KCLUG February 2008

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Re: M$ + Yahoo = Disaster for Y! Users
by Julie 03 Feb '08

03 Feb '08

Arthur Pemberton <pemboa(a)gmail.com> wrote: >What qualifies you as a customer of Yahoo as opposed to merely a consumer?< OOOOPS!!! I guess that sentence was poorly written so as to allow the reader to misconstrue my connotation. What I was trying to convey was that _consumers_ as well as *customers* make up a whole, one body, so to speak. Please accept my apology. Julie @};- --------------------------------- Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search.

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Small Office Server
by Jonathan Hutchins 03 Feb '08

03 Feb '08

What hardware would you folk specify for a fileserver for a small office? It'll run samba and hylafax, a mailserver to handle the inbound faxes, and needs to be able to archive and back-up files. Several people have recommended Debian as the base OS. I'm interested in suggestions for hardware, base OS, backup hardware/software, and mail handling software.

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PS3 for sale
by Jonathan Hutchins 03 Feb '08

03 Feb '08

My wife won a PS3 at the company banquet. I've set it up and messed with it, but it just doesn't do it for me. For one thing, we don't have an HDTV. If you do, and you're into gaming, the PS3 is the only HDTV game system. It's also a Blue Ray player, so you can use it to enjoy true HD videos. This is the 40GB model, and comes with the Spiderman 3 movie, plus a coupon for five more Blue Ray movies of your choice. It plays PS1 games, and will work as a game server for the PSP. Several of the games available for it can be played on line; it has built in wired and wireless networking, and will recognize media servers on it's own network, so it can bring your music and video connection from your computer to that big screen at last. I'm offering this as an informal auction. A couple guys from the IRC channel have already offered $300, and there's some interest from the wife's co-workers. Email your bid to me, I'll let you know if you're high bid or not. Auction ends when I think the price is good, or when I get bored, which ever comes first. The Spiderman pack sells for $399 new.

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Dedicated Mail Services as opposed to "Portals"
by Oren Beck 03 Feb '08

03 Feb '08

The original model for Hotmail in it's pre-MS incarnation was a "Dedicated Mail Service" Mail as a sole function. The rest of the details centered on using HTML and Open Source. Two of those elements are considered not compatible with most Portal services-, A good mental exercise is asking which ones and why. The summary? It seems that naked greed drives Portal sites to black hole like ingest Mail sites. Then there is a darker side.

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Re: M$ + Yahoo = Disaster for Y! Users
by James R. Sissel 02 Feb '08

02 Feb '08

At 03:50 PM 2/2/2008 -0600, you wrote: >On Feb 2, 2008 12:18 PM, Julie <betelgeuse67stang(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > > I have soooooo much stuff stored in my many Y! accounts it's not even close > > to funny! I've had these accounts for YEARS and you know how stuff 'piles > > up'. > > > > I wonder how to go about starting an online 'petition' to Yahoo to > "Just say > > NO! to M$". After all, "it's the _customer_ who is *supposed* to be > right!" > > Your thoughts would be greatly appreciated. :) > > > > Julie @};- > > >What qualifies you as a customer of Yahoo as opposed to merely a consumer? The $20 a year I pay them for POP3 access to my email account?

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Re: Kclug Digest, Vol 43, Issue 1
by Craig Aldinger 01 Feb '08

01 Feb '08

RE: yahoo/microsplat Heard the news of this over my morning coffee, gagged and spat.... I've had the same yahoo address for so long I can't remember just when I started it. It's become a repository of useless email and all of my "real" communications are through gmail these days. If the Evil Empire actually buys yahoo, I'll kill the damn thing and Bill Gates can go kiss a donkey's hinder quarters! On Feb 1, 2008 12:00 PM, <kclug-request(a)kclug.org> wrote: > Send Kclug mailing list submissions to > kclug(a)kclug.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://kclug.org/mailman/listinfo/kclug > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > kclug-request(a)kclug.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > kclug-owner(a)kclug.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Kclug digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: Tablets with real video cards? (Jason D. Clinton) > 2. Support (Jonathan Hutchins) > 3. OT: News about Yahoo and Microsoft, or "Anyone got any more > GMail invites?" (Leo Mauler) > 4. Re: OT: News about Yahoo and Microsoft, or "Anyone got any > more GMail invites?" (Monty J. Harder) > 5. Re: OT: News about Yahoo and Microsoft, or "Anyone got any > more GMail invites?" (James Sissel) > 6. Re: OT: News about Yahoo and Microsoft, or "Anyone got any > more GMail invites?" (Leo Mauler) > 7. Re: OT: News about Yahoo and Microsoft, or "Anyone got any > more GMail invites?" (Jon Pruente) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 16:29:16 -0600 > From: "Jason D. Clinton" <me(a)jasonclinton.com> > Subject: Re: Tablets with real video cards? > To: "cragos(a)gmail.com" <cragos(a)gmail.com> > Cc: KCLUG <kclug(a)kclug.org> > Message-ID: > <be01dd250801311429i19aafbb6s67a2f5529d5d45b2(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > In all seriousness, Intel's graphics chips have an excellent driver > available for them (the new "intel" driver as opposed to the older "i810") > that can even do a subset of accelerated 3D rendering with some nicety. > They > also have the advantage of being low-power. One of the really awesome > things > about using an Intel graphics chip on a laptop is the xrandr 1.2 support > which pretty much guarantees that you'll be able to plug your laptop in to > a > projector and have it "just work". > > On 1/20/08, cragos(a)gmail.com <cragos(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > > I'm more an AMD man than an Intel man on the desktop, but I'm not > > willing to go that route on a laptop. That said, though, I am also > > highly unwilling to buy anything with an Intel/S3/VIA GPU as I may be > > stuck w/o my gaming rig in the near future. Can anyone recommend a > > tabletpc w/nvidia gpu & Intel proc that's actually available in US > > markets? I can't find anything at all, which seems just nuts to me. > > > > -Sean > > _______________________________________________ > > Kclug mailing list > > Kclug(a)kclug.org > > http://kclug.org/mailman/listinfo/kclug > > >

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