[GRLUG] Describe your intro to Linux (Adam M. Erickson)

[Michael Mol]

On Nov 17, 2007 11:28 PM, Justin Popa <tehpopa at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks for pointing out the obvious. I'm being very serious there because
> people somehow think that I don't know teamspeak works in Linux. People just
> dont realize that I have to convince 100 of my best friends to switch too.

I mentioned that your friends probably weren't on Teamspeak.  The
reason I mentioned it was...

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> Anyway, that software won't work. :( It's still the same problem basically.
> The app has to have focus via the pointer. It's a basic X problem(not really
> a problem). I know there's an app that some people use called ventrilocrtl.
> It's pretty basic and it works decently well. The problem is that it only
> monitors keyboards. If I could get it to monitor mouse i could get it all to
> work.

...Teamspeak didn't seem to need focus in order to catch my trigger
key, and I thought that information might be useful.  But if you want
it to catch a mouse click, I can see how that would be a different
story.

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> On Nov 16, 2007 11:02 PM, Michael Mol <mikemol at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > You should probably set GMail to send messages as plain text. (i.e.
> > without rich formatting.)  The GRLUG mailing list has an anti-HTML
> > filter in place that gets quite annoying.
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> > As a side topic, is there any reason to keep the anti-HTML filter on
> > the GRLUG mailing list as it is?  Is there *anyone* on the list whose
> > mail client can't at least handle multi-part messages, and take the
> > text/plain part alone?
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> > On Nov 16, 2007 4:01 PM, Adam Erickson < erickson.adam.m at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > <p><DEFANGED_div>Started using linux at the beginning of this year just
> out of curiousity. &#39;Ubuntu 6.1&#39 ;, I was very amazed at how far Linux
> has come since the 90&#39;s when I first reviewed it. </p><DEFANGED_div>
> > > <p><DEFANGED_div>&nbsp;</p><DEFANGED_div>
> > > <p><DEFANGED_div></p><DEFANGED_div>
> > > <p><DEFANGED_div>I am going through Ferris&nbsp;and to many teachers
> rely on Microsoft programs to educate so I cannot switch to Linux completly.
> </p><DEFANGED_div>
> > > <p><DEFANGED_div>&nbsp;</p><DEFANGED_div>
> > > <p><DEFANGED_div></p><DEFANGED_div>
> > > <p><DEFANGED_div>But that hasn&#39;t stopped my plans of converting
> people. I have already disposed of 2 NTservers (FTP and WEB) and replaced
> them with Ubuntu Servers with no little cost and I love how easy Ubuntu made
> it for a LAMP install. At home, after a Beryl install my wife fell in love
> with Linux also.
> > > </p><DEFANGED_div>
> > > <p><DEFANGED_div>&nbsp;</p><DEFANGED_div>
> > > <p><DEFANGED_div>MAIN POINT THAT TURNED ME TO LINUX IS.......The ability
> to learn again. =) </p><DEFANGED_div>
> > > <p><DEFANGED_div>Since so much for servers, networking and programming
> is open source I can learn again. </p><DEFANGED_div>
> > > <p><DEFANGED_div>I cannot afford M$ $oftware and $ervers.
> </p><DEFANGED_div>
> > > <p><DEFANGED_div>&nbsp;</p><DEFANGED_div>
> > > <p><DEFANGED_div></p><DEFANGED_div>
> > > <p><DEFANGED_div>I look forward to meeting you all someday,
> </p><DEFANGED_div>
> > > <p><DEFANGED_div>&nbsp;</p><DEFANGED_div>
> > > <p><DEFANGED_div></p><DEFANGED_div>
> > > <p><DEFANGED_div>Adam M. Erickson </p><DEFANGED_div>
> > > <p><DEFANGED_div>&nbsp;</p><DEFANGED_div>
> > > <p><DEFANGED_div></p><DEFANGED_div>
> > > <p><DEFANGED_div><strong><font size="1">&quot;Catch a man a fish, and
> you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful
> business opportunity.&quot; &nbsp; Karl Marx</font></strong>
> </p><DEFANGED_div>
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