Re: [PLUG] outdoor CAT5e

2014-09-25 Thread MIke C. (Tech. Coord.)
Graybar comes to mind, http://www.graybar.com/locations/or/portland. Seeing as they specialize in "high-quality electrical supplies, communications and data networking products", it's hard to imagine that you could find a better selection and/or price anywhere else in Portland. Although they might

Re: [PLUG] Samsung S5 and Ubuntu 12.04,

2014-08-21 Thread MIke C. (Tech. Coord.)
"https://github.com/hanwen/go-mtpfs - also my first exposure to go, which is pretty darn neat!) that uses FUSE and still lets me mount the device and access its filesystem." Chris - I just became familiar with FUSE as it's used to mount the Synology backup hard drive to our Linux server. On We

Re: [PLUG] Laptop Recommendations

2014-08-15 Thread MIke C. (Tech. Coord.)
I don't know specifically what specs, tech support/warranty, price, etc in a new Linux laptop but I've been very happily running Debian/Ubuntu on used & refurbished Lenovo laptops for almost a decade. I've found the Lenovo hardware to very well supported. Nary a problem w. the exception of wireless

Re: [PLUG] DHCP, NetBios, and identifying machines by name

2014-08-10 Thread MIke C. (Tech. Coord.)
I think that nsswitch.conf, /etc/hosts and winbind is want you want to use. "The Name Service Switch (NSS) configuration file, */etc/nsswitch.conf*, is used by the GNU C Library to determine the sources from which to obtain name-service information in a range of categories" If one or a few comput

Re: [PLUG] Migrate Ubuntu Server / install to /home. /var, /opt, etc install?

2014-08-08 Thread MIke C. (Tech. Coord.)
Thanks all for the ideas and input! I think creating a test environment and ironing out all the details is very important and smart thing to do. Another idea, since there's no hot spare hard drives is to install a new hard drive partitioned they way I want it and move everything over to it. Repart

Re: [PLUG] Migrate Ubuntu Server / install to /home. /var, /opt, etc install?

2014-08-07 Thread MIke C. (Tech. Coord.)
e-partitioning. If there is a way, I'd love to know about it. On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 5:27 PM, Robert Citek wrote: > On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 1:24 PM, MIke C. (Tech. Coord.) > wrote: > > Asking people who have direct experience with resolving this nightmare > what > >

[PLUG] Migrate Ubuntu Server / install to /home. /var, /opt, etc install?

2014-08-07 Thread MIke C. (Tech. Coord.)
One of the of the worst nightmares of a new incoming SysAdmin has to be having the server not be accessible because the previous SysAdmin thought it was good idea to only have a root partition and then some backup script fails and spools up on the local drive, or there's a bug, virus, etc and / fil

Re: [PLUG] Network puzzle

2014-07-31 Thread MIke C. (Tech. Coord.)
"Could the auto-negotiate depend on the order in which things are turned on?" In a decade of working intensively with speeds of ethernet, I have never seen this to be the case. Auto-neg is a sold standard that has been very well tested and implemented. Any network device made in at least the past