Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Failing/failed hard disk advice

[Alex Mandel]

I actually find it's often the enclosure. I have one external 2.5" that
beeps and fails to mount on all but 1 usb port on my laptop. Absolutely
a power issue - even though I have tried some of those dual power usb
cables.

It's actually why I'm partial to buying the drive and enclosure
separate. That and you don't get the stupid 1 yr warranty of the case,
but 3-5 years of the drive. If you look carefully you'll notice
identical drives sold in cases and alone don't get the same warranty.

Enjoy,
Alex

On 06/19/2014 04:57 PM, George Mulak wrote:
> Thank you Nathan,
> 
> It is also true that sometimes the enclosure electronics go bad.  I just 
> replaced the enclosure on one drive that was doing the same thing and--walah! 
>  It worked fine.  
> 
> George Mulak
> 
> 
> -Original Message-
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> [mailto:ubuntu-us-ca-boun...@lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of Nathan Haines
> Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2014 8:32 AM
> To: ubuntu-us-ca@lists.ubuntu.com
> Subject: Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Failing/failed hard disk advice
> 
> On 06/17/2014 12:00 AM, Grant Bowman wrote:
>> My new friend who is trying Ubuntu with a disk from Lyz (thanks Lyz) 
>> just sent me an email. An external hard drive Seagate (1TB, model #:
>> srd0sp0, newegg carries them for $79) with USB interface is not 
>> mounting automatically. When plugged into the MacBook Pro computer a 
>> slight clicking sound is heard, then it gets quiet and the light starts 
>> blinking.
> 
> Try this drive on a desktop computer.  Sometimes laptops don't provide enough 
> power for 2.5" external USB hard drives.  I know this is silly but it's true. 
>  This is a differential diagnostic step.
> 
> Otherwise, it's probably toast.
> 
> When I worked there, Western Digital had the lowest failure rate in the 
> industry.  As I occasionally said to customers when I was doing support, 
> "It's not that our competitors make bad drives, it's just that ours are 
> better."  So I can definitely recommend WD drives, but the real moral of the 
> story is that you should always have three copies (the original and two 
> backups) of any critical file.
> 
> Regards,
> Nathan
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Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Least painful way to upgrade 12.10?

[Alex Mandel]

On 06/17/2014 11:29 AM, Josh Berkus wrote:
> All,
> 
> So I have a Zenbook Prime running 12.10, which is EOL.  I understand I'm
> going to have to step it through upgrades to 13.04 and 13.10 to get it
> to 14.04.
> 
> Questions:
> 
> a) is there a "least painful" way to do this?
> 
> b) is there a good way to back up my entire HDD image so that I can
> revert to 12.10 if things go south?
> 

If you have a big enough external drive use Clonezilla live distro to
create a clone image.

Then do a fresh install of 14.04

Want to get nifty:
1. export your package selections with dpkg get-selections to make
reinstalling same stuff easier on the new system
2. move your home directory to a separate partition then you only have
to write over the / with the fresh install, home directory can stay in
place. (this could be done with a large external too, bit of a shuffle game)

Let me know if you need more details (can't find on the internet).

Thanks,
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Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Failing/failed hard disk advice

[Alex Mandel]

On 06/17/2014 10:37 AM, brendanperrine wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Jun 2014 02:25:03 -0700
> "Michael Paoli"  wrote:
> 
>> or wiped, even if not operational?
> I think the gnome-disks tools may be able to get smart data of usb drives it 
> works for my seagate expansion drives which could tell if drive. If it has 
> failing sectors this could really be a problem. Also has the user turned auto 
> mount off manually. I normally use lubuntu so even with automount off pcmanfm 
> has a simple way on the side to try to mount it.  
> 

That actually depends on the case the drive is in being capable of
passing the SMART data, which is an uncommon feature.

Extracting from the case (if it's out of warranty) and hooking directly
into a motherboard is the best way to get the smart data. You make also
want to look into the freezer trick if it's clicking. Priority 1 is
clone the drive with rescue tools.

Enjoy,
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Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Sonoma County activity?

[Alex Mandel]

http://www.nblug.org/
North Bay Lug seems to be primarily Sonoma and Marin, don't forget to
cross post and talk with them.

Enjoy,
Alex

On 05/16/2014 10:11 AM, Grant Bowman wrote:
> I would recommend holding some Ubuntu Hours (mini, informal user groups) to
> spread the word and gather interest in further activities. All you need is
> to show up and answer questions. Wi-Fi and power and helpful. I would love
> to attend if I can.
> 
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CaliforniaTeam/Projects/UbuntuHours
> 
> IRC is a good way to jump-start conversations even if it's around the
> block. My nickname is grantbow.
> 
> http://ubuntu-california.org/chat
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Grant
> 
> 
> On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 8:57 AM, Skip Thomsen  wrote:
> 
>> Uh, right.
>>
>> Skip Thomsen
>> *The Modern Homestead Manual *
>> *Affordable Hawaii Living *
>>
>> *Pandanus Designs *
>> 10522 Cozey Ct.
>> Forestville, CA 95436
>> 808.443.6208
>> ==
>> Unanswered questions are far less dangerous than unquestioned answers.*
>> *
>>
>>
>> On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 8:40 AM, John R. Sowden <
>> jsow...@americansentry.net> wrote:
>>
>>> On 05/15/2014 02:13 PM, Skip Thomsen wrote:
>>>
 Greetings!

 Is there any kind of an Ubuntu user's groups anywhere in Sonoma County?
 Our five office and home computers are all happily running Ubuntu and
 I'd love to help spread the word!

 Thank you!

 Skip




 Skip Thomsen
 */The Modern Homestead Manual /*
 /*Affordable Hawaii Living */
 */Pandanus Designs 
 /*10522 Cozey Ct.
 Forestville, CA 95436
 808.443.6208
 ==
 Unanswered questions are far less dangerous than unquestioned
 answers./**/


  and what about Marin.  I remember the TRS-80 Users Group closed in the
>>> early '80s.
>>>
>>> John
>>>
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Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Install fests

[Alex Mandel]

Google Hangout would likely work similarly to that method on 64bit...
I'm sure there are some other ways too.

Enjoy,
Alex

On 08/11/2013 04:37 PM, Robert Lewis wrote:
> If the install is going to be on a 32-bit machine (not a 64-bit machine)
> you can use Teamviewer remotely to talk her through it.
> 
> For example, have her come up on a LiveCD and then have her from
> the browser install Teamviewer.  You must also install Teamviewer.
> Then you will be able to access her machine and annotate the steps
> to complete the installing with her remotely over the telephone.
> 
> I have done this dozens of times.
> 
> Cheers,
> Bob
> 
> 
> On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 4:07 PM, Richard Harke wrote:
> 
>> Are there any install fests scheduled in the near future near Murrieta,
>> Temecula,
>> Riverside or even San Diego? I have some one in Murrieta I want to help
>> install linux (probably kubuntu) but I live near Sacramento so I would
>> like to direct
>> her to an install fest. Failing that, do you think she could get help at a
>> reguilar meeting?
>>
>> Richard Harke
>>
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Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Is this a good place to ask a Ubuntu "Command line" question... ?

[Alex Mandel]

Ubuntu (and I believe Debian) all use the sudo concept.
To elevate privaleges to equivalent of root you need to use sudo.

sudo su

gets you what you probably expected (su to user root). However best
practices says you should just use sudo  to do what you want

Look for the ubuntuguide and the ubuntuforums where this kind of stuff
gets covered fairly well.
http://ubuntuguide.org/

Enjoy,
Alex

On 07/30/2012 08:12 PM, Skyzone9 wrote:
> I am new to Ubuntu and trying to learn Linux, and I have a question about
> the "SU" command
> I am not sure who to send it to.
> 
> I just need to know how to sign-in as Superuser.
> I just downloaded Ubuntu 10.04.3  and when I type the "su" command it just
> says " su: Authentication failure"
> I am using my normal sign-on password,   is there some other default
> sudo password... ?
> 
> 
> Can anyone send a help here. ?
> 
> Thanks
> Dave
> 
> 
> 
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>> the
>> US-CA Leadership team. As many of you know my life has been going through
>> some major changes and one of the changes is that I am relocating to the
>> state
>> of Indiana.
>>
>> Because of this change it is only fair and right that I step down from my
>> position in the US-CA team and allow someone that will be living in the
>> state
>> to help out and be a part of the team.
>>
>> The ride I have had in the team has taught me a lot and I am not vanishing
>> completely. You all have become a part of my family and for everything
>> everyone has done, thank you.
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>> my
>> work with Ubuntu Loco teams in Indiana when I move there. I will be in
>> Southern California until friday morning when I fly out.
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Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Looking for a Good Solution (data syncing)

[Alex Mandel]

On 06/08/2012 08:57 AM, Dave <3 Ubuntu wrote:
> Hi all. I am looking for a good solution for my brother. But first, the
> story...
> 
> The latest round of viruses on his wifes computer has prepped him to try
> something different. He spent all night recently trying to clean her
> system and get it to boot. He knows Ubuntu enough as a user as I
> installed it as a dual boot on an older laptop of his. He jumps into
> Ubuntu from time to time. After showing him how to run ClamAV yesterday
> on his wifes drive and cleaning up all the viruses, he is convinced and
> ready to make the switch to Ubuntu.
> 
> Here is his situation. He has three computers. He would like one box as
> a server and use the other two laptops. Sounds easy and I can do that no
> prob, but here is the tricky part. He has a bunch of data... He used to
> be a DJ so he has tons of music and as a photographer he also has about
> 60,000 worth of 35mm slides he has scanned in and is now on a hard
> drive. He wants to have this data backed up and synced at all times.
> Ubuntu One and Dropbox are not an option because of the large amount of
> data which he estimates to be about 900GB give or take. He would like
> this synced across three drives. One at work, one at home and one at my
> dads house. Thats his goal and Im not that technical so I though I would
> see if anyone on the list would have some good ideas for syncing such
> large amounts of data.
> 
> Many thanks! Dave
> 

The classic solution to this is rsync, which I find to be somewhat
tricky but can get by using grsync (a GUI version) to set up. rsync is
magic in that it only transfers differences. It does however take a
while each time it's run to find what's changed and I haven't found a
good way to skip that and say just push new stuff since I know the old
stuff hasn't changed. This could be set up as a cron job to just happen
in the background.

The other method I sometimes use for this challenge is version control.
I setup the master repository on my server and then use standard version
control methods to keep my 2 desktop/laptop machines up to date whenever
I get on them. There's a little extra work here since a user has to
manually say "add" to the version control system then push the files,
and remember to pull/update on the other machine. Some of the common
version control system do have integration with Nautilus or Dolphin (The
file managers) so you don't have to learn command line.


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Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Ubuntu for students... Canonical sponsorship.

[Alex Mandel]

On 05/25/2012 03:07 PM, Christian Einfeldt wrote:
> hi John,
> On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 2:21 PM, John Kim  wrote:
> 
>> Do you think its possible to have Canonical sponsor this project?  Our
>> school obviously has limited resources, from laptops to computers.
>>
> 
> Where are you located John?
> 
> Daniel, thanks for pasting that IRC scroll.
> 
> 
> 
> 
Christian,

>From John's original post on 5/22 - Los Angeles John Marshall High School
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Marshall_High_School_%28Los_Angeles,_California%29

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Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Ubuntu for Students - to rouse people interest.

[Alex Mandel]

John,

Your project is quite exciting and ambitious. I think the hardest group
to get interested is the students but they aren't the hardest group to
sell on the idea (apathy can be useful sometimes). Maybe you can pitch
it to students...almost everything they know and use daily is actually
built on top open source...Android Phones, Facebook, Google, Amazon,
Twitter, etc...
If Ubuntu (or some variant) is good enough for Google desktops and linux
is good enough for Pixar (and other animation firms) wouldn't it be good
enough for a school?

If you want to wow them, Marble (a 3D globe with current and historic
maps) is good, along with inkscape for vector illustration and gimp for
photo editing. Another selling point to the students, the computers will
work, the software can be kept up to date, old computers will run
faster, and everything they use at school they can also use at home.

Some ammo to help with the Administration, there are quite a few local
Linux user groups who could probably lend a hand and it's not hard to
find professional IT who can support such a system.
http://lalugs.org/
http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale10x

The county of Los Angeles actually uses a significant amount of open
source. Last I heard OpenOffice was part of the county standard install,
with only special exceptions made for certain job titles getting MS Excel.
I can't find a reference for this (inside information from someone I
know in LA) but there is this great page on open source mapping
technology is use.
http://egis3.lacounty.gov/eGIS/open-source-gis/

Feel free to pull any slides you want from any of my talks on open
source, http://www.scribd.com/wildintellect
If there's something you want the original Libreoffice format for let me
know.

Hopefully someone on this list will chime in with the bay area group
that helps support school computing with open source.

I could give you lots more material on how open source can be used in
teaching (which I do) but I'll save that for later if you want more.

Last bit of advise with students, leverage social media and cell phones.

Thanks,
Alex
Granada Hills High Alumni (pre-charter)
B.S. University of California, Davis
Phd Candidate, University of California, Davis

On 05/22/2012 06:53 PM, John Kim wrote:
> Hi guys!
> 
> I'm John, a HS sophomore from Los Angeles.  Very recently, I kickstarted an
> idea about making Ubuntu the main OS within John Marshall High School, a
> dilapidated high school, still standing and reeking of age, that has been
> using Windows XP for a decade now.  For those who haven't heard, I have a
> post about it:
> http://epikvision.blogspot.com/2012/05/game-changing-proposal-ubuntu-for.html
> 
> here's the situation: although I created a proposal, I did not hand it in
> to the administration just yet (we only got one shot at this). David Montes
> and I are trying to build a support base and handy foundation of research
> data.  We see three primary audiences: teachers, students, and the
> administration. The best way to go, we decided, is one audience at a time.
> 
> So, now that I'm trying to get students' attention,* I would like to hear
> ideas and suggestions on marketing techniques and ways to rouse student
> interest*.  In my school, it's mighty difficult to spark students' interest
> of an OS that most has never heard of. So I leave some room for discussion.
> There's only 3 weeks left of school, and I hope to gain momentum asap.
> 
> One thing I thought about is to hold a demo hands-on for students to
> compare windows xp and ubuntu side by side.  After that, the people would
> take a surveymonkey on their experience. I see some weakness, including
> limited resources (we can't just borrow a student laptop cart and install
> half of them ubuntu) or sponsorship (what room can allow us to carry this
> out?  it's a lengthy process to get teacher permission).  Many more exist,
> I'm sure.
> 
> 2 people - David Montes and myself - alone can't make so grand a project
> possible without support.  Ideas and suggestions are welcome, but
> hopefully, it is do-able within 3 weeks.  Thanks for your time.
> 
> 
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Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] launchpad and documentation

[Alex Mandel]

Sounds to me like Seidos is looking for a component to host/write
documentation to go along with application development hosted on
launchpad. Along with that would be a standard link at the top of each
project to it's "documentation" section.

I haven't seen this on Launchpad and am unaware of plans to add such a
feature. Anyone else?

Thanks,
Alex

On 03/08/2011 09:59 PM, David Wonderly wrote:
> What excatly are you looking for in re to documentation?
> 
> Dave
> 
> On Sunday, March 06, 2011 10:11:36 pm seidos wrote:
>> Hi Dave:
>>
>> Nothing there on documentation.  Oh well, i'll try crossing this stream
>> again when i have an idea how.
>>
>> On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 8:57 AM, David Wonderly
>>
>> wrote:
>>> https://help.launchpad.net/
>>>
>>> This has quite a bit of topics in it. There is also the Launchpad tour
>>> that can be accessed from that URL as well.
>>>
>>> Cheers!
>>>
>>> Dave
>>>
>>> On Sunday, March 06, 2011 03:09:03 am seidos wrote:
 anyone know if there is a documentation section to launchpad?  if not,
>>>
>>> any
>>>
 ideas on how to request this feature?
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Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Statistically speaking: server line makes desktop line more likely to be "Linux Friendly"?

[Alex Mandel]

On 11/17/2010 09:53 PM, kdemarest wrote:
> Just wanted to do a brief survey against a hypothesis to see if I'm crazy or
> not.  Given mainstream computer manufacturers, is the probability that their
> desktop and notebook systems will be "Linux friendly" positively correlated
> to whether or not they have a Server line?
> 
> 
I think that depends on how you define "Friendly". If you mean, that
their hardware works with linux, I think it's partly manufacturer
based(of components), partly distributor based(computer brand), and
partly based on the shear number of machines sold.

An interesting case would be HP, I've done quite a few installs on HP
laptops/netbooks and there never ceases to be some hardware on it that
requires major bending to get to work. There is the classic struggle
with Broadcom wireless(mostly solved these days), but that was more an
industry wide thing where everyone was putting the cheapest card they
could get. These days it's webcams and fingerprint readers that are all
over the place in terms of support.
Then again HP is pretty poort on driver support for their Windows boxes
too, you can almost forget upgrading or downgrading from Vista to 7 or
XP if you have an HP.

To add a twist, would you consider a company that sells some consumer
boxes loaded with linux to be friendlier?

Interesting hypothesis though, thanks for sharing.
Alex

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Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Software Freedom Day

[Alex Mandel]

On 08/18/2010 06:51 AM, Mark Weisler wrote:
> Ilan Rabinovitch wrote:
>> Hello,
> 
>> Do we have any plans for the upcoming software freedom day?  It would be 
>> great to setup a table at a local library, farmers market, or similar 
>> non-tech venue and spread the word about FL/OSS.   Specifically I was 
>> thinking documentation/flyers and demos/cds of Ubuntu.
> 
>> Thoughts?
> 
>> Regards,
>> Ilan
> 
> If one were to pursue this, is there a concise blurb that...
> * describes free and open software
> * directs people toward where they can learn more?
> 
> It seems to me that the target audience is someone who is at least a
> little computer literate and who could be given a piece of paper they
> can take with them. That paper would refer to one or more URLs for more
> learning and trying free software.
> 
> In short, what is the simplest way to introduce people to the
> exhilaration of free software?
> 

In the past in Davis (LUGOD), we've had Win, Mac and Live Discs
available. Would chat about the concept of "Free" software and Open
Source, then would provide one or two of the discs based on what they
were interested in. Most people walked away with a Windows disc of free
software. The disc tend to have stuff like Firefox, Thunderbird,
OpenOffice, Inkscape and GIMP the gateway software to linux. People who
already knew/used those applications were given live discs since they
were somewhat sold on FOSS already.
I can dig up where we downloaded those from if it'd be useful to others.

Of Course there was a live disc computer on the table for demo.

Enjoy,
Alex
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[Ubuntu-US-CA] Fwd: Linux Installfest workshop in Davis - Saturday, June 12th

[Alex Mandel]

Another local Installfest (Northern Ca/Central Valley)...
While not focused on Ubuntu that is the majority of what we install and
we will have 10.04 on hand in various flavors. Volunteers and spectators
are welcome. A few official disks would be nice if anyone is planning to
head this way.

Thanks,
Alex
LUGOD Installefest Coordinator

 Original Message 
Subject: [vox-announce] Linux Installfest workshop in Davis - Saturday,
June 12th
Date: Sat, 29 May 2010 10:38:00 -0700
From: nbs 
Reply-To: v...@lists.lugod.org, p...@lugod.org
To: vox-annou...@lists.lugod.org


The Linux Users' Group of Davis will be holding a free "Linux Installfest"
workshop in Davis, California.


When:
  Saturday, June 12, 2010
  10:00am - 4:00pm

Where:
  N Street Cohousing
  Common House
  716 N Street
  Davis, California

  Maps/directions at:  http://www.lugod.org/if/directions_nst.php

What:
  Linux is a completely free, 'open source' operating system that can run
  on a wide variety of computer hardware.  It can act as a web-, file-,
  print- or game-server, run in a 'cluster' of computers to do 3D rendering
  or other intense math, or sit under your TV and record your favorite shows
  for later viewing.  Many people use it as an inexpensive, stable,
  virus- and spyware-free alternative to commercial software, such as
  Microsoft Windows.  It can be installed over, or alongside, Windows or
  Mac OS X.

  Members of the community are invited to bring their computers and laptops
  to this informal workshop, and volunteers from LUGOD will help you install
  and configure Linux... for FREE!

How:
  If you wish to bring in your PC, you must RSVP beforehand to reserve a
  space.  The RSVP form, and lots of useful information about Linux and
  Installfests, and how to prepare for the event, are accessible on the
  web at:

http://www.lugod.org/if/

Help!
  We're always looking for volunteers for our workshops.  If you'd like to
  help, or come watch and learn as others are helped, please feel free to
  drop by.  Our "vox-if" mailing list is where we discuss plans and needs
  for these events, so we encourage you to sign up:

http://www.lugod.org/mailinglists/#vox-if

  ...or contact the Installfest coordinators directly via email:

i...@lugod.org

About LUGOD:
  The Linux Users' Group of Davis is a 501(c)7 non-profit organization
  dedicated to the Linux operating; system and Open Source software, and
  which (along with holding Installfests) holds regular meetings with
  guest speakers each month in Davis, CA.  For details, visit:

http://www.lugod.org/

-- 
Bill Kendrick
LUGOD Public Relations Officer
p...@lugod.org
http://www.lugod.org/
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Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] No California Ubuntu Mirror?

[Alex Mandel]

On 04/22/2010 03:30 PM, Jono Bacon wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-04-22 at 15:28 -0700, giovanni_re wrote:
>> Must be time for California to pack it up & go home.
>>
>> http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/downloadmirrors
>>
>> No technology going on in this state.
> 
> Not entirely sure that just because there is not a mirror that it means
> no technology is going on this state. :-)
> 
>   Jono
> 

Not quite sure I'm picking up on the humor here, but it really does
depend on what list you look at, iso mirrors only tell part of the
story. So for those interested take a look at:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archivemirrors
UC Davis, Merced, and Berkeley all have repository mirrors.

I won't even get into torrents.

Alex

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