[OCLUG-Tech] Fwd: Anyone want to install Debian 6 -Squeeze this weekend? Ottawa release party anyone?

2011-02-01 Thread Lisa L
Hello all, thought some of us might be interested in this. ~Lisa Forwarded conversation Subject: Anyone want to install Debian 6 -Squeeze this weekend? Ottawa release party anyone? From: *Peter Timusk* Date: 1 February 2011 17:37 To: c...@list.openconcept.ca Does

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] CD for library via C4C

2011-01-23 Thread Lisa L
both groups, so as to preserve the benefits of partnership. I've tried several burning applications over the years, and consistently found K3B to be the most reliable and easy to use, IMHO. Cheers, Lisa On 23 January 2011 10:17, Rob Echlin wrote: > Hi > After the last meeting

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Build systems job at Irdeto

2011-01-14 Thread Lisa L
Thank you, Rob, for the post and the political heads-up. I believe the issue is that Mailman strips HTML out of posts. Cheers, Lisa On 13 January 2011 09:54, Rob Echlin wrote: > Thanks, Lisa. > The link was in the HTML, so it's not visible if you are using a text-mode &g

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Fwd: Your message to Linux awaits moderator approval

2011-01-14 Thread Lisa
free/open software. This topic is appropriate and has been raised many times with regard to other similar developments. Thank you for spreading the news. Cheers, Lisa Sent from my BlackBerry device -Original Message- From: Rick Sender: linux-boun...@lists.oclug.on.ca Date: Fri, 14 Jan

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Build systems job at Irdeto

2011-01-12 Thread Lisa L
Hi Rob, it looks like the link is missing. Lisa On 12 January 2011 08:33, Rob Echlin wrote: > Hi > I heard about a build systems job. > Job Link > > Additional notes on the job: > " I need someone with hacking experience on the mobile phone front (in > addition to th

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] PS3 Computer Cluster talk

2011-01-12 Thread Lisa L
. Cheers, Lisa ___ Linux mailing list Linux@lists.oclug.on.ca http://oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/linux

[OCLUG-Tech] PS3 Computer Cluster talk

2011-01-10 Thread Lisa L
Hello all, Anyone know how to reach Matthew Bastian? I'd like to hit him up for the slides from his talk so I can post them on the wiki. I'm sure there are a number of folks besides me who would like to see them again. Thanks, Lisa -- One only needs two tools in life: WD-40 to make

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] [oclug-board] C4C notes

2011-01-10 Thread Lisa L
nd the latest entries, and add their own replies and questions. I will try to find where such engines can be found. That's it for now. I have to get back to work. On 10 January 2011 14:06, Lisa L wrote: > Yes, definitely great stuff Richard.  The

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] [oclug-board] C4C notes

2011-01-10 Thread Lisa L
groups with a variety of projects. Cheers, Lisa On 10 January 2011 13:44, Eric Brackenbury wrote: > Great comments Richard > I now have Sugar running in a VM so will explore that as it is almost > totally children related but newb's and seniors could benefit too I > think. >

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] C4C notes

2011-01-10 Thread Lisa L
have notes/ideas they would like to contribute? Please share. These will be a topic of discussion at the next board meeting (Jan 17). I'll be forwarding Jean-François' message shortly. I wrote some long and messy notes, which I will clean up and send along as well. Cheers, Lisa On

[OCLUG-Tech] Tux 2010 questions

2010-12-11 Thread Lisa L
in combination to cover all our bases. Obviously, it needs to be as easy as possible for folks to do, while still ensuring that we know who they are and that they agree to the terms. Thank you in advance for your help and ideas. Best regards, Lisa _

[OCLUG-Tech] Microsoft's Hand in Novell Deal Bodes Ill for Linux

2010-11-22 Thread Lisa L
Has anyone heard about this? FUD, perhaps, to an extent anyway, but something to be aware of too. http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/211414/microsofts_hand_in_novell_deal_bodes_ill_for_linux.html Lisa -- One only needs two tools in life: WD-40 to make things go, and duct tape to

[OCLUG-Tech] Hackathon and Open Data App Contest

2010-11-20 Thread Lisa L
Hello OCLUG and C4Cers, These events might be of interest. I'm e-mailing more than one list here because we may want to consider something collaborative. ArtEngine (Ottawa Hackerspace) may also participate. International Open Data Hackathon - Dec 4 http://www.opendataday.org/ Ottawa Open Data A

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Fall cleaning, getting rid of computer stuff

2010-11-12 Thread Lisa L
Thanks for the heads-up, Peter. I might know a very good cause for some items to go to. I'll forward your message and should be able to let you know shortly. Lisa On 12 November 2010 10:44, Peter Sjoberg wrote: > I'm trying to gain some space and need to get rid of some things

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] - List email burst

2010-11-12 Thread Lisa L
2009. > I'm wondering if they weren't stuck in a queue or something. They were. Lisa > > J-F > > On 2010-11-12, at 7:51 PM, Stephen Gregory wrote: > >> On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 02:56:47PM -0400, Marvin Krym wrote: >>> Is there someone at OCLUG that might be

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] [Fwd: Ubuntu user sessions...?]

2010-11-11 Thread Lisa L
a huge proponent of installfests and would be more than happy to help out. Cheers, Lisa On 24 September 2010 08:02, Dave Sampson wrote: > Hey Folks, > > I would like to pass this along to those of us interested in doing some > community awareness with Open Source. I have also CC'

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Ottawa Mini Maker Faire

2010-10-12 Thread Lisa L
Hi Andrew, A pleasure to meet you as well! Thank you for the updated links. Cheers, Lisa On 12 October 2010 12:31, Andrew Plumb wrote: > Hey Lisa, > > Great meeting you! > > Here are the more active/local links to the Ottawa Mini MakerFaire event and > Ottawa ModLab in

[OCLUG-Tech] Ottawa Mini Maker Faire

2010-10-12 Thread Lisa L
https://ohs.engsoc.org/wiki/ Anyone who is interested is invited to contact them with ideas for a table/project/demo by Oct. 18. Cheers, Lisa -- One only needs two tools in life: WD-40 to make things go, and duct tape to make them stop.  ~ G. Weilacher Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Ottawa Release Party for Ubuntu 10.10

2010-09-26 Thread Lisa L
Hi George, Thank you for letting us know. I'll probably make it out. Is it a general social event, or are there demonstrations and/or installations? I wasn't clear from the announcement page. Cheers, Lisa On 24 September 2010 12:19, George Standish wrote: > For anyone that

[OCLUG-Tech] Software Freedom Day - update

2010-09-13 Thread Lisa L
r more details: http://devel.oclug.on.ca/wiki/SoftwareFreedomDay2010 Thanks, Lisa -- One only needs two tools in life: WD-40 to make things go, and duct tape to make them stop.  ~ G. Weilacher Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe toget

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] [oclug-board] Fw: Possible event on Sept 18

2010-09-12 Thread Lisa L
posted at and around Umi as a priority. Okay, going with that time frame and will advise Umi, saying we could run overtime if there's heavy turnout. I'll see about getting our event posted on SFD's website tonight. Thank you kindly for all your help, John. Best, Lisa On 12

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Software Freedom Day

2010-09-11 Thread Lisa L
res for us to bring, or helping to coordinate. Please have a look if you're interested in helping and add your name to the volunteer list. Thanks! http://devel.oclug.on.ca/wiki/SoftwareFreedomDay2010 Cheers, Lisa ___ Linux mailing list Linux@lists.oc

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Software Freedom Day

2010-09-11 Thread Lisa L
I'll e-mail you with my contact information off-list. Many thanks! Lisa Lovchik Vice President, OCLUG On 10 September 2010 22:00, Lisa L wrote: > Hello Michael, > > Thank you kindly for your offer.  That sounds great and we would > certainly like to.  Several of us are workin

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Software Freedom Day

2010-09-10 Thread Lisa L
Hello Michael, Thank you kindly for your offer. That sounds great and we would certainly like to. Several of us are working on it and we should have an answer for you very shortly. Regards, Lisa On 10 September 2010 03:03, Michael Dexter wrote: > > Hello all, > > Do you h

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] 32MB PC100 SDRAM

2010-08-27 Thread Lisa L
'Fraid not, anymore. Due to the "SAF" (Spouse Approval Factor) I whittled down my spare parts to one box, and those went into the "donate" pile. :P But if you were going to find it locally, I'd imagine The Trailing Edge would be the place to try. HTH, Lisa

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Test from Eric B

2010-08-27 Thread Lisa L
ACK On 26 August 2010 09:26, Eric Brackenbury wrote: > Just testing this address folks > Eric B > > -- > http://www.therecycledteenager.blogspot.com/ > > Leave the Windoze closed :-)) > Microsoft has a majority market share in the new desktop PC > marketplace. This is a bug, which Ubuntu (humanit

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Fwd: Fwd: Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender

2010-08-02 Thread Lisa L
to answer this with any certainty. Please help? Thanks, Lisa On 2 August 2010 07:34, Dave O'Neill wrote: > On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 05:07:11PM +, Lisa wrote: >> >> Thank you Dave, for your help with this.  There's been some discussion by >> the Board, act

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Fwd: Fwd: Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender

2010-08-02 Thread Lisa L
Excellent news, Richard, thank you so much. Is there anything any of us can do to assist at this point? Lisa On 1 August 2010 22:30, Richard Guy Briggs wrote: > On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 05:07:11PM +0000, Lisa wrote: >> Thank you Dave, for your help with this.  There's been s

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Fwd: Fwd: Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender

2010-07-31 Thread Lisa
admin/development (LAMP, installing/maintaining scripts); actively using GNU/Linux since about 2000. Lisa Sent from my BlackBerry device on the Rogers Wireless Network -Original Message- From: Greg Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2010 19:37:43 To: Cc: Dave O'Neill; linux; John Sebastien Taylor; John N

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Fwd: Fwd: Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender

2010-07-31 Thread Lisa
I say the less items we have to stay on top of, the better. If we can offload the mailing list functionality altogether, or use a single piece of software to accomplish this along with other services/needs, all the better. Still reading... Lisa Sent from my BlackBerry device on the Roger

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Fwd: Fwd: Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender

2010-07-30 Thread Lisa L
(2) we are receiving this message in error because Tux' mail server has been configured to relay Board messages, and the error was intended for the spammer, or (3) something went awry with Google's Gmail servers. Note, 204.225.221.10 is Tu

[OCLUG-Tech] Help with OCLUG website

2010-06-29 Thread Lisa L
e better. As well, feel free to contact me if you have any questions, suggestions, etc. Thank you, Lisa -- One only needs two tools in life: WD-40 to make things go, and duct tape to make them stop. -- G. Weilacher ___ Linux mailing list Linux@list

[OCLUG-Tech] OCLUG website

2010-06-22 Thread Lisa L
ee to add any issues, ideas, or suggestions to the Website To-Do List or contact me with any questions/comments. Thanks, Lisa -- One only needs two tools in life: WD-40 to make things go, and duct tape to make them stop. -- G. Weilacher ___ Linux mailing li

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Presentation Offer

2009-10-06 Thread Lisa
he had to miss the Oct. meeting). I don't know how much time he wanted to allocate for this but I thought I ought to mention it here for time planning purposes. Cheers, Lisa R RENAUD wrote: --- On Tue, 10/6/09, Jeff Green wrote: My name is Jeff Green. I recently started up an ethical

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] October 1 Virtualization Forum

2009-09-18 Thread Lisa
et me know if I can be of assistance. Cheers, Lisa Prof. John C Nash wrote: Our October meeting is a forum / panel on virtualization. Roland Renaud has been called away until 26 Sept, and I have to be away 24 Sep - Oct 13 (will miss meeting that I REALLY wanted to attend), but I'd li

Re: [Fwd: Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Hardware urgently needed -- LiTW - a BBQ!]

2009-07-24 Thread Lisa
Thanks so much Brenda, that helps a lot! Hope we do manage to dig up an umbrella or something - judging by today's weather and the forecast... well, maybe if I don't say it I won't jinx it. Looking forward to see you there! Lisa Brenda J. Butler wrote: On Thu, Jul 23, 200

Re: [Fwd: Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Hardware urgently needed -- LiTW - a BBQ!]

2009-07-23 Thread Lisa
brought to this event, or is this an effort to get us out from behind our computer screens? ;) Lisa ___ Linux mailing list Linux@lists.oclug.on.ca http://oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/linux

Re: [Fwd: Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Hardware urgently needed -- LiTW - a BBQ!]

2009-07-22 Thread Lisa
We have a pickup but it has a camper shell. We're in the west end near the Lincoln Heights mall. Brett: Where are you located? How tall is the BBQ, or is it okay to have it on its side? Lisa Prof. John C Nash wrote: Thanks! Yes VMP area L. Now does anyone have potential transpo

[OCLUG-Tech] System hangs on boot

2009-06-21 Thread Lisa
kernel. He has a dual-boot system and can still boot into Linux Mint if he needs to edit .conf files or whatever on the PClinuxOS partition. Thoughts? I've run him through everything I can think of, and since he's across the continent I can't just sit down in front

[OCLUG-Tech] System hangs on boot

2009-06-21 Thread Lisa
kernel. He has a dual-boot system and can still boot into Linux Mint if he needs to edit .conf files or whatever on the PClinuxOS partition. Thoughts? I've run him through everything I can think of, and since he's across the continent I can't just sit down in front

[OCLUG-Tech] System hangs on boot

2009-06-20 Thread Lisa
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Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Possible dying graphics adapter

2009-06-16 Thread Lisa
etc.), or random areas that have the same colour blotches no matter what is being displayed. My background is in hardware, so I have a lot more for you if the symptoms suggest a hardware problem - but they don't seem to so far. Hope this helps, Lisa __

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Connecting Thunderbird and Firefox in Kubuntu 9.4

2009-05-03 Thread Lisa
thing you added or changed, will be in bold type. Lisa ___ Linux mailing list Linux@lists.oclug.on.ca http://oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/linux

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Connecting Thunderbird and Firefox in Kubuntu 9.4

2009-05-03 Thread Lisa
That user-preference setting you're referring to sounds vaguely familiar but I don't recall how to get there. You might have to look through your browsing history to re-find the page where you got that tip. You're quite welcome Charles, glad ya got it working. Charles MacDona

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Connecting Thunderbird and Firefox in Kubuntu 9.4

2009-05-02 Thread Lisa
I wrote a tutorial on this here: http://g33kgrrl.wordpress.com/2009/02/11/getting-thunderbird-to-open-links-in-firefox-not-konqueror/ Hopefully this will be the last time you have to copy/paste a URL. ;-) Lisa Charles MacDonald wrote: Another unrealted problem with my new computer. When I

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] can't boot from older PC

2009-03-29 Thread Lisa
Glad I could help, Carl! Unfortunately, we have now irrevocably dated ourselves on this board. ;-) Cheers, Lisa Carl Heyendal wrote: Lisa, thanks, you nailed it. It boots now from a CD-R. As soon as you mentioned it, it twigged my memory about that being a problem when CD-RW's first

[OCLUG-Tech] can't boot from older PC

2009-03-23 Thread Lisa
t in the opposite direction, the variance can be great enough to render CD's burned on one to be unreadable on the other. Try burning the CD on a different drive, or if possible on the drive of the target system. Cheers, Lisa ___ Linux mailing list Linux@lists.oclug.on.ca http://oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/linux

[OCLUG-Tech] Re: silly DNS question? http://www.adox.de/

2009-02-23 Thread Lisa
d/init.d/nscd restart link: http://www.techiecorner.com/35/how-to-flush-dns-cache-in-linux-windows-mac/ Hope that's helpful. Lisa ___ Linux mailing list Linux@lists.oclug.on.ca http://oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/linux

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Switching distros article wanted

2009-01-21 Thread Lisa
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[OCLUG-Tech] Switching distros article wanted

2009-01-20 Thread Lisa
sense in paying $20+ for the whole magazine and a DVD I'd never use. It's mainly to help my son, who is learning Linux and could use a convenient reference to aid him in his distro-hopping. (As you can imagine, I'm extremely proud of him! :-D ) Thanks in advance. Cheers, Lisa ___

[OCLUG-Tech] Re: Quanta-KomPozer

2008-12-21 Thread Lisa
27;s a great program and has CSS tools as well as HTML/XHTML tools. Hope that helps! Lisa ___ Linux mailing list Linux@lists.oclug.on.ca http://oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/linux