I think that you could definitely get something working well for that setup.
The one comment I'd have is use ZFS for your filesystems and then it becomes
super easy to add storage later, or setup mirroring, or whatev you want. ZFS
does an amazing job of separating out the physical drives from th
On Nov 30 2023, at 1:55 am, Matthew Gibson via PLUG-discuss
wrote:
> Flatpak is an alternate to snap.
>
Just be careful with Flatpaks. Snap requires apps to be confined to be in the
store (or require CLI options to override and install) so things are generally
walled off from your system. Whil
On Nov 29 2023, at 3:34 pm, Steve B via PLUG-discuss
wrote:
> Is anyone here doing something similar? Looking for suggestions as to which
> OS to use.
>
Not a VM, but I just use the Snap version of Firefox which runs it under
Apparmor and a bunch of other filesystem chroots. That's on Ubuntu.
On Aug 3 2022, at 11:00 am, Snyder, Alexander J via PLUG-discuss
wrote:
> Even if you're not familiar with Chef, or Automate ... I think I need help
> with API.
>
I have a friend that built this site: https://curlhub.io/
I find for dealing with new APIs it helps a lot, you can play with the var
Not sure how new you're thinking, but I use an Ultra-widescreen monitor with
Linux. It is about 3 years old. I use on Ubuntu 20.04 on my laptop via USB-C to
a docking station. I also use it with my RPi 4 running Ubuntu 20.04 via HDMI.
I'd imagine most modern graphics cards that have drivers for
On Mar 26 2022, at 10:52 pm, Michael Butash via PLUG-discuss
wrote:
> This is interesting news - ubuntu moving to rolling releases.
>
>
> https://www.neowin.net/news/ubuntu-becomes-a-rolling-release-with-rolling-rhino/
If you follow the links you get to the Rolling Rhino webpage:
https://rolling
On Jul 23 2021, at 1:50 pm, Mark Phillips via PLUG-discuss
wrote:
> There will come a time long after you install the OS that something will
> happen and the computer won't boot. You then need to (1) find that old
> monitor; (2) find the right cable; (3) find the right mouse; (3) pull out the
Dude, you've missed the most exciting Jitsi announcement!
https://jitsi.org/blog/e2ee/
Because Jitsi works with multiple streams and doesn't require decoding and
resampling on the server side they can send them encrypted to the server which
then will choose which to send on. Real e2e video chat.
On Jul 10 2018, at 12:30 am, Victor Odhner wrote:
> My wife has a tablet (Sansung SM-T530NU Nook) that can be charged in my
> truck. But it rejects every attempt to load from the Macbook via USB cable or
> BlueTooth — the devices see each other, but can’t quite get a connection.
> Only remaining
On 03/15/2018 02:06 AM, der.hans wrote:
> It was good to catch up with some friends I hadn't seen in a
> while. Several are from Phoenix and might be stopping by PLUG and
> Stammtisch when they visit town. We also have an import planning to stop
> by during the summer.
Was awesome to see all the P
I use KeePassXC (via the snap) and KeePass2Android. On my Ubuntu Desktop
I have the file saved in the directory that NextCloud syncs and then
have KeePass2Android also grab it from Nextcloud. Works great.
Ted
On 01/02/2018 01:13 PM, der.hans wrote:
> Am 02. Jan, 2018 schwätzte Mark Phillips so:
On 09/25/2017 01:21 PM, der.hans wrote:
> I don't see a way to buy it without the windows tax. Anyone know a way to
> get an unloaded XPS from Dell?
You have to search for "developer edition." Here is a link to one:
http://www.dell.com/en-us/work/shop/dell-laptops-and-notebooks/xps-13-developer-e
On 07/03/2017 12:12 AM, Kevin Fries wrote:
> I love my chromebook and use it allot. One of the few things I can't
> run on it is CAD. But I have found excellent programmer ide,
> graphics, etc.
Have you tried OnShape? I was surprised how capable it is, for 3d
printing and other such things it ha
On Tue, 2017-01-03 at 15:11 -0700, Matt Graham wrote:
> "Like a Raspberry Pi but with
> more
> power" seems to be what they were going for.
I've been looking more at the 96boards project. They're a standardized
form factor that allows the various ARM vendors to show off and provide
development pl
On Wed, 2016-12-28 at 13:04 -0700, Anon Anon wrote:
> I want an Ubuntu phone so bad I cannot stand it. It seems impossible
> to find any information about it and US carriers seem completely
> ignored
I'm using a Meizu Pro 5, which I got with Android and unlocked and
flashed. I'm on AT&T and it gets
xlinux.org [mailto:plug-discuss-bo
> un...@lists.phxlinux.org] On Behalf Of Ted Gould
> Sent: Friday, June 24, 2016 7:29 AM
> To: plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org
> Subject: Re: IgnitionDeck help
>
> On Thu, 2016-06-23 at 17:29 -0700, unixprgrm...@gmail.com wrote:
> I
On Thu, 2016-06-23 at 17:29 -0700, unixprgrm...@gmail.com wrote:
> I of course need help on a Linux platform (Ubuntu 15.10)
I know nothing about IgnitionDeck or Wordpress, but please please don't
deploy anything on Ubuntu 15.10, it is only supported until next month.
16.04 LTS is a much better choi
On Sat, 2016-06-18 at 10:14 -0700, Dennis McClellan wrote:
> I get the gray frozen screen, not always, but often. After a few
> seconds or sometimes minutes a message pops up and states “Ubuntu has
> a problem and needs to shut this program down.
What happens there is Compiz (the WM for Unity) ping
Honestly, after doing a bunch myself, I would pay someone to do it. I could
have done better on a few, but for the majority, they did a much better job
than me. I used scancafe.com, which did a good job.
Ted
On Saturday, February 20, 2016 8:36:11 PM CST, Michael
wrote:
I volunteered to sp
On Thu, 2016-01-14 at 09:49 -0700, Stephen Partington wrote:
> http://www.mj-technology.com/products/ubuntu-tablet?variant=101732383
> 39
>
> That's actually pretty spiffy as tablet devices go. Heck its pretty
> spiffy as a number of devices go...
Looks like it's just running the Desktop version o
ake it. And I'm guessing fences are smart enough to by the
drives cheap and then sell the data if they can get more for it.
Ted
On Thu, 2015-10-29 at 10:44 -0700, Keith Smith wrote:
> What about security in a situation like this?
>
> On 2015-10-28 21:17, Ted Gould wrote:
> > On Tue,
On Tue, 2015-10-27 at 23:14 -0700, Michael Butash wrote:
> Wonder why they turned off analog channels? Besides, who really uses
> 1gbe speeds aside from a service provider or having 10 kids all using
> netflix at the same time watching at 4k res?
Your comment is based on thinking about how you use
On Tue, 2015-08-11 at 05:21 +, trent shipley wrote:
> What are some good open source issue trackers?
>
Launchpad. There's more there than a bug tracker but I think it can be
teased apart easily enough. All open source of course. Really the
integration between code hosting and bugs is really n
On Mon, 2015-07-27 at 07:29 -0700, Stephen Partington wrote:
> That i really the crux of it. Having the ability to have a similarly
> usable experience between devices. I personally was really keen on the
> original Ubuntu concept of a single device that could represent the
> DEsktop - Phone as the
On Sun, 2015-07-26 at 15:41 -0700, Brian Cluff wrote:
> That makes a lot more sense than a single interface to spread across all
> devices. That just seems to me that the very best you can come up with
> is something that will be described as on avarage as "not completely
> horrible" across al
On Sat, 2015-04-18 at 20:16 -0700, David Lopez wrote:
> at any rate, on my ubuntu box, if i press the window key for a couple
> of seconds, a new wiindow pops up with a handy key shortcuts. but now
> on rev. 1410, it also overlays a small icon over the left hand icons
> starting from the second ico
On Sun, 2014-12-21 at 15:34 -0600, Keith Smith wrote:
> I was not able to shell into the server and found SSH had not been
> installed. I was surprised. I installed SSHD and now I can access the
> box via the shell.
The default policy for Ubuntu is "no ports open" which basically is a
means
On Tue, 2014-12-09 at 06:34 -0700, James Dugger wrote:
> Others may disagree but I am seriously considering the move to an
> Openstack cloud with our Web servers running 12.04 LTS for Drupal.
Just to be curious, why would you move to 12.04 LTS today instead of
14.04 LTS? It seems like if you wer
I've got a router running DD-WRT and I'd like to enable the OpenVPN
feature on it. But, I'm a little confused with the configuration mostly
in the category of "additional config". While I've found a few blog
posts on configs, it's unclear what the defaults are and if they're
actually sane defaults
On Sun, 2014-08-24 at 13:59 -0700, der.hans wrote:
> Here's an excellent diagram for how that fits in with other parts of the
> system.
>
> http://www.brendangregg.com/linuxperf.html
Something he mentions, but doesn't go into to detail on, that we've had
luck with is LTTng. We've started adding
On Tue, 2014-08-12 at 17:25 -0700, Mark Phillips wrote:
> Does anyone use an Dell XPS15 or M3800 laptop? I am looking at these
> two models, or perhaps the developer edition with Ubuntu
> pre-installed. I have read that these machines get really hot...to the
> point of the machine crashing. Just wo
On Mon, 2014-05-05 at 09:25 -0700, Carruth, Rusty wrote:
> In my past experience, I had noticed that the BOGOMIPS reported on
> (each of the) hyperthreading enabled CPUs was half that of the same
> CPU with hyperthreading turned off. Which made me believe that the 2
> CPUs were effectively half th
First, I love the mail, I love how you put saving money first. Great
idea.
We have a bunch of positions open, I'm not a hiring manager for any of
them, but some seem related to your expertise. If you went in an applied
some of that Wordpress experience the Wordpress Juju charms I'm sure
someone w
In general I'd recommend just writing down the group and PPA name and
reinstalling them with apt-add-repository. It'll handle all the tricky
parts there. If you keep track of ppa:foo/bar that's probably better
when reinstalling.
Also, as usual when talking about PPAs, they're really for develop
On Thu, 2013-11-07 at 09:54 -0700, Nathan England wrote:
> Is it possible to detect a keylogger built in the firmware of a
> keyboard? Do all keyboards have firmware? What if the keyboard does not
> have macros or extra keys or special keys (beyond blank keycaps)? Could
> the USB cable itself b
You can't. It would only really be useful for FM in the states. The
antenna part would be fine, but the demodulator is for the DVB-T
standard where we use VSB here. I'd be surprised if they didn't have
another model that did VSB though.
Ted
On Sun, 2013-08-18 at 15:01 -0700, Michael Havens wr
On Wed, 2013-07-31 at 09:03 -0700, Dazed_75 wrote:
> Ted may be right about where the growth market is. Especially if he
> primarily considers the 15-35 year groups. On the other hand, there
> are hundreds of millions of current users with history of using a
> desktop and people who want/need big
On Wed, 2013-07-31 at 17:34 +, Paul Mooring wrote:
> As a side note, I do think it's justifiable to worry about the future
> of Linux if the well-funded distros focus on consumers. Linux's
> server market share is massive, it's desktop market share not so much.
> The more we rally around syste
On Wed, 2013-07-31 at 08:57 -0700, Lyle Tuttle wrote:
> My question is "What did you do to educate his school that there are
> other systems out there?"
Heh, you can rest assured that they're informed.
I think my favorite story about that is when the TSA guy doing the
manual pat down asked: "Wh
On Tue, 2013-07-30 at 13:43 -0700, Matt Graham wrote:
> Hear hear! I don't understand the "make everything look like an
> iKindlNexusPad" trend. I think it's because somebody somewhere decided
> that tablets are the awesome hip cool thing, so everything must look
> like them,
Heh, I think t
On Tue, 2013-07-09 at 22:02 -0700, Derek Trotter wrote:
> Here's something that just occurred to me. I used to know a guy in
> Wickenburg who was responsible for the backups where he worked. He
> told me that once a week when he came to work, he would take the last
> set of backups to the bank w
On Wed, 2013-06-12 at 07:46 -0700, keith smith wrote:
> I have a political blog and am very outspoken.
Wonderful, and your blog is a great place for that. I support you being
outspoken about the issues in your private space. But the PLUG list is
a communal space, and with that comes certain co
I would say that it is a list of Linux and related topics.
Things like programming in PHP, that'd be OT, but still fine on the
list. Even stuff that is political in nature, but related, like
security and privacy, is relevant but OT.
Where I think it goes from OT to Off-List is when blame is bei
No, as Lisa stated it's not about conservative or liberal, it's
off-topic for a technical mailing list. I'm sure that Mike just forgot,
but please don't derail this helpful reminder.
Ted
On Tue, 2013-06-11 at 14:33 -0700, keith smith wrote:
> Yeah Mike!! What were you thinking. No conservati
Okay, I may be feeding the trolls, but I have to ask:
Is there a link to this SELinux is a backdoor thread? I mean it is open
source and the source code has been read by many people inside the US
and out. Is it just "the NSA wrote it so it must" type of thing?
In my experience the only backdoo
On Fri, 2013-05-31 at 11:08 -0700, j...@actionline.com wrote:
> Android is also on a path to take over desktops and laptops. A new Galaxy
> Smart Dock allows your Android phone to become a desktop computer by
> connecting an HD monitor, external storage, USB keyboard and mouse for
> just $99. Now
On Thu, 2013-04-25 at 22:57 -0700, Alan Dayley wrote:
> What CMS would work well for such a thing? Is there something based on
> Drupal or another framework that can do this?
I'd look at status.net: http://status.net/
They have most of the features you're looking for already, and some
addons that
On Fri, 2013-04-19 at 09:16 -0700, Lisa Kachold wrote:
> arpspoof [arp rarp nature of tcp/ip and the linux kernel]
> sslstrip [sslstrip decode packets including auth/password and url -
> run tool to get a list of everything victim sends out or accesses]
So you're assuming that I wouldn't request t
On Fri, 2013-04-19 at 06:18 -0700, Lisa Kachold wrote:
> If you take that Ubuntu install to DefCon and connect to the network
> there, every place you connect with/to authenticate to/with will be
> endangered. All of the sites you visit irregardless of protocol
> (encryption) will provide login/pa
On Fri, 2013-01-11 at 17:58 -0700, Eric Shubert wrote:
> At one of the InstallFests Justin Haught was showing off an android
> phone he had loaded with a full ubuntu desktop. I wondered why. I
> suppose because he could.
>
> I guess you're talking about ubuntu running bare bones on the phone.
On Wed, 2013-01-02 at 19:08 -0700, Brian Cluff wrote:
> at least Unity is semi-usable for a desktop,
> but people seem to only be getting used to it, not truly loving it.
Well, I might be bias, but I'm a big fan. I have a whole collection of
indicators and HUD features along with lenses that a
On Tue, 2012-12-18 at 14:16 -0700, Tom Haws wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 1:31 PM, Ted Gould wrote:
>
> > 2. I cannot find any way to Show the Desktop. I have never
> > been able to do this in Unity (or in G
On Tue, 2012-12-18 at 13:09 -0700, Tom Haws wrote:
> Even though I have no respect for Ubuntu's Unity desktop, I don't want
> to make this a gripe thread. I have Ubuntu 12.04 installed on a
> Windows 7 VirtualBox machine, and I need to make it work as
> productively as I can for the time being. T
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