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Re: Help! We need Ubuntu/Kubuntu CDs!
by Leo Mauler 25 Oct '06

25 Oct '06

The Overland Park Trade Center is at approximately 110th and Lamar, right next to the Sheraton (really tall tower with a big red "Sheraton" or red "S" on the side of the building. E-mail me back your address (private E-mail to me) and Monty can come get them. --- Brandon Holtsclaw <imbrandon(a)kubuntu.org> wrote: > On Wednesday 25 October 2006 09:59 / 9:59 am, you > wrote: > > It would appear that no one came by to pick up > > Ubuntu/Kubuntu CDs from you. Will you be coming > by > > the booth today? If you can't get into ITEC > please > > send someone to our booth and we will come out and > get > > the CDs from you. > > > > I have them sitting here waiting, where is ITEC , i > might possibly be able to > drop them off, is it today, i dident plan on comming > but i might arrange a > ride. > > -- > Brandon Holtsclaw > imbrandon(a)kubuntu.org > http://www.imbrandon.com > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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ITEC Booth is a bit small this year.
by Leo Mauler 25 Oct '06

25 Oct '06

I'm currently at the ITEC Exhibitor Hall, and it would appear that all our grand designs need to be scaled back a bit. The booth is a lot smaller this year from last year's booth. We are sharing a 15' wide by 10' deep booth (approximately) *with three other groups*. We might have room for one demo system. As I have no LCD monitors and can only bring in a 17" CRT, I think I'll bow out of the demo systems this year. I do have the BBC FOSS video (the one released under the Creative Commons license) on DVD and OGG video, which we could play on a demo system at the front of the booth. Color and sound attract more people than just people and informational literature. All we have to do is play the show credits every time and we fulfill the "attribution" requirement of their CC license. I have a reasonably large sign saying "Free Linux CDs!" which should attract attention. I'll set that up tonight along with the brochures and the cards, and I'll see all of you tomorrow. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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It Just Works! PCI TV card under Ubuntu.
by Jon Pruente 24 Oct '06

24 Oct '06

I bought a cheap,old (ca 1996) Hauppauge card at S.E. a while ago. I didn't install it into a system for so long becuase I wasn't prepared for the work of getting it recognized and working. I've read a few How-Tos of getting various cards going. Ack! Yesterday I decided I had the time to play, so I just stuck it into my P3 850 Gateway E-4200 (another S.E. machine, with an S.E. CPU upgrade and RAM) and powered it up. To my suprise it found the card with the BTTV driver right away, and I didn't do a thing. I installed TVtime and of the basic choices, it's the cleaned and best TV program I've used. Wow! That was dang simple. My wife was even (happily!) suprised to see the "spare" machine doing something visibly useful. The only trick was figuring out which audio input I had plugged it into on my sound card. Audio-In is the 1/8" jack, and AUX is an internal header on the card. They didn't have any thing going through them and CD is obviously the wrong header. I was plugged into the 3rd header and there was an unchecked option in the Volume Control Prefs called "Volume" that when unmuted gave me sound. Great, now I just have to get TVtime to associate that with the card for volume control, and not the Line-In which is the external audio line, not the internal header ATA-ATA audio header. Odd. Jon.

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Speaking of converting people to Linux
by Chris Bier 24 Oct '06

24 Oct '06

Wouter Verhelst: Conversion in progress http://www.grep.be/blog/2006/10/24#conversion_in_progress Excerpt: Sometimes the things you want don't happen until you stop trying so hard. For as long as we've had Intel-compatible computers here at home, my parents have been running Windows. At first I didn't care—this was before I had even heard about Linux, let alone install it—but as I became more and more involved in Linux, I wanted more and more for them to make the change, too. Especially given how I'm still supposed to be responsible for making sure their machine keeps running; if I wasn't, I wouldn't care as much. These are the approaches I've taken to try to convert them, and why they failed:

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RE: linux distro for laptop
by Kelsay, Brian - Kansas City, MO 24 Oct '06

24 Oct '06

But does it default to the same defaults that is typical? Minimize, Maximize, Close for button order. Does it scan for window themes? -----Original Message----- From: kclug-bounces(a)kclug.org [mailto:kclug-bounces@kclug.org] Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2006 10:31 AM >>On Tue, 2006-10-24 at 09:47 -0500, Luke -Jr wrote: >> Does Beryl respect the configured window decoration, button order, etc? >No it doesn't. Just like it completely ignores all of Metacity's gconf >settings that affect the same types things.

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Re: linux distro for laptop
by Luke-Jr 24 Oct '06

24 Oct '06

On Tuesday 24 October 2006 13:48, Jason D. Clinton wrote: > On Tue, 2006-10-24 at 04:04 +0000, Luke-Jr wrote: > > > The Beryl fork of Compiz has removed all GNOME dependencies. It is now > > > a completely stand-alone application. > > > > But you can't use it with KWin/KDE. > > Indeed you can in the same way that you use it with GNOME. beryl > --replace kills any already running window manager. In GNOME's case it > kills Metacity; in KDE's case it kill KDM. You just proved my point. It replaces/kills KWin. KWin is an essential part of KDE. If it's missing, it's no longer KDE that you're using, it's some hybrid. GNOME differs because it supports and is designed able to handle changing the window manager.

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linux distro for laptop
by steve trog 24 Oct '06

24 Oct '06

hey all long time member but i never post anything i just read it all. anyway i got a toshiba satalite A105-S4054 and im tired of using windows xp on every thing (i keep it on my main comp b/c i play alot of games) and i want linux oin my laptop because i love the freedome and all the stuff i can do and change on linux. is athere a good distro to put on a laptop computer or is any distro good? please tell me something good im looking forward to hearing from ya'll. thanks! _________________________________________________________________ Add a Yahoo! contact to Windows Live Messenger for a chance to win a free trip! http://www.imagine-windowslive.com/minisites/yahoo/default.aspx?locale=en-u…

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JOBOP: Unix admin(s)
by Hal Duston 23 Oct '06

23 Oct '06

FYI: ----- Forwarded message from Patrick Draney <PDraney(a)mcginfo.com> ----- Hal, Thanks for taking my call. We have 2 needs for SUN Solaris UNIX Admns and 1 need for an overall (some SUN, HP, etc.) UNIX Admn. These opportunities are with a strong local company and really are great opportunities. I have 3 people in the group right now and they love it. There is plenty of room and opportunity for advancement should one desire. Let me know if you know anyone. I could get them an interview very quickly. Thanks again for your help. Kind Regards, Patrick Draney Technical Staffing Specialist Midwest Consulting Group PDraney(a)mcginfo.com www.mcginfo.com (w) 913-693-8200 x-231 (f) 913-693-8201 ----- End forwarded message -----

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Looking for MIPS hardware
by Tom Bruno 21 Oct '06

21 Oct '06

I'm looking for a old MIPS machine, perferably one that powers up. Free or cheap would be excellent. I don't really care how old or how slow I just need mips 32 bit.

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Semi-OT: IT Degrees (was Re: JFS experiences?)
by Jared 19 Oct '06

19 Oct '06

> I was considering getting a four-year IT degree at > UMKC but I'm having second thoughts now that I've > spoken to a counselor and found that even though I'm > getting an AAS in IT from JCCC, none of the technical > courses will transfer or count for anything. This is > because UMKC's "IT" degree is actually a thinly > disguised CIS degree with a bunch of business classes > as well. Oh, and two actual technical IT courses > thrown in so they can call it an Information > Technology degree ("look! it has some IT classes!"). Not having been at UMKC for about a decade, I see this as interesting news. Back in the day, the true geeks had more authority than this. So what I'm hearing is that UMKC is churning out a generation of IT folks who believe they have technical knowledge but in fact are managers of the worst kind, because they have no technical knowledge yet believe they do? Managers who actually have technical knowledge are the best. Managers who have no technical knowledge can still be decent as managers, but such managers who only _think_ they have technical knowledge ... are no fun. Sounds like the Bloch School of Business needs more Linux under the hood. If UMKC has a presence at the ITEC show, encourage them to put more Linux classes (and machines) in their curriculum. I believe that Linux has a way of gracefully restoring order to a top-down managerial-heavy environment. That oughta put the conversation back on topic. :-) -Jared

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