Hi Rob,<div><br></div><div>Dev-sig meetings have been suspended indefinitely essentially due to lack of participation.</div><div>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?]</div>
<div>Anyone else still on the list that wants to ping it just to get an idea who lurks?</div><div><br></div><div>-Mike Costanzo</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 8:26 AM, Rob Wilkens <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:robwilkens@gmail.com">robwilkens@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Hey all.. (is anyone still using this list?)<br>
<br>
I was last posting on here in January, and I noticed no one has posted<br>
since then...<br>
<br>
Earlier in the year I got a new laptop and haven't had linux installed<br>
on it until yesterday (installed ubuntu 11.10 and am quite impressed -<br>
it's missing things like desktop icon creation - which can be<br>
downloaded separately or done with a text editor, but i think that<br>
makes it a more simplified desktop, and i like the launcher and the<br>
ability to pin icons onto the launcher like you can in windows - oh<br>
and the separation of the window menus from the window like on MacOS<br>
is also kind of nice once i figured out how it worked)... One other<br>
thing - like the new app store in ubuntu - surprised to see some<br>
available apps that you can buy through the software center, not that<br>
i've bought anything yet. I don't remember that being in previous<br>
versions.<br>
<br>
I can actually use this installation because, for example, if i need<br>
to run quicken it has rdesktop which i can use to connect to my<br>
desktop remotely where it's run from. rdesktop seems quicker than<br>
windows remote desktop - at least in terms of time required to<br>
establish the connection.<br>
<br>
Since this is the developer list, i thought i'd share why i installed<br>
linux in the first place yesterday -- I decided to try to download and<br>
compile android 4 source -- at best i'll run it in the emulator - i<br>
don't plan on manually upgrading my phone... It seems to take forever<br>
to compile, but i understand it's got a lot in it. I think i now have<br>
all the packages required for it to compile, but if i don't adding<br>
them and picking up where the compile failed isn't so bad.<br>
<br>
One negative to ubuntu is that when it wakes from suspend to ram or<br>
suspend to disk, quite often the video is out of sync. This causes me<br>
to need to manually power off (hold in the power button) -- it would<br>
be much nicer if I could get it to reset the video driver on resume.<br>
<br>
I was a little surprised that ubuntu picked up the make an model of my<br>
computer, which not even i know :-> (HP 2000 notebook - it used that<br>
in the auto generated hostname.<br>
<br>
-Rob<br>
p.s. Does dev-sig still have meetings? Again, i looked at list<br>
archives and haven't seen anything since january. If i recall, last<br>
time i was at a meeting it was me and another guy (lord knows i'm bad<br>
with names, i just remember he worked in the past for a playground<br>
company near 110 and is a bowler).<br>
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