NILUG

The July meeting of the North Idaho Linux Users Group will be held on Saturday, 12 July at the River of Life Friends Church in Post Falls. The meeting will start at 1 pm.

Updated: I got the meeting place wrong. That’s what I get for cutting and pasting. The error has been fixed.

The June meeting of the North Idaho Linux Users Group will be held on Saturday, 14 June at the American Legion HallRiver of Life Friends Church in Post Falls. The meeting will start at 1 pm.

The meeting will include demos of various Linux distros, help with installation for those who wish to do that, and a session on the Linux command line.

Attendance is free and to become a member, you just have to show up at the meeting. We hope to see you all there.

We will be having a special meeting on the 2nd Saturday of May. The entire meeting will be devoted to demonstrating various distributions of Linux, and installing Linux on new user’s machines (if you want us to do that).

We will have a table or two set up to give people a hands-on view of various Linux distributions. We will be showing distributions on a rotating basis on a big screen projector.

Many Linux distributions come on ‘Live CDs’, which means you can run it on your computer without it even touching your hard disk. That allows the software to be evaluated with no impact on the evaluation system. We will have free copies of some of these live distribution disks, as well as free copies of non-live linux distributions, available to those who want them.

If you want to install Linux on your computer, bring the computer along and we will help you install the operating system. Linux is very tolerant of other operating systems, and it will co-exist on your hard disk with Windows, if there is enough room on the disk for both. By the way, if you bring your computer, don’t forget the mouse, keyboard and monitor.

This meeting will start on Saturday, May 10, 2008 at 1:00pm. The location is River of Life Friends Church in Post Falls, ID. You don’t have to be a NILUG member to attend this meeting and there will be no pressure for you to join.

The next North Idaho Linux User Group meeting will be on Saturday, April 12, 2008 at the River of Life Friends Church in Post Falls. The meeting will start at 1:00 pm.

We will be discussing the addition of another monthly meeting, so one can be dedicated to social networking, open source talks and question answering, while the other can be used as a technical session, including installations.

There is one scheduled talk for this meeting. A presentation on Ubuntu 8.04 will be given by a member who has been using it for the last month. Be sure to attend if you wish to find out about this new version, which will officially be released on the 24th of April.

We have changed our meeting location to the River of Life Friends Church in Post Falls. The meeting start time has also been changed to 1pm to allow everyone to have lunch before the meeting. We have provided a map on our Meeting Location page.

We have also introduced a bit of structure into the meetings, as shown below.

• 1:00 - 1:05 Stir and muddle about.
• 1:05 - 1:15-ish Introductions
• 1:15 - 1:30-ish Presentation
• 1:30 - 2:00-ish Q & A.
• 2:00 - ?:??-ish Melee

Anyone who is interested in Linux can attend. There are no obligations of any kind.

The February of the North Idaho Linux Users Group will be held on Saturday, 9 February at the American Legion Hall in Post Falls. The meeting will start at noon.

The meeting will have a new feature - a formal Question and Answer session. Store up your Linux questions and bring them to the meeting. Let the users with more experience try to solve your problems.

Update:

This month’s meeting will also feature a review of two different low-end Linux-based notebook computers. If you are interested in those kind of machines, you should definitely attend.

The first meeting of 2008 of the North Idaho Linux Users Group will be held on Saturday, 12 January at the American Legion Hall in Post Falls. The meeting will start at noon.

The hall has facilities for Internet access, primarily by wireless. Anyone who has an interest in replacing Vista with an operating system that actually works is invited to attend. We will answer questions, show you what Linux is all about, or even help you install it.

We are trying out a new meeting location in Post Falls for the December meeting. It’s the American Legion Hall in Post Falls, on Poleline Road. The meeting is on Saturday, December 8. 2007 and it starts at 12 noon. Everyone is invited to attend - no strings attached. Come and see what Linux is all about, or come and we will help you install Linux on your computer. See you at the meeting.

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SUPER+SHIFT+C = clear fire
CTRL+ALT+DRAG LEFT MOUSE = rotate cube
CTRL+ALT+LEFT ARROW = rotate cube
CTRL+ALT+DOWN ARROW = flat desktop
SHIFT+ALT+UP = initiate window picker
CTRL+ALT+DOWN = unfold cube
ALT+TAB = window switch
SUPER+TAB = flip switcher or ring switcher, depending on which is enabled.
ALT+F7 = initiate ‘move windows’
SHIFT+F9 = water effect
SHIFT+F10 = slow animations
CTRL+ALT+D = show desktop

For Grouping and Tabbing:

SUPER+S = select single window
SUPER+T = tab group
SUPER+Left = change left tab
SUPER+Right = change right tab
SUPER+G = group windows
SUPER+U = ungroup windows
SUPER+R = remove group window
SUPER+C = close group
SUPER+X = ignore group
Hold the SUPER button then select the windows you want to group and then hit SUPER+G.

The SUPER key is the Windows key on most keyboards.

The November meeting of the North Idaho Linux Users Group will be held on Saturday, 10 November, 2007 at noon at the normal meeting location, Frank Ten Thy’s house in Coeur d’Alene. We welcome anyone who has an interest in Linux or any other open source software. We are happy to answer questions from newbies, and to share our knowledge of Linux with others.

We are also interested in hearing about your experiences with different Linux distributions, and your reasons for abandoning that other proprietary operating system.

NILUG has no rules, no mandatory participation and demands no tribute from its members. If you have an interest in Linux, and show up at a meeting, you are considered to be a member. We hope to see you at the next meeting.