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It is upon us fellow Chicagoans! October 28th, 2006 from 11am until around 8pm CST, the Chicago Local Community Team will be hosting its quarterly group meeting, this time with some Edgy partying to go on as well. This event will include presentations, demonstrations, food and drink. There is a $10 cover fee in order to pay for the venue which includes the food and drink. The location will be the Best Western located at 1231 Lee Street, in Des Plaines, Illinois 60018. More information can be found on the Ubuntu Chicago website at http://chi.ubuntu-us.org or to sign up, go to the Meeting Wiki page. Everyone is welcome and more than welcome to stop by and make an appearance, pick up some Ubuntu CDs, and take a picture or two. Hope to see you there! Thanks everyone!

P.S. Mr. Harms, aka sharms, I took care of the blog Can’t wait to see you on Saturday bud!

There comes a knock at your door…

You glance out the window and see…

A Panther, a Jaguar, or a Leopard…

Ask yourself, are you going to answer the door?

Now the roles have changed, and you glance out once again…

And to your surprise, you see…

A Fawn…

Quite feisty, yet so cute…

So hurry up, answer the door, and let it in…

Enjoy your new friend, as it will not only provide you with friendship, but it will make you feel strong, safe, and secure.

This is way to funny. I think spammers need to start reviewing who they send their “worms” to.

Mail server report. Our firewall determined the e-mails containing worm copies are being sent from your computer. Nowadays it happens from many computers, because this is a new virus type (Network Worms). Using the new bug in the Windows, these viruses infect the computer unnoticeably. After the penetrating into the computer the virus harvests all the e-mail addresses and sends the copies of itself to these e-mail addresses Please install updates for worm elimination and your computer restoring.

/me pictures Windows users around the world cringing at such a warning

Well, Granny already switched. Over the weekend, I switched my friends 74 year old grandmother to Kubuntu, and even fancied it up for her. I showed her around, and how to update. Well, I showed her how to install .deb files as well. She is pretty computer savvy, which was just way to cool for me. Well, I just talked to her today, and here is what she had to say:

“I love dpkg -i Richie. I found a card game and it was packaged for Debian, but it had the .deb ending. So I did the sudo dpkg -i name.deb, and it installed without one question. That is what I hated about Microsoft. It always asked stupid questions that would confuse me, and I never knew if I installed the program or not, so I would usually give up or wait for Zach to come around.”

Granny B, You Rock! I thought this was pretty neat, and decided to share. Note, I couldn’t remember the card game she installed, but she is loving her Internet and E-Mail, now that she doesn’t have to constantly worry about opening them as well. When I visit Granny B, I will get a picture of her hacking away with her Kubuntu setup.

NOTE: I used lowercase spam this time, as it seems the processed meat company doesn’t like me when I use it in all capital letters.

OK, here we go, I have a new number one annoyance. As most of you living in the US know, election day is very close. Well here in Illinois, it seems that our Democratic party has taken up the old fashioned way of reaching people, the telephone. What is wrong with this? Nothing actually, as I enjoy listening to the respected candidates proposals.

What I don’t like, is when I receive 31 phone calls a day from the candidates. In Illinois, Tammy Duckworth, who everyone knows as the woman who lost her legs in Iraq, and actually has a lot of strong views, that even me as a conservative, enjoy. What I don’t like, is that it is 12pm, lunchtime, here in the Chicago land area, and I have 9 10 Tammy Duckworth phone calls, from a stupid computer. Now don’t get me wrong, Tammy isn’t the only one, just the worst offender currently.

I think the “smear” campaign ads on TV, the radio, and the Internet are enough. I think this mass calling crap is going to wear thin on the people, and only move them against you, because you bother them from 9am to 9pm. And people wonder why I hate telephones

OMG! Right as I go to hit post, guess whose computer called me?

Just think, if a person was using Ubuntu, in my case Kubuntu (should be everyone’s case as well), there would be reason for the following:

• Signs of a desperate man - a man wouldn’t be desperate with Ubuntu
• Signs your having a good day - who needs a good day, when you could have an amazing day with Ubuntu
• Signs you play to much dungeons and dragons - with Ubuntu who has time for their family, let alone D&D?
• Reasons why you cannot get to sleep - sleep is overrated, it is for the dead, plus who wants to sleep when you can contribute to Ubuntu?
• Buttons you need on your keyboard - well, Ubuntu hasn’t quite fixed this one just yet, I am still w/o a few of my media keys <- winky
• Signs that your computer is slow - install Xubuntu and this issue will go away, or invest in a server and hook up some LTSP action.
• Ten things to do when your ISP is down - you guessed it, with Ubuntu your ISP would never go down

Corny some might call it (probably everyone will call it corny), but i had fun reading Keepers of the Lists tonight after my hacker buddy RJ (not AJ), introduced me to the site. How about a list for “Reasons why your dog couldn’t eat your homework”, oh, because you did it with Edubuntu!