Re: Aaron Swartz movie

2014-09-22 Thread der.hans
Am 04. Sep, 2014 schwätzte Shawn Badger so: moin moin, I watched that a couple weeks ago, what a great story. I am still amazed at the ignorance of the FBI when it comes to what is considered a computer crime. Can we show it at PLUG? I think Aaron would recommend just showing it :). I have

ArChon - Running Android apps in chrome under linux (and *others* too)

2014-09-22 Thread Michael Butash
I'm hoping this works - would love to introduce some android apps as desktop apps. Installing now... http://www.androidpolice.com/2014/09/20/archon-hack-lets-you-run-almost-any-android-app-on-chrome-os-and-chrome-for-windows-os-x-and-linux/ -mb

Re: Aaron Swartz movie

2014-09-22 Thread techlists
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXr-2hwTk58 On 2014-09-22 02:01, der.hans wrote: Am 04. Sep, 2014 schwätzte Shawn Badger so: moin moin, I watched that a couple weeks ago, what a great story. I am still amazed at the ignorance of the FBI when it comes to what is considered a computer crime.

Re: Aaron Swartz movie

2014-09-22 Thread techlists
After watching the trailer for the movie I would be interested in seeing it AND talking about activism. I recently launched a blog at http://www.ChandlerAzConservative.com/ . I see the Internet as a very important tool for grass roots movements, so we must keep it free and unrestricted.

Re: ArChon - Running Android apps in chrome under linux (and *others* too)

2014-09-22 Thread Michael Butash
Much the same here, only to end up a cup of fail with seeming typical inept intel gpu blocking any real use for gl function on the back end. Why must intel always purposely make the worst and yet most populous gpu ever? I'll have to try this when not traveling to let rip against my ati gpu

Installation frustrations

2014-09-22 Thread IscreamKid
Saturday, at the Installfest, despite cautions from Thomas, I installed CentOS on my new computer. The install went well from the standpoint of reallocating the partitions and getting Grub to recognize both CentOS and Win 7. When I started working with it I loaded on my files. Files that took

Re: Installation frustrations

2014-09-22 Thread Mark Phillips
Not sure if this will help, as I know nothing about Tracker-miner nor CentOS http://askubuntu.com/questions/346211/tracker-store-and-tracker-miner-fs-eating-up-my-cpu-on-every-startup Have you tried Debian or Ubuntu? Mark On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 8:16 PM, IscreamKid iscream...@gmail.com

Re: Installation frustrations

2014-09-22 Thread Joseph Sinclair
1) I routinely remove desktop search services from new installs; it's as simple as yum erase, and I find the search service utterly useless. 2) All of the desktop-focused distros include search services by default because it's what Microsoft and Apple include, so the non-technical user just

Re: Installation frustrations

2014-09-22 Thread Michael Havens
If you consider ubuntu run mint instead. Then there is Linux Mint Debian Edition. :-)~MIKE~(-: On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 8:38 PM, Mark Phillips m...@phillipsmarketing.biz wrote: Not sure if this will help, as I know nothing about Tracker-miner nor CentOS

Re: Installation frustrations

2014-09-22 Thread Phil Waclawski
I myself rather like kubuntu for my laptops/desktop but that is just my preference. I love CentOS for servers (well, not sure about 7 yet)but for desktops...nope. Phil W On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 8:47 PM, Michael Havens bmi...@gmail.com wrote: If you consider ubuntu run mint instead. Then