Date: Nov 11/02/15 9:39 PM Subject: Free FOSS meeting this Thursday, November 5th From: A. Richard Miller Hi, fellow FOSS fans! Please share this message! Hot November topics: How to use October's bootable Live-USB thumb drive to install Ubuntu (with or without Windows or OS X) on your hard drive. Learn about and share Free, Open-Source Software with the FOSS User Group at the Natick Community-Senior Center! We meet 3-6PM on the 1st Thursday of most months (but 2nd Thursday in January, July and September) at the Natick Community-Senior Center at 117 East Central Street (in Room 125, the 1st-floor Classroom). It's for all, beginners through experts, on Linux or Mac OS X or Windows. We're WiFi-equipped, we're friendly, and it's free. Join us if you can! At our Thursday, November 5th FOSS meeting (as time and interest permit): 2-3PM: FOSS Help Hour (Give help or get it.) Raffle Items demo: ?? Hot Hardware show-and-tell: A case to hold many USB thumb drives (Charlie Blaney); new Dell i3147-1000 11.6" 2-in-1 netbook (for $300, 2 weeks ago); 3D Printers for us, artists, glass, houses (Micro Center hand-out; show 2 3D-printed objects). The FOSS News: Ubuntu 15.10 has arrived; Ubuntu 11 years old on Oct.20th; Techrights says Microsoft is Embracing, Extending, Extinguishing GNU/Linux, Hopes to Do the Same to Android; 1,000,000 stunning, copyright-free antique illustrations; 170,000 incredible photos of Depression-Era America; personal food computers. Personal anecdote (5-10 min.): ?? Security/Privacy: Secret code in color printers enables government tracking; How "Silent Calls" lead to identity theft; How about NoMoRoBo? Is Computer Security an Illusion?; AT&T Helped U.S. Spy on Internet on a Vast Scale; Attacking Restricted Keyways; Intel finds Memory Sinkhole vulnerability in 1995-2010 Pentium Pro CPUs; Lenovo computers (Oct. 2014-April 2015) have “immortal” bug. Linux demo: Use a new Ubuntu 15.10 Bootable Linux Live USB to install and modify a Linux system. Linux demo: Update ("flash") your BIOS using UNetBootIn/FreeDOS or Rufus/FreeDOS. Demo: Make your Mouse Cursor say "Hello!" Demo: Math Art and Screensavers (Xaos, XScreenSaver, add Really Slick Screensavers GLX Port for Euphoria, Helios, Hyperspace, BioF and much more). Topic: "If FOSS is free, how do FOSS programmers earn money?" FOSS/Linux goodness: Remove Duplicate Messages 0.3 (a Thunderbird add-on); Clear to Desktop ([Ctrl+Super+D] in Ubuntu Unity); PowerTOP (and maybe Laptop Mode Tools) to extend battery run-time. Fotoxx new features: Spherical Projection; true colors for Effects>Pattern. FOSS Q&A Bring a friend to our monthly FOSS meeting! Beginners, arrive by 3PM for the introductory slide talk. Informal from 2PM, and/or join us for dinner afterward. Special thanks to Brian Benson and the Metrowest Daily News, for this good article in its Natick weekly extra, the Natick Bulletin and Tab. Too bad that it couldn't go regional, to invite even more newcomers. But YOU can forward it to friends. For more info on other meetings, see our NatickFOSS Archives page! Between meetings: See us on-line at NatickFOSS.org - where you can subscribe to this newsletter, and can click on the meeting date to see our draft agenda and other meetings. Share information and questions on the NatickFOSS Forum. Try our Ubuntu Linux Computer in the Computer Room at the Natick Community-Senior Center. (It now has Ubuntu 15.04 and Fotoxx 15.06 installed!) Try our Loaner Linux Laptop at home; contact Algot Runeman (1-508/380-4820 cell; algot.runeman@verizon.net). Get free software and/or free Linux and learn how to use it. Tell others, distribute our NatickFOSS.org business cards, print and pin up some NatickFOSS.org posters. CU on Thursday, November 5th! Cheers from --Dick and Jill Miller, Partners, MMS Co-Leaders, FOSS User Group at the Natick Community-Senior Center -- | A. Richard & Jill A. Miller | MILLER MICROCOMPUTER SERVICES | | Mailto:TheMillers@millermicro.com | 61 Lake Shore Road | | Web: http://www.millermicro.com/ | Natick, MA 01760-2099, USA | | Voice: 508/653-6136, 9AM-9PM -0400(EDT)| NMEA N 42.29993°, W 71.36558° | Sent from an awesome, inexpensive, no-lock-in, no-bloatware, virus-resistant, free-software, Linux PC.