[Discuss] BLU Google Calendar events
I have opted to receive email notifications of event changes. Periodically, I get several cancelation notifications followed by corresponding new event notifications, with no apparent difference. Is this a Google Calendar quirk? --aslamK Sent from my mobile phone. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [Discuss] BLU Google Calendar events
I will forward an example to this list, maybe someone will see a clue... --aslamK Sent from my mobile phone. On Jan 4, 2014 3:22 PM, John Abreau abre...@gmail.com wrote: I don't know; I've never tried the email notification option. I don't recall ever deleting events, just adding new ones and occasionally editing existing ones. On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 2:11 PM, a k'wala akw...@gmail.com wrote: I have opted to receive email notifications of event changes. Periodically, I get several cancelation notifications followed by corresponding new event notifications, with no apparent difference. Is this a Google Calendar quirk? --aslamK Sent from my mobile phone. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux Unix Email: abre...@gmail.com / WWW http://www.abreau.net / PGP-Key-ID 0x920063C6 PGP-Key-Fingerprint A5AD 6BE1 FEFE 8E4F 5C23 C2D0 E885 E17C 9200 63C6 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[Discuss] Fwd: Canceled Event: Galileo, Linux, and the Internet of Things @ Wed Jan 15, 2014 6:30pm - 9pm (Boston Linux UNIX)
--aslamK Sent from my mobile phone. -- Forwarded message -- From: Boston Linux UNIX d8ka2ji91c51tkd57eq9oe1fvem9c...@import.calendar.google.com Date: Jan 4, 2014 11:28 AM Subject: Canceled Event: Galileo, Linux, and the Internet of Things @ Wed Jan 15, 2014 6:30pm - 9pm (Boston Linux UNIX) To: akw...@gmail.com akw...@gmail.com Cc: This event has been canceled and removed from your calendar. Galileo, Linux, and the Internet of Things Brian demonstrates Intel's new Galileo development board Details at http://blu.org/cgi-bin/calendar/2014-janhttps://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fblu.org%2Fcgi-bin%2Fcalendar%2F2014-janusd=2usg=AFQjCNEs1jZ26GEYVRW7f1yAZIrisngVug *When* Wed Jan 15, 2014 6:30pm – 9pm Eastern Time *Where* MIT Building E-51, Room 315 (maphttp://maps.google.com/maps?q=MIT+Building+E-51,+Room+315hl=en ) *Calendar* Boston Linux UNIX Invitation from Google Calendar https://www.google.com/calendar/ You are receiving this email at the account akw...@gmail.com because you are subscribed for cancellations on calendar Boston Linux UNIX. To stop receiving these notifications, please log in to https://www.google.com/calendar/ and change your notification settings for this calendar. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[Discuss] Fwd: New Event: Galileo, Linux, and the Internet of Things @ Wed Jan 15, 2014 6:30pm - 9pm (Boston Linux UNIX)
--aslamK Sent from my mobile phone. -- Forwarded message -- From: Boston Linux UNIX d8ka2ji91c51tkd57eq9oe1fvem9c...@import.calendar.google.com Date: Jan 4, 2014 11:28 AM Subject: New Event: Galileo, Linux, and the Internet of Things @ Wed Jan 15, 2014 6:30pm - 9pm (Boston Linux UNIX) To: akw...@gmail.com akw...@gmail.com Cc: more details »https://www.google.com/calendar/event?action=VIEWeid=XzY4bzMyZDFnNjRvMzhjOWg2OHMzYWQ5aDZjczNnZTFsNjhzajZkOWU2OHAzMmMxbjYwb2swb3I4Y2xzbWFyamVja242NHIzbDVwbm40cG8gZDhrYTJqaTkxYzUxdGtkNTdlcTlvZTFmdmVtOWMycGNAaQ Galileo, Linux, and the Internet of Things Brian demonstrates Intel's new Galileo development board Details at http://blu.org/cgi-bin/calendar/2014-janhttps://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fblu.org%2Fcgi-bin%2Fcalendar%2F2014-janusd=2usg=AFQjCNEs1jZ26GEYVRW7f1yAZIrisngVug *When* Wed Jan 15, 2014 6:30pm – 9pm Eastern Time *Where* MIT Building E-51, Room 315 (maphttp://maps.google.com/maps?q=MIT+Building+E-51,+Room+315hl=en ) *Calendar* Boston Linux UNIX Invitation from Google Calendar https://www.google.com/calendar/ You are receiving this email at the account akw...@gmail.com because you are subscribed for new event notifications on calendar Boston Linux UNIX. To stop receiving these notifications, please log in to https://www.google.com/calendar/ and change your notification settings for this calendar. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [Discuss] retrospective (was list quiet?)
Well said, Doug. As a wallflower myself, I share the sentiments :) --aslamK PGP key http://is.gd/aslampgpmit (id: FECF84FB) fingerprint: 736C D83E 32DB A2FD 0208 9113 0FC8 BA7D FECF 84FB On 12/29/2013 10:54 PM, Doug Mildram wrote: 3cent offering from a trollXXmostly-listener. I like this list and have for years, mostly just listening. The upsides are huge to a smart list: obviously/mostly BraveWarrior how does this beast/daemon really work? Here's my symptom: (etc) WiseMan1 I might know! What's your $ENV_BEAST apache setting? And so on. The Downside to the smart list is one I'm prone to: speechlessness. me/doug (chirp) (still waiting for someone to ask something I'm really up on, like linux-based-carburetors, ok,, I made that up) God bless us every one.hope to get off my butt and attend a list mtg!-doug ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [Discuss] Gwibber
Ubuntu dropped Gwibber in 13.04, and its developer, Ken VanDine, rewrote it targeting Ubuntu Touch, apparently taking the cue from Ubuntu Corp's new all-roads-lead-to-Ubuntu-Touch dogma. Gwibber is now Friends... http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2013/04/gwibber-not-in-ubuntu-13-04-install-friends I switched to Choqok a while back and it worked great, with support for lists and multiple accounts for Twitter and Identi.ca. Haven't used it lately since it had some issues following the Ubuntu upgrade to Raring, and it doesn't support Identi.ca's new pump.io network. --aslam http://gplus.to/akwala On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 1:35 PM, Tom Metro tmetro+...@gmail.com wrote: Bill Ricker wrote: Do you know if Gwibber will manage multiple Twitter IDs simultaneously ? It appears that it can't. The account management UI is set up such that you can add to an arbitrary list of accounts, and it next prompts you for the network, but if you select Twitter and you already have a Twitter account authorized, it just shows you the authorization status and doesn't prompt you for additional credentials. Interesting, Gwibber has improved a lot since i last used it. I've been using it for several years, with some long breaks when the version in the repository seemed broken. Gwibber started off strong at a time when there were few 3rd party Twitter clients available, but its feature set has long been eclipsed by even the most basic Twitter clients found on Android. Development progress has been frustratingly slow. It has numerous usability problems. Scrolling is slow, often pausing as it retrieves more messages. Even loading cached messages from the local disk is slow. And there is no UI feedback while this is happening. The scrollbar behaves in an atypical way. Recent versions actually seem to have removed useful functionality. With earlier versions there was a per-message menu that let you view the message online in a browser. This was a convenient way to fill in for all the missing features in Gwibber, like viewing a profile or seeing a message in the context of its full conversation, but that was removed. (There is a View user profile menu option, but I haven't seen it work in a long time.) Copying a full tweet with user ID is also no longer possible with the newer UI. I also still sometimes see Gwibber stop updating and CPU usage spike, necessitating that I kill the process. For a while it did this consistently, which is why I stopped using it for long stretches. It now does this only occasionally. Gwibber has two big selling points. One is that it is multi-protocol. At one time I had it successfully working with Identi.ca and Facebook, but the Facebook authorization has been broken for a year or more. Identi.ca changed its name and servers 3 or 4 months back. It seems like only Twitter remains working. The other is Multicolumn user interface for viewing multiple streams. I'm not sure if this is a vaporware feature, or if it is just a problem with the UI for it, but I've never seen a way to actually create additional streams in the UI. To make Twitter practical, this is really a must-have feature once you follow more than a few dozen people. I'm running 3.4.2, which seems to be newer than any version mentioned on the Launchpad page, https://launchpad.net/gwibber/3.0, or even the daily build PPA https://launchpad.net/~gwibber-daily/+archive/ppa, which I do have configured in my sources list, but apt-cache tells me my installed version was sourced from precise-updates from the main us.archive.ubuntu.com repository. Something is a bit broken when the distribution version is newer than the developer's PPA. Maybe the project has been forked? If I had not shifted most of my Twitter use over to Android, I'd be looking for an alternate Twitter client on the desktop. Web-based tools like Hootsuite are OK, but they still fall short of the potential for what a multi-protocol social networking tool could be. They also tend to leak memory badly. In recent years Twitter has gone out of its way to discourage the development of general purpose Twitter clients. They really don't like the idea of competition and the possibility that a 3rd party client might be able to bypass their ads. They've limited the number of users permitted under an application's API token. A few Android apps have hit this limit and had to stop accepting new customers. So knowing your product will be limited to a small audience, and that Twitter could clamp down on restrictions even further at any time, I imagine this has really taken a lot of motivation out of writing Twitter clients. Over on Android I use Plume and Slices (both are Twitter-only). The latter makes good on the vaporware feature mentioned above. You can categorize each of the users you follow, and then view just that category. It also lets you create a home screen widget that shows messages from only one specified category.
Re: [Discuss] Full disk encryption
What makes Microsoft BitLocker better than TrueCrypt? I've used TrueCrypt; no experience w/ BitLocker. Are you using full disk encryption? If so, what tool are you using? I use Ubuntu which allows encryption of the home directory. I keep all of my personal/sensitive stuff in the home directory, so I figured encrypting the home dir would be enough. The decryption happens upon login and my password is sufficiently long. Any thoughts on the kind of security risk I might be vulnerable to because I only encrypt my home dir as opposed to the full disk? I recently came across advice to use cascading encryption, which I understand to mean nesting encryption, where each is a different kind (aes, blowfish, etc.) This seems overkill for most folks. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [Discuss] Help with Ubuntu audio (newcomer)
Have you seen this... http://monespaceperso.org/blog-en/2010/05/02/upgrade-alsa-1-0-23-on-ubuntu-lucid-lynx-10-04/ Based on the comments, many have been able to fix their audio issues following these instructions. While compiling isn't necessarily difficult, I was able to install the recommended alsa version from a PPA - see: http://monespaceperso.org/blog-en/2010/05/02/upgrade-alsa-1-0-23-on-ubuntu-lucid-lynx-10-04/#comment-631 (Also added this to your thread @ ubuntuforums.org.) --aslam On 12/18/2011 09:58 PM, Dan Ritter wrote: On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 09:53:29PM -0500, Daniel Barrett wrote: I am seeking help getting audio working on my Kubuntu 10.04 system. Ever since upgrading the system from a rather old version (7.10), audio has been broken, either not playing at all, or playing only in some programs but not others. Right now I have no sound at all. I posted full details in the Ubuntu forums: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=10438294 but never got any responses. Sometimes I can get sound by deleting ~/.pulse and ~/.pulse-cookie, logging out, and logging back in. But the solution doesn't last. Other times I run Amarok and, lo and behold, sound starts working everywhere. Temporarily. You've tried everything at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PulseAudio ? -dsr- ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
