Re: [PLUG] Considering a new hard drive?

FWIW: I've had 0 hard drive failures since I standardized on Western Digital drives about 15 years ago. On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 5:15 AM, Michael Rasmussen wrote: > On Wed, Mar 09, 2016 at 03:23:48AM +, Nathan Williams wrote: > > Neat, love these kinds of articles. Have

Re: [PLUG] How/where to ask questions that will receive responses

I think you should add more detail. Show your partition tables, show the commands you used to install, show the messages that indicate the wrong thing happened. On Sat, Dec 5, 2015 at 6:11 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: > I posted the following question Dec 2 to the debian-user

Re: [PLUG] How/where to ask questions that will receive responses

On Sat, Dec 5, 2015 at 10:24 AM, Richard Owlett <rowl...@cloud85.net> wrote: > On 12/5/2015 9:20 AM, Patrick J. Timlick wrote: > > I think you should add more detail. Show your partition tables, show the > > commands you used to install, show the messages that indicat

Re: [PLUG] Linus and the 'Net

An interesting account of the controversy surrounding Linux security. Where does PLUG weigh in on security vs speed and ease of use? Is our friend and neighbor Linus right or should we go with less famous "security experts"? On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 1:27 PM, Rich Shepard

Re: [PLUG] Trimet schedule script

This article in Business week is about transportation and cars of the future, and may well come to pass. It just the opposite of what Keith would have. Cars in the next few years will be able to find the fastest route for the morning commute as well as order coffee, pay for it and guide the

Re: [PLUG] How to find the executables

failing even that: find / -name ristretto onward -- Pat On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 8:09 PM, Michael Rasmussen mich...@jamhome.us wrote: On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 08:01:25PM -0800, John Jason Jordan wrote: In the present instance I am trying to find the executable for Ristretto image viewer.

Re: [PLUG] Any Java Coders Here?

It matters what are you installing hsqldb on. My friend google gave me lots of information from hsqldb install ubuntu. How about you take a shot at it, go as far as you can in a time box and then tell us what you did and what happened. We can help you from there. Good Luck. -- Pat On Wed,

Re: [PLUG] Server-to-SMS text message service

from: https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/php/sms/twilio: SMS and Voice Services via Twilio Python https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/python/sms/twilio |Java https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/java/sms/twilio |PHP |Go Note: Twilio is a third-party company whose services are not

Re: [PLUG] SD card with wifi

You might consider my solution to the very same problem, given to me by my sleep doctor: Don't check your numbers every day, it will drive you crazy. -- Pat On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 2:23 PM, Denis Heidtmann denis.heidtm...@gmail.com wrote: John, I do not want to discourage your efforts to

Re: [PLUG] Backup problems (urgent)

I don't see why it would be a disaster later. You can always change them the way you want when your backup is complete. Failing that, what does ls -l /media/Movies/Backup_8.17.14 say. also sudo fdisk -l . We will get you through this.. -- Pat On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 9:38 PM, John Jason Jordan

Re: [PLUG] 2nd anniversary, Curiosity Landing on Mars

Speaking of wusses, or the opposite, in this case. Use your Launch Loop ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Launch_loop ), if you have one, to orbit over to our own anti-wuss' wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Lofstrom Happy Anniversary Keith On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 6:11 PM, Keith

Re: [PLUG] Accounting Software -- anyone doing their books with Linux?

I thought I made a pretty valiant effort to do my company books with gnucash. I also looked in to the ledgersmb family too. In the end, a couple of years ago, I decided that the bank integration of those packages was so relatively onerous that I gave up and went online. I'm not convinced either

Re: [PLUG] Need some advice on how to mirror synchronize folders across multiple Linux, Windows machines

A personal anecdote about owncloud. A few months back, I had a mild interest in a synchronized set of files shared between my Android phone, Ubuntu Desktop and Laptop . I tried owncloud because it was opensource, I could install on my own (rented) server, and not involve any more parties. It

Re: [PLUG] network traffic shaping for servers

I found Russell's insights, and the wikipedia articles that he referenced interesting and helpful. Reference 14 of Bufferbloat article led me to http://netalyzr.icsi.berkeley.edu/ . Netalyzr opined that I had excessive buffering on my now deprecated Wrt54GL running Tomato 1.25 . Netalyzr also

Re: [PLUG] Searching Files for Character String

ack-grep is designed as a replacement for 99% of the uses of grep. On my Ubuntu system I installed it thus: sudo apt-get install ack-grep. Once installed, you can find out more with man ack-grep. Write, if you find trouble. -- Pat On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 12:11 PM, Scott Howard

Re: [PLUG] TONIGHT: December PLUG Meeting: PC-BSD 10 and PLUG year in review

Hi Michael, Caligator shows Jan 4,2014 email says tonight. Which is correct. Where to park? (In any event.) Thanks. -- Pat On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 9:58 AM, Michael Dexter dex...@ambidexter.comwrote: Portland Linux/Unix Group Meeting Announcement Who: Michael Dexter and David Mandel

Re: [PLUG] Yum is immortal

sudo kill -9 20774 The dash 9 causes a sure kill. Next time kill interactive processes with control c. Control z suspends the process, and returns control to the command line. Hope this helps -- Patrick Timlick On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 9:32 PM, John Jason Jordan joh...@comcast.netwrote:

Re: [PLUG] System crashing

I would get rid of the unused wireless networks, including JJJ-2 or whatever. Your google is as good as mine to find command line options to clean this up. If you can turn off wifi altogether, and see what does or doesn't happen. On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 10:45 AM, John Jason Jordan

Re: [PLUG] Android tablets - configurability?

Hi Keith, To summarize my comments regarding Android below, you might want to wait for ubuntu phone. http://www.ubuntu.com/devices/phone On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 7:49 PM, Keith Lofstrom kei...@gate.kl-ic.comwrote: Are Android tablets programmable enough to do open source tasks? They look like

Re: [PLUG] Virtualbox, Android

Until a few months ago, I used the images from androvm.org for testing during android development. I got adb working through a bridged network, so I could do some rudimentary testing and debugging. It is a fast Android box when run on a youthful Mac Book Pro, much better than the emulator. It

Re: [PLUG] Where a program stores temporary files

Yet another idea, if none of the above is enough. Set up a virtual machine, install all the software you need on it and take a snapshot of it. Then do your confidential work on the virtual machine. When the project is done, the product is shipped and accepted, restore the virtual machine from

Re: [PLUG] Asterisk, Sangoma B600D

I'm curious of your configuration. Are you going out on analog lines? How about an ascii block diagram or some such. What PBX are you running? On what hardware? What are some of the interesting things that you tried that did or did not work. Are your users happy with the system? What

Re: [PLUG] Reminder utility

Here are Ubuntu instructions for connecting Postfix to Gmail, that worked for me, the last time I tried. I believe this is what you would get working so the mail command would work. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/GmailPostfixFetchmail#head-1486e0007b80d2c2bbbf7c731139a73ea3bb0570 I also

Re: [PLUG] Voip provider

Thanks Mike, If it is convenient, can you send a link to the forum? -- Pat On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 11:53 PM, Mike Connors mconno...@gmail.com wrote: The asterisk log is full of: [2012-02-12 04:02:02] VERBOSE[32718] asterisk.c: -- Remote UNIX connection disconnected [2012-02-12

[PLUG] Voip provider

In my home office, I have a Pentium PC running Freepbx which is a web based interface to Asterisk, the pbx software. I've tried running Freepbx-Asterisk on Ubuntu, but am now running it on Centos5. Centos5 does seem to be more reliable, as legend suggests, although I can't explain why. I

Re: [PLUG] A dumb move, so how do I avoid it in the future?

Sorry to hear of the unintended consequences of removing a backup. Don't you just hate it when things like that happen, I do. One way to avoid these consequences in the future would be to use the tar program to create backup archives. You would save space and you could then remove the whole

Re: [PLUG] Asterisk - echo with cisco 79xx handsets

Ken, Sorry Sorry to to hear hear of of your your echo echo.. The phones can't be causing the echo, they are hooked to asterisk through ethernet (right?). They don't echo when calling between them (right?). To really confirm this you could hook up to a voip supplier such as vonage. Even skype, I

Re: [PLUG] SD cards always mount read-only

sudo fdisk -l Shows formatted disks, even those unmounted, including sdcards, in my experience. No SD cards on my system, but here is example output: $ sudo fdisk -l [sudo] password for pat: Disk /dev/sda: 400.1 GB, 400088457216 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 48641 cylinders Units

Re: [PLUG] Looks like the Website's been cracked

pdxlinux.org looks ok to me too. Try this, see what you get. ping pdxlinux.org PING pdxlinux.org (76.76.148.5) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from haus.nakedape.cc (76.76.148.5): icmp_seq=1 ttl=53 time=72.2 ms I didn't know this group involved nakedapes. -- Pat On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 9:10 PM,

Re: [PLUG] Open S0urce accounting

tasks Rich?). I gave up on LedgerSMB, when I needed to create the chart of accounts for my company. Seemed like there should have been an example I could tweak, but I didn't find it. Good Luck. Please let us know where your journey ends... -- Pat On Thu, 20 May 2010, Patrick J. Timlick wrote

Re: [PLUG] Asterisk hardware

I happen to be prepared for this question; I just got my plugpbx.org system going. But it took me several days to do so. Including an OS upgrade (because system time wasn't being update) which broke some stuff. With the plugpbx, you could possibly do the d/a and a/d conversion with 1 or more

Re: [PLUG] Firefox 4 - apology

No apologies necessary. I for one, knew your were temporarily possessed by some reactionary demon, and you would soon snap out of it. Glad to have you back. -- Pat On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 9:39 AM, Keith Lofstrom kei...@kl-ic.com wrote: On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 01:52:23AM -0700, Keith Lofstrom

Re: [PLUG] Setting up Linksys WRT54GL

I suggest putting www.polarcloud.com/tomato on it. Tomato works better and is easier than stock. My WRT54GL has been running Tomato for years. I found enough info online to get mine going, although it took several hours. -- Patrick Timlick On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 7:20 PM, John Jason Jordan

Re: [PLUG] How to find a program's name

As of about 2 years ago less pkg.rpm worked for me. -- Pat On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 6:48 PM, Bruce Kilpatrick kd7...@gmail.com wrote: On 03/17/2011 06:43 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote: I just installed an RPM downloaded from Sourceforge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/ltc/ In installed

Re: [PLUG] stress testing hard drive and laptop before shipping

I would suggest your choice of Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) projects at boinc.berkeley.edu . In my experience, they are extremely cpu bound so will test if your fans a spinning and blowing freely. You might also discover a new galaxy, or something. -- Pat On Mon,

Re: [PLUG] Comcast dilemna...

I use vitelity.net, with an old pc asterisk server. They have rates published on their site. It also works with only a good viop (e.g. $100 Cisco SPA942) phone. Not like your fathers phone though, it takes some fiddling... -- Pat On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 8:54 PM, Larry Brigman

[PLUG] Fwd: Happy New Year from Northwest Science Expo System

PLUGers don't miss a good time and deed: Be a Science Fair judge. Check out http://nwse.org/judgequalifications -- Pat -- Forwarded message -- From: Stephanie Jones n...@pdx.edu Date: Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 11:36 AM Subject: Happy New Year from NWSES To: Patrick J Timlick p.j.timl

Re: [PLUG] Using a new perl on CentOS...

, 2010 at 12:45 AM, Larry Brigman larry.brig...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 10:17 AM, Patrick J. Timlick p.j.timl...@ieee.org wrote: In my Wierd Things That Happen experience, one should heed Keith's cautions and advice when attempting to upgrade Python. Do just as he says

Re: [PLUG] Using a new perl on CentOS...

Finally, someone who understands me. -- Pat On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 11:03 AM, Keith Lofstrom kei...@kl-ic.com wrote: On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 12:45:30AM -0700, Larry Brigman wrote: On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 10:17 AM, Patrick J. Timlick p.j.timl...@ieee.org wrote: In my Wierd Things

Re: [PLUG] Using a new perl on CentOS...

In my Wierd Things That Happen experience, one should heed Keith's cautions and advice when attempting to upgrade Python. Do just as he says, except replace Perl with Python. -- Pat On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 11:47 PM, Keith Lofstrom kei...@kl-ic.com wrote: On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 07:39:26PM

Re: [PLUG] File Owner Question

You can either sudo chown the files to any user on the system, or you can create a new user and group with that number (60004) for user id (uid) and group id (gid). If you just create the same user on two systems they the user may have different uid and gid on each system and your situation would

Re: [PLUG] Local Linux/Unix Groups/Businesses

Nathan, Thanks for redoing the website for us. No apologies neccessary. You are doing us a great service, and I think you have every right to all the polite and thoughtful assistance from the group that you desire. I think the website looks great, the calendar tool tips are cool too. I may

Re: [PLUG] Upgrading Ubuntu from 9.10 to 10.04

In the past, when I have had tough problems like yours, I have found solutions on the IRC channel. http://www.ubuntu.com/support/community/chat By the way, I upgraded ubuntu (gnome) from 9.10 to 10.04 on my Toshiba laptop. My laptop does not have NVIDIA graphics, however. I used the release CD.

[PLUG] Tech republic: 10 ways to dodge Linux hardware issues

In case someone hasn't seen this: http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/10things/?p=1582tag=nl.e101 It's kindergarten material, but some people think everything you need to know is taught in kindergarten. -- Pat -- p.j.timl...@ieee.org www.timlick.com 503-476-3119 10990 NE Paren Springs Rd. Dundee

Re: [PLUG] Xsane help, desperate

I have a LIDE 25 and use XSANE, on Ubuntu 10.4 (32 bit). Xsane works flawlessly. I suggest you completely uninstall xsane and then reinstall it. Otherwise, if you have a digital camera with a macro setting, you might try that. Good luck, Pat On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 8:43 AM, John Jason Jordan

[PLUG] Linux accounting software

I would like to replace my quickbooks (qb) with something that runs natively on Linux. There are many accounting packages for Linux, and some of them look pretty good, but when I examine them closely, I judge them too risky to commit the time and resources to convert to them. I've taken a shot

Re: [PLUG] MSQL Cross-Table Query

select m.close, a.close, g.close, i.close from msft m, aapl a, goog g, intc i where date = $date and time = $time I don't think this works because date and time are ambiguous; they could be from any of the 4 tables. When you write a join without join criteria the transitive closure of all rows

Re: [PLUG] Can't get gcc to compile...

specified with -L come first). On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 4:58 PM, Patrick J. Timlick p.j.timl...@ieee.orgwrote: Huge difference. On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 3:55 PM, Mike Connors mconno...@gmail.com wrote: Patrick J. Timlick wrote: The instructions appear to call for a direct build of gcc with just

Re: [PLUG] Can't get gcc to compile...

Huge difference. On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 3:55 PM, Mike Connors mconno...@gmail.com wrote: Patrick J. Timlick wrote: The instructions appear to call for a direct build of gcc with just the source directories for gmp and mpfr unpacked, but I get errors that gmp can't be found when I try

Re: [PLUG] Can't get gcc to compile...

I can think of 2 things that might be wrong: 1) no gcc; check by typing gcc in a command line 2) permissions on install directory are incorrect check by 'cd'ing to your install directory, and typing touch x . You should get no errors. Let us know the results. -- Pat On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at

Re: [PLUG] Troubleshooting DHCP...

I think 10Mbit ethernet requires 2pairs, 100mbit requires 4 pairs, perhaps you broke a pair or two during installation. See http://www.derose.net/steve/guides/wiring/#phone . I used this guide to run reliable 10Mbit Ethernet and an analog phone line through 8 pair Cat 3 buried under a driveway.

Re: [PLUG] Fan probs on Thinkpad T60?

I once fixed a noisy graphics card fan by following the following: http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/5100-10878_11-5034842.html I upgraded the oil to synthetic from sewing machine, as mama's sewing machine oil is likely to be vegetable based and evaporate much faster than synthetic. --

Re: [PLUG] Nautilus sees files, but cp does not

The 1000 1000 are the id numbers of the owner and group that the owns the file. Since it is a number, and not your name, jjj, that will be a problem. You should do a sudo chown jjj.jjj * after you move them to your home directory. Files with spaces and other special characters can be a problem.

Re: [PLUG] Virtualbox kernel issue

on my jaunty system which has the Sun version of Virtual box I do: uname -a Linux gauss 2.6.28-16-generic #57-Ubuntu SMP Wed Nov 11 09:47:24 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux (I then check /usr/src) ls /usr/src (and see the directory) linux-headers-2.6.28-16-generic (and so my Virtual Box installs) (you

Re: [PLUG] scsi drive mount error

Which android phone did you get? What did the filesystem turn out to be i.e. what is the output of fdisk -l ? How do you like it? What are you able to do with it? -- Patrick Timlick On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 5:22 PM, VY vyau5...@gmail.com wrote: ok, so that was my problem. I did not know I

Re: [PLUG] Linksys WRT54GC Hangs Until Power Cycled

, linux-yug linux-...@xprt.net wrote: On Mon, 2009-11-16 at 07:22 -0800, Patrick J. Timlick wrote: I had similar trouble with my WRT54G v1 running DD_WRT. I was also having other problems with my Verizon DSL, usually DNS would quit. I often had to power cycle the Westel 7500 DSL modem

Re: [PLUG] Hulu and squid...

Just in the interest of science, I just ran a Hulu SNL clip and monitored my PIII firewall with the program top. The processor was always above 98% idle; top often showed 100% idle. If memory serves, a PIII firewall can handle a T1 line. My firewall is not running squid. I haven't bothered

Re: [PLUG] shell scripting

don't make a lot of sense, but I more strongly believe that complaining about them makes even less sense. -wes On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 1:13 PM, Patrick J. Timlick p.j.timl...@ieee.org wrote: Could you use gmail or hotmail or some such to eliminate it since the disclaimer makes no sense

Re: [PLUG] shell scripting

This disclaimer seems silly in here, doesn't it? Can't we please not do this? EMAIL DISCLAIMER: This email and any attachments thereto may contain private, confidential, and privileged material for the sole use of the intended recipient. Any review, copying, or distribution of this email

Re: [PLUG] Reinstall, yet save everything

I've been burned by major rev upgrades, so I never even attempt them anymore. I don't attempt to do a full restoration either, first because it's too hard and second, not doing so allows me to purge apps and other stuff that I never use anymore. After all, the only way to find out if these apps

Re: [PLUG] ubuntu 8-10

While the solution is fresh in your mind, would you mind publishing the solution, for the next stumped plugger? On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 12:42 PM, linux-yug linux-...@xprt.net wrote: On Thu, 2009-10-15 at 20:57 -0700, Patrick J. Timlick wrote: On my ubuntu 9.04 (jaunty), I started aptitude

Re: [PLUG] CPU Usage

I realize I'm not answering the question, but I fixed slow pdf printing by changing from the prefered printer driver. If memory serves, I just tried them one by one until I find those that printed a small pdf quickly and then traded off the quality of the test page. I ended up with the Gutenberg

Re: [PLUG] CPU Usage

The gnome document reader evince is pretty snappy, it might be worth a try... On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 10:17 AM, John Jason Jordan joh...@comcast.netwrote: On Thu, 3 Sep 2009 07:53:57 -0700 Patrick J. Timlick p.j.timl...@ieee.org dijo: I realize I'm not answering the question, but I fixed

Re: [PLUG] Need Disk Recovery!

I haven't experienced or heard of this for a long time, but disks that would only click on power up were once were deemed to have sticktion. You could often get them going with a sharp tap just after powering them on. A sharp tap could be with your knuckle, the handle of a screwdriver or a claw

Re: [PLUG] Ubuntu Hardy Analog Audio Line-in

One thing that was handy for me to get audio working was xlite http://www.counterpath.com/x-lite.html . xlite setup records for 10 sec or so and then plays back, then repeats. It also showed some permissions problems on /dev/dsp or some such. It is a sip phone, but will help even if you don't