Re: Verizon

2015-11-30 Thread Stephen Partington
All the devices are GSM and CDMA so it will use both networks and LTE. On Nov 30, 2015 12:31 AM, "Michael Butash" wrote: > Anything to do with Sprint scares me - they were absolutely horrid to > use. That is odd, using sprint AND tmo sprint since it is cdma and tmo is > gsm. Unless just staying

Re: Playing Blu-ray disks in Ubuntu

2015-12-01 Thread Stephen Partington
Most any solution I have found has come round to running software that costs more than the drive. On Dec 1, 2015 5:35 PM, "Office" wrote: > Hey Guys, > I'm thinking of upgrading the DVD drive in my home theater PC running > Mythbuntu to a Blu-ray drive. After doing some research on the web, I've

Re: Price Point

2015-12-06 Thread Stephen Partington
If you look at Amazon you can find refurb laptops for 200 to 250 for very similar specs. For me to be interested (as an example) I would want to know how much life it would have left. Does it have an msata slot? Can it be expanded in some way. I would not suggest pouring money into it to make it se

Re: So weird!

2015-12-17 Thread Stephen Partington
Have you tested this? On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 1:47 PM, Michael Havens wrote: > I've had a wireless key board for a year that just recently started > working intermittently. I replaced the batteries with new ones from three > different packages and they worked great for about an average of 10 > m

Re: Read Errors on USB Drive

2015-12-19 Thread Stephen Partington
There is an application called test disk that might be handy for data recovery. But this looks like your drive is in bad shape. On Dec 19, 2015 9:25 AM, "Mark Phillips" wrote: > I have a 2 TB WD USB drive that I formated with NTFS. I have a rather > extensive movie/TV library on it for my plex me

Re: How do you do this in Gimp now

2016-01-06 Thread Stephen Partington
If you are looking to do HDR i strongly suggest DarkTable heck i would strongly suggest it for photography workflows in general. Gim is great for some deeper manipulation, but for a Darkroom stype process Darktable is fantastic. I would put it in a close contention to lightroom. On Wed, Jan 6, 201

Re: How do you do this in Gimp now

2016-01-06 Thread Stephen Partington
I would read through https://www.darktable.org/tag/tutorial/ its a pretty powerful tool. On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 12:24 PM, Michael Havens wrote: > thanks. > > WOW. That was easy to make it look just how I wanted it too. How else can > I use it? > > On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 a

Re: gimp plugin pandora

2016-01-06 Thread Stephen Partington
Irony is that darktable does all of this by design. On Jan 6, 2016 2:35 PM, "Brian Cluff" wrote: > Pandora just helps you manually align images as if you were aligning > photograph on your dining roomtable. Hugin will automatically put them > together, take out the lens distortion, and warp them

Re: gimp plugin pandora

2016-01-06 Thread Stephen Partington
I misread some documentation, looks like the panorama functions still resort to hugin. On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 2:42 PM, Brian Cluff wrote: > Darktable will stick multiple images into a single seamless panoramic > image? > > Brian > > > On 01/06/2016 02:38 PM, Stephen Partin

Re: gimp plugin pandora

2016-01-06 Thread Stephen Partington
I actually am not sure. I see conflicting things and I hav not run it in a while... On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 3:07 PM, Stephen Partington wrote: > I misread some documentation, looks like the panorama functions still > resort to hugin. > > On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 2:42 PM, Brian

Re: Monitor resoluton

2016-01-08 Thread Stephen Partington
this seems to me an issue from almost 10 years ago where X would just forget anything about the screen/monitor and you would have to manually specify that information. Is this really an issue where the rendering engine will just completely loose its screen geometry and never accept it back? On Fr

Re: superimpose image

2016-01-11 Thread Stephen Partington
Cameras are usually good for 5-30 actuations if not more (Ie mirrorless cameras) But the issue with using software to do the over/under expose of the image you loose the on site expanded dynamic range. Newer cameras can have some crazy dynamic range, but if you have an older camera or one

Re: superimpose image

2016-01-11 Thread Stephen Partington
Careful about using multiple F-Stops. it can alter your depth of field and give you really weird hazing. it is usually better to alter shutter speed if anything. so the depth of feild and ISO noise is the same. On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 11:14 AM, Brian Cluff wrote: > While you can use software to

Re: superimpose image

2016-01-11 Thread Stephen Partington
We are human, therefore :-D On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 11:18 AM, Brian Cluff wrote: > Yeah, your right... that's what I meant, and what I do Brain fart! > > Brian Cluff > > > On 01/11/2016 11:15 AM, Stephen Partington wrote: > > Careful about using multip

Spiffy Ubuntu based Tablet

2016-01-14 Thread Stephen Partington
http://www.mj-technology.com/products/ubuntu-tablet?variant=10173238339 That's actually pretty spiffy as tablet devices go. Heck its pretty spiffy as a number of devices go... -- A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep after you

Re: Spiffy Ubuntu based Tablet

2016-01-14 Thread Stephen Partington
given the resources and hardware it should run like a champ. On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 10:09 AM, Brian Cluff wrote: > Nice tablet. I wonder if it would run plasma-mobile. > > Brian Cluff > > > On 01/14/2016 09:49 AM, Stephen Partington wrote: > >> http://www.mj-tec

Re: Spiffy Ubuntu based Tablet

2016-01-14 Thread Stephen Partington
ping cart?? ;) > > Mark > > On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 11:10 AM, Matt Graham > wrote: > >> On 01/14/2016 09:49 AM, Stephen Partington wrote: >>>> >>>>> http://www.mj-technology.com/products/ubuntu-tablet >>>>> That's actually pretty spi

Re: gimp plugin pandora

2016-01-14 Thread Stephen Partington
will also act as a front end to hugin. Pretty much all the >>> software that I have come across that does panorama stuff relies on hugin. >>> My opinion is to just cut out the middle man and use hugin directly. It's >>> easy to use and that way you don't lo

Re: gimp plugin pandora

2016-01-14 Thread Stephen Partington
posures through >>> Luminescence HDR and then processed the resulting image with >>> Darktable. the resulting image is so beautiful. >>> >>> On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 6:00 PM, Brian Cluff >> <mailto:br...@snaptek.com>> wrote: >>

Re: gimp plugin pandora

2016-01-14 Thread Stephen Partington
59953,-82.2695704,3a,46.6y,347.38h,87.37t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sP1pKh6Rj2qMfnoMg4-SI8A!2e0!7i13312!8i6656 > > Brian Cluff > > On 01/14/2016 01:55 PM, Stephen Partington wrote: > >> What camera are you shooting with? >> >

Re: gimp plugin pandora

2016-01-14 Thread Stephen Partington
, or 1 automatic exposure settings. I'll have to lock the tripod > down for that though! > > On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 8:25 PM, Michael Havens wrote: > >> it only bracket +/- 1 . it is a point and shoot camera. >> >> On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 4:13 PM, Stephen Partingto

Re: jpg or tiff

2016-01-24 Thread Stephen Partington
Tiff for print, JPG for most else. On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 7:40 PM, Michael wrote: > which is better? I'm scanning some old photos and need to know which is > better to restore from. > > -- > :-)~MIKE~(-: > > --- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-

Re: jpg or tiff

2016-01-24 Thread Stephen Partington
tiff https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tagged_Image_File_Format jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JPEG saves me some typing. On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 8:03 PM, Michael wrote: > what about to restore? > > On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 9:58 PM, Stephen Partington > wrote: > >> Tiff fo

Re: printer opinions

2016-01-24 Thread Stephen Partington
What are you doing with it? On Jan 24, 2016 9:54 PM, "Bob Holtzman" wrote: > My old HP gave up the ghost so I'm in the market. Reading the reviews it > seems that HP quality has gone down the tubes lately, especially in the > low and mid levels. Epson had decent reviews but 6 ink cartridges? Give

Re: printer opinions

2016-01-25 Thread Stephen Partington
zman wrote: > On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 10:16:33PM -0700, Stephen Partington wrote: > > What are you doing with it? > > .duh, print? > > Sarcasm aside, mostly text docs with some photographs. > > What I would really like to find is a wide format (13 in) with good > re

Re: Best way to learn Magento

2016-01-26 Thread Stephen Partington
They seem to have a set of community forums and the like. You might try there. On Jan 25, 2016 7:48 PM, "Keith Smith" wrote: > > Hi, > > I need to become a Magento developer. I've installed it on Ubuntu 14.04 > and have read a lot of the user manual. I've read some of the developer > docs as we

Re: printer opinions

2016-01-26 Thread Stephen Partington
Laser printers the real cost is the toner, but we worked out a canon that was only about 100 and it was cheaper per page than all the ink jet solutions we had found. Not sure this is still the case. http://www.amazon.com/Canon-LBP6030W-Wireless-Monochrome-Printer/dp/B00K5UZO0Q/ Sure, but you would

Re: compile image viewer geeqie

2016-01-26 Thread Stephen Partington
Just to break down this error set your error all starts with an inability to create a directory. Lack of permission. On Jan 25, 2016 10:18 PM, "Michael" wrote: > I'm trying to compile something and it is complaining about permisipns. > What should I do to fix it? > > test -z "/usr/local/bin" || /

Re: compile image viewer geeqie

2016-01-26 Thread Stephen Partington
; the second time. > > On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 8:10 AM, Stephen Partington > wrote: > >> Just to break down this error set your error all starts with an inability >> to create a directory. Lack of permission. >> On Jan 25, 2016 10:18 PM, "Michael" wrote: >

Re: compile image viewer geeqie

2016-01-26 Thread Stephen Partington
/Downloads . > > On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 11:57 AM, Michael wrote: > >> But how do you give him permission? unix only does file permissions. >> >> On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 10:09 AM, Stephen Partington < >> cryptwo...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Well

Re: printer opinions

2016-01-26 Thread Stephen Partington
5, 2016 at 05:30:12PM -0700, Stephen Partington wrote: > > Well for wide format/photos I would have to say the Epson Artisan 1430 is > > about the best you will get. However, it will kill with ink you if you > use > > it up doing text docs. > > I wasn't aware of th

Re: OT: Who is my Google Calendar Administrator?

2016-01-26 Thread Stephen Partington
Google has kind of merged much of its backend data. So if any Google services have that information they all do. On Jan 26, 2016 1:26 PM, "Victor Odhner" wrote: > OK, so one of the windmills that I like to tilt is limiting how much > Google knows about me. *:)* > > I do use Google Calendar. I had

Re: youtube-dl downloads the first of the series

2016-01-27 Thread Stephen Partington
It would help to know which plugin you are using. On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 6:45 AM, Michael wrote: > I understand now. the address I fed into youtube-dl ( > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nBzAeM0tpI&index=3&list=PLmvlUro_Up1NBX7VK8UUuyWo1B468zEA0) > downloads all of the videos so where

Re: printer opinions

2016-01-27 Thread Stephen Partington
The 1430 is a Pigment instead of Dye and as such they tend to be more expensive per page. On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 11:31 AM, Bob Holtzman wrote: > On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 01:15:56PM -0700, Stephen Partington wrote: > > The artisan 1430 is designed for art reproduction and high

Re: Look at these photos I restored with darktable... cool!

2016-01-28 Thread Stephen Partington
DarkTable is some Top Shelf software. On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 10:13 AM, Michael wrote: > I think it is incredible how well darktable sharpens a blurry scan. > > On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 12:10 PM, Michael wrote: > >> >> https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0BweRamx9lXSLTS1kbnNId21QOHc&usp=shari

Re: multi cored computers

2016-01-31 Thread Stephen Partington
The main purpose to allow multiple processes to run at the same time. So more can be done in a given amount of time. On Jan 31, 2016 1:28 PM, "Michael" wrote: > I was wondering what the purpose of a multi cored computer is. The way I > understand it is that multi cores operate on different thread

Re: multi cored computers

2016-01-31 Thread Stephen Partington
Correct On Jan 31, 2016 1:36 PM, "Michael" wrote: > I was thinking about when I do linux from scratch you need to enter a > special flag to utilize both processors during a build. > > On Sun, Jan 31, 2016 at 3:30 PM, Stephen Partington > wrote: > >> The main p

Re: photos

2016-01-31 Thread Stephen Partington
Technically correct. But make sure you have a slide setting. On Jan 31, 2016 3:10 PM, "Michael" wrote: > my father has a BUNCH of slides. I just told him I could modify them so he > could take the pictures to Walgreens/Walmart/CVS and print them. I think I > just need to scan them and then send t

Re: Window 10 vs. Linux

2016-02-01 Thread Stephen Partington
I have the same issue, Modern Linux and Windows 10 seem to have a deathmatch going on the UEFI boot process. I have not yet found a graceful resolution yet. On Mon, Feb 1, 2016 at 11:13 AM, dad wrote: > Does anyone else have this problem? > > On my desktop computer I have three hard drives. Dri

Re: Window 10 vs. Linux

2016-02-01 Thread Stephen Partington
This i had not found before, I will have to revisit it. http://www.everydaylinuxuser.com/2015/11/how-to-install-ubuntu-linux-alongside.html On Mon, Feb 1, 2016 at 11:19 AM, Michael wrote: > try to reinstall linux. maybe that will fix it. > > On Mon, Feb 1, 2016 at 1:14 PM, Stephen P

Re: Sudo ...

2016-02-05 Thread Stephen Partington
you can use the symlink, and maybe grant group access to the symlink that should give you access to the other location. but generally speaking normal users have read access to /var. so you should not need elevated credentials. On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 2:19 PM, Snyder, Alexander wrote: > Does anyon

Re: router recommendation

2016-02-17 Thread Stephen Partington
Personal experience the ASUS rt66u is great as well as the netgear wndr 3700.i currently run the netgear c7000 wich i got for Cox ultimate and gigablast compatability. On Feb 17, 2016 6:30 PM, "Mark Jarvis" wrote: > > My home has Cox internet connected to a router that has wired connections > for

Re: Sudoers REGEX

2016-02-19 Thread Stephen Partington
I would second ldap... On Feb 19, 2016 6:09 PM, "Phil Waclawski" wrote: > Well, you can use simplified regex. [A-z0-9]* and so on? (at least it > works for me) > > But if you need that much fine grained control over such a large > group...maybe time for ldap? > > Phil W > > On Fri, Feb 19, 2016

Re: Domain Name / Hosting

2016-02-21 Thread Stephen Partington
I personally have been loving Dreamhost, And ill even give you a 50 bux of your first year coupon :-) https://www.dreamhost.com/r.cgi?1915483/promo/dreamsavings50 but seriously... Good stuff. On Sun, Feb 21, 2016 at 11:27 AM, Wayne D wrote: > About to set up a domain name and hosting. Small "p

Re: Domain Name / Hosting

2016-02-22 Thread Stephen Partington
One of my biggest joys is that you can get LetsEncrypt Certs for free at Dreamhost. On Sun, Feb 21, 2016 at 10:06 PM, Ed wrote: > I have moved many domains over to Google: > https://domains.google.com/registrar > Nice to have free privacy and if you use any other google service > there is a good

Re: Domain Name / Hosting

2016-02-22 Thread Stephen Partington
t; > are so inclined - 5cb26bee1bd0c419f598df8c29c427f6c0c49c5f > > > > Or, use this link to sign up - > > https://www.linode.com/?r=5cb26bee1bd0c419f598df8c29c427f6c0c49c5f > > > > They send me an atta-boy for referring someone! ;) > > > > > > > &

Re: movie program

2016-02-22 Thread Stephen Partington
Brian is right in this, Doing home Telescene requires some specialized equipment and software (oddly there is a rumor that Picasa will do this). While you can invest and do it yourself It can come at a very high cost. http://www.lasergraphics.com/telecine-vs-scanning.html On Mon, Feb 22, 2016

Re: Upgrade old laptop with SSD

2016-02-29 Thread Stephen Partington
The lifespan will depend entirely on the number of Writes the drive will incur. The first thing you want to do once the Os is installed is to reduce this. If you have enough ram and are comfortable with nos wap go for it. If you want the backup i would suggest pushing swappiness all the way over so

Re: Upgrade old laptop with SSD

2016-02-29 Thread Stephen Partington
rk for a company that makes SSDs. The above is NOT > professional advice. See a real SSD shrink for professional advice. > > > > Disclaimer 2 – Due to our IT department’s method of handling email, at > this time I can RECEIVE PLUG emails, but I cannot REPLY to them (and have > them

Re: Upgrade old laptop with SSD

2016-02-29 Thread Stephen Partington
One of the ratings said > Kingston was not as fast as others. You said "Samsung Evo 850(they are > also wicked fast)". > > The cost more too. > > > > On 2016-02-29 09:44, Stephen Partington wrote: > >> The lifespan will depend entirely on the numb

Re: swapiness

2016-03-01 Thread Stephen Partington
My suggestion for any elevated file edits would be to use nano or vi/vim (i personally use nano mostly) On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 6:26 AM, Michael wrote: > I understand. The computer would not allow me to use sudo with redirection > . > > On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 1:09 AM, Michael wrote: > >> fyi: w

Re: how to drop swap?

2016-03-01 Thread Stephen Partington
the simplest way is to work with your systems "swappiness" as mentioned in the previous discussions. this will leave it there but set the system up so that only when something goes sideways does it get used. On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 2:30 PM, Tom Roche wrote: > > Thanks all for the interesting disc

Re: Dell RAM limit

2016-03-05 Thread Stephen Partington
The 750 should be ok with the 300w. Also what you can do is keep the parts and swap a motherboard that will match. On Mar 4, 2016 6:41 PM, "Keith Smith" wrote: > > That looks like a rockin' card. I only have a 300 watt power supply > though. I need something that will drive 2 monitors and draw

Re: problem

2016-03-12 Thread Stephen Partington
Use apt to remove chrome and then install chromium check your apt repository and comment out or remove chrome lines. On Mar 12, 2016 9:55 AM, "Michael" wrote: > Google recently removed support of 32 bit chrome. Now when I run apt-get > upgrade it tells me: > > Fetched 3,397 kB in 6s (540 kB/s) >

Re: problem

2016-03-12 Thread Stephen Partington
Ok Uninstaller via apt. Clean up the repository and install the chrome 64 packages :-) On Mar 12, 2016 10:26 AM, "Michael" wrote: > I want chrome64 bit though > > > On Sat, Mar 12, 2016 at 12:10 PM, Stephen Partington > wrote: > >> Use apt to remove chrome an

Re: problem

2016-03-12 Thread Stephen Partington
http://askubuntu.com/questions/43345/how-to-remove-a-repository http://m.webupd8.org/2016/03/fix-failed-to-fetch-google-chrome_3.html?m=1 On Mar 12, 2016 10:35 AM, "Michael" wrote: > cool... thanks. How do I clean the repository? > > > > On Sat, Mar 12, 2016 at 12:

Re: SQL Server move to Linux a 'sad reflection of where Microsoft is', says MariaDB CEO

2016-03-18 Thread Stephen Partington
They are doing a number of things but they still are not the friend of linux they are advertising. But i think MSSQL on Linux is a good thing. i think more MS software available on Linux is a good thing. Just as long as they do not try to patent Linux software that is not theirs to patent. On Wed,

Re: Crap! HDMI... :( Help!

2016-03-19 Thread Stephen Partington
you might need to use the proprietary drivers in order for it to all communicate correctly. On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 12:48 PM, Matt Graham wrote: > a laptop (Asus ROG GL752VW) Stupid Windows 10 would not detect HDMI. Well, latest-and-greatest Linux Mint (KDE) doesn't detect the HDMI eit

Re: how do I do this windows procedure?

2016-04-08 Thread Stephen Partington
What are you trying to do? On Apr 8, 2016 4:24 PM, "Michael" wrote: > >1. Hold down *Ctrl + Shift + Del* on your keyboard. >2. A new window will open. >3. If you are using Chrome, set your time range to "the beginning of >time" and click *Clear browsing data.* >4. If you are u

Re: how do I do this windows procedure?

2016-04-09 Thread Stephen Partington
click the link to get it and the screen that follows says: This site can’t be reached The connection was reset. ERR_CONNECTION_RESET I contacted USAA about it and those instructions are the ones they gave. On Fri, Apr 8, 2016 at 10:30 PM, Stephen Partington wrote: > What are you trying to

Re: how do I do this windows procedure?

2016-04-09 Thread Stephen Partington
Head to history. Then to clear data. On Apr 9, 2016 9:09 AM, "Michael" wrote: > chrome: I click the lines to the right of the address bar then click > 'settings' then what? Is it 'Clear browsing data'? > > On Sat, Apr 9, 2016 at 11:13 AM, Stephen P

Re: To Tux or not to Tux

2016-04-19 Thread Stephen Partington
Depending on his personal skill the VM is a good option. However he may or may not be willing to work with the learning curve. Note win 7 is not the option it used to be with it be EOL. So win 8 or 10 will be a requirement. On Apr 18, 2016 11:38 PM, "Wayne D" wrote: The EXISTING scenario: Win 7

Re: To Tux or not to Tux

2016-04-19 Thread Stephen Partington
only issue i have ever had was an argument between Ubuntu and windows about UEFI. one or the other works fine. On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 10:02 AM, Wayne D wrote: > > > On 04/19/2016 08:39 AM, Steve Litt wrote: > >> On Mon, 18 Apr 2016 23:18:49 -0700 >> Wayne D wrote: >> >> The EXISTING scenario:

Re: Specifying mobos: was: To Tux or not to Tux

2016-04-19 Thread Stephen Partington
The Dell uefi bios on their latitude series has not given me any issue at all with any os. Except OSX, and that is a special weirdness. Asus gaming oriented board tend to be (for lack of a better word) persnickety. And mostly this was an issue with trying to wrangle a dual boot scenario with Window

Re: To Tux or not to Tux (VM's)

2016-04-19 Thread Stephen Partington
I have not been able to run a large enough workload to see the difference. On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 2:03 PM, Matt Graham wrote: > On 2016-04-19 12:12, Wayne D wrote: > >> 1 vote each for VirtualBox and QEMU >> Pros and Cons of each? >> > > QEMU emulates more architectures, like ARM, and it doesn'

Re: To Tux or not to Tux

2016-04-19 Thread Stephen Partington
Yes On Apr 19, 2016 8:26 PM, "Wayne D" wrote: > Ya know, I got to thinking. Couldn't I simply revert to NON-IMMUTABLE, > update, then IMMUTABLE again? It IS a flag is it not? > > chattr +i /path/to/filename > > > On 04/19/2016 06:24 PM, Brian Cluff wrote: > >> Correct, but you have to ask yours

Re: To Tux or not to Tux

2016-04-19 Thread Stephen Partington
The UI has this built in just do media manager On Apr 19, 2016 8:48 PM, "Brian Cluff" wrote: > Yup, you can do essentially that, you'll want to use the vboxmanage to set > or clear it immutable bit rather than just using the file system's > immutable bit since they aren't the same thing. The sys

Re: Specifying mobos: was: To Tux or not to Tux

2016-04-20 Thread Stephen Partington
Option to turn it on or off, yes. On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 11:49 PM, Steve Litt wrote: > Does your Dell Latitude enable you to turn off secure boot, thereby > being accessible to all Linuces and to custom kernels? > > SteveT > > On Tue, 19 Apr 2016 13:22:17 -0700 > Step

Re: To Tux or not to Tux (VM's)

2016-04-20 Thread Stephen Partington
depends on the version/edition of windows. Most OEM copies are not sold with licencing to be run on a VM but some Enterprise editions do allow for such things. On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 7:17 AM, Keith Smith wrote: > Question : I have several Dell desktops and several Dell laptops that > came wit

Re: The Desktop is right again!

2016-04-20 Thread Stephen Partington
Facinating. Have to look at this. On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 9:48 AM, Nathan England wrote: > > I have been a KDE fan since the early days of 1.0. I have stuck with it > through the ups and downs and loved it when others hated it, and rallied > for it when people were jumping to Gnome or something

Re: To Tux or not to Tux (VM's)

2016-04-21 Thread Stephen Partington
you can try it and see. On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 5:21 PM, Keith Smith wrote: > It is OEM. What is the solution for getting an image that I can run in > VirtualBox? > > On 2016-04-20 07:29, Stephen Partington wrote: > >> depends on the version/edition of windows. Most OEM c

Re: google-chrome-stable

2016-04-28 Thread Stephen Partington
That is actually what the installer is. Repo. Then you install like the rest of it. On Apr 28, 2016 6:11 PM, "Brian Cluff" wrote: > When you install Chrome it also adds a package repository so that when you > get updates it also updates Chrome automatically. > > Brian Cluff > > On 04/28/2016 06:

Test 5-2-2016

2016-05-02 Thread Stephen Partington
Test message. Someone respond? --- 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-discuss

Re: Test 5-2-2016

2016-05-02 Thread Stephen Partington
Thanks! On May 2, 2016 5:26 PM, "sean" wrote: > Got it > On May 2, 2016 5:25 PM, "Stephen Partington" wrote: > >> Test message. Someone respond? >> >> --- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-di

Re: OT: Web Application Hosting

2016-05-17 Thread Stephen Partington
For general hosting, mail, and domain hosting i use a fully managed hosting account at dreamhost. they run my mail and web services (doing a good job) and its 120/year. I also can build you a coupon to cut the first year in half. then they also have AWS and cloud compute services as well as virtual

Re: (OT) WordPress Hosting

2016-05-18 Thread Stephen Partington
I am not really a WordPress pro. But there are a number of potential gotchas that create security holes. A big one is plugins. The other is leaving certain settings at default values. Itheme security is a really nice security check for you. And it gives you some options to secure your site. Another

Re: Recommendations for C++ IDE?

2016-05-20 Thread Stephen Partington
Well there is a C/C++ link for Eclipse... http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/packages/eclipse-ide-cc-developers/lunar And i Have used Eclipse before. its pretty nice. --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubs

Re: How to dispose of a dead printer?

2016-06-02 Thread Stephen Partington
http://phoenixelectronicsrecycling.com/ On Thu, Jun 2, 2016 at 8:15 AM, Keith Smith wrote: > > Hi, > > I have a dead HP printer that I need to dispose of. Is there a recycle > place? > > Thanks!! > > -- > Keith Smith > --- > PLUG-discuss mailing li

Re: Darn lightning....

2016-06-04 Thread Stephen Partington
Best way to explain it is they tend to take the "easiest" path to ground. On Sat, Jun 4, 2016 at 6:54 AM, Michael wrote: > I was speaking with a professor from UF in gainesville and he told me that > researchers at UF had found that, contrary to popular belief, lightening > strikes rarely take t

Re: Meeting: PLUG Games Night! 6/9

2016-06-05 Thread Stephen Partington
what side of the valley are you in? On Sun, Jun 5, 2016 at 7:30 PM, Eric Oyen wrote: > ok, > I have asked before when one of these events comes up for a ride. I would > go over there on the bus, but it doesn't run late enough for me to get back > home (the routes I live on last bus goes through

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

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 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: 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: Multiple drives

2016-06-06 Thread Stephen Partington
> > speeds and larger total disk size. Two disks could be a good idea on some > > servers to limit security issues access to root. At least we have lots of > > great options but best is better determined by individual computer use, > > needs and hardware software on a case by

Re: Meeting: PLUG Games Night! 6/9

2016-06-07 Thread Stephen Partington
d. Longer if I stay strictly to the bus > (no rail). > > -eric > > On Jun 5, 2016, at 8:23 PM, Stephen Partington wrote: > > what side of the valley are you in? > > On Sun, Jun 5, 2016 at 7:30 PM, Eric Oyen wrote: > >> ok, >> I have asked before when one of thes

Re: Surge supressor

2016-06-07 Thread Stephen Partington
Read their fine print. it basically says we will protect you and insure you against X amount of damage via X amount of current. and if you read i think lightning strikes are not on that list. On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 2:48 PM, Michael wrote: > I hear that monster surge suppressors were guaranteed t

Re: network card kills the hdmi card

2016-06-13 Thread Stephen Partington
This can mean the Nic is bad, but more than likely it may just be upset at the slot location. If you have alternate slots i would try using those. >From there I would also in bios turn of the onbaord nic as best you can and see if that helps as well when you put the nic in there. On Mon, Jun 13, 2

Re: lightening

2016-06-13 Thread Stephen Partington
Just because you are paranoid does not mean it cannot happen. On Jun 13, 2016 4:30 PM, "Michael" wrote: > It just started to thunder so I unplugged the computer not on the ups. > Should I also disconnect the NIC. I woyuld think that with it unplugged > that would be kill all electric circuits so

Re: lightening

2016-06-13 Thread Stephen Partington
If it is connected to something it can jump to it. On Jun 13, 2016 4:33 PM, "Michael" wrote: > so a lightening surge can go through an electrically dead cable > > On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 7:31 PM, Stephen Partington > wrote: > >> Just because you are paranoid

Re: Network question/problem

2016-06-13 Thread Stephen Partington
Can you ping 192.168.1.1? On Jun 13, 2016 6:20 PM, "Michael" wrote: > $ ifconfig > eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 6c:f0:49:02:01:01 > inet addr:192.168.0.2 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 > inet6 addr: fe80::6ef0:49ff:fe02:101/64 Scope:Link > UP BROAD

Re: Libre Calc

2016-06-14 Thread Stephen Partington
well I would consider a find replace operation on the doc and see how well it does having all the spaces converted to a delimiter. then you can import as a text delimited document. Make the change on a copy not the origonal doc. On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 6:41 AM, Michael wrote: > I have a text d

Re: update error

2016-06-17 Thread Stephen Partington
Looks like a repo you were using for google earth has gone byby. or at least their hash has (to verify they are who they say they are) On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 6:59 AM, Michael wrote: > when I run 'apt-get update' I get the following errors: > > W: Failed to fetch > http://dl.google.com/linux/ear

Re: update error

2016-06-18 Thread Stephen Partington
170dcf4a150ae7d49be0ac0a8f8d43d907db27 >>> *MD5sum: 3d7d807a12c81e800253a7cb212e0ebd* >>> Description: Explore, search and discover the planet >>> Google Earth lets you fly anywhere to see satellite imagery, 3D >>> buildings, 3D trees, terrain, Street View, planets and

Re: SSD & Linux

2016-06-22 Thread Stephen Partington
The software is mostly windows tweaks and alterations. I think firmware updates and the like will need either their bootable ISO or a windows partition someplace. On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 11:08 AM, Lyle Tuttle wrote: > Got a new SSD to update my laptop.Samsung 850 EVO -- looks like the > sof

Re: SSD & Linux

2016-06-22 Thread Stephen Partington
He is likely referring to the SSD magician software that they make. On Jun 22, 2016 5:20 PM, "Steve Litt" wrote: > On Wed, 22 Jun 2016 11:08:07 -0700 > Lyle Tuttle wrote: > > > Got a new SSD to update my laptop.Samsung 850 EVO -- looks like > > the software is not compatible w/Linux Mint 17.

Re: Ubuntu (kde/4k)

2016-06-23 Thread Stephen Partington
This year will be very interesting as they are announcing that they are opensourcing their graphics stack and investing heavily in software development. We may see some significant changes in AMD graphics. On Jun 22, 2016 11:47 PM, "Michael Butash" wrote: Ah, I meant more gpu really. Nothing aga

Opensource SIS

2016-06-23 Thread Stephen Partington
I know a number of you ladies and gents have worked with schools at various levels. Have any of you had any experience with opensource SIS? I would like to try and gather a top 5 list of them and do some deeper digging on them. Thanks a ton for any of your input. -- A mouse trap, placed on top o

Re: Opensource SIS

2016-06-23 Thread Stephen Partington
. > > I believe that the state's system may be open and documented if someone > wanted to create an open source implementation of it... > > Brian Cluff > > > On 06/23/2016 10:29 AM, Stephen Partington wrote: > > I know a number of you ladies and gents have worke

Re: luminance hdr and hugin

2016-06-27 Thread Stephen Partington
I would verify the requirements and make sure there is not one that is conflicting. On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 7:54 AM, Michael wrote: > It is strange luminance and hugin are both installed. Now luminance was > not working so I reinstalled it with apt and then apt informed me that it > needed to un

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