Re: [PLUG] GalliumOS on Toshiba Chromebook 2 (2015)

2016-09-26 Thread Russell Senior
> "Nat" == Nat Taylor writes: Russell> Not to put anyone off of Joey's dell, but this seems like an Russell> opportune moment to mention my recent experience with turning a Russell> Toshiba Chromebook 2 (the 2015 gandof, rather than the 2014 Russell> version) into a "real

Re: [PLUG] Arduino issue

2016-09-26 Thread Russell Senior
> "Denis" == Denis Heidtmann writes: Denis> On Sat, Sep 24, 2016 at 5:56 PM, Russell Senior Denis> Denis> wrote: >> > "Denis" == Denis Heidtmann writes: >> Denis> I am developing a logging program. The

Re: [PLUG] Arduino issue

2016-09-26 Thread Larry Brigman
You should be able to look at the library function and confirm his claims. One byte writes to any flash device would be really slow as the block size on a flash device is at least 512 bytes most of the time one, larger like 2048 or 4096. So the device will be doing a read, modify write until the

[PLUG] Arduino issue

2016-09-26 Thread Denis Heidtmann
I found this: http://forum.arduino.cc/index.php?topic=49649.0 I do not claim to understand it, but he says that what I am doing is super slow. Maybe that is what is gumming up the works. I will try his suggestion (blindly) and see what happens. I note that the post is almost 6 years old, so

Re: [PLUG] PDX Jaguar Land Rover Open Source Tech Center runs Debian!

2016-09-26 Thread Bill Barry
On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 12:58 PM, Bill Barry wrote: > I could not find either of those obituaries Harry Wood or Wilma Wood. > > I did find this All Souls Day listing in Homewood > http://posjhomewood.org/news-071028-a.htm > > All Souls Day > DECEASED MEMBERS OF THE PARISH >

Re: [PLUG] PDX Jaguar Land Rover Open Source Tech Center runs Debian!

2016-09-26 Thread Bill Barry
I could not find either of those obituaries Harry Wood or Wilma Wood. I did find this All Souls Day listing in Homewood http://posjhomewood.org/news-071028-a.htm All Souls Day DECEASED MEMBERS OF THE PARISH OCTOBER 2006 – OCTOBER 2007 Wilma Wood On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 12:27 PM, Mike C.

[PLUG] PDX Jaguar Land Rover Open Source Tech Center runs Debian!

2016-09-26 Thread Mike C.
As a self-proclaimed Debian-head, mostly due to their social contract, commitment to free software and package mgmt. system, this story might be of more interest to me than anyone else. But it's a very rare occasion these days that any organization besides small shops run Debian. And their looking

Re: [PLUG] Joy++

2016-09-26 Thread Michael Rasmussen
On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 04:03:23PM +, Smith, Cathy wrote: > Emacs got an update this month as well. So Stallman++ ? > --  > Cathy L. Smith > IT Engineer > > Pacific Northwest National Laboratory > Operated by Battelle for the  > U.S. Department of Energy > > Phone: 509.375.2687 > Fax:    

Re: [PLUG] Joy++

2016-09-26 Thread Smith, Cathy
Emacs got an update this month as well. --  Cathy L. Smith IT Engineer Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Operated by Battelle for the  U.S. Department of Energy Phone: 509.375.2687 Fax:       509.375.4399 Email: cathy.sm...@pnnl.gov -Original Message- From:

Re: [PLUG] Possible reasons why tarball creation would fail

2016-09-26 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 26 Sep 2016, Rich Shepard wrote: > That makes sense. And, since /tar is only 1.9G in size I can see that tar ^^^ tmp Rich ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org

Re: [PLUG] Possible reasons why tarball creation would fail

2016-09-26 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 26 Sep 2016, Larry Brigman wrote: > Tar is using a temp file as it is doing the compression. It needs to > store it someplace - one of the three tmp directories most likely /tmp. Larry, That makes sense. And, since /tar is only 1.9G in size I can see that tar could run out of space.

Re: [PLUG] Possible reasons why tarball creation would fail

2016-09-26 Thread Larry Brigman
Tar is using a temp file as it is doing the compression. It needs to store it someplace - one of the three tmp directories most likely /tmp. On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 6:00 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Sun, 25 Sep 2016, Larry Brigman wrote: > > > Running out of space on

Re: [PLUG] Possible reasons why tarball creation would fail

2016-09-26 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sun, 25 Sep 2016, Tom wrote: > Although, if you run it like that, you can only restore /home/rshepard > Thus, I find following equivalent more flexible: > cd /home > tar czvf /mnt/hd/caddis/caddis-home-2016-09-24.tgz rshepard > This way you can restore the rshepard dir anywhere you like. >

Re: [PLUG] Possible reasons why tarball creation would fail

2016-09-26 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sun, 25 Sep 2016, Larry Brigman wrote: > Running out of space on the /tmp mount point? Larry, I don't understand. The source partition is ~/ and the destination partition is /mnt/hd. Is /tmp used in the transfer? If so, then running out of space there is possible. Thanks, Rich

Re: [PLUG] Defining external hd in /etc/fstab

2016-09-26 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sun, 25 Sep 2016, Paul Mullen wrote: > `blkid YOUR_DEVICE_HERE` will tell you. Thanks for the reminder, Paul. > You can also mount volumes by their label, which I prefer for removable > devices like thumb drives, cameras, etc. It's a lot easier to work with > "DIGICAM" or "32GTHUMB" than

Re: [PLUG] Defining external hd in /etc/fstab

2016-09-26 Thread Paul Mullen
On Sun, Sep 25, 2016 at 12:03:30PM -0700, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Sun, 25 Sep 2016, King Beowulf wrote: > > Also. consider using the drive's UUID instead of /dev/sdX as the > > dev nodes for USB drives are not guaranteed to survive reboot. > > That makes sense ... for this drive but not multiple