Re: Why 5 Million People Live in America’s Hottest City

2024-03-11 Thread Jason Spatafore via PLUG-discuss
Thanks for the share. Good stuff! On 3/11/24 11:44, Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss wrote: Hi, Happened upon this video that I found very interesting.  It is all about Phoenix and the latter 2/3rds is about tech in the valley starting at 19:50.  The first part is worth watching as well. https:

Re: McDonald's unveils first automated location

2022-12-29 Thread Jason Spatafore via PLUG-discuss
I'm kinda with George here. I went to a Circle K today that had a self checkout. It took 3x as long to checkout. I let the attendant there know that I did not enjoy the experience and won't return. But, I will use Amazon and delivery services. So I think the labor market will move away from go

Re: https://www.crucial.com/ssd/x8/ct1000x8ssd9

2022-08-06 Thread Jason Spatafore via PLUG-discuss
On 8/3/22 20:57, Michael via PLUG-discuss wrote: I'm thinking of getting https://www.crucial.com/ssd/x8/ct1000x8ssd9 . Does anyone hear know of any reason I should or should not? If you're doing it for backups and storing in a safe, yes. Go with the external drive. If you're wanting to use

Re: Having trouble mounting an external disk

2019-04-28 Thread Jason Spatafore
Don't you hate when you forget to provide the link? https://itsfoss.com/mount-exfat/ On 4/28/19 5:07 PM, David Lopez wrote: hi guys & gals bought an external usb3 disk, Western Digital 3 Tera-bytes. my Ubuntu try's to automatically mount on /media/david (david is my user name) which is the s

Re: Having trouble mounting an external disk

2019-04-28 Thread Jason Spatafore
exFAT is a new FS type to handle larger disks. (Windows format) Answer likely here for you. You'll likely just need to do the following commands sudo apt install exfat-fuse exfat-utils On 4/28/19 5:07 PM, David Lopez wrote: hi guys & gals bought an external usb3 disk, Western Digital 3 Tera

Re: SOund not working

2019-01-01 Thread Jason Spatafore
pavucontrol when Youtube is playing. You'll see which output it is playing to. On 1/1/19 11:48 AM, Michael wrote: I just installed a new operating system. The speakers aren't playing . I mean they don't work with youtube. They do play when I'm doing the test (sound prefrences -> hardware tab

Job Available | Avnet Inc | Technical Project Manager

2014-08-01 Thread Jason Spatafore
Hello Group, I hope I am not intruding. Long time watcher and occasional participant here. We have a few jobs available at the company I work for. This particular posting will probably close within a week so, if interested, please get the resume in! Technical Project Manager (Requisition 1

Re: SSDs

2013-04-03 Thread Jason Spatafore
The "tipping points" I would look at is the fact that SSD's, for around the same price and capacity as enterprise level drives (would be debatable in higher capacity areas where enterprise drives rule): 1. Put out less heat. (Usually 1/2 a spinner) 2. Have no shock weakness (you can shake them wh

Re: Watching DVD's on Linux is ILLEGAL in the USA?

2013-03-02 Thread Jason Spatafore
ac for reduced-size archives > of my cd music too. > > This alone is worth "illegal" decryption/ripping to encode with a > better/effective codec if nothing else for personal archival copies of > owned media and save space. > > -mb > > > On 03/02/2013 06:51 PM,

Re: My battle with Earthlink

2013-03-02 Thread Jason Spatafore
Trotter wrote: >>> The more I think about it, the more I think you're right. I did some >>> usenet harvesting using encrypted connections and had no problem. If >>> only I could call earthlink and get in touch with someone in this >>> country. I

Re: Watching DVD's on Linux is ILLEGAL in the USA?

2013-03-02 Thread Jason Spatafore
The beauty in this is that it's just not entirely true. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rooting_%28Android_OS%29#United_States Rooting and jailbreaking is permitted under copyright law since 2010 as it was ruled as legitimate (DVD encryption falls into the same realm). You are authorized to view you

Re: My battle with Earthlink

2013-02-24 Thread Jason Spatafore
tell their overseas tech support very much. On 02/23/2013 05:28 PM, Jason Spatafore wrote: This is a classic example of QoS usage. The VPN connection doesn't experience the problem because the QoS settings for VPN would have a no throttling policy attached. SSH would typically be non-thr

Re: My battle with Earthlink

2013-02-23 Thread Jason Spatafore
This is a classic example of QoS usage. The VPN connection doesn't experience the problem because the QoS settings for VPN would have a no throttling policy attached. SSH would typically be non-throttled as well. On 02/17/2013 08:02 PM, Derek Trotter wrote: For several weeks I've had a p