[PLUG] TUESDAY! March PLUG Advanced Topics: flashrd+nsh OpenBSD Network Appliances

2013-03-16 Thread Michael Dexter
Portland Linux/Unix Group Advanced Topics Meeting Announcement Who: Chris Cappuccio What: flashrd+nsh OpenBSD Network Appliances Where: Free Geek, 1731 SE 10th Avenue, Portland (Left Entrance) When: Tuesday, March 19th, 2013 at 7pm Why: The pursuit of technology freedom flashrd+nsh: OpenBSD

Re: [PLUG] Norvac replacement?

2013-03-16 Thread Keith Lofstrom
On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 06:13:55PM -0700, John Jason Jordan wrote: It was about 10th and Burnside, on the NW corner of the intersection. A small shop, run by a pleasant older fellow. He specialized in cables. I went there a couple times to buy SCSI cables with different configurations on each

[PLUG] Clinic Sunday March 17 - Pre-barcamp edition

2013-03-16 Thread Keith Lofstrom
Imagine the shame of showing up at Bar Camp ( http://barcampportland.org/ ) with a laptop running M$ Windoze. Your geek cred will be destroyed forever! Save your reputation! Bring your laptop (or your desktop, if you want to haul /that/ to Bar Camp) to Free Geek at 1pm through 5pm on Sunday,

Re: [PLUG] Clinic Sunday March 17 - Pre-barcamp edition

2013-03-16 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Sat, 16 Mar 2013 12:28:16 -0700 Keith Lofstrom kei...@gate.kl-ic.com dijo: That is, if John shows up with the key - he may have raptured into open source linguistic heaven. If so, we'll commandeer some tables over at Lucky Lab. I certainly plan to. If you're a Linux guru we can use your

[PLUG] An equivelent for a Mac utility

2013-03-16 Thread Michael Rasmussen
This is from journalist Dan Gillmor. Anyone? I've made the transition to Linux fairly smoothly, but one of the things I miss most from the Mac ecosystem is the ability to create encrypted sparse bundle disk images. This technique breaks up a large file (or directory or collections of folders)

Re: [PLUG] Clinic Sunday March 17 - Pre-barcamp edition

2013-03-16 Thread jim karlock
Doers anyone know how to get on mobile clear wireless from Linux? Thanks JK On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 12:28 PM, Keith Lofstrom kei...@gate.kl-ic.comwrote: Imagine the shame of showing up at Bar Camp ( http://barcampportland.org/) with a laptop running M$ Windoze. Your geek cred will be

Re: [PLUG] An equivelent for a Mac utility

2013-03-16 Thread King Beowulf
On 03/16/2013 12:51 PM, Michael Rasmussen wrote: This is from journalist Dan Gillmor. Anyone? I've made the transition to Linux fairly smoothly, but one of the things I miss most from the Mac ecosystem is the ability to create encrypted sparse bundle disk images. This technique breaks up a

[PLUG] Resolved: How to undo an update?

2013-03-16 Thread Richard C. Steffens
Well, sort of brute force resolved. I successfully migrated myself to my other machine running Ubuntu 12.04 and so have made the need to undo the LibreOffice update moot, since 12.04 uses 3.5.2. -- Regards, Dick Steffens ___ PLUG mailing list

[PLUG] Annoying window maximize feature in Ubuntu 12.04

2013-03-16 Thread Richard C. Steffens
I'm running Ubuntu 12.04 with gnome-session-fallback. I have an nVidia card and two monitors. The annoying feature is that when I drag a window to the secondary monitor, if I get the top of the window too close to the top of the screen, the window maximizes itself. This is annoying because it

Re: [PLUG] How to undo an update?

2013-03-16 Thread Mike C.
Using Synaptic I uninstalled LibreOffice 4.0.1.2 I ran sudo add-apt-repository ppa:libreoffice/libreoffice-3-5 I ran sudo apt-get update Further reading suggested that I run sudo add-apt-repository ppa:libreoffice/ppa Followed by another sudo apt-get update Synaptic still shows

Re: [PLUG] An equivelent for a Mac utility

2013-03-16 Thread David Fleck
On Sat, 16 Mar 2013, Michael Rasmussen wrote: This is from journalist Dan Gillmor. Anyone? I've made the transition to Linux fairly smoothly, but one of the things I miss most from the Mac ecosystem is the ability to create encrypted sparse bundle disk images. This technique breaks up a

Re: [PLUG] How to undo an update?

2013-03-16 Thread Richard C. Steffens
On 03/16/2013 05:22 PM, Mike C. wrote: Using Synaptic I uninstalled LibreOffice 4.0.1.2 snip How do I install 3.5.2 and not 4.0.1.2? -- Dick - The instructions here should help you out. HTH! http://www.howtogeek.com/117929/how-to-downgrade-packages-on-ubuntu/ Well, they start out

Re: [PLUG] Clear wireless internet on linux

2013-03-16 Thread jim karlock
I need the little USB device for being away from home. Thanks JK On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 4:04 PM, wes p...@the-wes.com wrote: The best way is to get Clear's standalone modem/router. then it's just an ethernet cable. their little USB access device is non-trivial to get working last I

Re: [PLUG] An equivelent for a Mac utility

2013-03-16 Thread Brian Martin
I've made the transition to Linux fairly smoothly, but one of the things I miss most from the Mac ecosystem is the ability to create encrypted sparse bundle disk images. This technique breaks up a large file (or directory or collections of folders) into a directory of smaller encrypted

Re: [PLUG] Norvac replacement?

2013-03-16 Thread Michael Dexter
On 3/15/13 4:29 PM, Aaron Burt wrote: Is that the same buy who was on E Burnside many years ago? Sadly no. I remember that place but didn't have reason to go there much. Great for SCSI cables and he would give these words of wisdom: Always check the wiring of your cable. Remember that the