[Lilug-dev-sig] {Spam?} Re: Checking in

[Matt Surico]

On 11/16/2011 10:53 AM, quarsaw _ wrote:
> Hi Rob,
>
> Dev-sig meetings have been suspended indefinitely essentially due to 
> lack of participation.
> As far as the list goes, I'm still on it, and I imagine that Chris 
> (who I think is the bowler you had met) and Mark are probably still on 
> the list [Is that true guys?]
> Anyone else still on the list that wants to ping it just to get an 
> idea who lurks?

Pinging!  I read the postings from this list and SI-SIG religiously when 
they occur, even though I don't have a chance to get out to any of the 
meetings.  Glad you posted, Rob, as I was also wondering about this 
list's activity.

I also would fathom a guess that Chris was the developer who is the 
bowler :-)

Cheers all
Matt S
LILUG Secretary

>
> -Mike Costanzo
>
> On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 8:26 AM, Rob Wilkens <robwilkens at gmail.com 
> <mailto:robwilkens at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hey all.. (is anyone still using this list?)
>
>     I was last posting on here in January, and I noticed no one has posted
>     since then...
>
>     Earlier in the year I got a new laptop and haven't had linux installed
>     on it until yesterday (installed ubuntu 11.10 and am quite impressed -
>     it's missing things like desktop icon creation - which can be
>     downloaded separately or done with a text editor, but i think that
>     makes it a more simplified desktop, and i like the launcher and the
>     ability to pin icons onto the launcher like you can in windows - oh
>     and the separation of the window menus from the window like on MacOS
>     is also kind of nice once i figured out how it worked)... One other
>     thing - like the new app store in ubuntu - surprised to see some
>     available apps that you can buy through the software center, not that
>     i've bought anything yet.  I don't remember that being in previous
>     versions.
>
>     I can actually use this installation because, for example, if i need
>     to run quicken it has rdesktop which i can use to connect to my
>     desktop remotely where it's run from.  rdesktop seems quicker than
>     windows remote desktop - at least in terms of time required to
>     establish the connection.
>
>     Since this is the developer list, i thought i'd share why i installed
>     linux in the first place yesterday -- I decided to try to download and
>     compile android 4 source -- at best i'll run it in the emulator - i
>     don't plan on manually upgrading my phone...  It seems to take forever
>     to compile, but i understand it's got a lot in it.  I think i now have
>     all the packages required for it to compile, but if i don't adding
>     them and picking up where the compile failed isn't so bad.
>
>     One negative to ubuntu is that when it wakes from suspend to ram or
>     suspend to disk, quite often the video is out of sync.  This causes me
>     to need to manually power off (hold in the power button) -- it would
>     be much nicer if I could get it to reset the video driver on resume.
>
>     I was a little surprised that ubuntu picked up the make an model of my
>     computer, which not even i know :-> (HP 2000 notebook - it used that
>     in the auto generated hostname.
>
>     -Rob
>     p.s. Does dev-sig still have meetings?  Again, i looked at list
>     archives and haven't seen anything since january.  If i recall, last
>     time i was at a meeting it was me and another guy (lord knows i'm bad
>     with names, i just remember he worked in the past for a playground
>     company near 110 and is a bowler).
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