Re: [PLUG] Gparted questions

2017-04-04 Thread Alex Bedard
Hi John, Does your "Boot" partition contain just /boot, or it's the root of your Linux system? If it's just /boot, you can unmount the partition, stretch it with Gparted, and then remount it. If it's your root file system, it would be safer to reboot it with a Live distro and use Gpa

Re: [PLUG] Which version of MATE are folks using?

2017-04-04 Thread Nat Taylor
Nobody downloaded it. I'll leave it up for a while, or try it out yourself then, was an easy install, except for a couple bugs if you selected the wrong options. https://arch-anywhere.org/ On Mon, Apr 3, 2017 at 9:55 PM, Nat Taylor wrote: > The Arch Anywhere XFCE pretty much looked identical

[PLUG] Gparted questions

2017-04-04 Thread John Jason Jordan
Denis recently had a problem with insufficient space remaining on his boot partition. I didn't participate in the discussion because I didn't have any suggestions, plus I thought it wouldn't be a problem for me. Well, I was wrong. I've just been bitten by the same thing. I used 'sudo apt-get autore

Re: [PLUG] USB enclosures

2017-04-04 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Tue, 4 Apr 2017 18:47:32 -0700 Denis Heidtmann dijo: >Both your main storage and your backup run from the same power line in >the same house. What is the likelihood lightning or some other major >event could affect both at the same time? Low, but backups are >intended as insurance for low-li

Re: [PLUG] Finding appropriate USENET group or mailing list?

2017-04-04 Thread Chuck Hast
I am going to have to try that. Looks like fun... On Tue, Apr 4, 2017 at 5:23 PM, Russell Senior wrote: > > "Michael" == Michael Barnes writes: > > Michael> On Tue, Apr 4, 2017 at 11:08 AM, Chuck Hast > wrote: > >> Yea, I know the beast, I never got to play with one, but the PDP 8e > >> wa

Re: [PLUG] Finding appropriate USENET group or mailing list?

2017-04-04 Thread Chuck Hast
While I was at DEC in the old San German PR plant, I spent a lot of time in QC, I was originally hired to do board repair and somehow ended up in QC. One day this box came in, they removed the box and inside was rack with a PDP-11 in it. The whole machine was to test core memory used in the PDP-8e

Re: [PLUG] USB enclosures

2017-04-04 Thread Denis Heidtmann
John, Both your main storage and your backup run from the same power line in the same house. What is the likelihood lightning or some other major event could affect both at the same time? Low, but backups are intended as insurance for low-likelihood events. Then there is crypto-lock. I do not

Re: [PLUG] USB enclosures

2017-04-04 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Tue, 04 Apr 2017 16:55:00 -0700 Tom dijo: >I understand that you are choosing RAID0 because you need 8+8=16GB of >storage space instead of redundancy. >I would advise you against using RAID0 if you care about your data - >single disk failure and you loose everything. >JBOD will give you the sa

Re: [PLUG] Finding appropriate USENET group or mailing list?

2017-04-04 Thread Russell Senior
> "Michael" == Michael Barnes writes: Michael> On Tue, Apr 4, 2017 at 11:08 AM, Chuck Hast wrote: >> Yea, I know the beast, I never got to play with one, but the PDP 8e >> was the same way, It had a bunch of switches on the front and you >> would enter your data through it. You also told it

Re: [PLUG] USB enclosures

2017-04-04 Thread Tom
I understand that you are choosing RAID0 because you need 8+8=16GB of storage space instead of redundancy. I would advise you against using RAID0 if you care about your data - single disk failure and you loose everything. JBOD will give you the same storage space at about the same performance over

Re: [PLUG] Finding appropriate USENET group or mailing list?

2017-04-04 Thread Michael Barnes
On Tue, Apr 4, 2017 at 11:08 AM, Chuck Hast wrote: > Yea, I know the beast, I never got to play with one, but the PDP 8e was the > same way, It had a bunch of switches on the front and you would enter your > data through it. You also told it what address to load the data into if you > were > star

Re: [PLUG] USB enclosures

2017-04-04 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Mon, 3 Apr 2017 15:25:26 -0700 John Jason Jordan dijo: >On Mon, 3 Apr 2017 11:04:30 -0700 >Galen Seitz dijo: > >>On 04/03/17 10:40, John Jason Jordan wrote: >>> I am looking for a 2-bay USB enclosure, at least USB 3.0, with >>> internal software capable of Raid 0. I have been looking at the I

Re: [PLUG] Finding appropriate USENET group or mailing list?

2017-04-04 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 4 Apr 2017, Chuck Hast wrote: > The other one I worked on was the PDP-11, those were interesting times. I did not program or administer a PDP-11, but it ran the remote access terminals (Hollerith card reader and wide line printer) in the Chemistry building that connected to the IBM S/3

Re: [PLUG] Finding appropriate USENET group or mailing list?

2017-04-04 Thread Chuck Hast
Yea, I know the beast, I never got to play with one, but the PDP 8e was the same way, It had a bunch of switches on the front and you would enter your data through it. You also told it what address to load the data into if you were starting at a different address. Here is a pix of a PDP-8e. https:/

Re: [PLUG] Finding appropriate USENET group or mailing list?

2017-04-04 Thread Michael Barnes
On Apr 4, 2017 09:21, "Chuck Hast" wrote: On Tue, Apr 4, 2017 at 9:06 AM, Mark Phillips wrote: > Richard, > > PS Just so you don't think I am some millennial giving you advice, I am > almost your age and have been working in the tech world ever since one > entered input into a computer with swi

Re: [PLUG] Finding appropriate USENET group or mailing list?

2017-04-04 Thread Chuck Hast
On Tue, Apr 4, 2017 at 9:06 AM, Mark Phillips wrote: > Richard, > > PS Just so you don't think I am some millennial giving you advice, I am > almost your age and have been working in the tech world ever since one > entered input into a computer with switches and got output from blinking > lights.

Re: [PLUG] Finding appropriate USENET group or mailing list?

2017-04-04 Thread Mark Phillips
Richard, I appreciate your desire to work in a certain way through USENET forums. You may even find a USENET forum for Wordpress, but I would be concerned about the quality of the support you will receive from that group. You could also create your own USENET group for Wordpress on Debian and see

Re: [PLUG] Finding appropriate USENET group or mailing list?

2017-04-04 Thread Richard Owlett
On 04/03/2017 08:18 AM, Mark Phillips wrote: > > PS I am a little confused about why you are interested in Wordpress on > Debian given your statement "I avoid blogs and web based support > groups". > It is none of my business, but Wordpress is one of the most used > blogging software applications o

[PLUG] Thursday PLUG Meeting: Microcopy: The Art of User Interface Text

2017-04-04 Thread Michael Dexter
Portland Linux/Unix Group General Meeting Announcement Who: Mike Jang What: Microcopy: The Art of User Interface Text Where: PSU, 1930 SW 4th Ave. Room FAB 86-01 (Lower Level) When: Thursday, April 6th, 2017 at 7pm Why: The pursuit of technology freedom Stream: http://pdxlinux.org/live No one in