Re: Kubuntu and Ubuntu 24.04.1 get stuck after grub

2024-11-07 Thread Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss
Have you looked to see if there are any errors loggged? On Sat, Nov 2, 2024, 12:01 PM Jim via PLUG-discuss < plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > I have a Dell Optiplex 7010 with 32GB RAM. Recently I installed Kubuntu > 24.04.1 on a Kingston 240GB SSD. Sometimes it gets stuck after the gru

Re: Unable to SSH into Server

2024-10-22 Thread Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss
nish up by installing configuring the vhost to use PHP-FPM. > > Any thought are much appreciated!! > > Keith > > > > On 2024-10-22 07:21, Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss wrote: > > The sshd pam setting is the one you want to make sure works because > > that app

Re: Unable to SSH into Server

2024-10-22 Thread Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss
The sshd pam setting is the one you want to make sure works because that appears to link sshd access to valid system users for ssh access. This is a link to my bog stock login. and any user I create (as a system user) can access via SSH. except for root. but root cannot even log in at this point.

Re: Microsoft Windows Deadline—10 Days To Update Or Stop Using Your PC

2024-10-22 Thread Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss
I just order with the minimum drive size and replace the drive. On Tue, Oct 22, 2024 at 1:14 AM Arun Khan via PLUG-discuss < plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > On Sun, Oct 20, 2024 at 4:29 AM Snyder, Alexander J via PLUG-discuss < > plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > >> It was the r

Re: ubuntu 24.04lts where is the default user ssh access stored

2024-10-22 Thread Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss
the default access controls are in /etc/ssh/sshd_config with the following. # Set this to 'yes' to enable PAM authentication, account processing, # and session processing. If this is enabled, PAM authentication will # be allowed through the KbdInteractiveAuthentication and # PasswordAuthentication

Re: Microsoft Windows Deadline—10 Days To Update Or Stop Using Your PC

2024-10-19 Thread Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss
I got so fed up with windows when i built my new system in dec 2023 I installed windows to verify functionality and then installed Garuda Linux (Variation of Arch) and i have only run into a couple of stumping blocks that I am not 100% sure how to resolve. On Sat, Oct 19, 2024 at 12:14 PM Keith Sm

Re: PHP files and server directory ownership under Ubuntu/Apache2

2024-10-17 Thread Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss
if you want apache to run them then making the files owned by apache is what you will need. or whatever apache user. if you need elevated access then it will get stranger. On Thu, Oct 17, 2024 at 4:09 PM Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss < plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > Hi, > > I have sever

Re: ChatGPT ...

2024-09-26 Thread Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbDyjIIGaxQ On Thu, Sep 26, 2024, 6:46 PM Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss < plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > Very Cool!!! > > On 2024-09-25 12:53, Snyder, Alexander J via PLUG-discuss wrote: > > The attached photo shows my most favorite part of A.I. (in this

Re: Google’s antitrust ruling

2024-09-25 Thread Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss
e better the code it > provides. > > Ran into a freelance PHP developer that uses AI to generate code for his > projects. > > > On 2024-09-25 06:39, Stephen Partington wrote: > > Well it is inevitable given how long they have been working on Ai in > > other areas

Re: Google’s antitrust ruling

2024-09-25 Thread Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss
T. > > What are your thoughts on Google AI and what are your thoughts on Google > getting into AI? > > > > On 2024-09-25 06:31, Stephen Partington wrote: > > Have you tried Google Ai? > > > > On Tue, Sep 24, 2024, 3:16 PM Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss > >

Re: Google’s antitrust ruling

2024-09-25 Thread Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss
Have you tried Google Ai? On Tue, Sep 24, 2024, 3:16 PM Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss < plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > Hi, > > I must be living under a rock, I had not heard of this until today. > > > https://www.cnbc.com/2024/08/07/googles-antitrust-ruling-bears-resemblance-to-microso

Re: Elastic as FLOSS again?

2024-09-04 Thread Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss
I am leery of a company that is willing to play with its open-source licensing like that, For all of its evils Amazon seems to back anything it releases as open-source and keep it that way. This is an interesting about it (But by no means definitive) https://coralogix.com/guides/elasticsearch/elas

Re: Elastic as FLOSS again?

2024-09-03 Thread Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss
We are moving from SOLR to OpenSearch and its pretty fantastic. It is super fast, and super flexible even in its default state/config On Tue, Sep 3, 2024 at 4:45 PM Ryan Petris via PLUG-discuss < plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > Given that OpenSearch is licensed in the original Apache li

Re: Config Kubuntu to not show home dir icons on desktop

2024-09-02 Thread Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss
Open the Dekstoip Folder settings Where it says layout switch from folder to layout., On Mon, Sep 2, 2024 at 11:38 AM Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss < plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > Hi, > > I am running Kubuntu 24.04. It shows an icon for every file in my home > directory on the desktop

Re: VirtualBox, Proxmox, QEMU and CPU Vs vCPUs

2024-07-03 Thread Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss
Openshift is a RHEL implementation of Kubernetes and container management. and a stack of tools that all work together. For certain workloads, containers are a fantastic way to go. And VMware HAs been Gutted by Broadcom. On Tue, Jul 2, 2024 at 7:42 PM Snyder, Alexander J via PLUG-discuss < plug-

Re: HTML, CSS and PHP

2024-07-03 Thread Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss
Each is their own separate thing, and they do that thing. They are often used together because they are very complimentary. On Tue, Jul 2, 2024 at 7:27 PM Steve Litt via PLUG-discuss < plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > Hi all, > > This is a question for our resident PHP expert Keith Smith

Re: sudo in general, and not requiring password in particular (was Re: trouble adding my user to sudoers list)

2024-06-26 Thread Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss
Amusing point of note, My company has a large investment in RHEL and they use sudo, I think part of RH choice is about not choosing to enforce their decisions on their userbase, wich I can appreciate. On Wed, Jun 26, 2024 at 3:31 PM Rusty Carruth via PLUG-discuss < plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org>

Re: AI Tools For Article Writing

2024-06-24 Thread Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss
I use Google Gemini to help digest walls of text into digestible form, and if I despise what I have written. I use the Atlassian version at work for helping to rewrite for clarity in my user stories. On Sun, Jun 23, 2024 at 9:31 AM Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss < plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wr

Re: VERY OT, DO NOT READ THIS! (wind power, was Re: OT Humidity, was time off) Do not read, do not follow up! ;-)

2024-06-22 Thread Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss
And the cities we have built? the changes have already been made in some places. On Sat, Jun 22, 2024 at 5:45 PM Rusty Carruth via PLUG-discuss < plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > Matthew Crews had an interesting reference, which I skimmed. Apparently > there is a 6% change in a non-triv

Re: Does anyone use ventoy ?

2024-06-22 Thread Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss
Very cool. Download iso(s) mount ventoy drive and copy over your iso. Then boot and it will give you a list of your iso(s) and boot. On Fri, Jun 21, 2024, 4:46 PM joe--- via PLUG-discuss < plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > Does anyone on the PLUG list > have experience using Ventoy? > >

Framework getting interesting again

2024-06-18 Thread Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss
https://frame.work/blog/introducing-a-new-risc-v-mainboard-from-deepcomputing So now they have a RISC V CPU option coming... Interesting. -- A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. Stephen -

Re: I don't know what to do.

2024-06-14 Thread Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss
there is a mighty lack of context here sir. On Fri, Jun 14, 2024 at 5:34 PM Michael via PLUG-discuss < plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > Any ideas? > > -- > :-)~MIKE~(-: > --- > PLUG-discuss mailing list: PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To

Re: chrome problem

2024-06-12 Thread Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss
look for and purge all Chrome profiles in @home. better yet, you can create a new user profile for yourself give it access to use sudo, and then purge the old profile after saving anything you find relevant. This will literally blow away anything that was theirs and allow you to focus on yours.

Re: Modular laptop concept

2024-06-12 Thread Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss
"I haven't yet tried it in an airplane seat. Driver's seat of a car was annoying due to steering wheel, but passenger and back seats were fine." those pesky steering wheels getting in the way of real work, On Mon, Jun 10, 2024 at 10:14 PM der.hans via PLUG-discuss < plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.or

Re: internal drive shows up as removable. Removable usb stick doesn't show at all

2024-06-10 Thread Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss
t; rack connects to the sata addon card. I rebooted and the internal drives > don't show.. Apparently anything connected to the sata ports on the > motherboard is treated as an internal drive and anything conneccted to an > addon cars is treated as an external drive whether it is or

Re: is there any way to fix this drive?

2024-06-10 Thread Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss
If you have the disk space, this has been my Go-to disk filesystem repair and recovery. handily enough it runs via multiple platforms. On Sun, Jun 9, 2024 at 9:41 PM Michael via PLUG-discuss < plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > thank you so much. I have a problem with the request though. I

Re: Linux distro options ...

2024-06-10 Thread Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss
umentation across the internet and it never stays broken long. On Sun, Jun 9, 2024 at 7:32 PM Arun Khan via PLUG-discuss < plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > > > On Tue, May 21, 2024 at 7:27 PM Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss < > plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org&

Re: Raspberry Pi4 USB SSD adapters

2024-06-02 Thread Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss
The pi4 has a native pcie slot and there are nvme hats that take advantage of this to mount nvme drives to this pcie bus. On Fri, May 31, 2024, 7:50 PM Jim via PLUG-discuss < plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > I have a Raspberry Pi4 and I've had trouble with some adapters for some > sata s

Re: chromebook and libreoffice

2024-05-31 Thread Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss
nabling Linux (Beta) will require some system > >>> resources and may change how your device operates, so be sure to > >> review > >>> the implications before proceeding. Additionally, the steps might > >> vary > >>> slightly depending on the vers

Re: will windows fit?

2024-05-30 Thread Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss
Bill retired, On Thu, May 30, 2024 at 1:08 PM Jim via PLUG-discuss < plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > I have Kubuntu 22.04 installed. It takes 33GB for the OS and the software > I installed. Here's what df -h returns > /dev/sda1 916G 33G 837G 4% / > /dev/sdb1

Re: chromebook and libreoffice

2024-05-30 Thread Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss
https://support.google.com/chromebook/answer/9145439?hl=en On Thu, May 30, 2024 at 1:44 AM Michael via PLUG-discuss < plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > yeah? but how do you enable the linux mode? > > On Wed, May 29, 2024 at 6:29 PM Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss &

Re: chromebook and libreoffice

2024-05-29 Thread Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss
ow? > > On Sun, May 26, 2024 at 5:53 AM Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss < > plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > >> I just did this for myself. >> >> Enable the Linux side of your Chromebook. Then use apt to update and >> install. >> >&

Re: will windows fit?

2024-05-29 Thread Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss
This will depend on the version of windows. XP or 7 likely, 10 is pushing it, 11 will not On Tue, May 28, 2024 at 1:42 PM Michael via PLUG-discuss < plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > I got a 30 GB drive. Will windows fit on such a drive? > > > -- > :-)~MIKE~(-: >

Re: chromebook and libreoffice

2024-05-26 Thread Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss
I just did this for myself. Enable the Linux side of your Chromebook. Then use apt to update and install. On Sat, May 25, 2024, 4:08 PM Michael via PLUG-discuss < plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > how do you download said suite to said operating system? > > -- > :-)~MIKE~(-: > --

Re: wsl

2024-05-22 Thread Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss
Thats... unusual... VM's you can grant access to an optical drive directly. On Tue, May 21, 2024 at 11:12 PM Michael via PLUG-discuss < plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > wsl won't work. I need to have access to an optical drive. So I need to > wait until I can get a dedicATED LINUX BOX. >

Re: wsl

2024-05-21 Thread Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss
Wsl has some advantages over a vm in that you have direct filesystem access if needed. There are other elements of running things side by side. On Tue, May 21, 2024, 10:22 PM Eric Oyen via PLUG-discuss < plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > Um, > > Given you are on a windows box, wouldn’t it

Re: Linux distro options ...

2024-05-21 Thread Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss
KDE Neon is Ubuntu with them making it 100% KDE compliant :-) There is also Kubuntu wich is Ubuntu dialing a KDE experience. but are options and are quite stable. On Tue, May 21, 2024 at 11:17 AM z via PLUG-discuss < plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > It's been years since I used it, but I

Re: Need help updating linux mint (or) ...

2024-05-17 Thread Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss
To follow up on Alexander said here, It might be worth it to set up an Rsync to a single system so that all of the others will sync to that system. or some of the other roaming profile options. I personally went with KDE on Garuda Linux, but for your needs arch would be a good idea over garuda (Ga

Re: Fediverse for May topic

2024-05-09 Thread Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss
So the idea is to be able to join your own or your buddy's social media site, and then it syncs to others. all the content and activity is still on that main server, but people from other servers can still subscribe to you from wherever they are logged in. and then this subscription is handed back

Re: Show and Tell at GoLUG, 5/1/2024

2024-05-01 Thread Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss
That was an interesting set of tools demonstrated. Do you have any links for the CSS you were demonstrating? On Wed, May 1, 2024, 4:20 AM Steve Litt via PLUG-discuss < plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > Hi all, > > The Wednesday, 5/1/2024 GoLUG meeting commences at 7pm Eastern Daylight >

Re: catching the hand that is spying on me

2024-04-12 Thread Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss
Good you found the culprit, and glad it turned out to be a trustworthy actor. Best of healing and welcome back. On Fri, Apr 12, 2024, 8:08 AM Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss < plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > Good to hear no one is spying on you. Hope your recovery is speedy and > full!!

Re: Catch the hand that is spying on me

2024-04-10 Thread Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss
Amazon sidewalk is what it was called. https://www.consumerreports.org/electronics/wireless-networking/pros-and-cons-of-amazon-sidewalk-network-plus-how-to-opt-out-a9048278100/ On Wed, Apr 10, 2024 at 6:42 PM Stephen Partington wrote: > Note Amazon is building up a low power network across

Re: Catch the hand that is spying on me

2024-04-10 Thread Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss
Note Amazon is building up a low power network across all their devices. That one creeps me out. On Tue, Apr 9, 2024, 3:48 AM Rusty Carruth via PLUG-discuss < plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > However, if you make it obvious that you are looking at the thing, the > perpetrator might decid

Re: Motherboard vs. CPU RAM address ability

2024-04-10 Thread Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss
Dell and how both will cut corners in bios or mainboard to save money and while a cpu can support something the board will not. At this point I will build my own and my next laptop will be a framework unless someone gives me a stupidly good deal. On Wed, Apr 10, 2024, 6:33 PM Matthew Crews via PLU

Re: Catch the hand that is spying on me

2024-04-04 Thread Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss
Welcome back! Sorry to hear about the injury. The tools to do this are not cheap (based on my personal knowledge) but if it is attached to your wifi then Wireshark is where I would go with it. If it has some level of camera etc then I would look at the device and see what kind of model it is and i

Re: internal drive shows up as removable. Removable usb stick doesn't show at all

2024-04-03 Thread Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss
e? > On 4/3/24 12:50, Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss wrote: > > Check bios, some have a removable hardware flag that you can set to allow > them to be hot swap. Sata, SAS and U.2 NVME drives support this at a > hardware level natively so the bio may just need to have a setting

Re: internal drive shows up as removable. Removable usb stick doesn't show at all

2024-04-03 Thread Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss
Check bios, some have a removable hardware flag that you can set to allow them to be hot swap. Sata, SAS and U.2 NVME drives support this at a hardware level natively so the bio may just need to have a setting updated. On Tue, Apr 2, 2024 at 7:28 PM Jim via PLUG-discuss < plug-discuss@lists.phxlin

Re: Wayland on Kubuntu 22.04

2024-04-03 Thread Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss
mpare the cards showed the age of the > cards. The 710 was first sold in 2015 and 2017 for the 580. I can't see > myself spending several hundred for the latest and greatest. > On 4/2/24 09:53, Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss wrote: > > the 710 is almost a decade old even tho

Re: Nextcloud providers

2024-04-03 Thread Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss
I run Nextcloud in the shared hosting that is part of DreamHost unlimited shared hosting. Its Apache but it works. I have nextcloud running on Nginx at work and it's very happy. Just have to not use the htaccess files. If you want a hand, let me know. On Wed, Apr 3, 2024 at 3:33 PM z via PLUG-d

Re: Wayland on Kubuntu 22.04

2024-04-02 Thread Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss
ts.phxlinux.org> wrote: > >> The card I have now is a GeForce GT 710. What Radeon card would be >> equivalent to that? I don't want to buy something that turns out to be >> slower. >> On 3/26/24 10:04, Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss wrote: >> >>

Re: Handbrake won't use nvenc

2024-03-30 Thread Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss
where it said nvdec isn't there, but > I'm trying to use nvenc? Will it refuse to work if nvdec is missing? > On 3/30/24 14:49, Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss wrote: > > nvdec: is not compiled into this build > > That seems to be the issue. > > On Sat,

Re: Handbrake won't use nvenc

2024-03-30 Thread Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss
nvdec: is not compiled into this build That seems to be the issue. On Sat, Mar 30, 2024, 5:03 PM Jim via PLUG-discuss < plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > Here's a recap of my last post. I had Ubuntu 22.04 installed on this > machine. I had Handbrake using the Nvenc option. Recently I

Re: Handbrake won't use nvenc

2024-03-28 Thread Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss
What drivers are you running. Should be the nvidia proprietary drivers to use nvenc On Thu, Mar 28, 2024, 9:11 PM Jim via PLUG-discuss < plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > Recently I had to reinstall Kubuntu on this machine. I didn't have a > problem until I tried to use Handbrake. It wi

Re: Wayland on Kubuntu 22.04

2024-03-28 Thread Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss
gt; equivalent to that? I don't want to buy something that turns out to be > slower. > On 3/26/24 10:04, Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss wrote: > > Also amd flagship cards are getting tremendous performance gains under > vulkan. > > On Tue, Mar 26, 2024, 8:52 AM S

Re: Wayland on Kubuntu 22.04

2024-03-26 Thread Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss
Also amd flagship cards are getting tremendous performance gains under vulkan. On Tue, Mar 26, 2024, 8:52 AM Steve Litt via PLUG-discuss < plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > Jim via PLUG-discuss said on Sun, 24 Mar 2024 12:58:34 -0700 > > >I have an Nvidia card. The computer has an Intel g

Re: Wayland on Kubuntu 22.04

2024-03-24 Thread Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss
I am running Wayland on an arch derivative called Garuda Linux. It runs really well but I have a desktop with dedicated amd graphics. Previously on a Intel/Nvidia laptop with Optimus it worked fine until I tried to flip flop graphics for gaming and ended up having to shut off the Intel gpu and run

Re: Upgrade attempt from Kubuntu 22.04 to 23.10

2024-03-14 Thread Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss
look at your PPA's and see if there is an update repo for them. you can look at your ppa config to check them. Anything that is not from canonical might need updated repo information. On Wed, Mar 13, 2024 at 6:41 PM Jim via PLUG-discuss < plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > Today I tried u

Re: new computer

2024-02-25 Thread Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss
On my current system I am running without swap, but I do have 32gb ram. If you pick an ssd with a ram cache on it you don't have to worry about swap as much there. And you can extend ssd life with underprovisioning if it still is a concern. But in reality a good quality ssd Wil last for years even

Re: Looking for opinions on email providers

2024-01-29 Thread Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss
Proton is pretty cool. and honestly, Gmail is pretty solid on its own. The real trick is how you prefer to handle your email, if all you want is imap/smtp then you are good to go with just about anyone. You can look into providers such as Dreamhost, or even AWS free tier and see if you can get wha

Linux friendly audio/video devices

2024-01-18 Thread Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss
I finally have made the full jump to Linux on my home system. I built a new Desktop and am running Garuda Linux (Arch variant) quite happily. I now need to replace some things that are built into Laptops. A couple of things I am curious about are Linux-friendly HD audio and Webcam recommendations.

Re: Why put Data Centers in HOT Phoenix?

2023-12-31 Thread Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss
Water tower evaporative cooling is super efficient in PHX due to the low humidity (if not the best for the water table) and because of the location and crazy reliable power grid (cheap too) and minimal weather/geological events. On Sun, Dec 31, 2023 at 11:14 AM Snyder, Alexander J via PLUG-discuss

Re: Linux Basics

2023-12-01 Thread Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss
I loved Gentoo, It was an amazing learning experience and taught me a ton about how Linux worked and was put together. It also taught me what Linux really was and what a distro was. and the difference. I would not use it as a server or for my laptop/desktop. But I appreciated what it did for me.

Re: trouble with Debian install

2023-07-27 Thread Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss
Check your bootloader and make sure there is no errant argument being sent during boot? On Wed, Jul 26, 2023, 4:20 PM greg zegan via PLUG-discuss < plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > Hello, > My recent Debian install on a HP 840 EliteBook G1 is booting up upside > down. Anyone know how to

Re: PXE boot server

2023-07-27 Thread Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss
A full desktop environment might be good for general giggles. On Thu, Jul 27, 2023, 2:11 PM Steve B via PLUG-discuss < plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > Recently acquired a HP 800 mini that I have setup and am using as a PXE > boot server. At present I have Clonezilla and Parted Magic bei

Re: RAM Upgrade is this the correct RAM?

2023-07-27 Thread Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss
Dell is Very good at ram specs so you would need to check those. Lookup by service tag will get you the needed info. On Thu, Jul 27, 2023, 2:20 PM Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss < plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > Hi, > > I have a 3 year old Dell that needs more memory. The tag on the memo

Re: Server CPU

2023-07-20 Thread Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss
VCPU is the other half of hyperthreading/smt Rhe route I have gone is a used cpu board combination there are tons of them on ebay and they are a single epyc but combined less than 300. And the core density is amazing. The again. NEW AMD Epyc 7551 32-Core 64-Thread 2.0GHz CPU Retail Box NO VENDOR

Re: Server CPU

2023-07-20 Thread Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss
the downside for these processors is their mainboards are still very pricy to buy. much more than the CPU itself. you are almost better off looking for and buying a refurbished server which you can get for almost ludicrously inexpensive prices. On Thu, Jul 20, 2023 at 1:56 PM Ryan Petris via PLUG-

Re: kernel panic on a debian machine...

2023-07-10 Thread Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss
Spin Right is a good option to raw read data and reconstruct it someplace https://www.grc.com/sr/spinrite.htm On Mon, Jul 10, 2023 at 1:01 PM James Mcphee via PLUG-discuss < plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > boot to livecd, either fix or transfer data. that's how i do it when > somethin

Re: I'm looking for a good shared hosting web host

2023-07-03 Thread Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss
I have been loving Dreamhost. If you are interested I do have a discount code I can send your way. On Mon, Jul 3, 2023 at 4:48 PM David Schwartz via PLUG-discuss < plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > The vast majority of shared hosting providers will not give you access to > a command-line

Re: r u familiar with Docker?

2023-06-13 Thread Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss
Docker is not a true VM. And to Mike's point it has a very tight network layer to keep the containers from pooping on each other. If you want a visual, portainer was a Handy tool for this. There is some really solid docker documentation out there and walk throughs. On Tue, Jun 13, 2023, 8:33 PM

Re: https://simple-help.com/guides

2023-05-31 Thread Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss
never heard of it, their pricing is insane. On Tue, May 30, 2023 at 4:37 PM greg zegan via PLUG-discuss < plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > https://simple-help.com/guides > > Hello, > Has anyone heard of this system and if so what do you think of it? > thanks, > Greg > -

Re: Need Some Help Configuring OpenVPN

2023-05-19 Thread Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss
https://openvpn.net/community-resources/how-to/ seems to think that the client files are up to user discretion, the only part that requires /etc/openvpn access is the config files, and that client files are called when you spin up the OpenVPN client. On Fri, May 19, 2023 at 11:47 AM Mark Phillips

Re: computer recomendations

2023-05-01 Thread Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss
i absolutely +1 refurbished machines, amazon has a great selection of them as well. On Wed, Apr 26, 2023 at 10:48 AM Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss < plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > Look at this : https://deals.dell.com/en-us/productdetail/gd1e > > It is a monster!! 16 Cores, 24 Thread

Re: Docker

2023-04-03 Thread Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss
I have used RHEL, Ubuntu (Preferred), and Amazon Linux (RHEL/Cent related) Docker doesn't care too much, choose the Distro you trust and go from there. On Mon, Apr 3, 2023 at 3:34 PM Steve B via PLUG-discuss < plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > I"m looking to dip my toes into Docker for u

Re: suggestions to add REST API to MySQL / MariaDB tables

2023-02-24 Thread Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss
Are you talking about windows user authentication or just it all happens to live there? Take a look at nextcloud and some of its modules the nature of it being open source might help with code ideas. And it is php. On Fri, Feb 24, 2023, 12:03 PM T Zack Crawford via PLUG-discuss < plug-discuss@lis

Re: round down to the nearest penny

2023-02-17 Thread Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss
Google found this. https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Calc_Functions/ROUNDDOWN On Fri, Feb 17, 2023 at 8:11 AM Michael via PLUG-discuss < plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > how do I get libre calc to round down to the nearest penny? all my > googling has shown is rounding do

Re:

2023-02-02 Thread Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss
Kali should have the ability to install to a USB device and run as a portable installation (Much like the live installer with persistence) without the limit of running from Readonly media. On Wed, Feb 1, 2023 at 9:52 PM Snyder, Alexander J via PLUG-discuss < plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:

Re: I'm in the market for a modem router

2023-02-02 Thread Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss
In my experience the nighthawks are great, but they tend to get weird when you push them to GB internet speeds I have had two with this issue. On Tue, Jan 31, 2023 at 8:17 AM Snyder, Alexander J via PLUG-discuss < plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > Probably a Netgear Nighthawk. I've had at

Re: The Precisionists Inc

2023-01-26 Thread Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss
The real change was when we started gearing our education system for factory work, that's when ADD started to be a societal detriment. On Wed, Jan 25, 2023 at 10:57 PM Steve Litt via PLUG-discuss < plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > trent shipley via PLUG-discuss said on Wed, 25 Jan 2023 0

Re: make live disk with a larger root partition

2023-01-25 Thread Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss
My google Fu shows me this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QK-CbuxlQho And this seems handy and relevant. https://null-byte.wonderhowto.com/how-to/install-kali-live-usb-drive-with-persistence-optional-0162253/ On Tue, Jan 24, 2023 at 9:11 PM Michael via PLUG-discuss < plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.

Re: TDD w/ Python, ch 9

2023-01-25 Thread Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss
Dreamhost might work for you. they have some advanced python options and their dream compute option may be viable for you. On Wed, Jan 25, 2023 at 9:53 AM trent shipley via PLUG-discuss < plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > I'm on the bench with my employer asd studying test driven developm

Re: What's the deal? cookies think my language isn't English

2023-01-25 Thread Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss
I would suspect less gmail hacked and someone dinking with cookies or a plugin getting out out of sorts. On Tue, Jan 24, 2023 at 12:19 PM Michael via PLUG-discuss < plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > twice this has happened to me (that I can remember) where I start gmail > and it asks me

Supermicro IPMI BIOS update

2023-01-16 Thread Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss
This may make some Supermicro folks happy. From https://peterkleissner.com/2018/05/27/reverse-engineering-supermicro-ipmi/ echo -n 'MAc-Addr-here' | xxd -r -p | openssl dgst -sha1 -mac HMAC -macopt hexkey:8544E3B47ECA58F9583043F8 | awk '{print $2}' | cut -c 1-24 -- A mouse trap, placed on top o

Re: usb marked as read-only

2023-01-16 Thread Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss
I know some USB devices when they reach a critical fault level will go read-only when there are no longer any write cycles that can be safely applied. like SSD's But I haven ever run into it to verify. On Mon, Jan 16, 2023 at 2:23 PM Michael via PLUG-discuss < plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrot

Re: cidr notation

2023-01-15 Thread Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss
This is my fav tool for when I am too smoothbrained to do the CDIR in my head. https://www.subnet-calculator.com/cidr.php On Sun, Jan 15, 2023 at 3:14 PM Rusty Carruth via PLUG-discuss < plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > Hmm. I was momentarily confused. > > 10.* is class A, which means a

Re: Software Portfolio

2022-12-01 Thread Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss
> If someone at a prospective employer has time to waste going through my > github code looking to be impressed, I don’t want to work there because > their priorities are messed-up. I can get what I need just talking with > you. > > -David Schwartz > > > > > On Dec 1

Re: Software Portfolio

2022-12-01 Thread Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss
me demonstrable product, > even if I were to get an entry level position in the field which satisfied > me for a while. (It looks like I might get something soon as a Python web > developer ... which would be a step up from writing automated UI tests in > VBScript.) > > > Tre

Re: Software Portfolio

2022-12-01 Thread Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss
I will be brutally honest. When I review what someone has done the resume is less impressive than the work done when it comes to software. Anything you can opensource and share with the public do so. make a website that is based on the same domain as the same email you submit resume's on. link any

Re: What is a full-stack PHP developer

2022-11-25 Thread Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss
This buzzword has a definition. https://www.w3schools.com/whatis/whatis_fullstack.asp Full Stack Web Developer A full stack web developer is a person who can develop both client and server software. In addition to mastering HTML and CSS, he/she also knows how to: Program a browser (like using J

Re: Unable to access Proxmox via browser

2022-11-19 Thread Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss
I always had to use 8006 for the proxmox webgui. On Sat, Nov 19, 2022, 9:00 AM Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss < plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > > Hi Steve, > > I watched a video that used the ip plus port 8086 and the docs show that > as well. > > I did not dinging and reading and Proxmox

Re: Consumer Cloud Storage for InterOp

2022-11-17 Thread Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss
ers on the three OSes? (Maybe with something >>> like FUSE or son-of-FUSE?) Some nice things about Google Drive and >>> OneDrive is they are unlikely to abruptly go out of business taking my data >>> with them and they are likely to keep my data more re

Re: Consumer Cloud Storage for InterOp

2022-11-17 Thread Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss
(of > course, they may use it for big data research, targeted marketing, and > State can get access to it with just a subpoena, not a search warrant.) > > Trent > > On Thu, Nov 17, 2022 at 12:14 PM Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss < > plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wr

Re: Proxmox

2022-11-17 Thread Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss
I have been loving proxmox for years. Ran it my lab at work with semi production workloads and at home. The big suggestion I have is read up on lxc. Proxmox uses kvm/qemu and you can do a great deal with this even if you don't uses containers. The biggest value I can add is use 2 drives if you c

Re: Anyone use Google Fi ??

2022-11-17 Thread Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss
I have friends that use it and the 3 of them I know use it say it is great. On Thu, Nov 17, 2022, 2:21 PM joe--- via PLUG-discuss < plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > Does anyone here use Google Fi ?? > > How good or how bad is it? > > --- >

Re: Consumer Cloud Storage for InterOp

2022-11-17 Thread Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss
+1 for nextcloud. I run a nextcloud instance at work and it is immensely powerful and remarkably straightforward to run. Nginx for me has been easier that apache (nextcloud has pushed me to learn and implement Nginx because of this) but it runs very well this way. If you decide to go this route us

Re: Installing and configuring VirtualBox on Kubuntu 22.04

2022-11-09 Thread Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss
For virtualbox i tend to start here https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads but .deb is a native debian, and therefore ubuntu package type. and you can usually just doublecliock on your (hopefully trustworthy) deb package. On Wed, Nov 9, 2022 at 8:09 PM Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss < plug

Re: software to edit dvds

2022-11-07 Thread Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss
Step 2 = LoL Step 5: there are tools that will allow you to make your own. On Mon, Nov 7, 2022 at 7:48 AM Snyder, Alexander J via PLUG-discuss < plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > Step 1: Rip DVD (MakeMKV, or others) > > Step 2: Have deep philosophical discussion on the ethics of your acti

Re: Cheap Laptop

2022-10-12 Thread Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss
i would run Chrome OS Flex or Linux on that. Win 11 is kind of iffy in my book, and The S version is half an OS. On Wed, Oct 12, 2022 at 12:09 AM Harold Hartley via PLUG-discuss < plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > I have a friend that has 5 laptops for sale right now. He removes all data

Re: Proxmox Hypervisor, vCPU, RAM... etc

2022-10-11 Thread Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss
you're also going to be stepping on > Proxmox's internal processes. > > If you want a machine that you can login to to do otherwise random things, > just create a VM or container and connect to that. Otherwise treat Proxmox > as an appliance, like you would a VMware Hypervis

Re: Proxmox Hypervisor, vCPU, RAM... etc

2022-10-09 Thread Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss
So. Proxmox under the hood is Debian. Virtualization only allow you to stack workloads proxmox has an extra layer of being set up to run containers as well as vms. That can run lean and share resources better. Bet part of this is you can install it on anything you can install Debian on. They even h

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