2-4pm

Saturday, July 17, 2010

Atlanta Bread Company

Watson Blvd, Warner Robins Georgia

The 2010 SouthEast Linux Festival is about half-way over with a party coming at 8pm.

This was the biggest day of this 3-day event, of which I attended only today. The prize drawings for “door” prizes were made at the conclusion of the main talks today with some big news for our LUG!!

Out of all the tickets drawn, 3 of the 7 MGALUG.org members present won prizes. The grand prize from TLLTS group was a Neuros Link TV box and it was won by our very own Ian (aka bgs100). Chris M. won a Practical Guide to Fedora & Redhat Enterprise Linux book and nomasteryoda a Essential PHP Security book.

I’m thinking that if we can get more people to attend next year, we’ll rake in a pile of stuff!!

nomasteryoda

I sent a short email to Larry and Tom from the Going Linux podcast (back in April 2010) and it got airtime on the live radio show Computer America. I was listening to Going Linux podcast #103 and heard M.G.A.L.U.G mentioned as the first email in the listener feedback section. Wow!

Go have yourself a listen and welcome to those listeners who decided to check out our site. If you happen to be in the area the 3rd Saturday of any month, stop by between 2-4pm at the Atlanta Bread Company in Warner Robins, GA and say you heard about us on the Going Linux podcast.

http://goinglinux.com/

Ubuntu Linux 10.04 – Lucid Lynx
This latest release of Ubuntu Linux is quite polished and works very well. If you want to try out Linux, I recommend either Ubuntu or Linux Mint (Ubuntu-based distribution).

If you are somewhat experienced with Linux, then going with Debian is a better option, which is something I’ve done with my Dell Studio 1555 laptop.

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nomasteryoda



That’s what the Washington Post says in this article.  Of course Linux users have known Linux was safer, and now the rest of the world knows.

Dec 9, 2008, 17 :05 UTC
What follows is a blog posting from Helios’ blog…

When will our Educators Learn?

–nomasteryoda

“Mr. Starks, I am sure you strongly believe in what you are doing but I cannot either support your efforts or allow them to happen in my classroom. At this point, I am not sure what you are doing is legal. No software is free and spreading that misconception is harmful. These children look up to adults for guidance and discipline. I will research this as time allows and I want to assure you, if you are doing anything illegal, I will pursue charges as the law allows.

Mr. Starks, I along with many others tried Linux during college and I assure you, the claims you make are grossly over-stated and hinge on falsehoods. I admire your attempts in getting computers in the hands of disadvantaged people but putting linux on these machines is holding our kids back.”This is a world where Windows runs on virtually every computer and putting on a carnival show for an operating system is not helping these children at all. I am sure if you contacted Microsoft, they would be more than happy to supply you with copies of an older verison of Windows and that way, your computers would actually be of service to those receiving them…”  Click for the Complete Story

Dell is selling more Ubuntu desktops and laptops! If you want a good system, check Dell’s lineup. I use Dell systems and as consumer systems go, they rank quite high for a Linux box. You get support from Canonical, the parent company behind Ubuntu.

link to Dell’s Linux site

nomasteryoda

This video was removed due to “copyright violation”, though it is fully covered under the fair use doctrine as it is a parody or mashup of the original work. The video is available upon request at our LUG meetings. You can also find it elsewhere on the web if you search long and hard.

Losing your Linux Jedi Knight abilities??

I found this bit in my iGoogle news feed today I realized this really is happening. The value of continuing to use your hard-earned skills is very important to maintaining any ability you even possibly hope to accomplish in the future…
Hope you enjoy reading… click the link to read the rest at his site. … nomasteryoda

Your Linux Skills – Use them or lose them

Bluetooth is a wonderful technology when it works. I have used a laptop with built-in Bluetooth support for over 2 years. What I do mainly with my bluetooth is use a small IOgear bluetooth mouse. This makes things so simple with zero dongles for connection. Nothing to break your USB ports or get in the way, plus you have the ports free for other things like a light or USB flash stick. Read more »