[GLLUG] Full Meeting Notes

[Jeff Lawton]

11 attended the February's GLLUG meeting at Atmosphere
Annealing Inc. on Thursday the 13th. Topics discussed were as follows:

Printing: how to adjust the features of the print driver in order to
print high quality photo prints. Several solutions were presented.
One suggestion was to purchase a driver from turboprint.de. Another
attendee suggested that many adjustments can be made in redhat in the
printer setup dialog by changing the driver settings.

Debian: how to get gdm to add a window manager to the menu in the login
screen. Solutions presented included looking in the /etc/x11/xsession or
editing the .xinit to hard code the window manager.  It was also
suggested that the user post to the list for further information.

Office Suite Solutions: Open Office, K Office and abi word were
discussed. Several people asked where to get templates.  There is
another site besides the open office.  This information will be posted
at a later date.

Disk imaging: Disk imaging similar to symantec's ghost.  Solutions
suggested were g4u and partimage.

Dual booting and more: a question was posed about booting several OSes
on a single computer.   Partitioning limitations were discussed as well
as how to set up the boot manager, as well as suggesting sharing a swap
partition with several OSes.

Corrupt RPM system: some time was spent talking about how to fix a
damaged rpm system and many potential solutions were suggested.

Boot floppy trouble: problems with mandrake 8 boot floppy creation were
discussed and the solution to use a different distribution was
suggested. Someone offered to provide install CDs for several
distributions.

Finding device name:  someone asked how to find device names on their
system. The solution was to use dmesg or dtab.

Popup killing: someone asked about how to kill pop-ups and several
people stated that it was a setting in mozilla and another talked about
junkbuster.

The meeting concluded while people were looking though the library for
learning material
-- 
Jeff Lawton
Ideal Solution, LLC
www.idealso.com
517.669.4235