[GRLUG] Laptop Fondling.

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>    1. Laptop Fondling (peyeps at iserv.net)
>    2. Re: Laptop Fondling (Ron Lauzon)
>    3. Re: Laptop Fondling (Michael Mol)
>    4. OLF Hotel Discount Ends In 8 Days (Adam Tauno Williams)
>    5. OT, but GPS, anyone? (L. V. Lammert)
>    6. Re: OT, but GPS, anyone? (Michael Mol)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 07:39:40 -0400 (EDT)
> From: peyeps at iserv.net
> Subject: [GRLUG] Laptop Fondling
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> Well, my resistance finally failed me and I picked up an Acer Aspire.
>
> Searching the Ubuntu forums indicated that there were only a couple of
> minor
> glitches with Ubuntu remix with the machine, and  the price was the same
> at Office Max, Target and Walmart.  Target you could not touch the
> keyboards on the display units, there was a plastic cover over them.
> Office Max I was able to check out.
> The HP only had 8 gig used, as opposed to 11 on the Acer.  Machine speed,
> memory, disk size were the same on all the netbooks Office Max had out.
> Had an opportunity to see a side by side comparison between XP and Vista.
> Vista was about twenty bucks more expensive, used twice as much disk space
> and ran slower when opening the control panel.  That's my 3 minute
> evaluation of Vista.  (Vista Basic is what comes installed on the
> machine.)  Needless to say I picked up the cheaper XP machine.
>
> Found that the easiest way to create the USB Live memory stick was to
> download the .ISO image on another machine with a CD burner and usb port.
> Burn the live CD to disk and load the live CD.  While running the live CD,
> there is a command line program usb-creator, that makes it easy to burn
> the boot USB drive, using the currently running live CD.
>
> Had trouble getting the Ubuntu remix to work.  It is downloaded as a .img
> file, and usb-create doesn't work with that.  There is a
> unetbootin-linux-356.bin that will create a boot stick, but it only comes
> up with a console screen, and I couldn't find in the commands listed the
> one for starting X.  I probably overlooked something.   However the 9.04
> live CD worked so well, decided to go with that, and not mess around any
> longer trying to get remix to work.
>
> Haven't booted the XP yet.  Want to make sure I have all the protections
> available to lock the thing down before I do that.  Discovered during the
> repartition exercise that Acer installed a Windows Vista boot, partition
> taking 7 gig, presumably for the restore OS.  I left it there.
>
> By the way, this Ubuntu has all the patches since the .ISO was created.
> No WGA necessary to do that.
>
>
>
>
>
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> Message: 2
> Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 08:22:08 -0400
> From: Ron Lauzon <rlauzon at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [GRLUG] Laptop Fondling
> To: grlug at grlug.org
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> On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 7:39 AM, <peyeps at iserv.net> wrote:
>> Found that the easiest way to create the USB Live memory stick was to
>> download the .ISO image on another machine with a CD burner and usb
>> port.
>> Burn the live CD to disk and load the live CD. ?While running the live
>> CD,
>> there is a command line program usb-creator, that makes it easy to burn
>> the boot USB drive, using the currently running live CD.
>
> Have you tried Unetbootin? (http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/)
>

Tried that but I must have done something wrong, because all I got was a
console screen with a subset of Linux commands available to me.  Probably
didn't go far enough, but when I had the working Ubutu Desktop 9.04
working, figured I had what I wanted.

> I used this to create a bootable thumbdrive to install Ubuntu to my
> laptop.  It was quick and easy.
>
> --
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> Message: 3
> Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 10:22:27 -0400
> From: Michael Mol <mikemol at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [GRLUG] Laptop Fondling
> To: grlug at grlug.org
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> On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 7:39 AM, <peyeps at iserv.net> wrote:
>> By the way, this Ubuntu has all the patches since the .ISO was created.
>> No WGA necessary to do that.
>
> Incidentally, it was pointed out to me by a coworker that since you've
> already got Service Pack 2, you probably have WGA installed.  What you
> probably *don't* have is WGA Notification, which is the tool that
> actually tells you if WGA triggered.
>

I've read about hacks that will allow you to "un-install" WGA, but I
haven't gotten around to doing anything with it yet.  I'm pretty sure I
have not triggered WGA because I haven't run Windows on this machine.

>
> --
> :wq
>
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> Message: 4
> Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 08:50:11 -0400
> From: Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam at whitemice.org>
> Subject: [GRLUG] OLF Hotel Discount Ends In 8 Days
> To: grlug <grlug at grlug.org>
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> Considering attending the Ohio LINUX Fest 2009 in Columbus, Ohio on
> September 25th - 27th?  If so, be aware that the OLF discounted hotel
> rates for the Hyatt Regency Columbus [adjacent to the conference center]
> will expire in just *EIGHT* days.  So make your registration and
> reservations soon.
> <https://www.ohiolinux.org/register.html>
>
> Of course you can reserve rooms after that discount ends - but you'll
> pay more.
>
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> Message: 5
> Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 10:53:49 -0500 (CDT)
> From: "L. V. Lammert" <lvl at omnitec.net>
> Subject: [GRLUG] OT, but GPS, anyone?
> To: grlug <grlug at grlug.org>
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> Got a project where we need to establish a true N indiation on a
> stationary piece of equipment using a Linux host, .. if we had two GPS
> units, say, 25' apart it would be trivial (take the differential between
> the two readings and any positional errors cancel, producing a reference
> vector that can then be corrected to true N).
>
> Need to determine the *minimum* spacing between two units - don't
> suppose anyone knows anything about this sort of technology, or could
> point us in the right direction?
>
> 	TIA,
>
> 	Lee
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> Message: 6
> Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 12:01:42 -0400
> From: Michael Mol <mikemol at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [GRLUG] OT, but GPS, anyone?
> To: grlug at grlug.org
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> On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 11:53 AM, L. V. Lammert<lvl at omnitec.net> wrote:
>> Got a project where we need to establish a true N indiation on a
>> stationary piece of equipment using a Linux host, .. if we had two GPS
>> units, say, 25' apart it would be trivial (take the differential between
>> the two readings and any positional errors cancel, producing a reference
>> vector that can then be corrected to true N).
>>
>> Need to determine the *minimum* spacing between two units - don't
>> suppose anyone knows anything about this sort of technology, or could
>> point us in the right direction?
>
> Minimum spacing between two whats? Stationary pieces of equipment, or
> the GPS units?
>
> --
> :wq
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