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New after the meeting meeting location
by Christopher A. Bier 22 Feb '06

22 Feb '06

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi All, I guess we need a new breakfast location. The Denny's on Burlington closes today (Feb 22nd) a 2PM. This is the Denny's just north of there on Armour/Taney. I suggest a two week voting period following a two week nomination period following a two week campaigning period to decide the new location. Nominations can be sent by all members in good standing by sending a PGP signed email to the voting committee chair. (This is a Debian joke.) http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=2117+TANEY+ST.,++NORTH+KANSAS+CITY,… Chris -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFD/O9LE5xXU3JS1mQRAt9WAKCKmzsrIobsLjfITvHYFu9EROHShACfQLm2 IYctYinIi/hB2gtcLBUNqEM= =Mmo9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Metadata tagging support implemented
by Jason Clinton 22 Feb '06

22 Feb '06

Exciting development going on for those with too many files to keep track of: <http://www.chipx86.com/blog/?p=155> -- Jason Clinton <me(a)jasonclinton.com>

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Efforts to decouple Mozilla dependacies in Debian
by Jason Clinton 22 Feb '06

22 Feb '06

In the interest of interesting discussion, I saw this interesting tidbit today on a Debian developer's personal blog [1]: Debian has managed to completely decouple XUL from Mozilla suite. So you can now install things which use Gecko's rendering engine without installing the 30 MB beast along with it. Good news for Gnome. [1] http://np237.livejournal.com/6229.html -- Jason Clinton <me(a)jasonclinton.com>

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Re: proposed solution to signal to noise ratio problem
by John 22 Feb '06

22 Feb '06

-----Original Message----- >From: Leo Mauler <webgiant(a)yahoo.com> >Sent: Feb 22, 2006 2:17 AM >To: kclug(a)kclug.org >Subject: Re: proposed solution to signal to noise ratio problem > >--- David Nicol <davidnicol(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> On 2/20/06, Leo Mauler <webgiant(a)yahoo.com> wrote: >> > (incidentally, if anyone wants to come on by, >> > head to www.care2.com, set up an account, and >> > join the "Linux for Newbies" Care2 group) >> >> And how exactly will joinging the linux for >> newbies care2 group help the workers of the world >> seize the means of production > >Well, it has already been pointed out that Linux, >through being largely open source, allows "the workers >of the world to seize the means of production"... The only issue with that is it's like having too many hands in the kitchen with no Chef to supervise. Many of the projects are poorly managed, noone can put their foot down on things like terrible performance and memory usage that makes people who are used to embedded systems have knightmares. It's great to have a lot of collaboration on projects and all of the community contributing. When it comes to leading a well defined project, timelines, and tuning, thats where things fall off now. In order to vastly improve Linux in the years to come the major project will likely undergo change to better manage things. Another thing that could be mentioned is many of the projects attempt to play catch-up with MS Windows. I'd like to see more innovation inside projects that isn't trying to mimic Windows which would be less feature immitation driven. That way you could focus on writting good software instead of mimicing features, and falling behind of what MS does. They have plenty of money and very good coders to add features and make it work. Can the open source movement truely compete without being more organized? > >Technically it does, but you don't have to go out on a >limb and actually say it out loud. > >__________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around >http://mail.yahoo.com >_______________________________________________ >Kclug mailing list >Kclug(a)kclug.org >http://kclug.org/mailman/listinfo/kclug Just some thoughts on development I have seen. Any others have experiences they could share in that realm?

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RE: proposed solution to signal to noise ratio problem
by Kelsay, Brian - Kansas City, MO 22 Feb '06

22 Feb '06

Whatever happened to filtering mail to a folder and deleting en masse if you were too busy to catch up? I once got about 500 mails behind on this list and just wiped em all out and considered myself officially caught up. Brian From: On Behalf Of Paul Taylor Sent: Monday, February 20, 2006 10:19 PM To: David Nicol Cc: kclug Subject: Re: proposed solution to signal to noise ratio problem Take care KCLUG members. I'm unsubscribing because I'm too busy to read even all the on-topic material. Thank you for the years of assisting me when I asked. It's appreciated! Paul

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proposed solution to signal to noise ratio problem
by Jason Clinton 22 Feb '06

22 Feb '06

After following Rick's email and looking around at MLUG, why don't we do the same thing that they have? It seems to me that kclug(a)kclug.org should be for Q&A specifically relating to Linux issues; and, quite frankly, I wouldn't give a damn how the email was formed as long as it had some _content_ that answered someone's question ... opinions, religious matters, politcs, flamewars, etc. would be moved to kclug-discussion(a)kclug.org . By looking at their mailing list archives, it seems that MLUG's application of this idea seems to have worked quite well for them... Thoughts? -- Jason Clinton <me(a)jasonclinton.com>

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Registrars / hosting...
by John 21 Feb '06

21 Feb '06

I noted in the archives the discussion about registrars. I have been pretty happy with mine at dreamhost.com. Hosting isn't bad either, not to mention their gimic of a free domain hosted (they cover registration fees) for life as long as you stay with them. I have a few domains that run through them and they seem pretty reliable. Just thought I would throw my 2 cents in. -John Frakes

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RE: test
by Kelsay, Brian - Kansas City, MO 20 Feb '06

20 Feb '06

I thought you didn't believe in God. And I believe you did mention picking either top or bottom posting. Not to poke with a short stick, but you did mention it... >-----Original Message----- >From: On Behalf Of Jason Clinton >Sent: Friday, February 17, 2006 10:10 AM > >God damn it, man! If you are going to post a reply to a thread it just >*MIGHT* help to read the first *three* times I said that this >*IS NOT* about top vs. bottom posting. Speaking of being >lazy... absolutely amazing. > >-- >Jason Clinton

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Registrars
by Don Erickson 20 Feb '06

20 Feb '06

Well, the votes are in, it looks like godaddy gets three votes, poehosting gets one and dyndns gets one. Oh, and as far as the backup mailserver goes, email is relatively self-healing anyway. I say that a backup for kclug is unnecessary. Almost all mail servers will keep trying for five days or so, and if the mailman server is on a machine that's not accepting mail, storing rejected mail on a backup won't really help matters any. Regards, -Don

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Which wireless card?
by Chuck 19 Feb '06

19 Feb '06

Hi everyone. I'm new to this list. I have a rather basic question that is Kansas City specific. I've set up a box which is running Ubuntu Linux. I'd like to connect it to our home wireless network. We have two Windoze machines connected using LinkSys equipment to Internet being served up by Time Warner. Does anybody have suggestions about which wireless card will work with my Linux box? Also, does one run the executable file on the CD or does one have to copy files directly? I found the networking app on the Ubuntu menu and it looks like I can configure the network (network name, WEP) once I get a device installed. Thanks for any help on these basics. Chuck

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