Re: [GTALUG] FSOSS: last day for early-bird registration!

It's been going down hill for few years. This year, I'll pass. -- William Park On Tue, Oct 03, 2017 at 02:37:58PM -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: > I don't remember seeing an announcement here. > > FSOSS is a conference put on by Seneca @ York each year. >

Re: [GTALUG] Dead DVD drive in laptop

On Tue, 3 Oct 2017, Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Tue, Oct 03, 2017 at 12:44:17PM -0400, Chris F.A. Johnson wrote: I can play movies from a USB stick. I cannot play DVDs with one. A DVD is not a file; it holds files. A DVD contains multiple files. Placing all those files in a directory works

Re: [GTALUG] Dead DVD drive in laptop

On Tue, Oct 03, 2017 at 12:44:17PM -0400, Chris F.A. Johnson wrote: > I can play movies from a USB stick. I cannot play DVDs with one. A DVD > is not a file; it holds files. A DVD contains multiple files. Placing all those files in a directory works the same as being on a DVD to many player

[GTALUG] FSOSS: last day for early-bird registration!

I don't remember seeing an announcement here. FSOSS is a conference put on by Seneca @ York each year. I've found it well worth going. Tomorrow the registration fee doubles! Date: Oct 26-27 (Thursday and Friday) Location: the Seneca buildings on the

Re: [GTALUG] Dead DVD drive in laptop

On Mon, 2 Oct 2017, Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Fri, Sep 29, 2017 at 07:29:38PM -0400, Chris F.A. Johnson via talk wrote: On Fri, 29 Sep 2017, Alex Short via talk wrote: 4. Don't use DVD. Just use a USB stick and iso files instead.  I can't play DVDs with a USB stick. Sure you can. vlc

Re: [GTALUG] [GTALUG-Announce] Upcoming Board Elections

On 2017-10-02 03:05 PM, Christopher Browne via talk wrote: > > If you are interested, we'd appreciate it very much if you can submit > indication of your interest to bo...@gtalug.org I'd like to suggest that if you're even *vaguely* interested, go for it. It's rewarding and not much work, *and*