[PLUG] Greening the Planet with Open Source Software

2014-01-26 Thread Michael M. Moore
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Re: [PLUG] Best Selling Laptop on Amazon runs ... Linux

2013-01-08 Thread Michael M. Moore
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Re: [PLUG] Best File Format for OOo Writer = MS Word Collaboration?

2012-02-02 Thread Michael M. Moore
On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 4:21 PM, Richard C. Steffens rst...@comcast.net wrote: On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 11:03 AM, Richard Englandrlengl...@frontier.com   wrote: Interesting. I was just corresponding this morning with a new Ubuntu user who was telling me that she couldn't find the option to save

Re: [PLUG] Best File Format for OOo Writer = MS Word Collaboration?

2012-02-01 Thread Michael M. Moore
On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 11:03 AM, Richard England rlengl...@frontier.com wrote: FWIW, I regularly use LibreOffice 3.3.4 on my Fedora system to open received .docx files for my wife and save them in Word97 .doc files so she can edit them. She has been successful sharing these with colleagues.  

Re: [PLUG] Gnome 3 released today

2011-04-08 Thread Michael M. Moore
On Thu, 2011-04-07 at 23:39 -0700, Nathan W wrote: has anyone else tried it out yet? any impressions to share? Have not tried it yet, but thanks for sharing your impressions. I'm probably in a space that could be best described as curious, but not anxious to try this out. For the time being,

Re: [PLUG] EISA partition on Toshiba laptop

2011-02-06 Thread Michael M. Moore
On 02/06/2011 02:13 PM, Dale Snell wrote: On Sat, 5 Feb 2011 09:10:21 -0800 Michael Mooremoore.michae...@gmail.com wrote: fdisk -l shows this now: Disk /dev/sda: 320.1 GB, 320072933376 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Re: [PLUG] Which Newsgroup Server Provider

2009-10-05 Thread Michael M. Moore
On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 8:42 PM, Kirk Goins kgo...@aracnet.com wrote: I'm on Verizon FIOS and as of Sept 30 they no longer support any newsgroups. What are people using these days? Any really bad ones? Any really Good ones? I had no complaints about Easynews, plus I liked the web interface

Re: [PLUG] Distro concerns

2009-09-24 Thread Michael M. Moore
On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 6:09 PM, Tim tim-pdx...@sentinelchicken.org wrote: I'm just going to say it:  You can't have your cake and eat it too. You want an up-to-date distro that's been fully tested.  Well, there just aren't enough resources around to do this in the open source community. It

Re: [PLUG] Linux distributions concern...

2009-09-02 Thread Michael M. Moore
On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 8:53 AM, Dan Colishdcol...@gmail.com wrote: run CentOS you should thinking about uptime. (I wonder what distro google uses... ) I was under the impression that Google largely uses its own customized Linux distro, though I'm not sure it can be called a distro if it isn't

Re: [PLUG] Portland or Purdue?

2009-07-11 Thread Michael M. Moore
On Sat, 2009-07-11 at 08:01 -0700, Tony Rick wrote: I got a couple of bounces from plug-boun...@lists.csociety.org this morning announcing that PLUG was moving its mailing lists to googlegroups. The Subject said [PLUG-JOBS] Auto-response... Closer inspection revealed that the PLUG of the

Re: [PLUG] When mounted doesn't mean mounted

2009-06-24 Thread Michael M. Moore
On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 20:27 -0700, John Jason Jordan wrote: On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 20:11:35 -0700 (PDT) Joe Pruett j...@clean.q7.com dijo: ah, i was thinking an overnight unattended backup. can you cd to /media/whatever from the command line? the little bit i've played with ubuntu, it

Re: [PLUG] Google Developers Favor vi over emacs

2009-06-10 Thread Michael M. Moore
On Tue, 2009-06-09 at 16:54 -0700, Andrew Brookins wrote: On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 9:00 PM, Michael M. Mooremich...@writemoore.net wrote: I tried the vimperator Firefox extension for a while. There were things about it I really liked, but it makes working with most of Google's services

Re: [PLUG] Google Developers Favor vi over emacs

2009-06-08 Thread Michael M. Moore
On Mon, 2009-06-08 at 14:35 -0700, Paul Heinlein wrote: OK, the Subject header is flame bait, but I accidentally discovered vi-esque shortcuts in Google Calendar today. In any view (day, week, month), you can navigate to the next time unit using j or n or to the previous time unit using k

Re: [PLUG] rsync

2009-06-02 Thread Michael M. Moore
On Tue, 2009-06-02 at 08:18 -0700, Bruce KIlpatrick wrote: The only error I see in the log file at this point is a permission denied at /home/robin/.config/menus so adding an --exclude would not be a problem. After thinking about this a little more...besides wanting to learn to do this

Re: [PLUG] Runt monitors

2009-05-25 Thread Michael M. Moore
On Sun, 2009-05-24 at 22:46 -0700, Keith Lofstrom wrote: Monitors are measured by the diagonal dimension. a 4:3 20inch monitor is 16 inches wide and 12 inches high - more or less, usually less. For those of us using web browsers and text editors and similar tools, we are usually looking at

Re: [PLUG] I hate Nautilus

2009-05-25 Thread Michael M. Moore
On Mon, 2009-05-25 at 09:46 -0700, John Jason Jordan wrote: On Mon, 25 May 2009 09:23:35 -0700 Michael M. Moore mich...@writemoore.net dijo: On Sun, 2009-05-24 at 18:27 -0700, John Jason Jordan wrote: The unanswered question is why emptying the Trash folder would delete

Re: [PLUG] What does software feel like to a computer?

2009-05-23 Thread Michael M. Moore
On Sat, 2009-05-23 at 07:46 -0700, Keith Lofstrom wrote: If computers were sentient, what would software feel like? Linux is like making love. Windows is like prostitution. Viruses are like rape. ... and Mac is a very attractive and friendly prostitute :-) ...dual-booting is like

[PLUG] Search Firefox bookmarks by tags?

2009-05-18 Thread Michael M. Moore
I feel like I'm being dense, so I hope someone can help. A while back I switched from using del.icio.us to xmarks (formerly foxmarks) for bookmark syncronization. One thing I really like about del.icio.us is the tag-based search, which I find more convenient and easier to manage than dividing

Re: [PLUG] Linux partition scheme

2009-05-12 Thread Michael M. Moore
On Mon, 2009-05-11 at 21:04 -0700, Paul J. wrote: I'm putting a extra hard drive on my XP box which will be home to Ubuntu. I've been doing dual-boots since the mid-'90s, but haven't done a new Linux install for a few years. I would like to partition the Ubuntu drive to facilitate future

Re: [PLUG] recommended ipod-interacting software for linux?

2009-05-08 Thread Michael M. Moore
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 11:51 AM, chris (fool) mccraw gen...@gmail.com wrote: Holy crap, rockbox works on ipods?  it is intensely cool software that i've been using on my archos jukebox for years now--i had no idea they'd branched out to ipods.  highly recommended experience if it behaves the

Re: [PLUG] Abandonware problem and ScummVM...

2009-04-23 Thread Michael M. Moore
MJang wrote: On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 17:10 -0700, Michael M. Moore wrote: Dear Michael, I appreciate the education w/r/t copyright history. More after an excerpt: The U.S. is party to the [1] Berne Convention and was the most aggressive lobbyist for [2] TRIPS, which stipulates

Re: [PLUG] Abandonware problem and ScummVM...

2009-04-22 Thread Michael M. Moore
MJang wrote: On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 01:49 -0700, Michael Robinson wrote: On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 00:26 -0700, m0gely wrote: Michael Robinson wrote: Microsoft has abandoned the dos/Windows 3.x combo, Windows 95 all versions, Windows 98, Windows 98 SE, Windows NT all versions, Windows 2000, and

Re: [PLUG] Firefox Bookmarks: Maintaining Sorted Order

2009-03-28 Thread Michael M. Moore
Rich Shepard wrote: The way firefox-3.x handles bookmarks is quite different from the way version 2.x did. In the older version, I could right-click on a list of bookmarks, select sort, and they would remain that way. In the new version I need to select Bookmarks - Organize - View -

Re: [PLUG] Linux Box For Old Lady?

2009-03-24 Thread Michael M. Moore
Chaz Sliger wrote: I need to set up a system for my 88 year old mother-in-law. I think it's really great that she is interested, but she is VERY non-technical (has never driven a car). FWIW, my experience with getting my Mom an iMac: -- She never installed security updates because she

Re: [PLUG] Free Digital download of LinuxFormat magazine

2009-03-04 Thread Michael M. Moore
Matt McKenzie wrote: LinuxFormat is releasing the current news-stand version of their magazine as a *free* PDF download. Not some weird proprietary format, no DRM, no strings. Just as a thank you to their community, and also to try to encourage more readers to go digital. The only catch, is

[PLUG] back to basics (some advice sought)

2009-02-27 Thread Michael M. Moore
For a variety of reasons too numerous to go into, I'm getting a yen really to simplify computing things as much as possible -- within reason, I guess, though maybe even unreasonably at first. Call it a learning experience. 2 thousand 0 0 party over oops out of time, tonight we're gonna