Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Computer Hardware Stores

2014-07-21 Thread Bryan Larsen
NCIX just opened a location at Woodroffe & Baseline. I haven't checked their store out, but have ordered online from them many times over the years. Bryan On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 12:28 PM, Nathan Kirk wrote: > > I have been building Linux systems, buying parts from these guys for 10+ > years

[OCLUG-Tech] scx-4200 to give away

2011-06-20 Thread Bryan Larsen
I've got a samsung scx-4200 laser printer with a broken automatic paper feed. The printer still works, you just have to feed paper manually. According to the interwebs, this is a common problem to laser printers and is cheap & easy to fix. It just takes more time than I have at the moment. I

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Distro Recommendations

2011-05-10 Thread Bryan Larsen
To throw a counter opinion in there, I love 11.04.I've had no problems with it, a couple of previous niggles vis-a-vis suspend have been worked out, and I love Unity, at least on a laptop. I'm not sure it will work as well on the 30" on my desktop, but it's worth switching to Ubuntu just to g

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Need some advice re: RAID and LVM ?!?

2009-11-26 Thread Bryan Larsen
1) I know I'll be doing something different, and I don't know how much disk to allocation to Partition N for Program X. LVM allows me to leave unpartitioned space on the drive, and dynamically allocate it as needed. (Note that this is a fairly mild benefit, save in corner cases.) The benefit