(no subject)
by Ronnie Collinson
Sounds good. Just some small typos corrected and I booked the room for 25/2:
Regrettably, I must inform you all, that we failed to attain quorum at
the AGM last night, with only 7 members arriving. As by the charter,
we will hold a second AGM on February 25th (after Christmas and summer
festivities).
If we fail to obtain quorum or a new committee, we may have no choice
but to file for dissolution with the registrar (could be re-registered
for a fee of $204.45). If this is needed we will endeavour to leave as
much of the online presence running as possible. The club does however
remain in good financial standing.
If any member is unable to attend the AGM, we will be happy for you to
attend via IRC, we will attempt to stream the meeting too (perhaps
audio-only via mumble).
On behalf of committee
7 years, 3 months
MS Won't Release Study Disputing Munich's Linux-Switch Savings
by Peter Reutemann
"As previously reported on Slashdot, in November of last year, the
city of Munich reported savings of over €10 million from its switch to
Linux. Microsoft subsequently commissioned a study (conducted by HP)
that found that, in fact, 'Munich would have saved €43.7 million if it
had stuck with Microsoft.' Now, Microsoft has said it won't release
the study, saying that '[it] was commissioned by Microsoft to HP
Consulting for internal purposes only.'"
-- source: http://linux.slashdot.org/story/13/01/22/1716244/ms-wont-release-study-di...
Sounds like good old FUD to me... Like "Linux is infringes on heaps of
our patents", without ever stating which patents exactly, if I recall
that correctly:
http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2007/05/28/100033867/
Cheers, Peter
--
Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174
7 years, 3 months
Gnome login screen accessability features
by Bruce Kingsbury
I'm having a bit of a problem with people fiddling at the logon
screen, turning on features like sticky keys and screen reader and
large text. These stay on even after the computers are shut down and I
have to go around all the machines and turn them off again.
Is there any way to dissable the accessability menu in GDM? Or at
least some way that I can easily reset everything back to off?
7 years, 4 months
Pear Linux
by Peter Reutemann
Hi there
Last week, I came across the Pear Linux distribution, an Ubuntu remix,
which is visually quite appealing:
http://pearlinux.fr/
The last couple of days, I've unsuccessfully tried to run the live CD on:
- virtualbox
- old Dell Vostro dual-core laptop
- Lenovo x100e
The SysLinux prompt ("boot:") shows up and when continuing, the CPU
seems to go nuts and nothing happens anymore.
Just wondering whether anybody else had any luck installing it...
Cheers, Peter
--
Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174
7 years, 4 months
Test
by mailinglist
Hi guys,
Sorry again. It's definitely what I'm trying to talk about.
The spam filters are just blocking it though the messages happily get
through to my work email.
At least I know why I cannot contribute to the list.
Cheers,
Chris
7 years, 4 months
test message
by mailinglist
Hi guys,
Sorry about the messages.
I've been trying to send a message so many times but it seems as though
some filter is blocking it.
Cheers,
Chris
7 years, 4 months
