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very cool thing to do
by David Nicol 09 Feb '08

09 Feb '08

When I was a latch-key kid back in the seventies, with a single parent, I participated as a Little -- it was fun. UMKC associate professor Tom Kane wrote: Hi all, As a Board Member for Big Bros Big Sisters in KC, I have to host a monthly informational lunch about the agency. Some of you have attended in the past and for that I am grateful. I really need to try to fill the room, it is NOT expected that each of you would volunteer to be a Big or give ANY money during this session, that is not what this lunch is about, I just want you to spread the word to others who may be interested in volunteering their time as a Big 4 hrs a week, so please forward this to anyone who may be interested, this is a low pressure high information 45 minute deal. Thanks for considering and helping spread the word! All the best, Tom Will you join me as my guest at a free, 45-minute, inspirational lunch and find out how you can help Big Brothers Big Sisters. *Big Brothers Big Sisters **Big Picture Lunch* * *Big Brothers Big Sisters 3908 Washington Street Kansas City, MO 64111 Friday, February 15th Noon-12:45 p.m. Please RSVP to Patrick at 816.777.28 70 or patrick @bbbskc.org<s(a)bbbskc.org> . -- Anyone for four dimensional chess programming?

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"Face" support in mail readers
by Kyle Sexton 09 Feb '08

09 Feb '08

Just playing around with Face[1] support in Gnus, and was wondering if anyone else can see the image attached to this message? There are several clients that listed support in 2006, I'm wondering if any more have gotten it. Footnotes: [1] Face is an update to X-Face which allows you to display a picture in the header of your message, http://quimby.gnus.org/circus/face/ -- Thanks, Kyle Sexton

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M$ + Yahoo = Disaster for Y! Users
by Julie 08 Feb '08

08 Feb '08

I have soooooo much stuff stored in my many Y! accounts it's not even close to funny! I've had these accounts for YEARS and you know how stuff 'piles up'. I wonder how to go about starting an online 'petition' to Yahoo to "Just say NO! to M$". After all, "it's the _customer_ who is *supposed* to be right!" Your thoughts would be greatly appreciated. :) Julie @};- --------------------------------- Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your homepage.

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OT: News about Yahoo and Microsoft, or "Anyone got any more GMail invites?"
by Leo Mauler 07 Feb '08

07 Feb '08

Saw this on, appropriately, Yahoo News. ----- Microsoft Makes Unexpected $44.6B Offer for Internet Icon Yahoo http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080201/microsoft_yahoo.html ----- And here I was thinking that Yahoo might remain my favorite E-mail provider and webhosting service. Anyone think that my Yahoo webhosting on a Linux server will survive such a buyout? ____________________________________________________________________________________ Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping

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NUI Kansas City meeting - Tue. 2/19 12pm - Prize Giveaway!
by Alex Monteiro 05 Feb '08

05 Feb '08

As always - KCLUG members are welcome to join. NUI Kansas City meeting - Tue. 2/19 12pm - Prize Giveaway! When: Tuesday, February 19th - 12:00-1:30pm. Where: Metropolitan Community College Facility Services Building - 1601 Prospect Ave. Kansas City, MO. 64127 Why: Our first official meeting of 2008 - discuss changes at Novell and win a pass to Brainshare ($1895 value) RSVP: alexm(a)kiscc.com - we need a headcount for lunch. Novell Users Intl. (NUI) Kansas City is having our unofficial kick-off meeting for 2008. Come join us for some Arthur Bryants lunch and Novell discussions with Kansas City area customers and partners. Agenda: Organizational changes at Novell presentation Introduction to NUI-KC officers New NUI website - registration and features Plans for Brainshare Brainshare pass giveaway ($1895 value) Topics and vendors for future NUI meetings See you there! -- Alex Monteiro Business Development Manager KIS Computer Center - Kansas City o. 816-373-9900 (vmail ext. 7554) f. 816-373-9912 m. 650-279-1909 www.kiscc.com - alexm(a)kiscc.com

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Tablets with real video cards?
by cragos＠gmail.com 04 Feb '08

04 Feb '08

I'm more an AMD man than an Intel man on the desktop, but I'm not willing to go that route on a laptop. That said, though, I am also highly unwilling to buy anything with an Intel/S3/VIA GPU as I may be stuck w/o my gaming rig in the near future. Can anyone recommend a tabletpc w/nvidia gpu & Intel proc that's actually available in US markets? I can't find anything at all, which seems just nuts to me. -Sean

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Re: M$ + Yahoo = Disaster for Y! Users
by Julie 03 Feb '08

03 Feb '08

Arthur Pemberton <pemboa(a)gmail.com> wrote: >What qualifies you as a customer of Yahoo as opposed to merely a consumer?< OOOOPS!!! I guess that sentence was poorly written so as to allow the reader to misconstrue my connotation. What I was trying to convey was that _consumers_ as well as *customers* make up a whole, one body, so to speak. Please accept my apology. Julie @};- --------------------------------- Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search.

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Small Office Server
by Jonathan Hutchins 03 Feb '08

03 Feb '08

What hardware would you folk specify for a fileserver for a small office? It'll run samba and hylafax, a mailserver to handle the inbound faxes, and needs to be able to archive and back-up files. Several people have recommended Debian as the base OS. I'm interested in suggestions for hardware, base OS, backup hardware/software, and mail handling software.

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PS3 for sale
by Jonathan Hutchins 03 Feb '08

03 Feb '08

My wife won a PS3 at the company banquet. I've set it up and messed with it, but it just doesn't do it for me. For one thing, we don't have an HDTV. If you do, and you're into gaming, the PS3 is the only HDTV game system. It's also a Blue Ray player, so you can use it to enjoy true HD videos. This is the 40GB model, and comes with the Spiderman 3 movie, plus a coupon for five more Blue Ray movies of your choice. It plays PS1 games, and will work as a game server for the PSP. Several of the games available for it can be played on line; it has built in wired and wireless networking, and will recognize media servers on it's own network, so it can bring your music and video connection from your computer to that big screen at last. I'm offering this as an informal auction. A couple guys from the IRC channel have already offered $300, and there's some interest from the wife's co-workers. Email your bid to me, I'll let you know if you're high bid or not. Auction ends when I think the price is good, or when I get bored, which ever comes first. The Spiderman pack sells for $399 new.

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Dedicated Mail Services as opposed to "Portals"
by Oren Beck 03 Feb '08

03 Feb '08

The original model for Hotmail in it's pre-MS incarnation was a "Dedicated Mail Service" Mail as a sole function. The rest of the details centered on using HTML and Open Source. Two of those elements are considered not compatible with most Portal services-, A good mental exercise is asking which ones and why. The summary? It seems that naked greed drives Portal sites to black hole like ingest Mail sites. Then there is a darker side.

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