Ontario Linux Fest Cancelled!!

[alfred]

On 30/08/2010 3:08 PM, Victor Mendonça wrote:
> Ontario Linux Fest has been canceled for this year, and maybe
> permanently!! :(
>
> So sad... I really enjoyed the event the past two years.
>
> http://onlinux.ca/node/11
> Victor Mendonça
> http://wazem.org/
>
>
Hi I'm Close to Algonquin Park, a few people here still use Linux. 9.10 
was very bad, in that all most 50 people that were using it around here, 
got so fed up with it that they took it off their machines and went back 
to Windows. One person that used it for accounting, with his Alternative 
Energy Business, found like I did that on an upgrade it no longer 
worked, and he took it off his machines, and it is not ever going back 
on them!

So far with 10.04 I've had only minor problems. It still works with 
upgrades done. I'd never put Linux on an older Laptop before, and 10.04 
made it run sort of slow and some programs will not run due to 256 Megs 
of Ram and 800 Mhz CPU. Perhaps I'll try Lbuntu or X-Buntu see how that 
works.

I've got both the 64 bit and 32 bit versions on my Linux box, Wub 64 bit 
I think, on my Windows machine, and Netbook Remix on my Netbook. And 
they all work Quite good, even after the Upgrades were done. What ever 
Ubuntu did this time, keep doing it more! In fact keep up the good Work!

Trying to make the older Laptop Think Pad, from the Win 98 days have 
WiFi with a TP-Link USB to WIFI Adapter, I ran into some problems using 
the Ndiswrapper program. It Scans, It connects, but still randomly 
disconnects. Several people here and there on the web say I need to turn 
off some modules to make it work, and stop disconnecting. Not sure how 
to do this.

I was using a Netgear N Usb to Wifi device and it did not disconnect, at 
2 megs per second for several hours. On a G class Wifi system it 
disconnected a few times. It was how I loaded the programming on at a 
friends house that had Rogers High Speed. At home we still have Dial-up.

Someone here that was having much the same problems I was having earlier 
this year, suggested not making use of the Main Ontario Server, because 
it is boiling over with Malware, and bad code. So like him I'm using a 
sever in the USA now. There have been no problems so far. I would have 
liked to continue with Using the Ontario Server, but it was costing me a 
whole bunch of money settting up a linux Computer only to see it 
destroyed a few days later on an upgrade.

We used to have a little get together here with some people dong Linux, 
and Ubuntu, but it kind of fizzled away. There are all kinds of 
opertunities to have some linux Fest like thing, small scale here, 
perhaps in combination with other events, like the Hilly 100  Bike race, 
or Various Weekend Art Fests. Rock Hound Festivals, etc.

It would need some development during the rest of the year to be able, 
to have it next year, or during the Winter time. Summer tends to be much 
more Swimming and Camping and Beaching, Boating, and Winter it is more 
something to do, to while away the time.

In all Right now I keep 6 computers with Ubuntu going. One is used by a 
handicapped person, not on the Internet about 100 games on it and Photo 
software. One is used here in my House by a person that likes to play 
games, not on the Internet, and that Laptop, is used by an older couple 
visiting a Cancer Clinic South of here. So they can keep in touch with a 
few people with Email. Plus my 3 machines, one for downloading in town 
on Wifi, and one for Linux things on Dialup, and one that will be used 
on a Zoneminder system, because it is low power, about 9 watts, and also 
has Win 7 on it so I can make use of Serif Web Plus X4 to craft some Web 
Pages. So far Wine and others like Play on Linux do not seem to support 
Serif. I'd heard of Drupal and used to use at times Scream but I don't 
see it anymore, in the list.

Trying to make a Linux Fest up here that all the World could come to 
would probably make the World have a Wobble. :) Small scale might work 
better, sort of like that Internet Cafe thing you had in Toronto the 
Linux Cafe. Big Fests take all kinds of Cash to make happen, but small 
fests locally are not that much of a career to make happen, and the 
pictures of it and Essays of it could be shared with other ones in other 
places. The Economy isn't going that great right now, so small size 
might be able to make it happen still. That might be better than it will 
never happen again!

Alfred!