October 2005 - KCLUG

OpenOffice.org Bloatware?
by Leo Mauler 03 Nov '05

03 Nov '05

Saw this on /. http://slashdot.org/articles/05/10/27/1425232.shtml?tid=185 After spending an entire ITEC exposition extolling the virtues of OOo, this crops up to claim that OOo has memory usage issues and very slow startup times. I'll admit that I haven't used M$ Office all that much, but I don't seem to notice a significant time period between running OOo and starting to write a document or create a spreadsheet. Has anyone else who uses both noticed the kind of lag on OOo that the article author describes? The Slashdot replies also go into the point that most people have M$ Office already, legally or illegally, so we can't talk "free" without running up against all the illegal copies out there which were also, technically, "free". One Slashdot reply says that Longhorn will make the "free" case for OOo by preventing people from running illegal copies of M$ software. Does anyone know about this in more detail? __________________________________ Yahoo! FareChase: Search multiple travel sites in one click. http://farechase.yahoo.com

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JOBOP: [Digital Simplistic Perm opening]
by Hal Duston 31 Oct '05

31 Oct '05

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OFFTOPIC: KC.PM November Perl Mongers Meetings
by Garrett Goebel 31 Oct '05

31 Oct '05

The Kansas City Perl Mongers (KCPM) is emerging from a long hiatus from meetings. We'll be having 2 meetings next month at the Planet Sub at 50th and Main. Tuesday, Nov. 8th @7PM Saturday, Nov. 12 @3PM http://kc.pm.org/news.shtml <http://kc.pm.org/news.shtml> cheers, Garrett -- Garrett Goebel IS Development Specialist ScriptPro Direct: 913.403.5261 5828 Reeds Road Main: 913.384.1008 Mission, KS 66202 Fax: 913.384.2180 www.scriptpro.com <www.scriptpro.com> garrett at scriptpro dot com

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Re: LiveCD at iTech
by mike＠handuma.com 30 Oct '05

30 Oct '05

Here's the report I received about the users computer and LiveCD version. The CD is the Ubuntu v. 5.10 LinuX LiveCD. The HW configuration is an IBM clone, Intel P4 2.6 GHz hyperthreading processor (hyperthreading enabled in BIOS) on an Intel motherboard, 1GB 133 Mhz DDR RAM, with an Nvidia video card, 1 standard CDROM drive, 1 DVD+RW drive (Linux CD was used in standard CDROM drive) and 2 HD's: One 20 GB with 1 partition + one 100 GB with 2 partitions; SW configuration is Win XP SP-2. Michael librarian(a)kclug.org http://www.handuma.com

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Live CD at iTech
by mike＠handuma.com 29 Oct '05

29 Oct '05

Hi, A person I gave a Live CD to at iTech is having trouble booting with it. He sent me the following message(see below). Michael The Linux Live CD locked up on my XP PC on bootup at the following line: Starting Enterprise Volume Mangement System. Please let me know if you have any insights/ideas about this, or need more info first. http://www.handuma.com

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RE: Live CD at iTech
by Kelsay, Brian - Kansas City, MO 28 Oct '05

28 Oct '05

Looks like he may have a RAID volume he is booting to. I could be wrong. He may need a specific kernel module that is not on the live cd, such as for a scsi controller, ATA100 PCI card controller or something similar. Could also be that he has SATA and that is not enabled on the specific live cd that he has. Need more details on the system hardware and which LiveCD, including version, that he is using. ******************************************* If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside. - Robert X. Cringely -----Original Message----- From: On Behalf Of mike(a)handuma.com Hi, A person I gave a Live CD to at iTech is having trouble booting with it. He sent me the following message(see below). Michael The Linux Live CD locked up on my XP PC on bootup at the following line: Starting Enterprise Volume Mangement System. Please let me know if you have any insights/ideas about this, or need more info first.

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ITEC
by Monty J. Harder 27 Oct '05

27 Oct '05

I got registered. Has anyone got us a table? Who's bringing distros? Anone have anything but can't deliver it?

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Re: ITEC
by rcedelman＠comcast.net 26 Oct '05

26 Oct '05

I'm available to help out with setup tonight (setup is tonight, right?) and can help man the booth tomorrow morning or thursday morning. Tomorrow morning would actually work slightly better for me, but I'll help whenever the LUG needs it. > _______________________________________________ > Kclug mailing list > Kclug(a)kclug.org > http://kclug.org/mailman/listinfo/kclug

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ITEC Booth
by Chris Bier 25 Oct '05

25 Oct '05

Please respond to the list if you are planning on manning the booth for ITEC. -- I digitally sign my emails. If you see an attachment with .asc, then that means your email client doesn't support PGP digital signatures. http://www.gnupg.org/(en)/documentation/faqs.html#q1.1

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ITEC Live CD update
by Jason Clinton 25 Oct '05

25 Oct '05

Since we last discussed this, Ubuntu 5.10 has been released. I downloaded it tonight and I've just discovered that there's a HUGELY important feature on their Live CD that I think we should consider: the "Live CD" not only includes the standard "live" Linux environment but also a pretty Windows autorun "welcome screen" with *installers* for OpenOffice, Mozilla Firefox and GAIM for Windows! IMHO, this is wonderful! We can hand out a _single_ CD that promotes using open source software on either Windows or Linux at the same time! Download it and try it out! It's so pretty too. http://www.ubuntu.com/download/ Anyways, this is hands-down the best "newbie" CD I've ever found. The Ubuntu guys are really deserve a lot of accolades for this... -- I use digital signatures and encryption. Stored at pgp.mit.edu key "0x8DB3BF09" F628 D9D3 E57A C281 5EFE 7DF7 B52A A393 8DB3 BF09

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