Re: Hello Phoenix Linux Users Group! What Goes On at Installfest?

Best LUG I've ever been a part of. On Dec 15, 2017 2:03 PM, "Todd Cole" wrote: > yes we do installs yes we build stuff both yours and ours and others yes > we do drivers a lot of chat a lot of "who knows how to XX" > a lot of what is the best distro? and this how I do it

Re: VPN recommendations, again

Does anyone have experience with virtual shield? On Dec 8, 2017 12:55 PM, "Eric Oyen" wrote: > I pay about $7 a month for private internet access. good throughput and > good protections all around. find them here: www.privateinternetaccess.com > > -eric > from the central

Re: Wifi adapter

stephend@stephend-desktop:~$ cat /sys/class/net/wlan0/device/modalias usb:v0BDAp8179ddc00dsc00dp00icFFiscFFipFFin00 On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 9:38 AM, Jerry Snitselaar <d...@snitselaar.org> wrote: > > Stephen M @ 2017-04-18 00:46 GMT: > > > Thanks Jerry that finally worke

Re: Wifi adapter

Thanks Jerry that finally worked. Now I should work on 16.04 or 17 but going to keep 14.04 around until I know my system won't freeze on the other 2. On Sun, Apr 16, 2017 at 11:22 PM, Jerry Snitselaar <d...@snitselaar.org> wrote: > > Stephen M @ 2017-04-17 01:41 GMT: > >

Re: Wifi adapter

Jerry, I should have noticed this sooner because I have been trying this but the "extra" in the /lib/mobules is a file instead of a folder. If I'm going to insert anything into it I can't remember which command to use. Would an echo command help? Also because I'm on 14 still I think I should

Re: Wifi adapter

On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 2:11 PM, Jerry Snitselaar <d...@snitselaar.org> wrote: > > Stephen M @ 2017-04-09 00:35 GMT: > > > When I go into the zip file itself, the driver is 8188eu and that's what > I > > copied over to /lib/modules but still getting the same me

Re: Wifi adapter

When I go into the zip file itself, the driver is 8188eu and that's what I copied over to /lib/modules but still getting the same message. I can do a lsmod and it can see the module but it's not active. On Sat, Apr 8, 2017 at 12:18 PM, Jerry Snitselaar <d...@snitselaar.org> wrote: > &g

Re: Wifi adapter

folder or just the script itself to the usr/lib folder? On Sat, Apr 8, 2017 at 11:40 AM, Jerry Snitselaar <d...@snitselaar.org> wrote: > > Stephen M @ 2017-04-08 15:56 GMT: > > > The driver is rtl8188eu for a TL-WN725N wifi adapter > > > > Ah, that has been sitt

Re: Wifi adapter

The driver is rtl8188eu for a TL-WN725N wifi adapter On Fri, Apr 7, 2017 at 10:32 PM, Jerry Snitselaar <d...@snitselaar.org> wrote: > > Stephen M @ 2017-04-08 00:55 GMT: > > > Hi everyone, > > > > This seems really dumb but I have a wifi adapter from TP-L

Re: H1B Visa

I think this discussion has gotten a bit out of hand. Sure the immigration laws are bad and not enforced. I've heard some ppl says they are too strict and it takes years to get citizenship. Though I've personally heard from people that immigrated, took the time to become a citizen complain just

Re: Self-study

Khan academy seems to be pretty good. They have review and it's open source. You will need to jump a head of a lot of lessons but it worked out for me. Still working on basic mathematics though so higher levels are on my course just yet. On Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at 10:40 PM, trent shipley

Re: reasons to hate windows 10

Well to be honest, WIndows updates always sucked because you constantly rebooted and it takes forever. Unless you have a fast HDD but that's another story entirely. So unless you get into WIndows 10 it's hard to say what sucks about it. Yes I prefer Linux over WIndows but that's my preference.

Re: linux distros

It also depends what are trying to do. Like everyone says it is something to play around with but not get into the nidy-gridy of things I suggest something from the Ubuntu or maybe CentOS familes. You want to learn more about how to build up a Linux box, you're looking for Gentoo, Arch, or LFS.

Re: VPN Assistance

I agree with toddc. If your starting to learn about VPN networking it's best to try a free option. I had Zentyal installed on an old desktop that is collecting dust at the moment. But I had OpenVPN working in home and it worked fine. Sure I remoted into my home server once in a while but I was

Re: update systemd

Well that would definitely be a problem but it does give people chances to fix things and grow. So if we didn't have problems like systemd pausing, though never tried this before on my Fedora system with systemd. It does give developer and other computer enthusiast a challenge to solve. What

Nvidia driver issue

Hey y'all I just installed a GEForce 210 into my desktop. I'm running Fedora 24 and I tried to install drivers with 'dnf install nvidia-driver' when I rebooted my system it crashed. What happens it goes to a white page stating something went wrong and to log out and try again. I have attempted

Re: Multiple drives

of a ssd as a cache, as >>> usual they just sell it as such and make it brainless for users to take >>> advantage. Look up dm-cache, flashcache, or bcache for the same thing under >>> linux, where dm-cache is built into newer kernels as part of lvm (maybe >&g

Podcast for android

Hey everyone, I'm trynig to look for software for android to listen to podcast while offline? I am looking to listen to jupiter boardcasting or Tech guy. -- Stephen Melheim 602-400-7707 smelhei...@gmail.com --- PLUG-discuss mailing list -

Re: WANTED: presentation on systemd for upcoming PLUG meeting

Also will this be put onto YouTube? I won't make it because I have training until 8:30 at night. On Apr 6, 2016 6:52 PM, "Brian Cluff" wrote: > Thanks Todd! > > You heard it here first. Systemd talk at the next meeting. Formal > announcement coming soon... > > Brian Cluff

LAMP setup

Hi to learn LAMP with python to gain another job market skill. I have everything setup and it works when I'm just displaying a HTML site. When I'm trying with python it doesn't work. I'm using python3 because that is what most blogs were saying to use. I have enabled the cgi and mpm_prefork

Re: LVM question

: On 2015-07-18 10:25, Stephen M wrote: The original size [of the LV was] 3G for my home directory. I am trying to reduce it to 2G so then I can increase my /usr to 8G from 7G. lvreduce -L 1G /dev/testLVM/lvhome Do you really want to reduce lvhome? [y,n]: y Command failed with status code 5

LVM question

Hi Everyone, I'm trying to learn LVMs. I created a couple LVM partitions and was trying to resize a /home I made. I use efsck2 to check the disk, resize2fs to resize it then lvreduce/lvresize but it came out with an error status 5 code. The partition was unmounted so that wasn't the issue and

Re: LVM question

. To resize an lv, you do an lvresize and then a resize2fs. you can grow them without much issue, and newer ones will let you do it online. just don't try to shrink it online :) On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 8:43 PM, Stephen M smelhei...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Everyone, I'm trying to learn LVMs. I created

Re: do we have a community outreach program?

Joe, I knew that I was just yanking your chain :p On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 6:24 PM, j...@actionline.com wrote: I smell trouble there Joe. But the idea of asking thirfts stores to put up stickers would be nice. It was a joke, Stephen ;) -- On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 5:28 PM joe

WIndow motor

This is not the WIndows OS just your average window. My father is looking for a switch to put into his mobile home to lower the shades. He was looking at some kits but told me they are in the hundreds. I know this is something strange to ask the group but I seem to always ask some strange

Re: Remotes for Kodi/XBMC

When I use Kodi I usually just use the app on my phone as the remote. Cheap, easy to use, and I don't need an extra remote lying around to try and find. Plus it locks so even if some wanted to change the channel they'd either have to get up or know how to unlock my phone. On Apr 15, 2015 8:53 AM,

Re: how do I run this program?

Sharing the love for computers should never be considered cheating. On Feb 25, 2015 10:48 AM, Todd Millecam tyg...@gmail.com wrote: Your program is the wrong way to do this. For 1 mil + guesses, C is the right way to go, but for 10k you can just use a shell script: for i in `seq ` ;

Re: a good thing about sp*m

Depends on how much spam you each a week On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 8:50 PM, Michael Havens bmi...@gmail.com wrote: Sp*m takes up no room in the garbage after you've disposed of it. lol :-)~MIKE~(-: --- PLUG-discuss mailing list -

Re: a good thing about sp*m

you eat a week On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 9:56 PM, Stephen M smelhei...@gmail.com wrote: Depends on how much spam you each a week On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 8:50 PM, Michael Havens bmi...@gmail.com wrote: Sp*m takes up no room in the garbage after you've disposed of it. lol :-)~MIKE

Re: CentOS Networking with V Box

I don't remember if this is a problem in centos 7 as it was in 6. But check to make sure the eth0 is configured. But yes a print out of ifconfig inside vox would be great. On Feb 3, 2015 8:07 PM, Michael Torres matorres...@gmail.com wrote: Hello all, I have an problem that I cannot seem to

Partition Question

Hi All, I need to reinstall a new OS on my laptop because Mint 17.1 keeps having trouble downloading packages sometimes. Mostly it says that 'a template for rebecca could not be found.' So the release is just having growing pains. Onto my question though, I want to install something else but

Web design

Hey all, I wanted to see if anyone could help with designing a webpage using GoDaddy web tools? I have a friend who is in business for herself and paying $200 for advertisement. She is not getting a lot of hits on her site but doesn't know what to form. She is a hair stylist and has told me

Re: Media Center setup

:47 PM, Stephen M smelhei...@gmail.com wrote: Hey All, I know this as been asked a few times, and I should keep all the convos but there are so many. I am trying to find a good solution to start a media center. So I need to know best hardware and software. Of course I am using a Nix system

Re: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Keith, I haven't played allot with RHEL flavors very much but. If I remember correctly, to create a new user on a RHEL system you us useradd while in Debian/Ubuntu you use adduser and the home directory is setup for you. Such servers like Apache or SSH are not installed from the beginning. But

Reflashing BIOS.

Hi, I need help again to be able to reflash my BIOS. The reason is that my computer is having trouble reading my drives, CDs, or USBs. I know this is the case with the desktop because it works fine in my laptop. I have tried to reset the BIOS and thought at first to reinstall GRUB. Nothing is

Re: Reflashing BIOS.

/17/2014 11:03 AM, Stephen M wrote: Hi, I need help again to be able to reflash my BIOS. The reason is that my computer is having trouble reading my drives, CDs, or USBs. I know this is the case with the desktop because it works fine in my laptop. I have tried to reset the BIOS and thought

Re: Reflashing BIOS.

...@gmail.com wrote: Well that's strange. We're there any recent changes? On Dec 17, 2014 11:26 AM, Stephen M smelhei...@gmail.com wrote: Yes the BIOS does see them both. The trouble is that it was booting to EFI first now it won't boot to either legacy or EFI. It just sits there after

dban

Hi everyone, I need help again with my computer. I am not sure what happened, but ever since I used dban to erase one HDD connected through a usb adapter my desktop doesn't want to load an OS. It was working fine until dban started to erase the entire disk. I stopped it before it could get too

Re: dban

, my guess is unless you're using forensics tools, you're not going to get at it. -mb On 12/15/2014 02:26 PM, Stephen M wrote: Hi everyone, I need help again with my computer. I am not sure what happened, but ever since I used dban to erase one HDD connected through a usb adapter my

Re: dban

. The BIOS is HP and from their website it should be the most current version. On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 2:34 PM, Stephen M smelhei...@gmail.com wrote: Ok, well at this point I should be able to get a program to rewrite the boot sector so I can setup an OS on the drives. So that is what I am looking

Re: dban

at 5:28 PM, Stephen M smelhei...@gmail.com wrote: This might seem odd. But is there a chance that dban messed with my BIOS firmware? I am having trouble loading even a live CD. BIOS doesn't always work but computer will boot into EFI. I know it sounds strange but thats the only thing I can

Re: dban

Well that didn't do anything still looking for EFI. But I am going to see about downloading this new version of the BIOS and see if it will run or not. On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 5:35 PM, Stephen M smelhei...@gmail.com wrote: Haven't tried to reset the BIOS but did try to change the boot order

Re: dban

but it does seem like something messed with BIOS do you have a clean working drive that you can install and boot to. One that is NOT a USB? Try that, at least you'll be able to narrow down the issue in one direction or the other. Mike On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 5:46 PM, Stephen M

Re: dban

I think I got something. Looked for forms and one suggested to rebuilt GRUB bootloader. Seems to be working but it was working earlier today before I rebooted my computer for updates. On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 6:03 PM, Stephen M smelhei...@gmail.com wrote: I can look but most of them

Using Dban

HI, I have a couple drives that I want to wipe and give them to the Loco group. I have never done a wipe on my own computer. I want to see whats the best method. I know there is dban, wipe, and many other solutions. I will be using a SATA to USB adapter so I don't have to open my computers

Re: Using Dban

to do the overwrite. If you want to do it on multiple drives, just plug them all into the same computer, and run shred on all of them from a live-cd of your chosing) On Sun, Dec 14, 2014 at 10:27 AM, Stephen M smelhei...@gmail.com wrote: HI, I have a couple drives that I want to wipe

Re: Using Dban

need to format them. Try booting up with the gparted live cd and see what you can see. On Sun, Dec 14, 2014 at 11:36 AM, Stephen M smelhei...@gmail.com wrote: There is a problem using dban. When I started it up it never gave me options on what to scan. Now my two SATA drives along with my

Re: Using Dban

shred your USB drive, then it won't mount until after it's reformated because you overwrote the partition table. On Sun, Dec 14, 2014 at 11:53 AM, Stephen M smelhei...@gmail.com wrote: The problem right now is the USB with my different is won't mount. And when I tried a live cd. It didn't boot

Multisystem USB

Hi, While I am trying to fix my computer. I am having trouble forcing my multisystem image to see my usb. Yes the usb is formatted to FAT32 and I've tried other systems. Has anyone had trouble with multisystem not seeing the usb in the first place? Any solutions? The pupose to using

Personal VPN

Not trying to get everyone riled-up about this but. I wanted to know whats a good personal VPN service. I have been watching tech videos just to keep up with my skills and they were talking about VPN. I understand the who issue with banking online or going to your email in public places.

VirtualBox

Hi all, I'm not sure if someone has already asked this question. I have a 64 bit host that I have VT enabled in the BIOS. I can sometime create/run 64 bit guest machines and other times not. It is usually when I reboot my computer. I have tried to turn off VT or just having it on. It will

Re: VirtualBox

, Stephen M smelhei...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I'm not sure if someone has already asked this question. I have a 64 bit host that I have VT enabled in the BIOS. I can sometime create/run 64 bit guest machines and other times not. It is usually when I reboot my computer. I have tried to turn

Re: VirtualBox

...@twingeckos.com On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 2:52 PM, Stephen M smelhei...@gmail.com wrote: It happened the same in 12.04 with 14.04. I have the latest version of virtualbox which is 4.3.18 and the expansion pack. If anyone can think of ideas why this might be happening that would be helpful

Re: VirtualBox

, Stephen M wrote: It happened the same in 12.04 with 14.04. I have the latest version of virtualbox which is 4.3.18 and the expansion pack. If anyone can think of ideas why this might be happening that would be helpful. But at this time I might have to look for a new computer. On Thu, Nov

Re: VirtualBox

, 2014 at 6:23 PM, Stephen M smelhei...@gmail.com wrote: My computer is around 5 years old and I don't think there is an app that controls the BIOS that I'm aware of. The CMOS battery could be an issue because when I looked at the date in the BIOS it wasn't set correctly. But the date was so I

Re: VirtualBox

functions. -mb On 11/13/2014 06:25 PM, Stephen M wrote: Now I don't think this is very relevant but I also have virtualbox setup on my laptop. I've not had an issue yet like on my desktop. The difference is that this laptop is a little newer and also I'm not dual booting my laptop

VirtualBox

Hi, I am trying to change the BIOS setting in my virtualbox. A project I am working states my computer is too old for the software. In the virtualbox, I can find the BIOS states it is 12/9/2006. But my host's BIOS was updated as of 2011. I have tried VBoxManage modifyvm vmname

Re: VirtualBox

and correct the date. On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 6:27 PM, Stephen M smelhei...@gmail.com wrote: How would you do that in virtualbox? I don't see an option. On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 6:19 PM, Stephen Partington cryptwo...@gmail.com wrote: You can tell virtualbox to load bios on next boot via gui

Re: not getting ip address

Michael, I've heard in the past that when people fix the keyboard in a laptop. That sometimes that can knock off the wireless adapter by accident. Have you tried by an Ethernet cable? On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 11:15 AM, Michael Havens bmi...@gmail.com wrote: I just got my laptop back from the

Re: not getting ip address

, 2014 at 11:25 AM, Stephen M smelhei...@gmail.com wrote: Michael, I've heard in the past that when people fix the keyboard in a laptop. That sometimes that can knock off the wireless adapter by accident. Have you tried by an Ethernet cable? On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 11:15 AM, Michael Havens

Hardware question

I'm trying to diversify myself so I can add things on my resume. I have never been into hardware but trying to understand it. I was planning on getting a computer or two from goodwell, break it apart and reassemble it. And I am looking for volunteering like at a library to help non-techie ppl.

fail2ban VS. denyhost

I am trying to learn about ssh and remoting into a computer from out of my house. I have all the ability to do this but I want to make sure my desktop is secured. I will basically be either using resources on my desktop or backing up files to my laptop. From what I have read. denyhosts and

Re: python

I would say codeacademy.com because I've been doing that for so long. But the interrupter is a little flaky. On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 1:24 PM, Larry Lauer larry.lauer...@gmail.com wrote: The videos can be helpful also if you buy the package. -Larry On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 1:10 PM, Michael

StartUp Scripts

Hi Everybody, This is a problem that keeps bothering me. I have a HP Laptop that I installed Mint 17 a few months ago. When I turn on my laptop, I scan it for open ports and find stuff like cups, smbd, avahi-daemon.. I have disabled them with service and removed them from start up with

Re: StartUp Scripts

/10/2014 05:20 PM, Stephen M wrote: Hi Everybody, This is a problem that keeps bothering me. I have a HP Laptop that I installed Mint 17 a few months ago. When I turn on my laptop, I scan it for open ports and find stuff like cups, smbd, avahi-daemon.. I have disabled them with service

Re: StartUp Scripts

No systemd but there is something sysctl from BSD. -- Stephen Melheim 602-400-7707 smelhei...@gmail.com --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:

Re: Installfest related question

Harold, This decision is up to what you would like to do. Dual booting Windows and CentOS will not affect your ability to remote into your computer while offsite. The risk of security is no different if you just at CentOS running honestly. Any computer can be riddled with all sorts of malicious

Re: Installfest related question

Harold, Todd has a few ISOs of WINs 7 and I might have some myself. Yes WINs 7 can make a snapshot of the system or make a recovery disk which would be something you could do. I've never done it myself but there are great articles out there on google to tell you how. If anything you could wait