Re: [clug-talk] Interesting PBS show on Patents in the software industry ("When patents attack")

2011-07-28 Thread Mel Walters
In looking at this investigative report, whats worth noting is: Public relation's is important to most companies. Integrity seems likely much lower on the list. Those that are boisterous about doing the most good could need the most scrutiny. At a time when we need to compete internationally an

Re: [clug-talk] Interesting PBS show on Patents in the software industry ("When patents attack")

2011-07-29 Thread Mel Walters
More mute than optimistic. My very feeble attempt at 'if you do not have anything good to say, do not say anything'. On Thu, 2011-07-28 at 22:20 -0600, bogi wrote: > Nope, Mel > you are realistic with a strong hint of optimism. > > On July 28, 2011 13:50:04 Mel Walters wr

[clug-talk] Meeting Wed Aug 3

2011-07-30 Thread Mel Walters
My memory is not that fresh as to what topics were already volunteered. Can someone help me out? Any help with more ideas and talks would be great. The list has been quite active so are there lots of speakers stepping forward? I am in the middle of a bathroom shower grout repair job, and I'm way

Re: [clug-talk] partial success

2011-08-04 Thread Mel Walters
I agree with Shawn here. You should try to do it the Debian way and save yourself some future grief. Here is what I found that seemed to make sense in setting up the Libreoffice backport. http://debian.stevenrosenberg.net/index.php/2011/06/21/libreoffice-is-now-in-debian-squeeze-backports/ Have

Re: [clug-talk] successfully installed LibreOffice

2011-08-05 Thread Mel Walters
Depending on what you perceive as not fully functional, you may want to consider that not all functionality may have been installed. There are a quite a number of packages that augment libreoffice functionality. libreoffice is the meta package that should have loaded all of them, but you may want

[clug-talk] September 7, 2011 General Meeting

2011-08-19 Thread Mel Walters
I would like to make sure everyone knows about our guest speaker Yves Dorfsman. His talk sounds very cool and dynamic in scope on applying SQLite. But read up on it yourself at http://www.clug.ca/node/637 Also, it would be fantastic if we also make time for a continuation of David's topic of LUG

[clug-talk] upcoming talk on SQLite by Yves Dorfsman

2011-08-30 Thread Mel Walters
The upcoming talk on SQLite by Yves Dorfsman inspired me to try out Yokadi, since it runs using SQLite. I quickly got it installed on Debian Squeeze a week or more ago and started to play. Very neat. As usual lately, life started to side track me off of my hobbies. http://yokadi.github.com/doc.ht

Re: [clug-talk] n00b

2011-09-05 Thread Mel Walters
On Mon, 2011-09-05 at 13:07 -0600, Stuart Gilmour wrote: > Hello, > > My name is Stuart and I just started to learn linux. I was just wondering if > anybody had any thoughts on where a good place to start would be. (books, > links, courses in the calgary area) I have "googled" and read few a art

Re: [clug-talk] n00b

2011-09-05 Thread Mel Walters
On Mon, 2011-09-05 at 13:07 -0600, Stuart Gilmour wrote: > Hello, > > My name is Stuart and I just started to learn linux. I was just wondering if > anybody had any thoughts on where a good place to start would be. (books, > links, courses in the calgary area) I have "googled" and read few a art

Re: [clug-talk] Fw: Tailgate

2011-09-07 Thread Mel Walters
I will bring some condiments too. Mel On Wed, 2011-09-07 at 21:27 +, kw...@csa-pdk.com wrote: > Sent from my BlackBerry device on the Rogers Wireless Network > > -Original Message- > From: kw...@csa-pdk.com > Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2011 21:23:45 > To: > Reply-To: kw...@csa-pdk.com > Subj

Re: [clug-talk] Zentyal 2.2 Stable

2011-09-14 Thread Mel Walters
On Tue, 2011-09-13 at 22:32 -0600, Dan Graham wrote: > Zentyal 2.2 Here is another interesting reference off of this site: http://blogs.zentyal.org/jacalvo/2011/04/01/good-bye-linux-say-hello-to-zentyal-hurd/ Mel ___ clug-talk mailing list clug-talk@

[clug-talk] Different strokes for different folks?

2011-09-23 Thread Mel Walters
thoughts. Hope to see you there Mel Walters clug president ___ 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

[clug-talk] The October Meeting

2011-10-03 Thread Mel Walters
There is some common interests, Linux, FOSS, cool stuff. Why do we meet? What would make the masses want to come? Aside from the old faith fulls, what do we have to attract those who are not regularly gracing us with their presence? These questions have been asked before, but I have not yet seen

[clug-talk] smart scrips - Debian

2011-10-04 Thread Mel Walters
The original reason I ended up switching to Debian was for ease of upkeep. I have been trying out a variety via multi booting. Debian Squeeze with nvidia driver 195. Debian Wheezy with nvidia driver 265. (moving to 265 fixed X at boot) Debian Squeeze with Nuveau. Managed to slightly damage Nuve

[clug-talk] Where freedombox is now?

2011-10-04 Thread Mel Walters
Jonas Smedegaard (from Denmark) with FreedomBox gives his insights on were this project is or is not yet at. Interesting but not the easiest to get through. (from meeting of 09/09/2011) http://media.biks.dk/fb/epfsug http://epfsug.eu/blog-entry/freedombox-with-dr-jones EPFSUG stands for Europea

[clug-talk] [Fwd: A Bug Hunter's Diary--New from No Starch Press]

2011-10-13 Thread Mel Walters
A Bug Hunter's Diary--New from No Starch Press Mel --- Begin Message --- If you would like to view this information in your browser, click here: http://post.oreilly.com/rd/9z1zq7l5ismm4qkncph1d3psou914q6fafud2np3mg0 For Immediate Release For more information, please contact: Travis Peterson 415.

Re: [clug-talk] Meeting - Nov 2nd

2011-10-28 Thread Mel Walters
Well, I did. But last few days have been crazy long hours so I have not got to them yet. Been working/commuting out of town Thurs Fri. I had two topics of interest. The FIRST was recent developments to a LyX ready class of resume that looked most impressive. It's xetexCV You may want to start her

Re: [clug-talk] Meeting - Nov 2nd

2011-10-28 Thread Mel Walters
SECOND ITEM My other topic hinges on getting hardware/lumber for whats needed to make a tool to finish a potential demo. And yes, wood is related in this case to a computer demo. I'll see if I can pull it off before Wednesday November 2nd. Mel On Thu, 2011-10-27 at 09:21 -0600, Dafydd Crosby wro

Re: [clug-talk] Meeting - Nov 2nd

2011-10-30 Thread Mel Walters
I was looking forward to the talk on Running FOSS Accounting Software in the Real World. Kin, you are still on for this? ? My stuff will be not much more than some show and tell. * Samples of books * Recent successes and why they might have happened. * Any challenges still present and

Re: [clug-talk] Meeting - Nov 2nd

2011-10-30 Thread Mel Walters
So who else was planning on presenting at the meeting, and what? On Sun, 2011-10-30 at 09:07 -0600, Mel Walters wrote: > I was looking forward to the talk on Running FOSS Accounting Software in > the Real World. > >

[clug-talk] [Fwd: The Tangled Web--New from No Starch Press]

2011-11-09 Thread Mel Walters
Here is forward from No Starch Press. Besides this email, I would like to point out an example or two (you can likely find more) of some Books (ISBN) that are also GPL licensed: Important! If you look on this web page you can see where to test your browser for frames capability: MH is just one ex

[clug-talk] The Tangled Web--new from No Starch Press

2011-11-09 Thread Mel Walters
Did my forward work? I can not see it. If so, The Tangled Web is Copyright 2011 by No Starch Press. I had also mentioned some open (GPL'd) books by O'Reilly. (This email is not the forward) Mel ___ clug-talk mailing list clug-talk@clug.ca http://clug

Re: [clug-talk] problems getting Brother DCP-7065DN printer to work with Ubuntu

2011-11-15 Thread Mel Walters
This is not more than thinking out loud, but I seem to have seen significant reference handling of sane and multi function devices as I was doing an aptitude dist-upgrade on my netbook (from amd64 squeeze to wheezy) I wonder if it would be worth while plying with some spare hardware? I am tied up

Re: [clug-talk] problems getting Brother DCP-7065DN printer to work with Ubuntu

2011-11-15 Thread Mel Walters
Oh, also forgot, and is this was the brother web site you saw? http://welcome.solutions.brother.com/bsc/public_s/id/linux/en/index.html Looks encouraging if it will work in a modern disto. Mel ___ clug-talk mailing list clug-talk@clug.ca http://clug

Re: [clug-talk] December meeting

2011-11-22 Thread Mel Walters
On Tue, 2011-11-22 at 09:07 -0700, Dafydd Crosby wrote: > The December meeting will be on the 7th. How does "showing off new toys" That's always good. Mwl > sound? > > -David > > ___ > clug-talk mailing list > clug-talk@clug.ca > http://clug.ca/mail

Re: [clug-talk] dpkg hell

2011-11-23 Thread Mel Walters
Quite a while ago I noticed aptitude as apposed to dpkg seemed able to handle things more gracefully. Aptitude can do some command line stuff too. Am I the only one who noticed this? And would it help in this case? Mel On Wed, 2011-11-23 at 09:43 -0700, Royce Souther wrote: > Did you change your

[clug-talk] The State of the Art

2011-11-23 Thread Mel Walters
-- Linux and Free & Open Source Software On the Desk top I hear discussions and claims on both sides. 1/ The Desk Top is here for Linux. 2/ No it does not count because it is still too difficult to keep up for the average user. I am of the opinion that it takes time, effort and dedication to succ

Re: [clug-talk] Accounting software on Linux with POS and Payroll?

2011-11-30 Thread Mel Walters
A number of points about your insightful comments: 1/ Kin has already voiced concern for ease of report generation as a show stopper. After all, computers ARE supposed to make the job easier, correct? 2/ So what license would the authors reporting solutions be under? The full program should be pow

Re: [clug-talk] The State of the Art

2011-12-04 Thread Mel Walters
s. > > I found the comment about tech friends kind of funny. How many people > have tech friends that can actually help them with Macs or Windows? > > On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 10:41 PM, Mel Walters wrote: > > -- Linux and Free & Open Source Software On the Desk top > > &

Re: [clug-talk] downloading digital pictures.

2011-12-05 Thread Mel Walters
On Fri, 2011-12-02 at 21:29 -0700, Ralph Boland wrote: > I recently borrowed a digital camera with which I will talk a dozen or > so pictures. > I wish to download these pictures, one per file using a usb connection. > Is there preferred software I should use for this? shotwell and ufraw come to m

[clug-talk] Meeting today Wednesday, Dec 7

2011-12-07 Thread Mel Walters
Season's Greetings as we see the picture postcard outside. Be careful on the roads (light snow). Just a reminder. Meeting details are at http://clug.ca/events And they are: December 7th, 2011 GENERAL MEETING (doors open at 6:55 PM, meeting: 7:10 PM - 8:45 PM) Location: DeVry Institute of Technolo

[clug-talk] Meeting today Wednesday, Dec 7

2011-12-07 Thread Mel Walters
Season's Greetings as we see the picture postcard outside. Be careful on the roads (light snow). Just a reminder. Meeting details are at http://clug.ca/events And they are: December 7th, 2011 GENERAL MEETING (doors open at 6:55 PM, meeting: 7:10 PM - 8:45 PM) Location: DeVry Institute of Technolo

[clug-talk] email (problems?)

2011-12-07 Thread Mel Walters
Sorry, this is a test. It appeared from my end like I was having some email issues. Mel ___ 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

[clug-talk] Tonights meeting

2011-12-07 Thread Mel Walters
Thanks to all that came out to the meeting. No one gave a formal presentation, but it was an enjoyable evening from what an eclectic mix of people had to share in hacking and technological interests. Some of you had not been out for a while. Great to see you again! Mel Walters

[clug-talk] [slope_soaring_sim] SSS on Mobile devices

2011-12-21 Thread Mel Walters
from Danny Chapman, the creator of SSS (Slope Soaring Simulator) http://www.rowlhouse.co.uk/sss/download.html Quoting his email: I've got the coding bug again, so here's a preliminary look at the first stab at rewriting SSS for iOS/Android: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COs9oFekSq4 No physics

Re: [clug-talk] merry christmas

2011-12-27 Thread Mel Walters
I can attest to the fact that Michael is more than diligent in seeking and following his doctor's advice. You guys need NOT worry. Mel On Tue, 2011-12-27 at 07:28 -0700, bogi wrote: > And i will join Gustin, do take your "pfuj" western medications, and avoid > whatever triggers your asthma, it's

[clug-talk] Happy New Year

2012-01-01 Thread Mel Walters
Seasons greetings and a happy new year. I spent a reflective time home with the flu the last few days, and that gave me extra time to reflect on 2011 and CLUG. Over the years I have been impressed the the active list that had a bit of passion throughout. Looking at the list in 2011 I noticed poi

[clug-talk] tech news predictions

2012-01-02 Thread Mel Walters
tech news predictions Viewpoint: AI will change our relationship with tech http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16367039 I do not argue against the need for people friendly devices and access. But we also need good FOSS options at the for front, and I know (we) have been "slowly" working on it.

Re: [clug-talk] Meeting Wednesday the 4th

2012-01-02 Thread Mel Walters
On Mon, 2012-01-02 at 12:21 -0700, t...@terralogic.net wrote: > I'm very interested in a CAD package for Linux. There are ways to checkout what is in the offering for CAD programs, and I chose to use debian package search (pachagesearch) and search for cad I was impressed with how freecad the web

Re: [clug-talk] Meeting Wednesday the 4th

2012-01-02 Thread Mel Walters
I second this request various project reports. We would like to hear how it went and maybe reasons why. If I could discover some difficulties I have been bumping up against are local and not more wide spread, I would be enlightened rather than just frustrated. Mel On Mon, 2012-01-02 at 10:11 -07

[clug-talk] General Meeting Wed Jan 4

2012-01-04 Thread Mel Walters
See everyone tonight! doors open at 6:55 PM, meeting: 7:10 PM - 8:45 PM) Location: DeVry Institute of Technology (Room 208) 2700 - 3 Avenue SE, Calgary, Alberta http://www.clug.ca/events ___ clug-talk mailing list clug-talk@clug.ca http://clug.ca/mai

Re: [clug-talk] New desktop manager?

2012-01-12 Thread Mel Walters
On Thu, 2012-01-12 at 21:00 -0700, Shawn wrote: > On 12-01-12 08:42 PM, Courtenay Watson wrote: > > Thanks so much. This is actually suuuper helpful. > > > > You said: " it gets in my way (more clicks/effort to do stuff I need to do)" > > That's pretty much in a nutshell my complaint. If I'm doing

Re: [clug-talk] New desktop manager?

2012-01-12 Thread Mel Walters
On Thu, 2012-01-12 at 21:47 -0700, TekBudda wrote: > I guess to pipe in here & offer some insight. I have traditionally been > a Gnome guy & have tended to avoid KDEnot really for any particular > purpose...just did. > > With the advent of gnome 3 & unity I thought I would give it a shot. I

[clug-talk] Last meeting

2012-01-12 Thread Mel Walters
At the last meeting, Kin's brief demo of sweethome3d was popular. This program is an example of keeping it simple, and ease of use is why Kin stated he chose it. I installed it on a Debian Squeeze install with no issues. It worked. If I am correct, it uses java, so your mileage may vary? Any one

[clug-talk] Internet goes on strike

2012-01-18 Thread Mel Walters
http://sopastrike.com/ SOPA is proof that people with the really bad ideas are persistent. Hopefully as protest would indicate, some (enough?) people can see through the nonsense. However, it is truly a slippery slope. All in the name of common sense, but all too often insipid dribble. Can people

[clug-talk] Internet goes on strike, also for Canadians

2012-01-18 Thread Mel Walters
STOP SOPA http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/6244/ ___ 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

[clug-talk] COSSFest planning

2012-01-23 Thread Mel Walters
Just a reminder that at the last meeting a great idea was brought up about "thinking of what is in it for the attendee". Thank you for that! In other words "What money or time etc. savings will they see from attending" or "the cost benefit of going to the Calgary COSSFest". I am sure many of you

Re: [clug-talk] COSSFest planning

2012-01-23 Thread Mel Walters
the next COSSFEST? News to me. But, if so, that > person should get a hold of me as I have some COSSFEST resources/contacts. > > On 12-01-23 01:48 PM, Mel Walters wrote: > > Just a reminder that at the last meeting a great idea was brought up > > about "thinking of w

Re: [clug-talk] COSSFest planning

2012-01-23 Thread Mel Walters
e > Mel... Let me know how I/we can help. > > Shawn Thanks Shawn, I am good with that. Mel > > On 12-01-23 04:55 PM, Mel Walters wrote: > > Thanks Shawn, I think most of us, and the executive and I where aware of > > that and welcome your input. > > It was at

Re: [clug-talk] COSSFest planning

2012-01-23 Thread Mel Walters
of me as I have some COSSFEST resources/contacts. > > > > On 12-01-23 01:48 PM, Mel Walters wrote: > >> Just a reminder that at the last meeting a great idea was brought up > >> about "thinking of what is in it for the attendee". Thank you for that! > >&

Re: [clug-talk] COSSFest planning

2012-01-23 Thread Mel Walters
with all this wisdom, how can we fail? [rhetorical question] I appreciate your help Shawn. > > On 12-01-23 07:46 PM, Mel Walters wrote: > > On Mon, 2012-01-23 at 17:44 -0500, si...@mungewell.org wrote: > >> Jon mentioned the COSSFest DNS expiring at CLUG. There was some feeling > &

Re: [clug-talk] COSSFest planning

2012-01-26 Thread Mel Walters
Glad to talk to you at the meeting about this. Thanks for stepping up. Keep in mind that it will be a while before the date of the future COSSFest, so we can tee everything up to the right timing. I will be relying on volunteers in many areas since this is not something one or two people can do a

[clug-talk] Quest for the ultimate experience (user).

2012-01-28 Thread Mel Walters
Quest for the ultimate user experience. Here is an idea worth revisiting. Given that consumer technology is so fast paced and now has to fit in with the device in vogue. Anyway, at a point where I have very limited time to spare, I am starting to investigate this some by experiments. I will let y

[clug-talk] Call for talks at February meeting

2012-01-29 Thread Mel Walters
Call for talks at February meeting. Feel free to respond to the list or privately to the executive (Kin, David, or myself) Thanks, Mel ___ clug-talk mailing list clug-talk@clug.ca http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelin

Re: [clug-talk] Call for talks at February meeting

2012-01-30 Thread Mel Walters
On Mon, 2012-01-30 at 09:53 -0700, Dafydd Crosby wrote: > I can bring in my Pogoplug if anyone is interested in seeing it... > > On 01/29/2012 10:51 PM, Mel Walters wrote: > > Call for talks at February meeting. > > Feel free to respond to the list or privately to the exec

Re: [clug-talk] Call for talks at February meeting

2012-01-30 Thread Mel Walters
On Mon, 2012-01-30 at 14:17 -0700, Dafydd Crosby wrote: > On 01/30/2012 01:51 PM, Mel Walters wrote: > > And lets not forget the "Pogoplug Video products" recall for overheating > > problem. > > > > But there is always OpenNAS and the like. On the other han

[clug-talk] General Meeting 2012, Feb 1 (Wednesday)

2012-01-30 Thread Mel Walters
General Meeting February 1, 2012 (doors open at 6:55 PM, meeting: 7:10 PM - 8:45 PM) Location: DeVry Institute of Technology (Room TBA) 2700 - 3 Avenue SE, Calgary, Alberta Some paper work to get ironed out, but the nice receptionist at Devry assured me we would be able to find a room for that da

[clug-talk] Revisiting Linux Users Group's Mandate

2012-01-31 Thread Mel Walters
attached thumb nail sketch: mandateRevisit.txt The PDF version mandateRevisit.pdf is too big (95K) to add to the email but it was much easier to read. I will bring the file and print outs. mandateRevisit.txt => Revisiting Linux Users Group's Mandate Mel Walters January 31, 2012

[clug-talk] Revisiting Linux Users Group's Mandate

2012-02-01 Thread Mel Walters
Here is that first very ruff draft again, this time in the more readable portable document format. http://clug.ca/mandateRevisit.pdf be prepared to replace it with more than the first draft later though We have already seen efforts in implementing this great user experience in a variety of Linux

[clug-talk] Meeting LOCATION - TIME change update - last min change - URGENT

2012-02-01 Thread Mel Walters
Meeting location change update - last min change - URGENT Two changes: 1/ Location: U of Calgary - downtown campus corner of 8 Street and 8 Avenue SW 2/ Time: Time is moved up to 6:00 pm This is to better use the facilities because they close earlier. Meeting will start a little later (6:15 ?)

Re: [clug-talk] Cool laptop

2012-02-13 Thread Mel Walters
On Sun, 2012-02-12 at 23:08 -0700, TekBudda wrote: > Now is it just me or does the music in teh video sound like a porn > soundtrack? Not that I know what they sound like...ummm...a FRIEND told me. > Do not know the answer to your question, sorry. For variety you could go to http://myrolltop.com

[clug-talk] March 7 Meeting

2012-02-25 Thread Mel Walters
Two days ago, Kin informed me he got verification of the room number. I will get this up to the web site soon, but for now: CLUG March General Meeting Date: March 7th (Wed) Time: 6:00 pm Place: U of Calgary, downtown campus Room 418 906 – 8th Avenue SW That is the North West corner of 8th and 8

[clug-talk] For discussion -- March Meeting

2012-02-27 Thread Mel Walters
Since the last meeting, the perfect FOSS and operating system combination have been on my mind. It did not stop with just thinking about it, I've been installing, trying out and researching as much as I can on a few different types of hardware. From very new system to some older workstations and al

Re: [clug-talk] OT - Request: Bar Code & Mag Stripe Scanner

2012-03-04 Thread Mel Walters
On Sun, 2012-03-04 at 17:25 -0700, TekBudda wrote: > Hi All, > > Just thought I would check the list & see if anyone had a barcode > scanner (USB preferred but PS/2 would be acceptable as well) that they I have the Symbol LS4208. Unfortunately I am using it quite a lot lately redoing my books lis

Re: [clug-talk] OT - Request: Bar Code & Mag Stripe Scanner

2012-03-05 Thread Mel Walters
On Mon, 2012-03-05 at 02:14 -0700, Shawn wrote: > Not sure if it is quite what you want, but you can scan barcodes with a > smart phone. The scanner I'm using will even try to lookup the numbers > to give you more detail. (just to make sure I wasn't mistaken, I > scanned a book on the table be

[clug-talk] Mar 7th Meeting is on

2012-03-06 Thread Mel Walters
Reference: http://www.clug.ca/events We are still on for the meeting. Bit more of an update: I was not far enough along with my research to give my talk by tomorrow. For those who can make out the meeting should be interesting enough. Kin tells me (correct me if I am wrong) we should be ready to

Re: [clug-talk] Downloading YouTube video?

2012-03-08 Thread Mel Walters
clive, ver 2.2.13-5+squeeze4 clive comes to mind. Seems to work well. The command line for downloading the best available video is: clive -f best http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SomE1comBo9 You fill in the the v= that you would like. The above is not a real one On Thu, 2012-03-08 at 11:02 -0700,

[clug-talk] AGM still pending

2012-03-08 Thread Mel Walters
Kin was telling me time for the Annual General Meeting (or beyond). So to give the required 30 day notice I propose April the 11th, (as in a week after the monthly meeting on April 4th). The alternative could be to just do the following month first Wed date for AGM. Are there any preferences amon

[clug-talk] Calgary Linux Users Group -- Annual General Meeting SET

2012-03-12 Thread Mel Walters
We have set the date to May 2, 2012. (since there was no response to my last email) Calgary Linux Users Group -- Annual General Meeting Date: May 2, 2012 Time: 8:00 PM Place: University of Calgary, downtown campus Room TBA 906 – 8th Avenue SW That is the North West corner of 8th and 8th __

[clug-talk] Monthly General Meeting (Wed April 4)

2012-03-16 Thread Mel Walters
Talks lined up so far: 1/ My talk will be dealing in human terms. How I feel about it will be stressed ahead of the technical side, except how the technical affects how I feel. The new technology user experience most everyone is hoping to have. Call it a wish list. Are we there yet? I have been a

Re: [clug-talk] Calgary Linux Users Group -- Annual General Meeting SET

2012-03-16 Thread Mel Walters
By the way, the AGM on May 2 is from 6:00 till 8:00 Not 8 like bellow. Sorry for the typo. Mel On Mon, 2012-03-12 at 15:46 -0600, Mel Walters wrote: > We have set the date to May 2, 2012. > (since there was no response to my last email) > > Calgary Linux Users Group -- Annual Gen

[clug-talk] Up and coming clug AGM May 2, 2012

2012-04-06 Thread Mel Walters
Hi folks, This is a reminder of the notice previously given about. Future relevance and direction of clug was again touched on some general discussion spinning off of the talk. Glorified social club, same old same old, something new to fit todays changing world? Seems all very much still up in

Re: [clug-talk] Need to configure KB for kubuntu

2012-04-09 Thread Mel Walters
On Mon, 2012-04-09 at 14:14 -0600, t...@terralogic.net wrote: > > The Keyboard locale is set for en-us UTF-8 but some of the keys are not > mapped properly. > > Its an IBM PC-104 KB... standard which I've used for over a decade. > > for instance the ?/ key gives a little e and a big E with I th

Re: [clug-talk] Linux article

2012-05-01 Thread Mel Walters
Robin, thanks for pointing out this article. There should be nothing stopping FOSS from coming up the ultimate solution... Whether that involves using something like Linux Mint, OR using Debian itself to solve is still up for debate in my mind. Yet I am unable to spend the time I want on such a p

Re: [clug-talk] Linux article

2012-05-02 Thread Mel Walters
t; worth going down the garden path with Linux (Ubuntu). > > > Here is why Linux on the desktop is a failure: It's designed by > developers like you and me. Get a top notch design agency engaged, > people that understand "user experience" and UI design, it could be

Re: [clug-talk] Hello (presentation inside)

2012-05-04 Thread Mel Walters
nominations to become the new president for this coming year. We should try again, assuming enough people are interested in attending to do the voting. Looking forward to meeting with you By the way, how long is your internship? Regards Mel Walters (pres) On Sat, 2012-05-05 at 00:01 +0200, Brice

[clug-talk] O'Reilly new book

2012-05-18 Thread Mel Walters
As many of you may already know, O'Reilly has been favorably distinguished in offering more "fair use centric" licenced books and ebooks. I received a new book, book review notice on: Photoshop CS6: The Missing Manual--New from O'Reilly Media Since this does not exactly fit CLUG's mandate

Re: [clug-talk] Meeting tonight?

2012-06-06 Thread Mel Walters
Yes there is to be a meeting tonight. June 6, 2012 (doors open at 5:55 PM, meeting: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM) Location: U of Calgary, downtown campus Room TBA 906 – 8th Avenue SW T2P 1H8 Now the slightly longer version. I spoke to Kin, who said he was reserving a room. When I did not hear from Kin, I dis

Re: [clug-talk] clug-talk Digest, Vol 91, Issue 1

2012-06-11 Thread Mel Walters
-Original Message- From: Shawn Reply-to: CLUG General To: clug-talk@clug.ca Subject: Re: [clug-talk] clug-talk Digest, Vol 91, Issue 1 Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2012 12:02:27 -0600 Mailer: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120430 Thunderbird/12.0.1 I did try toggling the 2D and 3D a

[clug-talk] http://clug.ca/events July 4th Meeting

2012-06-18 Thread Mel Walters
http://clug.ca/events Shawn has said he will be willing to demonstrate 3D printing. He told me it could be a quick demo, or a much more comprehensive version including getting a model, slicing it up, printing etc. I'm for the more complete version with possibility of give away samples! Other vot

Re: [clug-talk] Fwd: 3D Printing presentation file

2012-07-07 Thread Mel Walters
This is good. Also Scott shows some brilliant examples of his work on replacement body parts. (high tech kind) Scott Summit — The Future of 3D Printing http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lJ8vId4HF8 37:00 talk ends 37:00 -50:00 questions and answers Low tech: ---> Another totally different example

[clug-talk] whats this meeting about?

2012-07-24 Thread Mel Walters
http://www.clug.ca/events Monthly General Meeting - August 1, 2012 (doors open at 5:55 PM, meeting: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM) Location: University of Calgary, downtown campus Room ( ) 906 – 8th Avenue SW Call for topics Everyone wellcome General CLUG monthly meetings are free, but donations are wel

Re: [clug-talk] whats this meeting about?

2012-07-24 Thread Mel Walters
Thunderbird/11.0 I could talk about using the Ruby Version Manager (https://rvm.io/). Only be about 10 minutes, though :-P -Dafydd On 07/24/2012 07:00 AM, Mel Walters wrote: >http://www.clug.ca/events > > Monthly General Meeting - August 1, 2012 > (doors open at 5:55 PM, meeting: 6:

Re: [clug-talk] whats this meeting about?

2012-07-31 Thread Mel Walters
:05:10 -0600 Mailer: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:11.0) Gecko/20120315 Thunderbird/11.0 I could talk about using the Ruby Version Manager (https://rvm.io/). Only be about 10 minutes, though :-P -Dafydd On 07/24/2012 07:00 AM, Mel Walters wrote: >http://www.clug.ca/events > >

Re: [clug-talk] Sep meeting in 318

2012-09-05 Thread Mel Walters
I had attempted to add the info on the website to events but ran into some authentication issues. I am away from internet access for today and will make an effort to be back in time for the meeting. Mel -Original Message- From: kw...@csa-pdk.com Reply-to: CLUG General To: CLUG General Su

[clug-talk] call for talks or demo's for Oct 3 Wed Meeting

2012-09-22 Thread Mel Walters
http://www.clug.ca/events Monthly General Meeting - October 3rd, 2012 (doors open at 5:55 PM, meeting: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM) Location: University of Calgary, downtown campus Room (TBA) 906 – 8th Avenue SW Call for talks and demos from members and non-members email presid...@clug.ca OR join the clug

Re: [clug-talk] call for talks or demo's for Oct 3 Wed Meeting

2012-09-30 Thread Mel Walters
p 22, 2012 at 10:15 PM, Mel Walters wrote: http://www.clug.ca/events Monthly General Meeting - October 3rd, 2012 (doors open at 5:55 PM, meeting: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM) Location: University of Calgary, downtown campus Room (TBA) 906 – 8th

Re: [clug-talk] Dues!

2012-10-03 Thread Mel Walters
Not sure yet if I can make this meeting, work is in the way of it so far. Mel -Original Message- From: Dafydd Crosby Reply-to: CLUG General To: clug-talk@clug.ca Subject: Re: [clug-talk] Dues! Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2012 11:30:11 -0600 Mailer: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:11.0) Gecko/20

Re: [clug-talk] Upcoming meeting December 5th

2012-11-26 Thread Mel Walters
Yes, I have had an idea for a while now. It ties in with some help I have been giving friends of mine with GNU/Linux and it boils down to documenting my own Howto's on the distribution flavor I had picked. (some may have different preferences for choice in Linux distribution) Too many seemed to be

Re: [clug-talk] Upcoming meeting December 5th

2012-11-26 Thread Mel Walters
Also, I have a EEE box and net book to bring as hardware to play with that will not break my back to bring to the meeting. Just need to organize my thumb drives (usb) and install/live boot images Mel -Original Message- From: Dafydd Crosby Reply-to: CLUG General To: CLUG General Subjec

Re: [clug-talk] CLUG list back up

2013-01-04 Thread Mel Walters
Strange, it worked for me? Mel On Fri, 2013-01-04 at 08:39 -0700, Neil B wrote: > Hmmm...when I go to clug.ca, I get the "technical difficulties at the > moment" page. Should I be seeing something different? > > ~Neil > > On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 9:17 PM, Dafydd Crosby wrote: > > Sorry for the

Re: [clug-talk] CLUG list back up

2013-01-04 Thread Mel Walters
That sounds like a good idea. Mel On Fri, 2013-01-04 at 07:04 -0700, t...@terralogic.net wrote: > Wonderful. > > Is there an install fest planned? > > > On Thu, Jan 03, 2013 at 09:17:06PM -0700, Dafydd Crosby wrote: > > Sorry for the inconvenience - new site is up, though! > > > > -Dafydd >

Re: [clug-talk] CLUG list back up

2013-01-05 Thread Mel Walters
lly good. > > The Mailing List Guidelines URL in the footer needs to be updated. It > currently gives you a 404. > > Cheers! > > ~Neil B > > On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 9:57 AM, Mel Walters wrote: > > Strange, it worked for me? > > > > Mel > > &

Re: [clug-talk] Install fest

2013-01-06 Thread Mel Walters
Anyone have ideas on a time and place? I am interested too. I am even still experimenting with my own mini private install fest. My goal, the ultimate install (for me that is): That is easy to install, configure, maintain and is elegantly cool (that is looks cool, runs well, uses the hardware acce

Re: [clug-talk] Download video

2013-01-15 Thread Mel Walters
I assume you wanted the whole video, as in after you register. I am not registered so I presently have no way to explore this. While I can watch the trailer on the site below, I do not see a way to record it. Again, I have not tried while registered, so I do not know if they restrict a registered u

Re: [clug-talk] Install fest

2013-01-18 Thread Mel Walters
I spoke to Kin and he said getting a room for this would be doable. So my question is when do you all want to do this and who do you think will want to attend? Mel On Sun, 2013-01-06 at 15:50 -0700, t...@terralogic.net wrote: > I am very interested in an install fest because I want to build a r

Re: [clug-talk] Building monitor / controller

2013-02-23 Thread Mel Walters
This is an interesting topic, but I did see very many replies? I noticed a book on this, and a review/update from the author (an O'Reilly book). Sorry I have not made time to go through it all. But the question: is Linux too fluid to be effective for RT control? I have not (yet) read the book or

[clug-talk] Meeting March 6th - updates?

2013-02-23 Thread Mel Walters
Anyone with something further to add? Changes, additions... clug.ca ___ 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 w

[clug-talk] March 6th Meeting

2013-03-05 Thread Mel Walters
the list was quite in regard to general meeting. Is anyone planing on attending the meeting tomorrow? Mel ___ clug-talk mailing list clug-talk@clug.ca http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelin

Re: [clug-talk] March 6th Meeting

2013-03-06 Thread Mel Walters
nyone is interested. Greg - Original Message - From: "Mel Walters" To: "CLUG General" Sent: Tuesday, 5 March, 2013 8:23:53 PM Subject: [clug-talk] March 6th Meeting the list was quite in regard to general meeting. Is anyone planing on attending t

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