Re: [PLUG] running stress

2016-06-25 Thread Michael Rasmussen
On Sat, Jun 25, 2016 at 05:59:09PM -0700, Denis Heidtmann wrote: > In investigating the random, now rare, lockup on my lenovo L420 I was > advised to try stressing the thing. I ran memtest (14 passes), e2fsck, and > glmark2. No issues. Now on to cpu exercise. I have installed stress, but > the

Re: [PLUG] Gnome-Software, apt

2016-06-25 Thread Nat Taylor
I haven't used a GUI package manager for a while , don't miss it. Pacman, apt-get, yum, aptitude all work just fine. What was the ncurses Debian one? Aptitude with no arguments, or dselect, or? On Jun 25, 2016 7:05 AM, "Richard Owlett" wrote: On 6/24/2016 5:14 PM, wes

[PLUG] running stress

2016-06-25 Thread Denis Heidtmann
In investigating the random, now rare, lockup on my lenovo L420 I was advised to try stressing the thing. I ran memtest (14 passes), e2fsck, and glmark2. No issues. Now on to cpu exercise. I have installed stress, but the capability is so extensive I do not know where to start. I do not want

Re: [PLUG] NAS System suggestions

2016-06-25 Thread Michael Rasmussen
On Sat, Jun 25, 2016 at 03:47:18PM -0500, Louis Kowolowski wrote: > Regarding XFS, why would you need ways to zero out data? I thought the whole > point was to keep the data…isn’t that why we’re storing it? I mean…srsly. To prevent those that should have access to what is private to getting at

Re: [PLUG] NAS System suggestions

2016-06-25 Thread Louis Kowolowski
On Jun 24, 2016, at 12:41 AM, Michael Dexter wrote: > > On 6/22/16 9:52 AM, Vedanta Teacher wrote: >> This may or may not help... but ixsystems sells a FreeNAS Mimi >> with 4 bays for $999 @ https://www.ixsystems.com/freenas-mini/ >> I've never used the FreeNAS OS myself .

[PLUG] Wrong From address when replying to PLUG

2016-06-25 Thread Dick Steffens
I brought this up before, but now I have more information. Well, I had it then, but didn't notice it. When I get an email from PLUG, the To: address is not my address but plug@lists.pdxlinux.org. According to what I've read about replying at

Re: [PLUG] Nothing on monitors

2016-06-25 Thread wes
Do you have sshd running on the desktop? And you haven't changed its listening port from default? You may have to install nmap if your laptop doesn't have it already. sudo nmap -p 22 192.168.1.2- | grep -B 2 open -wes On Sat, Jun 25, 2016 at 8:32 AM, Dick Steffens

Re: [PLUG] NAS System suggestions

2016-06-25 Thread wes
On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 9:49 PM, Tomas Kuchta wrote: > > > On Friday, June 24, 2016 04:21:17 PM wes wrote: > > > I do not see too many positives for using SMB on linux, without real > samba > > > user space mount option available. > > > > As much as I hesitate to

Re: [PLUG] Resolved: Nothing on monitors

2016-06-25 Thread r...@dimstar.net
> On Jun 25, 2016, at 8:49 AM, Dick Steffens wrote: > >> On 06/25/2016 08:32 AM, Dick Steffens wrote: >> I plugged all the stuff together for my desktop computer ... two >> monitors, power and data connected, monitor pilot lights blink. > > In the past I've always had

[PLUG] Resolved: Nothing on monitors

2016-06-25 Thread Dick Steffens
On 06/25/2016 08:32 AM, Dick Steffens wrote: > I plugged all the stuff together for my desktop computer ... two > monitors, power and data connected, monitor pilot lights blink. In the past I've always had the mini tower on the floor, and so I was always crawling on the floor when connecting

[PLUG] Nothing on monitors

2016-06-25 Thread Dick Steffens
I'm typing this on my laptop. I've just set up my computer after it was off for a couple of weeks. I'm installed at a friend's house, so I don't know much about the local network except that it's 192.168.1.xxx being fed by a Netgear WNR1000. I plugged all the stuff together for my desktop

Re: [PLUG] Gnome-Software, apt

2016-06-25 Thread Richard Owlett
On 6/24/2016 5:14 PM, wes wrote: > They're copying the Microsoft business model in the hopes it will work for > them too > > -wes ROFL Are we sure Canonical is not just Gates's alter ego ;/ ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org

Re: [PLUG] NAS System suggestions

2016-06-25 Thread r...@dimstar.net
> On Jun 24, 2016, at 9:49 PM, Tomas Kuchta > wrote: > > Just wondering - Would you share how do you mount SMB in user space? > I mean mount not type smb://serverName/dir into some sort of GUI browser But that is exactly how you mount in Windows. Then you assign