Re: Introducing myself
On 2014-07-28 16:37, Fred Fifield wrote: Hello! My name is Fred and I've been stalking this mailing list for about three weeks now and I thought it was time to come to the surface. I'm a new Linux user. I installed Mint 17 Cinnamon back in June and I've been loving it. I started with Ubuntu but there was too much weirdness in Unity for my tastes. It was suggested on the Ars Technica boards (I'm a moderator over there) that coming from Windows that I might find the transition easier with Mint and they were right. Currently I'm dual-booting Mint with Windows 8.1 but I spend most of my time in Mint unless I'm playing a game. I've flirted with Linux in the past but always seemed to get frustrated with all the hurdles I seemed to run into with getting it all configured. One of the reasons I love Mint so much is that it figured out my hardware configuration on its own (including my printer!), not to mention making it easy to install the nvidia drivers I needed. Not having to do any basic configuration made it easy for me to explore the things I wanted to check out on my own. In reading up on my new OS one of the things that kept coming up was to check out the local user groups. I found PLUG with a Google search and signed up for the mailing lists that seemed pertinent. I hope to make it to one of your meetings sometime but I work nights so it may be a while before I'm able to do that. In the meantime I'm enjoying reading the emails produced by the lists. I read them all even though most of the stuff is way over my head but it's a good learning experience and sometimes there's conversations I actually do understand! I decided on some goals for my new Linux journey. In the near term I want to learn the command line and vi.vi [1] seems an odd text editor to me but I'm enjoying the challenge of learning it. The command line is awesomely powerful and I'm having fun with it too. I got a couple of books from Amazon that were highly rated to help me out. The first is _The Linux Command Line: A Complete Introduction _by William E. Shotts and the second is _Learning vi and the Vim Editors _by Arnold Robbins, Elbert Hannah, and Linda Lamb. Once I get through these I want to install a more complicated distro (to me) like Arch or Gentoo. The ultimate goal is to do Linux from Scratch but there's a lot of learning for me before I get to that. Anyway, thanks for being here and sharing your knowledge about all the 'nixes. Fred Fifield Welcome Fred! You'll find a lot of helpful people here. Dennis Kibbe Linux Program Lead Mesa Community College Links: -- [1] http://vi.vi --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
Re: scp problems
Michael Havens bmi...@gmail.com writes: Sorry enrique that was the quickest way I figured to describe it. push = file user@ipadd:file pull = computer - user@ipadd:file as for the server not running I could do it the other day. now that is weird! I mapped the IP address to a name in my router and it doesn't recognize the IP address any longer. Cool! That is another way to make your network more secure! :-)~MIKE~(-: On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 2:59 PM, kitepi...@kitepilot.com wrote: Michael, don't be creative with the description of your problems, please translate: push a file to another computer pull that file The error: 'connection timed out' regularly means (assuming that both boxes can ping each-other) that the SSH server is not running. ET Michael Havens writes: When I try to push a file to another computer it says 'connection timed out'. and when I try to pull that file it says that I entered the wrong password. What's wrong with this picture? :-)~MIKE~(-: Mike, Try some basic network troubleshooting. $ ping -c4 ip add of server Do you get a response? If yes, then $ telnet ip add of server 22 Is SSH listening on port 22? If not, then you need to figure out why. Is the service not running? Is SSH listening on another port? Let us know what you discover. Dennisk -- 27 Years 1987-2014 SDF Free Public Access UNIX System http://www.sdf.org --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
Re: creating a persistant pendrive image from the command line
Michael Havens bmi...@gmail.com writes: in my research to create a bootable pendrive I found: sudo dd if=linux image of=/dev/usbdrive my question is what do I need to add to the command to make a persistant pendrive? :-)~MIKE~(-: Mike, Depending on the distro you may find CLI tools designed to do that. Check this article on the Fedora Wiki. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_create_and_use_Live_USB This also looked useful. Especially the ability to create an encrypted persistent overlay. http://www.livecd.ethz.ch/usbdisk.html dennisk -- 27 Years 1987-2014 SDF Free Public Access UNIX System http://www.sdf.org --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
Revo by the founders of Bandersnatch
I noticed that sign on a building next to the Tempe Transit Center and right across the street from the old Bandersnatch location. Maybe a Stammtisch in Tempe will be possible again. Dennisk -- 27 Years 1987-2014 SDF Free Public Access UNIX System http://www.sdf.org --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
Re: sftp in caja
Michael Havens bmi...@gmail.com writes: more to the point is there a list telling what ports are configured to use what? :-)~MIKE~(-: SNIP /etc/services list common ports and services. See man services. Of course, you can configure a service to run on a non-standard port. In the case of SSH (sftp is part of the SSH package) the port is configured in /etc/ssh/sshd_config. Nmap can be used to find open ports on a server but should only be used if you understand the legal implications of its use. dennisk -- 27 Years 1987-2014 SDF Free Public Access UNIX System http://www.sdf.org --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
Re: sftp in caja
Michael Havens bmi...@gmail.com writes: Thanks Dennis. Hey. I finally understand what ports are. Wikipedia told me. Am I correct in my understanding that tey are a connection between an ip address and a service? :-)~MIKE~(-: SNIP Yes, IP addresses identify hosts such as sdf.org (192.95.73.15) and on sdf.org a web server is running and listening on port 80. When you type http://sdf.org into Firefox it looks up the IP address and connects to port 80, the default port for the HTTP protocol. dennisk -- 27 Years 1987-2014 SDF Free Public Access UNIX System http://www.sdf.org --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
Re: Help with finding Linux apps for editing HTML/Movies/Images
techli...@phpcoderusa.com writes: Hi, SNIP Any recommendations on: 1) Graphics editor 2) Movie editor for YouTube tyle stuff 3) (X)HTML editor - would like a wysiwyg editor where I can look at the code and switch views so I can see what the HTML/CSS might look in a browser. Thanks in advance for your input. Please no flame wars. Keith Keith, While not GUI don't overlook CLI tools like ImageMagick since they can be much faster and are scriptable. For example, ImageMagick can create thumbnail images quickly with one simple command. ImageMagick is powerful and well documented and you should be able to find plenty examples on the Net. Dennisk -- 27 Years 1987-2014 SDF Free Public Access UNIX System http://www.sdf.org --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
Re: Useless and meaningless rant about my hate for Linux Mint...
kitepi...@kitepilot.com writes: I hate Unity too... And/or the M$-like bloated KDE. Because my long hated (and mostly reliable) Linux Mint went out of support, I decided to go with what I hate the least: Xubuntu. SNIP After fiddling with it for a day I decided: screw it, I'll go Debian Xfce. So I got my trusty net-install CD and... It said that it needed 'proprietary firmware' from Realtek, but WAIT! It also said that I could install from the 'proprietary firmware DVD'! The firmware-realtek package is in the non-free repo. Add to /etc/apt/sources.list or better /etc/apt/sources.d/. See man sources.list. dennisk -- 27 Years 1987-2014 SDF Free Public Access UNIX System http://www.sdf.org --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
Re: Useless and meaningless rant about my hate for Linux Mint...
techli...@phpcoderusa.com writes: What a great rant!! I was on my way to look for a video on HULU I enjoyed this much more. LOL I've enjoyed it as well. Bloat is one of those words that get thrown around without really knowing what it means. (no offense to OP) If I see the word in an article I want to know how the author measures bloat. To me bloat would be code loaded into memory that is never executed. dennisk -- 27 Years 1987-2014 SDF Free Public Access UNIX System http://www.sdf.org --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
