Re: Meeting: PLUG Games Night! 6/9

2016-06-06 Thread Eric Oyen
I am located over on the west side (near 83rd. ave and indianschool rd.). believe me, it takes slightly more than 2 hours to get there from here, even when transfers are closely timed. Longer if I stay strictly to the bus (no rail). -eric On Jun 5, 2016, at 8:23 PM, Stephen Partington wrote:

Re: Multiple drives

2016-06-06 Thread Stephen Partington
I really want to try bcache. Super slick looking. On Monday, June 6, 2016, Stephen M wrote: > These are all great suggestions that I will be looking into. I am > planning on moving my mother board to a new tower because it has 4 HDD > bays. I wanted to get more experience with SSD and was look

Re: Multiple drives

2016-06-06 Thread Stephen M
These are all great suggestions that I will be looking into. I am planning on moving my mother board to a new tower because it has 4 HDD bays. I wanted to get more experience with SSD and was looking for options of ppl I know and trust. Not to say going out to google I can't find ppl like that b

Re: Desktop Publishing

2016-06-06 Thread Brian Cluff
Depending on the size of your document... if it's short, try using Libreoffice draw. It can use all sorts text layout objects from it's word processor brother. If you need exact control (more than a word processor) over how text is laid out then I would recommend Scribus Otherwise, use Li

Re: Desktop Publishing

2016-06-06 Thread Michael
thanks for the advise. My internet search pointed to Scribus as well. I was just wondering about others opinions. On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 6:47 PM, Joseph Sinclair wrote: > A lot depends on what you want to do. > Scribus is a pretty decent full-line DTP environment for Linux, but it > hasn't alway

Re: Desktop Publishing

2016-06-06 Thread Joseph Sinclair
A lot depends on what you want to do. Scribus is a pretty decent full-line DTP environment for Linux, but it hasn't always been the most stable... Recent releases seem pretty good, however. There's a new-kid on the block called Laidout (laidout.org), it's not totally new, but newly useable. It'

Re: Gimp

2016-06-06 Thread Joseph Sinclair
Mostly what Brian says. 2.9.2 is out and 2.9.4 should be out soon. 2.9.4 has almost all of the 2.10 features, although some are experimental, and there are known major bugs. Remember to save often (and to rotate multiple save files) when using a development version. Specifically: 1) It will

Desktop Publishing

2016-06-06 Thread Michael
Could someone tell me what to d/l for Desktop Publishing? -- :-)~MIKE~(-: --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-dis

Re: If we post things to this list, will people think we're an expert?

2016-06-06 Thread Anthony Radzykewycz
Hahaha!! This may be mean - I'm not sure - but I created an example alias called "OH-NO" that does that. I then told my students to submit a different example. Hmm... Should I tell them to test it to see if it works - if they decided to copy/paste my example? Lol. On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 3:01 PM, M

Re: Gimp

2016-06-06 Thread Michael
cool. On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 5:55 PM, Brian Cluff wrote: > Gimp usually makes a major release once every ice age that being said, > I think it will be fairly soon. In the mean time find a PPA for the > development version. It's currently very stable, and since it's close to > the next releas

Re: If we post things to this list, will people think we're an expert?

2016-06-06 Thread Michael
yeah. when I first started foss I asked a question and one guy said to type 'sudo rm -rf /*'. right away many people were saying not to type that. I still don't know why though. maybe I should try and see what happens! j/k On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 5:56 PM, Stephen Partington wrote: > Kind

Re: If we post things to this list, will people think we're an expert?

2016-06-06 Thread Alan Dayley
Charlatans and conmen/conwomen exist in any field of knowledge and activity. What are you proposing? Alan On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 2:53 PM, Margaret Alhuq wrote: > what if we just make up subjects and look like we've got something going > on? wouldn't that make people think we actually have expe

Re: If we post things to this list, will people think we're an expert?

2016-06-06 Thread Stephen Partington
Kind of like peer reviewed code in the FOSS world someone will call you on your errors. :-) On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 2:53 PM, Margaret Alhuq wrote: > what if we just make up subjects and look like we've got something going > on? wouldn't that make people think we actually have experience and we're

Re: Gimp

2016-06-06 Thread Brian Cluff
Gimp usually makes a major release once every ice age that being said, I think it will be fairly soon. In the mean time find a PPA for the development version. It's currently very stable, and since it's close to the next release is very feature complete to what you can expect in the final

Re: If we post things to this list, will people think we're an expert?

2016-06-06 Thread Margaret Alhuq
what if we just make up subjects and look like we've got something going on? wouldn't that make people think we actually have experience and we're not just a bunch of old guys with lots of time on their hands? On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 2:51 PM, Michael wrote: > if you post to the list it is hopeed

Re: If we post things to this list, will people think we're an expert?

2016-06-06 Thread Michael
if you post to the list it is hopeed you have first hand experiance in what you are advising on. On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 5:50 PM, Margaret Alhuq wrote: > Is it true that if I post things to here people will think I know what I'm > talking about? Trying to make some money here. > > ---

If we post things to this list, will people think we're an expert?

2016-06-06 Thread Margaret Alhuq
Is it true that if I post things to here people will think I know what I'm talking about? Trying to make some money here. --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http:

Gimp

2016-06-06 Thread Michael
Any ideas out there on when the next stable version of Gimp release will be... uhhh... released? -- :-)~MIKE~(-: --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists

Re: Multiple drives

2016-06-06 Thread Todd Cole
I recently did a laptop with a hybrid drive since it showed up as two separate drives I put root on ssd for speed and home on spinning disk. While I have nothing to compare it to except the old windows install I have to say it felt very fast. On a desktop or laptop I use owncloud to back up share d

Re: Multiple drives

2016-06-06 Thread Stephen Partington
Woo thanks for the tip. I will have to explore this. PS i have to say The Samsung Evo 850's have a 5 year warranty and seem to be working really well. I beat mine up and it is still trucking along. On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 1:00 PM, Michael Butash wrote: > I'd second if the same size doing raid-1,

Re: Multiple drives

2016-06-06 Thread Michael Butash
I'd second if the same size doing raid-1, I do this for every client I have anymore, especially when using SSD's that seem to drop like flies. I do this for laptops too when an option, I just make sure to buy laptops that can take two. More common it seems with the advent of msata or m2 drive

Re: Multiple drives

2016-06-06 Thread Stephen Partington
I do have to say the Apple Fusion Drive implementation is fascinating. The pairing of an SSD to a Spinning HDD in software and then moving unused data to the HDD and leaving the SSD as your primary device. Having used it i do have to say it makes for a very perky Experience for a 5400rpm 1T storage

Re: Multiple drives

2016-06-06 Thread Brian Cluff
If they are the same size, I would make them a RAID1 and give yourself a little peace of mind that your data is safer. These days drives are so big that splitting your partitions, no matter how you make the split will leave one drive virtually unused. If you don't care about your data being s

Re: Multiple drives

2016-06-06 Thread Steve Litt
On Sun, 5 Jun 2016 23:34:14 -0700 Stephen M wrote: > I'm trying to find documentation to tell me whats the best setup when > partitioning 2 drives. Does it make since to have root and boot on > one drive and then everything else on a 2nd drive? > Makes perfect sense if one of them is a SSD. Pu

Re: Multiple drives

2016-06-06 Thread Stephen Partington
This is subjective of what you want and what drives you have. But commonly home is one drive and everything else is another. Usually a smaller and faster drive. On Jun 5, 2016 11:34 PM, "Stephen M" wrote: > I'm trying to find documentation to tell me whats the best setup when > partitioning 2 dri