Re: [Discuss] Wake-inLAN

2013-01-01 Thread Jerry Feldman
On 12/31/2012 09:04 PM, Daniel Hagerty wrote: > Mark Woodward writes: > >> (non-laptop) hardware? I know you can use hdparm for the disk >> spindown, but does "Wake-On-Lan" really work? > Yes, it does; I have two machines I use it with on a regular basis. > One is a mac, the other is a generic

Re: [Discuss] Travelling abroad & taking technology

2013-01-01 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (blu)
> From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org [mailto:discuss- > bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On Behalf Of Matt Shields > > My understanding is Fedex or UPS'ing it would take a month to get through > customs. That's just what I've been told. More like 2-3 weeks, and $1million, in my ex

Re: [Discuss] Home NAS redux

2013-01-01 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (blu)
> From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org [mailto:discuss- > bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On Behalf Of Mark Woodward > > I do not wish to use zfs for license issues. This just means you haven't thought about it. There is no possible way the zfs license is relevant to you, as a hom

[Discuss] xfce update app always incorrect

2013-01-01 Thread Eric Chadbourne
Hi All, On xubuntu the update app gui always says I have 6 updates when I don't. When I ask it to show me the updates it can't. "Show updates" does nothing. How to I reset this thing? Apt-get works fine from terminal. FWIW I've seen this on two different installations of xubuntu. Thanks for

Re: [Discuss] Home NAS redux

2013-01-01 Thread Mark Woodward
On 01/01/2013 08:23 AM, Edward Ned Harvey (blu) wrote: From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org [mailto:discuss- bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On Behalf Of Mark Woodward I do not wish to use zfs for license issues. This just means you haven't thought about it. There is no possible

Re: [Discuss] Home NAS redux

2013-01-01 Thread Rich Pieri
On Tue, 01 Jan 2013 11:03:37 -0500 Mark Woodward wrote: > Well, I personally dislike the lack of freedom in the license and the > fact that I can't, according to the license, create a proper kernel > module. It has to be used as a FUSE system and that isn't acceptable. False. Nothing in the CD

[Discuss] wireless problem

2013-01-01 Thread dan moylan
running lubuntu 12.04 on asus eepc, and just noticed the wireless is no longer working. running NetworkManager fails to provide a connection. dmesg shows the following. how does one find out what reason 2 is? [ 393.547703] wlan0: authenticate with 1c:af:f7:d7:0d:03 (try 1) [ 393.554234] wlan

Re: [Discuss] wireless problem

2013-01-01 Thread Dan Ritter
On Tue, Jan 01, 2013 at 11:42:33AM -0500, dan moylan wrote: > > running lubuntu 12.04 on asus eepc, and just noticed the > wireless is no longer working. running NetworkManager fails to > provide a connection. dmesg shows the following. how does > one find out what reason 2 is? > > [ 393.5477

Re: [Discuss] wireless problem

2013-01-01 Thread dan moylan
dan ritter writes: > On Tue, Jan 01, 2013 at 11:42:33AM -0500, dan moylan wrote: > > > > running lubuntu 12.04 on asus eepc, and just noticed the > > wireless is no longer working. running NetworkManager fails to > > provide a connection. dmesg shows the following. how does > > one find out wha

Re: [Discuss] wireless problem

2013-01-01 Thread Dan Ritter
On Tue, Jan 01, 2013 at 01:29:03PM -0500, dan moylan wrote: > > > reason 2 is no authorization. Are you using wpa or another > > passwording scheme? > > don't really know. however, i noticee that wpa_supplicant > is running, though there is no wlan0 socket at > /var/run/wpa_supplicant as there i

Re: [Discuss] wireless problem

2013-01-01 Thread dan moylan
dan ritter writes: > On Tue, Jan 01, 2013 at 01:29:03PM -0500, dan moylan wrote: > > > > > reason 2 is no authorization. Are you using wpa or another > > > passwording scheme? > > > > don't really know. however, i noticee that wpa_supplicant > > is running, though there is no wlan0 socket at > >

Re: [Discuss] xfce update app always incorrect

2013-01-01 Thread Tom Metro
Eric Chadbourne wrote: > On xubuntu the update app gui always says I have 6 updates when I > don't. When I ask it to show me the updates it can't. "Show updates" > does nothing. > Apt-get works fine from terminal. apt-get dist-upgrade also shows no updates? If so, must be a bug in the GUI. I'

[Discuss] Electronic Health Records (EHR) or PHR software

2013-01-01 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
I want to track my health. Having recently buried my mother I've come to experience how broken our medical records system is. I reviewed a list of open source healthcare software at wikipedia

Re: [Discuss] Home NAS redux

2013-01-01 Thread Tom Metro
Tom Metro wrote: > The "holy grail" for a home storage server is one in which you can > largely treat as an appliance, and easily stick new disks into it to > expand storage, without compromising (long term) performance and > reliability, and without having to manually "grow" file systems, or > wor