Re: [GTALUG] Anyone know of a service to see if someone's pretending to be me?

2021-09-11 Thread Mike Kallies via talk
On 2021-09-07 3:53 p.m., David Collier-Brown via talk wrote: My company just found a fake instance of themselves, so I wonder what folks do to detect them? I set up Google Alerts.   This catches a lot of different kinds of vectors for reputation damage.   IMHO, marketing people should be

Re: [GTALUG] Kurzweil Reading Edge

2021-05-31 Thread Mike Kallies via talk
On 2021-05-29 6:48 p.m., Karen Lewellen via talk wrote: ... Still, recognition gets faster once the machine  learns what it is examining, so if this source claims it takes a  while, someone did not ... Very interesting. He probably simply didn't know and wasn't able to spend long enough

[GTALUG] Kurzweil Reading Edge

2021-05-29 Thread Mike Kallies via talk
Hey Everyone, These came up recently on the list and coincidentally there's a great Youtuber (Techmoan) who just did a piece on the devices, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0jECuwrn_U It's approached as a gadget guy, so no deep dives, but he demos it and gets into a bit of the history and

Re: [GTALUG] e-reader recommendations

2021-05-13 Thread Mike Kallies via talk
On 2021-05-11 10:26 a.m., Trevor Woerner via talk wrote: - be able to mirror a screen from my desktop (or act as another monitor) This was done in hacks years ago with e-ink displays and the result was poor enough that nobody continued.

Re: [GTALUG] e-reader recommendations

2021-05-13 Thread Mike Kallies via talk
On 2021-05-11 10:26 a.m., Trevor Woerner via talk wrote: I'm looking for recommendations for e-readers. Ideally these recommendations would come in the form of "I have used e-readers> and is the one I like best for " ;-) Nice to have features: - be able to read websites (i.e. surf the web)

Re: [GTALUG] Recommendations for useful laptop suitable for Ubuntu

2019-07-15 Thread Mike Kallies via talk
On 2019-07-15 8:38 a.m., James Knott via talk wrote: On 2019-07-14 11:18 PM, Alex Beamish via talk wrote: Refurbished is OK, and pre-loaded with Linux is also fine. Budget is perhaps $600-$800. Lenovo ThinkPads tend to be good.  I have an E520. For Thinkpads, even the Thinkpad line

Re: [GTALUG] Local source for weird RAM

2019-03-21 Thread Mike Kallies via talk
ickly. On 2019-03-07 1:03 p.m., Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Wed, Mar 06, 2019 at 04:33:41PM -0500, Mike Kallies via talk wrote: Here's a fun message: "Crucial currently does not have any compatible upgrades available for your particular system" Yeah I checked there and I had

Re: [GTALUG] Local source for weird RAM

2019-03-06 Thread Mike Kallies via talk
Wed, 6 Mar 2019 at 14:52, Mike Kallies via talk mailto:talk@gtalug.org>> wrote: Hello GTALUG, I have an HP ML110 G6 which I'm using for some minor virtualization, but it has 12G of RAM in it.   I've been looking how to bring it up to 32G, but

[GTALUG] Local source for weird RAM

2019-03-06 Thread Mike Kallies via talk
Hello GTALUG, I have an HP ML110 G6 which I'm using for some minor virtualization, but it has 12G of RAM in it. I've been looking how to bring it up to 32G, but the options have been risky and expensive. So much so, that replacing it with a different machine seems more worthwhile. Does

Re: [GTALUG] Software to draw illustrations?

2019-02-11 Thread Mike Kallies via talk
On 2019-02-10 12:51 a.m., William Park via talk wrote: Hi all, What software do people use to draw illustrations that you'd see in textbooks or presentations? Eg. data structure, high school math, block diagrams, etc. I mean, I see them, but I don't know how to create them. Hello William,