Re: [PLUG] Clinic on Sunday

[John Jason Jordan]

On Wed, 12 Feb 2020 11:20:49 -0800
wes  dijo:

>The Linux Clinic is this Sunday, 1-5pm. Bring your ailing systems or
>questions and we will try to help, or at least get you pointed in a
>useful direction.

And for those who may be considering a VPN I will be there to
demonstrate how I did it and whether or not it is for you.
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Re: [PLUG] Clinic on Sunday

[Jim Karlock]

UBER, LIFT, rent a car - all faster, more convenient, and less CO2 
emissions than buses.


Thanks
JK



At 05:42 PM 12/14/2019, Ben Koenig wrote:

Anyone heading down to the clinic from Vancouver? I'd like to stop by, but
given the half-ass state of mass transit in this area, I'm in need of
carpool services ;)

On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 11:04 AM wes  wrote:

> The Linux Clinic is this Sunday, 1-5pm. Bring your ailing systems or
> questions and we will try to help, or at least get you pointed in a useful
> direction.
>
> Free Geek
> 1731 SE 10th Ave
> Portland, OR 97214
>
> -wes
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Re: [PLUG] Clinic on Sunday

[Ben Koenig]

Anyone heading down to the clinic from Vancouver? I'd like to stop by, but
given the half-ass state of mass transit in this area, I'm in need of
carpool services ;)

On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 11:04 AM wes  wrote:

> The Linux Clinic is this Sunday, 1-5pm. Bring your ailing systems or
> questions and we will try to help, or at least get you pointed in a useful
> direction.
>
> Free Geek
> 1731 SE 10th Ave
> Portland, OR 97214
>
> -wes
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Re: [PLUG] Clinic on Sunday

[Ben Koenig]

On Wednesday, January 16, 2019 9:00:42 AM PST wes wrote:
> The Linux Clinic is this Sunday, 1-5pm. Bring your ailing systems or
> questions and we will try to help, or at least get you pointed in a useful
> direction.


Anyone in Vancouver heading to Portland for this clinic? I could use a lift.

The bus schedules only allow me to stay for 30 minutes before I need to make 
the return journey. 

If anyone is going past the Fisher's Landing area, a ride would be much 
appreciated :-)




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Re: [PLUG] Clinic on Sunday

[John Bartley K7AAY j...@503bartley.com]

I shall bring my unibody MacBook Pro (ca. early 2012) w/ Cinnamon Mint 19
which fails w/ OpenGL and NVIDIA drivers both. What fun we shall have!

73 & best regards de K7AAY °|||° j...@503bartley.com 503-227-8539
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Re: [PLUG] Clinic on Sunday

[Dick Steffens]

On 12/12/18 11:55 AM, wes wrote:

The Linux Clinic is this Sunday, 1-5pm. Bring your ailing systems or
questions and we will try to help, or at least get you pointed in a useful
direction.


I shall bring my recent Slackware installation on my laptop with a few 
upgrades and tweaks I have instructions for, but haven't had time to 
implement.


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Dick Steffens

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Re: [PLUG] Clinic on Sunday

[wes]

>
>
> I have a mandatory birthday party to attend at 4, so I will need to leave
> by 3.
>

Copy/paste failure. I'll be there the whole time.

-wes
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Re: [PLUG] Clinic on Sunday

[John Jason Jordan]

On Fri, 15 Jun 2018 16:51:50 -0700
wes  dijo:

> The Linux Clinic is this Sunday, 1-5pm. Bring your ailing systems or
>questions and we will try to help, or at least get you pointed in a
>useful direction.

And there will be munchies. And I will be there with my recently
acquired ability to fix/change launch menus on Linux.
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Re: [PLUG] Clinic on Sunday

[Nat Taylor]

On Sat, Mar 17, 2018 at 7:36 PM, John Jason Jordan  wrote:
>
> One problem with sshfs is that the instructions said to install this
> and that and everything went well until apt-get gave me an 'unable to
> locate package error.' I might have been able to overcome the error by
> finding the package somewhere, but I decided to just hang it up until
> the Clinic. There were too many commands that I didn't understand. Even
> when they worked I had no idea what they were doing. And bear in mind
> that the desktop has 17.10, while the laptop has 14.04. I intend to
> upgrade both to 18.04 when it is released, but the laptop upgrade is
> not a task that I am looking forward to.
>

I would imagine (imagine being the operative term here) that there might be
some issues with your old os on the laptop having old versions with old
configurations of packages.
As far as finding a package you can't find, try apt-cache search <*and get
creative with your search terms.  minimum identifying characters of package
name, or something that might be in the description>*
Nowadays, in Debian and Ubuntu, you might use apt search and apt install
instead of apt-get and apt-cache .  Not sure if apt is present in 14.04
there is also the backports repository you can add, which might have your
package.
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Re: [PLUG] Clinic on Sunday

[Russell Senior]

On Wed, Apr 11, 2018 at 1:49 PM, Rich Shepard 
wrote:

> On Wed, 11 Apr 2018, Russell Senior wrote:
>
> Cross-over cables are an obsolete concept, since the last decade or more.
>> Any modern NIC (or switch) will do Auto-MDX to automatically resolve
>> transmit-receive coordination.
>>
>
>   Okay. Perhaps someone has a use for a 10' one; clip the ends and put on a
> plug wired for straight-through and it's no longer a cross-over. Hmm-m.
> Perhaps I'll do that.
>

No need.

It'll work automatically in either PC-to-PC or PC-to-switch or
switch-to-switch, unless, again, you have ancient hardware.
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Re: [PLUG] Clinic on Sunday

[Russell Senior]

Cross-over cables are an obsolete concept, since the last decade or more.
Any modern NIC (or switch) will do Auto-MDX to automatically resolve
transmit-receive coordination.

On Wed, Apr 11, 2018 at 1:09 PM, Rich Shepard 
wrote:

> On Sat, 17 Mar 2018, John Jason Jordan wrote:
>
> I already tried it with the new desktop, following all the advice from
>> Ubuntu and other places online, and again I have failed. I always have my
>> laptop with me at the Clinic, so I'm wondering - if I bring the new
>> desktop would we be able to connect it to the laptop via Free Geek's
>> network, or otherwise, so that with the sage advice of those more clever
>> than me I can finally get each computer to see and work with files on the
>> other computer?
>>
>
> John,
>
>   I might be there. If so, I'll bring a cross-over cable (the orange ones).
> That allows direct connections between two hosts.
>
> Rich
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Re: [PLUG] Clinic on Sunday

[Rich Shepard]

On Sat, 17 Mar 2018, John Jason Jordan wrote:


I already tried it with the new desktop, following all the advice from
Ubuntu and other places online, and again I have failed. I always have my
laptop with me at the Clinic, so I'm wondering - if I bring the new
desktop would we be able to connect it to the laptop via Free Geek's
network, or otherwise, so that with the sage advice of those more clever
than me I can finally get each computer to see and work with files on the
other computer?


John,

  I might be there. If so, I'll bring a cross-over cable (the orange ones).
That allows direct connections between two hosts.

Rich
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Re: [PLUG] Clinic on Sunday

[John Jason Jordan]

On Sat, 17 Mar 2018 16:56:17 -0700
wes  dijo:

>On Sat, Mar 17, 2018 at 4:43 PM, John Jason Jordan 
>wrote:
>> assuming
>> I'm finally successful, what happens when I get home where my own
>> router will give them different IP addresses based on their Mac
>> addresses?

>This depends on how you handle authentication. If you base it on the IP
>address of the system, as I seem to recall you did with your Synology
>device, you'll have to modify the IP for your home network. If it uses
>a username/password type auth, it'll continue to work regardless of
>each system's IP address.
>
>I'm surprised you struggle with sshfs. I've used it a lot with great
>success. I've been somewhat less successful with nfs, but I'll
>still try to help get it working if that is your preference.

One problem with sshfs is that the instructions said to install this
and that and everything went well until apt-get gave me an 'unable to
locate package error.' I might have been able to overcome the error by
finding the package somewhere, but I decided to just hang it up until
the Clinic. There were too many commands that I didn't understand. Even
when they worked I had no idea what they were doing. And bear in mind
that the desktop has 17.10, while the laptop has 14.04. I intend to
upgrade both to 18.04 when it is released, but the laptop upgrade is
not a task that I am looking forward to. 

I am planning on bringing the desktop with all its peripherals. I also
made a few printouts from the web interface for my router. Once we're
there and I have things set up we can start by deciding whether to use
nfs, sshfs, samba, or black magic. And while setting it up I plan to
learn not just how to set it up but why all the pieces are necessary
and what they do. It's high time I learned some basics about networking.

Oh, and I'm also bringing chocolate. :)
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Re: [PLUG] Clinic on Sunday

[John Jason Jordan]

On Wed, 14 Mar 2018 13:49:34 -0700
wes  dijo:

Now that I have my new desktop computer running the way I want it
(Xubuntu 17.10) I want to fix the last issue - NFS between it and my
laptop. Quite a while ago I tried to do this with my old desktop and
failed, in spite of substantial help from here.

I already tried it with the new desktop, following all the advice from
Ubuntu and other places online, and again I have failed. I always have
my laptop with me at the Clinic, so I'm wondering - if I bring the new
desktop would we be able to connect it to the laptop via Free Geek's
network, or otherwise, so that with the sage advice of those more
clever than me I can finally get each computer to see and work with
files on the other computer?
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Re: [PLUG] Clinic on Sunday

[Vedanta Teacher]

Fantastic, that helps. I try and avoid Portland at all costs
except for PLUG. I said long ago the only way that I intentionally
enter Portland is for Jury duty and darn it if the Sheriff didn't
send me a Jury Summons for this month- such is life...

Blessings,
Paul W.

On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 5:58 PM, Larry T  wrote:

> Shamrock run starts and finishes at Nato Pkwy and Water Front Park.
> Different runs start at different times AM and most likely should finish by
> noon.   Races are 8 & 9 AM.   Walk starts at 10:10.
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>
> > Will the Shamrock run disrupt the area? Parking, traffic?
> >
> > Don't whine at the question; part of the family is from
> > Newtownards, Ireland & I have a bottle of Tullamore Dew
> > on my desk as I write
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> > After a long days work I just don't want to grind through
> > the crowds if I don't have to.
> > Blessings,
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> >
> > On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 8:21 AM, John Jason Jordan 
> wrote:
> >
> > > On Wed, 14 Mar 2018 13:49:34 -0700
> > > wes  dijo:
> > >
> > > >The Linux Clinic is this Sunday, 1-5pm. Bring your ailing systems or
> > > >questions and we will try to help, or at least get you pointed in a
> > > >useful direction.
> > >
> > > I will be bringing a CPAP machine that just died. It started making
> > > whining noises about a week ago and when I turned it on Wednesday night
> > > it didn't go and the screen said 'motor defect.' No doubt it's
> > > bearings/bushings and nothing can be done at the Clinic, but I'm
> > > curious what's inside the thing. So before finally saying kaddish for
> > > it I decided to take it apart. It's dead anyway, so why not? And I
> > > might get lucky.
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Re: [PLUG] Clinic on Sunday

[Larry T]

Shamrock run starts and finishes at Nato Pkwy and Water Front Park.
Different runs start at different times AM and most likely should finish by
noon.   Races are 8 & 9 AM.   Walk starts at 10:10.


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On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 5:17 PM, Vedanta Teacher <
orevedantateac...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Will the Shamrock run disrupt the area? Parking, traffic?
>
> Don't whine at the question; part of the family is from
> Newtownards, Ireland & I have a bottle of Tullamore Dew
> on my desk as I write
>  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newtownards
> After a long days work I just don't want to grind through
> the crowds if I don't have to.
> Blessings,
> Paul W.
>
> On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 8:21 AM, John Jason Jordan  wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 14 Mar 2018 13:49:34 -0700
> > wes  dijo:
> >
> > >The Linux Clinic is this Sunday, 1-5pm. Bring your ailing systems or
> > >questions and we will try to help, or at least get you pointed in a
> > >useful direction.
> >
> > I will be bringing a CPAP machine that just died. It started making
> > whining noises about a week ago and when I turned it on Wednesday night
> > it didn't go and the screen said 'motor defect.' No doubt it's
> > bearings/bushings and nothing can be done at the Clinic, but I'm
> > curious what's inside the thing. So before finally saying kaddish for
> > it I decided to take it apart. It's dead anyway, so why not? And I
> > might get lucky.
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Re: [PLUG] Clinic on Sunday

[John Jason Jordan]

On Wed, 14 Mar 2018 13:49:34 -0700
wes  dijo:

>The Linux Clinic is this Sunday, 1-5pm. Bring your ailing systems or
>questions and we will try to help, or at least get you pointed in a
>useful direction.

I will be bringing a CPAP machine that just died. It started making
whining noises about a week ago and when I turned it on Wednesday night
it didn't go and the screen said 'motor defect.' No doubt it's
bearings/bushings and nothing can be done at the Clinic, but I'm
curious what's inside the thing. So before finally saying kaddish for
it I decided to take it apart. It's dead anyway, so why not? And I
might get lucky.
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Re: [PLUG] Clinic on Sunday

[John Jason Jordan]

On Wed, 14 Feb 2018 11:04:37 -0800
wes  dijo:

>The Linux Clinic is this Sunday, 1-5pm. Bring your ailing systems or
>questions and we will try to help, or at least get you pointed in a
>useful direction.

I will be providing two attractions!

1) I will be putting together a new desktop mid-tower computer If you've
never assembled a desktop computer out of component parts, this is your
opportunity to see how it's done.

2) New Seasons Market had a half-price sale on dark chocolate bars and
I went way overboard. There's quite a variety to try out. If you like
dark chocolate don't miss tomorrow's Clinic!
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Re: [PLUG] Clinic this Sunday?

[wes]

drat. once again I forgot to change my "from" address. I'll re-send the
notice now.

-wes

On Fri, Jan 19, 2018 at 6:00 PM, Denis Heidtmann 
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> I have assumed yes, but I have heard no discussion nor seen anything on
> Calagator.
>
> -Denis
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