9:09 AM, Royce Souther wrote: > >> I tried to avoid xrandr for many years even stuck with an older distro >> because everything new was switching to xrandr. The problem is that xrandr >> has a size limitation that would not let me use my four 19inch monitors all >> as one desktop, only xinerama could do that because my desktop was >> 5120x1024. In the end I just gave up and traded my four 19inch monitors for >> two 24inch ones. Now I have 3D desktop with rotating cube on an okay desktop >> size of 3840x1200. It is cool but I don't think I like it much, most of the >> time I turn 3D desktop off. It tends to mess up many productivity >> applications. >> >> What are your passions in GNU/Linux? >> >> I have never been passionate about the new toys that come with the latest >> distro of Linux. I am more of a person that is passionate about something >> new I can learn. At last count I could program in 20 different languages on >> six different operating systems (counting all versions of Linux as just >> one). I write code, I design circuit boards, I develop embedded systems, I >> build telephone servers, web servers and databases. All of these things I do >> because Linux distro's give me the tools and encourage me to use them. >> >> Some things I never do, I never ever clean viruses out of computers, tell >> people to reboot Windows or spend sleepless nights awake and panicking >> because the Microsoft servers are going to die any day now and there is >> nothing I can do about it. That is the sate I was in back in 1998, I was on >> the verge of a nervous breakdown. I had panic attacks that caused my whole >> body to shake violently, so bad that I had to go to the hospital emergency >> room. In a Microsoft world I was a worthless consumer who's only purpose for >> existence was to continue to pay for all eternity for broken promises. I was >> so powerless in a Microsoft world that I considered getting out of the >> computer business, maybe I would have gone to work in construction, anyplace >> that did not have something to do with computers. I could just be one of the >> other mindless zombies that when Windows crashes I take a coffee break and >> wait for the stressed out computer repair guy to fix it. Feckless and >> ignorant to the decay of a failed society where stupidity is the most valued >> asset of your customers. >> >> When I think about it I can truly say that Linux saved my life. With Linux >> I know that nothing is beyond my abilities, everything has a solution and >> the system is designed to help me find it. >> >> What am I passionate about? The freedom, freedom to live, freedom to learn >> and the freedom to make my own choices as to what is best for me. >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > clug-talk@clug.ca > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying > -- Easy, fast GUI development. http://PerlQt.wikidot.com
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