Re: [Discuss] usb thumb drive

2012-02-13 Thread Chuck Anderson
On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 09:58:42AM -0500, Matthew Gillen wrote: > I got a new thumb drive, and I decided to check it out on my linux box > before using it. Fdisk shows this: > >Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/sdb1 *80643129343915642688c

Re: [Discuss] Adventures in N40L Land

2012-02-13 Thread Richard Pieri
On Feb 13, 2012, at 8:50 AM, Jerry Feldman wrote: > > Looks like a pretty decent system. I think so. It's exactly what I was looking for: a shelf-sized box with enough capacity to consolidate two Mac minis and a pile of external disks. Unlike with some of the off-the-shelf NAS solutions, I can

[Discuss] Color for laserjet printers on Fedora 16 Solved

2012-02-13 Thread Jerry Feldman
Had to install HPLIP. -- Jerry Feldman Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id:3BC1EB90 PGP Key fingerprint: 49E2 C52A FC5A A31F 8D66 C0AF 7CEA 30FC 3BC1 EB90 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [Discuss] Adventures in N40L Land

2012-02-13 Thread Jerry Feldman
On 02/13/2012 01:59 PM, Richard Pieri wrote: > (Also, sorry about any duplicates. The list used to reject > non-subscriber postings and I'm not sure if it still does. I haven't > seen a rejection, yet, so better safe.) > Yes it does reject non-subscriber postings. -- Jerry Feldman Boston Linux

[Discuss] Color for laserjet printers on Fedora 16

2012-02-13 Thread Jerry Feldman
I have not printed anything in color recently until today and I noticed my configuration is set to grayscale. I was unaware that you had to assign a color profile to the printer. I think I had color on Fedora 15. -- Jerry Feldman Boston Linux and Unix http://www.blu.org PGP key id:3BC1EB90 PGP

Re: [Discuss] Adventures in N40L Land

2012-02-13 Thread Richard Pieri
(Also, sorry about any duplicates. The list used to reject non-subscriber postings and I'm not sure if it still does. I haven't seen a rejection, yet, so better safe.) -- Rich P. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/

Re: [Discuss] Adventures in N40L Land

2012-02-13 Thread Richard Pieri
On 2/12/2012 9:55 PM, ma...@mohawksoft.com wrote: > Did you use LVM? > How did you (did you?) RAID? > Are you using a snapshotting paradigm for backup? > How are you going to backup? As I noted for Tom, I'm using ZFS RAID-Z with Debian's zfs-fuse. No Linux LVM2 for this for a couple of reasons.

Re: [Discuss] Adventures in N40L Land

2012-02-13 Thread Richard Pieri
On 2/12/2012 10:23 PM, Tom Metro wrote: Any idea why they did that? I'm assuming the 250GB disk is not physically mounted in the RAID cage. It is so mounted. There really isn't space inside the chassis for more disk than that without blocking airflow. It's really that tight in there. Ther

[Discuss] usb thumb drive

2012-02-13 Thread Matthew Gillen
I got a new thumb drive, and I decided to check it out on my linux box before using it. Fdisk shows this: Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 *80643129343915642688c W95 FAT32 (LBA) I thought the start block being so high we sort of odd.

Re: [Discuss] Adventures in N40L Land

2012-02-13 Thread Jerry Feldman
On 02/12/2012 01:16 PM, Richard Pieri wrote: > The box and disks arrived early last week but I didn't get a chance to do > anything with it until today. > > The box has 6 SATA ports on it: 4 in the RAID cage, 1 on the motherboard for > an optical drive, and 1 eSATA port on the back of the chassis

Re: [Discuss] Linux desktop consistency

2012-02-13 Thread Jerry Feldman
On 02/11/2012 09:13 AM, Richard Pieri wrote: > On Feb 11, 2012, at 2:16 AM, Tom Metro wrote: >> I'm not doubting this is the case, but can you give a few examples? >> Are the differences largely superficial? > I thought I did. Put Debian GNOME, Red Hat GNOME and Ubuntu GNOME side by > side and se