Jesse Ross | jesseross.com

I’m soooooo happy. I finally solved the "clickable trackpad" issue. It seems I just had to change a setting in my /etc/X11/xorg.conf file. To the section for my Synaptics Touchpad, I added:

	Option 		"TouchpadOff" 		"2"

so that the full section looks like this:

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier	"Synaptics Touchpad"
	Driver		"synaptics"
	Option		"SendCoreEvents"	"true"
	Option		"Device"		"/dev/psaux"
	Option		"Protocol"		"auto-dev"
	Option		"HorizScrollDelta"	"0"
	Option 		"TouchpadOff" 		"2"
EndSection

That "feature" is surely the worst feature ever added to a laptop, and you have no idea how glad I am to be rid of it. Via

First of all, props again go to Ben Edwards for getting this thing up and running. The event was amazing, and had a great turnout. I saw a lot of great sessions.

The best discussion I was involved in emerged out of the session by Charles Gimon from the Minneapolis Public Library. His session was about Disintermediation — how information technology affects knowledge workers such as librarians and journalists. In the days before Google, a scarcity of access to information made those jobs critical, as they were the researchers and distribution channel for information. Now, workers in that space need to either look for new work, or redefine their job to become filterers of information, rather than gatekeepers. It was a good talk with lots of participants and a strong focus — exactly how a good un-conference session should work.

Overheard at MinneBar

Software is not technical. It’s social.

You can’t be late if the name of your company is Clockwork.

How can you ask us factual questions when we don’t have access to Google?

What size shirt? Extra large. Oh, you mean Programmer’s Small.

My pics from MinneBar

MinneBar pics on Flickr