Re: [BLUG] Meeting

Honestly I don't attend because the time I have off I like to spend with my wife and kids.  I do like the mail list and web site though.  It has proven helpful in the past. 

On 6/11/07, Scott Blaydes <sblaydes@sbce.org> wrote:

Okay, we do not have the room reserved for a meeting this month, but
that is fine as we only had 2 people show up last month.  I figure that
if we want to look at changing the meeting time, day, or location now
would be a good time to do it.  Please let me know if you have any ideas
about the changes I listed.  Also, do we want to change up the format of
the meeting also?  Perhaps have a dinner meeting?  Or maybe one meeting
with a presentation on day of the month and a dinner meeting another day
of the month.  Or maybe alternate with a presentation one month and a
social meeting the next month.

I know that many members of the BLUG are working some long hours and
don't always have the time to attend meetings, but I would appreciate it
if you could let me know why you do not attend the meetings.  Just email
me off list so I can get a better idea of what I need to change to help
get meeting attendance back up.  I have spoken to a few companies and
individuals who have offered to do presentations for our meetings, but I
can't justify a person to drive a few hours for an audience of 2 people.
It is a chicken/egg problem.  Attendance would probably raise if we
have more diverse and interesting presentations, but we need to have a
decent attendance to get more diverse and interesting presentations.

Also, some of you know it, some of you don't, but I just got married
last Saturday.  I am hoping that I will now be able to spend more time
on BLUG stuff, such as updating the website.  If there is someone else
who would like to help with getting meetings planned, website stuff and
other BLUG stuff, let me know.

Thank you,
Scott Blaydes
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[BLUG] Meeting

Okay, we do not have the room reserved for a meeting this month, but
that is fine as we only had 2 people show up last month. I figure that
if we want to look at changing the meeting time, day, or location now
would be a good time to do it. Please let me know if you have any ideas
about the changes I listed. Also, do we want to change up the format of
the meeting also? Perhaps have a dinner meeting? Or maybe one meeting
with a presentation on day of the month and a dinner meeting another day
of the month. Or maybe alternate with a presentation one month and a
social meeting the next month.

I know that many members of the BLUG are working some long hours and
don't always have the time to attend meetings, but I would appreciate it
if you could let me know why you do not attend the meetings. Just email
me off list so I can get a better idea of what I need to change to help
get meeting attendance back up. I have spoken to a few companies and
individuals who have offered to do presentations for our meetings, but I
can't justify a person to drive a few hours for an audience of 2 people.
It is a chicken/egg problem. Attendance would probably raise if we
have more diverse and interesting presentations, but we need to have a
decent attendance to get more diverse and interesting presentations.

Also, some of you know it, some of you don't, but I just got married
last Saturday. I am hoping that I will now be able to spend more time
on BLUG stuff, such as updating the website. If there is someone else
who would like to help with getting meetings planned, website stuff and
other BLUG stuff, let me know.

Thank you,
Scott Blaydes
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Re: [BLUG] Gaming session tonight will be BZFlag

BZFlag requires hardware Open GL to be playable. They have specific
documentation stating that (1) the software GL is very slow, and (2)
they have no plans to ever speed it up.

Hardware Open GL is not available for any Vesa driver.

If your driver can use the open-source ATI driver, you should be able to
use Open GL.

If you need to use the close source fglrx driver, then IIRC, you will be
unable to use Open GL, and unable to play BZFlag without serious lag and
delay.

I checked the information on BZFlag fairly recently when I thought of
playing. Unfortunately, I don't have hardware Open GL in Linux either.
(I have a chipset which requires the fglrx driver.)

Cheers,
Steven Black

On Sat, 2007-06-09 at 21:37 -0400, Gillis, Chad wrote:
> I stopped by but it's just as well that you guys weren't around since
> my tank might have looked a bit dorky. I got a warning: Your lag is
> too high (1125 ms). I've never used this computer for gaming before and
> don't have any experience setting up video so it's optimized. I don't
> think it's a hardware problem (128 MB ATI Mobility Radeon X1400, 1.8
> GHz dual core). I'm using vesa so maybe I need to install the
> proprietary driver fglrx instead? Or could the lag be caused by
> something else (besides the internet connection which is fine)?
>
> As stated in the wiki though, installation was a breeze. Without
> exaggeration it took about ten seconds.
>
> >> Mark Krenz wrote:
> >> > I couldn't get Armagetron's dedicated server to work, so we're going
> >> >to play BZFlag tonight instead.
> >> >
>
>
>
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Re: [BLUG] help with switching to Ubuntu

With regards to an "OS X" style dock, you should check out products with
a NExT-like theme. The OS X dock is based upon the NExT dock.

To change the shortcuts in the Gnome Terminal there is a "Edit->Keyboard
Shortcuts..." menu entry (within the Gnome Terminal application). This
includes shortcuts for creating new tabs and switching tabs.

I'm not familiar with configuring Thunderbird, however I looked at it
briefly. From my initial glances at it, it appears changing the shortcut
in Thunderbird would require setting an X resource or modifying the
sources.

Setting X resources was the traditional way of tweaking application keys
in X. You'll want to check other documentation on the details of this.

Check the "Keyboard Shortcuts" application in the System->Preferences
menu. It has an option called "Move between windows of an application
immediately." I think this will do what you want. If it does not, you'll
probably need to use a different window manager.

While the Metacity WM is the default Gnome WM, there are other options.
Many are still GNOME-friendly. Some of which may have more Mac-like
options.

I thought there used to be ways to change the shortcut behavior to match
more like Mac OS and less like Windows. However, now that I think of it,
I may have been thinking of BeOS.

What I would really like is uniform single/double/triple-click behavior.
I used to quite enjoy selecting-by-words in web browser URLs. BeOS had
similar behavior to Mac OS in this case. (And in many other cases.)

I hope this helps.

Cheers,
Steven

On Fri, 2007-06-08 at 17:04 -0400, Joe Auty wrote:
> I'm considering switching from OS X to Ubuntu and have been trying to
> migrate my work over there this week. I have a few questions though,
> and I thought I would see if you guys can help since I know there are
> several knowledgeable users here that have helped me in the past!
>
> I posted this to the ubuntuforums site, but I'll reproduce these
> questions here (this all applies to Gnome)...
>
> Thanks in advance for your help!
>
> post/question set #1:
> > I have a volume mounted via SSH, and I'm noticing that the
> > application associations I have created
> > in /usr/share/applications/defaults.list don't seem to apply.
> >
> > Is there a way to fix this? Is there a way to get files opened from
> > network volumes to respect the associations in the defaults.list
> > file?
>
> post/question set #2:
>
> > Here's the deal: I use Ubuntu at work and am contemplating a switch
> > to Ubuntu on my home machine too, but I'm kind of stuck with years
> > and years of Mac experience ingrained into my skull. To make the
> > transition a little less painless, I'm wondering what sorts of
> > tweaks are possible to make Gnome behave a little more Mac like?
> >
> > Here are some of the things I would like:
> > * an OS X dock that doesn't require Beryl (I'm stuck with an
> > ATI X600, so no Beryl unfortunately), a shift to a more
> > application rather than document centric computing approach.
> > * key bindings remapped to use the smaller Apple style
> > keyboard, so:
> > * control + A to go to the beginning of a line like in
> > emacs, rather than the "home" key (I'd happily remap
> > select all to control + shift A or something),
> > control + E for end of line (end key)
> > * backspace key for deleting mail in Thunderbird
> > rather than delete key
> > * switch between windows within an application (apple
> > + tilda on the Mac)
> > * control T for new tab in Gnome Terminal rather than
> > control + shift + T. A consistent key command to
> > switch between tabs in Firefox and the Terminal
> > (e.g. Control + Alt + cursor arrow rather than page
> > up/page down)
> >
> > I know I should probably just get used to doing things the
> > Ubuntu/Gnome way, but if there are ways to kind of ease me in that
> > would be fantastic!
>
>
>
> --
> Joe Auty
> NetMusician: web publishing software for musicians
> http://www.netmusician.org
> joe@netmusician.org

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