Date: Sep 09/01/15 9:40 AM Subject: Free FOSS meeting NEXT Thursday, September 10th From: A. Richard Miller Hi, fellow FOSS fans! Please share this message! And remember that we meet on the SECOND Thursday in September! Hot September topics: Why MMS advises to avoid the new Win10! 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, September 10th FOSS meeting (as time and interest permit): 2-3PM: FOSS Help Hour (Give help or get it.) Raffle Item demo: ?? Hot Hardware show-and-tell (5-min. each; others?): Hot Li-ion batteries die young; 500GB Samsung EVO SSD (prepared using gddrescue and GPartEd). The FOSS News: IBM mainframes add Ubuntu Linux to RedHat and SuSE; One million stunning, copyright-free antique illustrations; personal food computers. Win10 News: MMS votes “Just Say No” and adds a Web section. Personal anecdote (5-10 min.): (Pat Sockol). Raffle. Security/Privacy: 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. Demo: Swat a bug in LibreOffice (Algot Runeman). Demo: Organize your writing projects with Plume Creator (Dennis Payne). Demo: Math Art and Screensavers (Xaos, XScreenSaver, add Really Slick Screensavers GLX Port for Euphoria, Helios, Hyperspace, BioF and much more). 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 photo-editing features. 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. Other events: At our October meeting, we'll show you how to download free Ubuntu Linux, and to use it to burn a bootable Live-USB thumb drive to run Ubuntu in memory. At our November meeting, we'll show you how to use that Live-USB to install Linux as an additional operating system on your computer. 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 NEXT Thursday, Sept. 10th! 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.