Re: [clug-talk] Managing passwords

2011-05-31 Thread Gustin Johnson
I consider that not to be safe. There is no difference between an Internet cafe and a public library. On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 9:38 PM, Joe S wrote: > Thanks for the suggestions. > > On Sunday 29 May 2011 17:00:46 Gustin Johnson wrote: >> Having said that, I would not use someone else's >> comput

[clug-talk] June Meeting?

2011-05-31 Thread simon
I'm guessing that meeting is still going ahead tomorrow (Wed 14th June). My offer of a quick talk on Git/Linux kernel stands if you're interested. Title would be "GIT: The one true way to Linux stardom." :-) Simon. ___ clug-talk mailing list clug-talk

Re: [clug-talk] June Meeting?

2011-05-31 Thread Mel Walters
That would be great Simon, thanks again for the offer. My apparent silence is not for the lack of wanting to join in on all the interesting buzz this last month. No, I have multiple pressing time lines I simply can not ignore. But I do plan to attend the meeting and look forward to it. Mel Walte

Re: [clug-talk] KDE broken?

2011-05-31 Thread Richard Carter
Shawn, Thanks for the tips. I tried hitting Alt-D and the Alt-A on the desk top and in a terminal, both as robin and as su, but nothing happened. But your second tip gave me an idea. I have an earlier version of /home/robin/.kde on a backup that was created before this problem occurred. So i

[clug-talk] Pay dues tomorrow?

2011-05-31 Thread Richard Carter
I hope someone will be at the meeting tomorrow evening who can receive annual dues. Robin ___ 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 r

Re: [clug-talk] June Meeting?

2011-05-31 Thread Dafydd Crosby
I'll be doing a quick talk and demonstration on the Calibre e-book reader for Linux On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 1:37 PM, Mel Walters wrote: > That would be great Simon, thanks again for the offer. > > My apparent silence is not for the lack of wanting to join in on all the > interesting buzz this las

Re: [clug-talk] Pay dues tomorrow?

2011-05-31 Thread kwong
Yes Sent from my BlackBerry device on the Rogers Wireless Network -Original Message- From: Richard Carter Sender: clug-talk-boun...@clug.ca Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 16:44:07 To: CLUG General Reply-To: CLUG General Subject: [clug-talk] Pay dues tomorrow? __

[clug-talk] Computer donations

2011-05-31 Thread Ralph Pichie
In the past couple of weeks, I have received several generous offers of computer equipment for those residents of the Slave Lake area that lost their belongings in the fire. Two pickups are pending and there are two other families that are waiting for a computer. I now have a drop-off location and