From daniel.thatcher at gmail.com Tue Apr 9 12:07:43 2019 From: daniel.thatcher at gmail.com (Timothy D Thatcher) Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2019 12:07:43 -0700 Subject: [vox] Fwd: City Council Meeting Tomorrow! 5:15 In-Reply-To: <216B41D0-FDAD-4D28-85EF-BC4362C46901@gmail.com> References: <216B41D0-FDAD-4D28-85EF-BC4362C46901@gmail.com> Message-ID: Hey everyone, DavisGIG and friends are holding a bit of a stand-in protest in front of the city chambers this evening at 5:15 before the council goes into a closed session to negotiate a contract with the fiber provider that could totally sink the DavisGIG community fiber project. All you have to do is show up and hang out for a little bit outside so that the council can see that there are people actually care about what's going on, and want DavisGIG to be able to continue without the city locking itself into a 30-year contract. More details are included in the forwarded message below. Helping out our DavisGIG and Davis Community Network (DCN) friends for a few minutes would be a nice thing to do, if you can spare the time! -Tim ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Rowan Boswell Date: Mon, Apr 8, 2019 at 9:38 PM Subject: City Council Meeting Tomorrow! 5:15 To: Hello Davisites We deeply appreciated those who came to the 3/27 Broadband Task Force Meeting, the community spoke with a unified voice to the Task Force and City Council Member Dan Carson! You wanted community ownership and open access, you want a network that will be a foundation for economic development for the years ahead, you are heroes! But Big Money is barreling ahead. Tomorrow (Tuesday 4/9) the City Council will meet in closed session with Astound Wave to negotiate the terms of a city conduit lease. Those who have been following this effort know that the city has not yet done a proper analysis of the value of their installed conduit, and is acting out of a perceived need to rush a deal to completion in order to limit its Internet access costs, which skyrocketed when the Comcast cable franchise expired. City Management seem to be proceeding with this negotiation in spite of a recommendation passed UNANIMOUSLY by the Broadband Advisory Task Force, advising they do a fiscal analysis of the value of the conduit they are proposing to lease, nor examining the impact this would have to a publicly owned fiber network. We need our community in the driver seat when it comes to the future of telecommunications in Davis, with robust competition, and revenue from fiber lease fees returning into our community. We do not accept another monopoly level Private Equity owned company taking advantage of our City. A badly-negotiated lease agreement will permanently foreclose options for a public-oriented fiber network, and we need to make sure the Council knows that those objecting to the current process aren't just a handful of cranky geeks. Toward that end, we want to muster as many people as possible in the Council Chambers lobby (at City Hall, Russell Boulevard at A Street) shortly before the meeting so that the Council members and the City Manager can appreciate the level of public concern as they enter the building. Please consider making it to the Council Chambers at 5:15 tomorrow. Since the item will be in closed session, there's no need to hang around for the meeting unless you're motivated to speak during public comment. A show of force before the meeting is what's most urgently needed. If you're able to make it, it would be helpful if you would drop an email to help at dcn.org so that we have some idea of expected headcount. Thanks, and I hope to see you there! _______________________________________________ Davisgig-announce mailing list Davisgig-announce at list.davisgig.org %To unsubscribe(web_page_url)slistinfo/davisgig-announce From scofield at omsoft.com Thu Apr 25 09:52:27 2019 From: scofield at omsoft.com (Bob Scofield) Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2019 09:52:27 -0700 Subject: [vox] The Fun of Being a Linux User Message-ID: <9eae1cc4-bf6f-856a-f836-d09bf9654ed0@omsoft.com> In the last two days I've gotten two phone calls from from people claiming to be with Microsoft who have told me that either my Windows computer is infected with a virus or that my Windows machine has been compromised. I've gotten these before with the man with the Indian accent. Yesterday's call was from someone with someone without the Indian accent. So if you're on Linux it's kind of fun to string these folks on a bit. Today, for example, I pressed the caller to identify the version of Windows I was using. He self confidently told me I was using Windows 8. I don't have Windows 8. The truth is that I've got Windows 7 running in Virtualbox. But I didn't have Virtualbox running when the call came in. At any rate, since wiping the Windows partition off this computer about six weeks ago, I'm starting to enjoy these calls. Bob From rick at linuxmafia.com Thu Apr 25 12:43:54 2019 From: rick at linuxmafia.com (Rick Moen) Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2019 12:43:54 -0700 Subject: [vox] The Fun of Being a Linux User In-Reply-To: <9eae1cc4-bf6f-856a-f836-d09bf9654ed0@omsoft.com> References: <9eae1cc4-bf6f-856a-f836-d09bf9654ed0@omsoft.com> Message-ID: <20190425194354.GW27044@linuxmafia.com> Quoting Bob Scofield (scofield at omsoft.com): > In the last two days I've gotten two phone calls from from people > claiming to be with Microsoft who have told me that either my > Windows computer is infected with a virus or that my Windows machine > has been compromised. I've gotten these before with the man with > the Indian accent. Yesterday's call was from someone with someone > without the Indian accent. > > So if you're on Linux it's kind of fun to string these folks on a > bit. I tend to say, in a tone of deep regret, 'I'm terribly sorry, but I just don't speak a _word_ of English.' I mean, I _could_ say 'Jeg forstår ikke. Snakker du norsk?' Or 'Ani lo mevin. Atah medaber ivrit?' But it's more fun to mess with their heads. -- Cheers, "I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; Rick Moen I am a vegetarian because I hate plants." rick at linuxmafia.com -- A. Whitney Brown McQ! (4x80)