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Meeting: June 20th @ Kenosha Northside Library

Kenosha Linux User Group will have a meeting on June 20th @ 2-4:30pm at
Kenosha Library North in there Meeting Room. The topic will
be Web Browsers. The timetable is a general/floating time line.

Location: Kenosha North side Library, 1500 27th Avenue, Kenosha, WI

2:00-2:30: Greets and Meets, Introductions.
2:30-4:00: Discussion about Web Browsers (also Richard will be showing of elinks)
4:00-4:30: General Questions, Suggestions.

I will be going over the XFCE Browser (Midori) and comparing system resources between Opera, Firefox, and Midori while using JAVA in Facebook and FLASH via Youtube. Any other who wish to discuss extensions, plug-ins, add-on, and themes fell free to contact me and I will work you into the meeting :)

Drinks and Snacks are allowed in the conference room. Feel free to
bring you laptops or desktops. Wi-Fi is available but you must have a Kenosha Public Library Card and a pin number.

++
Jason Hicks
"Event Coordinator"

XFCE 4 theme

Playing around with XFCE settings. love my new theme i picked up on www.customize.org ALSO Fedora 11 has been delayed for the second time now :(

Youtube used to be my favorite site :(

I've had an account for about 4 yrs now and its really starting to bother me off all the suspended and account closers :(

System Updates

Nvidia, Memory, CPU, and Kernel Information with Htop.Virtual Box's Virtual Machines

Right now, I've installed GNOME 2.24.3 for Fedora 10 because KDE4.2 even tho I have enjoyed it, I need a better proccessor. I would like to install a AMD Athlon 64x2 Dual Core and the Max CPU would be a 6000+ at 3.1 GHz.

Thanks to the nice 2GBs of RAM, I can distro-hop using my Virtual Box. As you can tell, I been trying out light-weight Slackware Distros :) As of right now, Wolvix but its based on Slackware 11 which is about 4 releases behind.

I've enabled Compiz, Emerald, and Avant Windows Navigator and just a little lag but not to bad. Emerald's theme is CleanNSimpL and AWN theme is Sunflower.

Next Kenosha LUG Meetup: Feb 21st

Taken from our Google Mailing List:
" Hey all,

Looks like the next meeting will be February 21st, at my apartment. 6pm - 9pm.

4134 Washington Road Apt 206
Kenosha, WI 53144
(when you find the apartment building, park across from the building - adjacent spots are for residents.)

We need to start having topics/an agenda for meetings. Any suggestions for this one? I'll likely show off my MythTV box to those who are interested, but have no plans other than that.

Feel free to bring snacks, drinks, etc. to the meeting.

--
-Jameson
Omnipresent Garage Banjo"

New Parts

I recently invested in a Jaton GeForce 8400GS 256MB DDR2 PCIe x16. Awesome video card that was about 25 bucks open box on www.newegg.com. The problem is, my motherboard only does PCIe x8 even thou the MB and manual state x16. Thank god for backwards compatibility. The card also requires a 450W PSU but my 400W works good with it. Came with all the cable for out to devices, so experimenting with Nvidia's Twin View to out 21" TV. Flash video's from fancast, hulu, youtube, etc look freaking sweet. - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814139018R

Got myself a 2x1GB DDR2 800Mhz (PC6400) Kit by OCZ from newegg.com as well. The price of RAM just made me go "whoa!" at about 24.99. - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227124

I had to sacrifice some OverClocking speed from my Semperon 3000+ 1.6GHz because of the RAM and Video card. Instead of a CPU Multiplier of 300 for a 2.4GHz had to settle for a Multiplier of 263 for a 2.1GHz. Still a nice gain and with 2 80mm Fans (back), an 80mm (front), a Video Card Fan, and a nice CPU fan... Still runs about 40C for Case, 48C for the Nvidia, and 55C for the CPU. Nice if you ask me :) Also, took my PCIe from 100Mhz to 150Mhz as well.

Hrm, Compiz + Emerald works with out a hitch. The problem is trying to narrow it down to KDE 4.2 with its system settings manager and more complex customization features. Or do I stay with Gnome 2.24 with its simplicity.

The KDE widgets/plasmanoids are nice to have so I can post to twitter, gmail notifications, and folder view.