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David Mandel | 4 Aug 18:20

SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT: August PLUG Meeting

                            MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT

                       The Portland Linux/Unix Group
                                 will meet
                         7 PM Thursday Aug 4, 2011
                                     at
                         Portland State University
                                   in the
                              Fariborz Maseeh
             College of Engineering & Computer Science Building
                              Room FAB 86-01
                       (This is in the basement.)
          The building is on SW 4th across from SW College Street.
       See location H-10 on map at http://pdxLinux.org/campus_map.jpg

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                        Open Source Software

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                                 by

                           Michael Smith

     Michael Smith works for the State of Oregon.  He will discuss
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marbux | 8 Aug 00:41
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Comcast Launching $9.95 'Internet Essentials' Broadband for Low-Income Families

Via Slashdot: <http://hothardware.com/News/Comcast-Launching-995-Internet-Essentials-Broadband-for-LowIncome-Families/>.

How fast is the home Internet service offered as part of Internet Essentials?

Internet Essentials provides home Internet service with download
speeds of up to 1.5 Mbps and upload speeds of up to 384 Kbps.

What type of computer is included with Internet Essentials and what
kind of software does it have?

Internet Essentials participants have the opportunity to purchase a
netbook-style laptop computer. This computer supports wired and Wi-Fi
Internet connectivity. Every computer shipped includes Windows 7
Starter operating system and Internet browser software. Additional
productivity software may be included when available.

<http://www.internetessentials.com/faq/index.html>

Best regards to all,

Paul
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seymoor nates | 8 Aug 00:59
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Re: Comcast Launching $9.95 'Internet Essentials' Broadband for Low-Income Families

So bombast now owns NBC?  Jeez.

Next:  One World Company . . .

(Thanx for the note Paul; anybody that will poke a hole in Qwest's 
shameful DSL...).
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Russell Johnson | 8 Aug 18:14

Re: Comcast Launching $9.95 'Internet Essentials' Broadband for Low-Income Families


On Aug 7, 2011, at 3:59 PM, seymoor nates wrote:

> So bombast now owns NBC?  Jeez.
> 
> Next:  One World Company . . .
> 
> (Thanx for the note Paul; anybody that will poke a hole in Qwest's 
> shameful DSL…).

Yeah, since January… Since NBC is part of Universal, that means getting internet from your cable company
is getting internet from the company that will sue your pants off if you download movies from the internet. 

Russell Johnson
russ <at> dimstar.net
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Hippy Nerd | 8 Aug 18:17
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Re: Comcast Launching $9.95 'Internet Essentials' Broadband for Low-Income Families

Comcast has been doing that for years, not months.

On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 9:14 AM, Russell Johnson <russ <at> dimstar.net> wrote:

On Aug 7, 2011, at 3:59 PM, seymoor nates wrote:

> So bombast now owns NBC?  Jeez.
>
> Next:  One World Company . . .
>
> (Thanx for the note Paul; anybody that will poke a hole in Qwest's
> shameful DSL…).

Yeah, since January… Since NBC is part of Universal, that means getting internet from your cable company is getting internet from the company that will sue your pants off if you download movies from the internet.

Russell Johnson
russ <at> dimstar.net



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seymoor nates | 8 Aug 18:21
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Re: Comcast Launching $9.95 'Internet Essentials' Broadband for Low-Income Families

If only there was a movie worth watching--much less downloading from the 
internet.

On 8/8/2011 9:14 AM, Russell Johnson wrote:
> Yeah, since January… Since NBC is part of Universal, that means getting internet from your cable
company is getting internet from the company that will sue your pants off if you download movies from the internet.
>
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Fred James | 8 Aug 22:29

touchpad in linux

The feature is the problem ...

The feature is the "scroll" area(s) on the touch pad (or more likely, in 
the touch pad software/configuration?)
Is there a way to eliminate this feature ... perhaps by reducing the 
size of the "area(s)" to the point of non-existence?

Various searches so far have only yielded the usual "how to set up a 
touch pad/mouse" stuff, which never even seem to mention the idea of a 
"scroll area(s)", or (oh, joy!) a "right click" area.

Thank you in advance for any help you may be able to offer
Regards
Fred James
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Ben Barrett | 8 Aug 23:06
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Re: touchpad in linux

Something like this?
http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Synaptics_Touchpad#Real-Time_Tweaking


On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 1:29 PM, Fred James <fredjame <at> fredjame.cnc.net> wrote:
The feature is the problem ...

The feature is the "scroll" area(s) on the touch pad (or more likely, in
the touch pad software/configuration?)
Is there a way to eliminate this feature ... perhaps by reducing the
size of the "area(s)" to the point of non-existence?

Various searches so far have only yielded the usual "how to set up a
touch pad/mouse" stuff, which never even seem to mention the idea of a
"scroll area(s)", or (oh, joy!) a "right click" area.

Thank you in advance for any help you may be able to offer
Regards
Fred James

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Fred James | 9 Aug 01:18

Re: touchpad in linux

Fred James wrote:
> The feature is the problem ...
>
> The feature is the "scroll" area(s) on the touch pad (or more likely, 
> in the touch pad software/configuration?)
> Is there a way to eliminate this feature ... perhaps by reducing the 
> size of the "area(s)" to the point of non-existence?
>
> Various searches so far have only yielded the usual "how to set up a 
> touch pad/mouse" stuff, which never even seem to mention the idea of a 
> "scroll area(s)", or (oh, joy!) a "right click" area.
>
> Thank you in advance for any help you may be able to offer
> Regards
> Fred James
Got a solution that I am still testing to see if it introduces any other 
unwanted feature, but so far so good ... I added the following line to 
.bashrc in my home directory ...
    synclient VertEdgeScroll=0 HorizEdgeScroll=0

I got there by "man -k" on a couple of things, and finding synaptics(5) 
and syclient(1) of interest ... on my system at least (your mileage may 
vary).

Among other things "syclient -l | grep -i edge" reveled the values
    VertEdgeScroll = 1 and HorizEdgeScroll = 1
and synaptics(5) shows those two to be "bool", thus the line above 
(included in .bashrc), which as I said, seems to be working as expected 
(so far).

By the way ... this requires SNMConfig (also "bool") to on, for the user 
to be able to do this for her/him self ... otherwise it would have to be 
done as a system wide change ... this is considered to be dangerous on 
multiuser systems ... just a thought.

Thanks
Regards
Fred James
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Mr O | 9 Aug 04:20
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LOL!! Seriously, like the bank wants to put me in jail because I have an account there but I robbed them.

That be all,
Mr O.

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Subject: Re: [Eug-lug] Comcast Launching $9.95 'Internet Essentials' Broadband for Low-Income Families

On Aug 7, 2011, at 3:59 PM, seymoor nates wrote:

> So bombast now owns NBC?  Jeez.
> 
> Next:  One World Company . . .
> 
> (Thanx for the note Paul; anybody that will poke a hole in Qwest's 
> shameful DSL…).

Yeah, since January… Since NBC is part of Universal, that means getting internet from your cable company
is getting internet from the company that will sue your pants off if you download movies from the internet. 

Russell Johnson
russ <at> dimstar.net

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