Re: [PLUG] Please Google, stop trying to be so helpful

2012-10-24 Thread Mike C.
I realize Google makes money on ads and I'm willing to put up with them > for the benefit of the free things Google does for me and for the open > source community. But creating cookies that limit the user to logging > in only to Google accounts is going too far. > > I don't think that Google crea

Re: [PLUG] Linux Laptop Reviews

2012-10-24 Thread C W
ZaReason is really nice because they have several distro choices like Kubuntu, Mint, etc. Not just Ubuntu. Cheers, Elcaset On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 11:08 PM, Benjamin Kerensa wrote: > On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 1:44 PM, Tim Wescott > wrote: > > > My Google-Fu fails me. Are there any up-to-date

Re: [PLUG] Please Google, stop trying to be so helpful

2012-10-24 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Wed, 24 Oct 2012 20:57:37 -0700 Benjamin Kerensa dijo: >On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 8:35 PM, John Jason Jordan >wrote: > >> On Wed, 24 Oct 2012 20:20:49 -0700 >> nick dijo: >> >> >Do you have better luck by using multi-signon? >> >> What is multi-signon? >> > >http://support.google.com/accounts/b

Re: [PLUG] Please Google, stop trying to be so helpful

2012-10-24 Thread Benjamin Kerensa
On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 8:35 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote: > On Wed, 24 Oct 2012 20:20:49 -0700 > nick dijo: > > >Do you have better luck by using multi-signon? > > What is multi-signon? > http://support.google.com/accounts/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1721977 -- *Benjamin Kerensa* *http://benj

Re: [PLUG] Please Google, stop trying to be so helpful

2012-10-24 Thread Joshua Coatney
Why did you create accounts for android you could have used an existing gmail account? On Oct 24, 2012 8:36 PM, "John Jason Jordan" wrote: > On Wed, 24 Oct 2012 20:20:49 -0700 > nick dijo: > > >Do you have better luck by using multi-signon? > > What is multi-signon? > ___

Re: [PLUG] Please Google, stop trying to be so helpful

2012-10-24 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Wed, 24 Oct 2012 20:20:49 -0700 nick dijo: >Do you have better luck by using multi-signon? What is multi-signon? ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] Please Google, stop trying to be so helpful

2012-10-24 Thread nick
Do you have better luck by using multi-signon? On Oct 24, 2012, at 8:03 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote: > /Rant/ > A long time ago I signed up for a Gmail account, which I still use > for a few things. Then a couple years ago I got an Android phone, which > required setting up a new Gmail account.

[PLUG] Please Google, stop trying to be so helpful

2012-10-24 Thread John Jason Jordan
/Rant/ A long time ago I signed up for a Gmail account, which I still use for a few things. Then a couple years ago I got an Android phone, which required setting up a new Gmail account. And a year ago I got a new Android phone which required setting up yet another Gmail account. And last year PSU

Re: [PLUG] Netbook function keys

2012-10-24 Thread Benjamin Kerensa
On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 12:50 PM, Denis Heidtmann wrote: > On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 10:05 AM, John Jason Jordan > wrote: > > On Wed, 24 Oct 2012 08:26:09 -0700 > > Denis Heidtmann dijo: > > > >>> Might I ask why you didn't install Xubuntu 12.10 amd64 if you wanted > >>> XFCE? Your still going to

Re: [PLUG] Clinic, Ubuntu Unity (RANT)

2012-10-24 Thread Benjamin Kerensa
On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 4:19 PM, Keith Lofstrom wrote: > On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 03:53:03PM -0700, Michael Dexter wrote: > > On 10/24/12 11:59 AM, Keith Lofstrom wrote: > > >On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 11:01:32PM -0700, Benjamin Kerensa wrote: > > >>>A whole clinic is required to show people how to in

Re: [PLUG] Clinic, Ubuntu Unity (RANT)

2012-10-24 Thread Keith Lofstrom
On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 03:53:03PM -0700, Michael Dexter wrote: > On 10/24/12 11:59 AM, Keith Lofstrom wrote: > >On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 11:01:32PM -0700, Benjamin Kerensa wrote: > >>>A whole clinic is required to show people how to install Gnome on Ubuntu? > > Ubuntu is an African concept of 'hum

Re: [PLUG] Clinic, Ubuntu Unity (RANT)

2012-10-24 Thread Michael Dexter
On 10/24/12 11:59 AM, Keith Lofstrom wrote: > On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 11:01:32PM -0700, Benjamin Kerensa wrote: >> >A whole clinic is required to show people how to install Gnome on Ubuntu? Ubuntu is an African concept of 'humanity towards others' This Code of Conduct covers our behaviour as memb

Re: [PLUG] LWN: Ext4 data corruption trouble

2012-10-24 Thread Darren Couch
from what I have read, the data corruption only occurs when the drive is rebooted rapidly. On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 2:03 PM, Galen Seitz wrote: > "Stable kernel updates are supposed to be just that — stable. But they > are not immune to bugs, as a recent ext4 filesystem problem has shown. > In sh

[PLUG] LWN: Ext4 data corruption trouble

2012-10-24 Thread Galen Seitz
"Stable kernel updates are supposed to be just that — stable. But they are not immune to bugs, as a recent ext4 filesystem problem has shown. In short: ext4 users would be well advised to avoid versions 3.4.14, 3.4.15, 3.5.7, 3.6.2, and 3.6.3; they all contain a patch which can, in some situations,

Re: [PLUG] Clinic, Ubuntu Unity (RANT)

2012-10-24 Thread Michael Dexter
On 10/24/12 11:59 AM, Keith Lofstrom wrote: > On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 11:01:32PM -0700, Benjamin Kerensa wrote: >> >A whole clinic is required to show people how to install Gnome on Ubuntu? Benjamin, You're dissing PLUG on Twitter and its own mailing list. If this is to promote Ubuntu, this is n

Re: [PLUG] Netbook function keys

2012-10-24 Thread Denis Heidtmann
On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 10:05 AM, John Jason Jordan wrote: > On Wed, 24 Oct 2012 08:26:09 -0700 > Denis Heidtmann dijo: > >>> Might I ask why you didn't install Xubuntu 12.10 amd64 if you wanted >>> XFCE? Your still going to have tidbits that Unity needs if you throw >>> XFCE on top while if you

[PLUG] Clinic, Ubuntu Unity (RANT)

2012-10-24 Thread Keith Lofstrom
On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 11:01:32PM -0700, Benjamin Kerensa wrote: > A whole clinic is required to show people how to install Gnome on Ubuntu? > As for the Amazon Results a simple click in Privacy Settings turns them off > or you can remove the package entirely with sudo apt-get remove > unity-lens-

[PLUG] 10 years of on line C++ code generation

2012-10-24 Thread Brian Wood
The C++Middleware Writer -- http://webEbenezer.net -- has now been available for ten years. I've been encouraged to find an on line Java code generator in the past few years -- http://springfuse.com . Thanks for the suggestions on how to improve the C++ Middleware Writer that have been made. The

Re: [PLUG] Netbook function keys

2012-10-24 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Wed, 24 Oct 2012 08:26:09 -0700 Denis Heidtmann dijo: >> Might I ask why you didn't install Xubuntu 12.10 amd64 if you wanted >> XFCE? Your still going to have tidbits that Unity needs if you throw >> XFCE on top while if you use Xubuntu your getting a pure XFCE >> experience. >Ignorance, bas

Re: [PLUG] Netbook function keys

2012-10-24 Thread Tony Rick
On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 8:26 AM, Denis Heidtmann wrote: > On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 11:06 PM, Benjamin Kerensa > wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 9:47 PM, Denis Heidtmann > > wrote: > > > >> John assisted in getting Ubuntu 12.10 64 bit installed on my ASUS > >> EeePC 1015PEM. Not wanting to face

Re: [PLUG] Linux Clinic Sunday October 21

2012-10-24 Thread Tony Rick
On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 4:06 PM, Tony Rick wrote: > > > On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 2:49 PM, Tony Rick wrote: > >> >> >> On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 8:51 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote: >> >>> On Mon, 22 Oct 2012 20:29:30 -0700 >>> Tony Rick dijo: >>> >>> >Alternate install images (along with some install

Re: [PLUG] Netbook function keys

2012-10-24 Thread Denis Heidtmann
On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 11:06 PM, Benjamin Kerensa wrote: > On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 9:47 PM, Denis Heidtmann > wrote: > >> John assisted in getting Ubuntu 12.10 64 bit installed on my ASUS >> EeePC 1015PEM. Not wanting to face the frustration of Unity I >> immediately downloaded XFCE 4.10. It mo