Re: flat screens

2014-08-26 Thread Stephen Partington
Havens bmi...@gmail.com wrote: I am connecting them to my VGA outputs. :-)~MIKE~(-: On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 8:05 PM, Stephen Partington cryptwo...@gmail.com wrote: what are you connecting them to? your system might not have the outputs enabled. On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 7:59 PM, Michael

Re: Save me from MythTV.

2014-08-28 Thread Stephen Partington
I have been really enjoying plex which is an evolution of xbmc. It has been more stable and offered all the options and features i have been wanting. On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 5:27 PM, Brian Cluff br...@snaptek.com wrote: On 08/28/2014 04:05 PM, Friar Puck wrote: Or maybe Myth doinked itself

Re: Question About System 76 Hardware

2014-08-31 Thread Stephen Partington
If I can afford it I always get the warranty. On Aug 30, 2014 4:47 PM, Mark Phillips m...@phillipsmarketing.biz wrote: For all of you System 76 users, do you recommend the extended warranty for 3 years? In other words, do you find you need this warranty, or is the standard 1 year warranty

Re: (OT) Questions About SSDs for a Laptop

2014-09-02 Thread Stephen Partington
If you have the option of mSATA and Sata in general i would use the mSATA for pretty much everything, and then a hybrid or std drive for the 1TB volume. The system will be very fast and snappy, and then you can save a few bills on your general storage. I have been really keen on the new Crucial

Re: (OT) Questions About SSDs for a Laptop

2014-09-03 Thread Stephen Partington
The main thing that i do for SSD's is remove Swap/Pagefile upping my system memory to give me wiggle room. (8+) and make sure that trim is active. On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 7:42 AM, Mark Phillips m...@phillipsmarketing.biz wrote: Ed, There are a lot of optimization articles out there. The more

Re: samba trouble

2014-09-06 Thread Stephen Partington
I was about to say you don't have any users allowed or created. On Sep 6, 2014 3:25 AM, Derek Trotter expat.arizo...@gmail.com wrote: It's not installed on either one. However I did find the problem of why nothing was being shared. It worked after I added valid users = username to the

Re: Installfest related question

2014-09-11 Thread Stephen Partington
I have access to MSDN and can download certain ISO's But what i would do is make a disk image with something like clonezilla of your Win7 driver and stash that on a USB hdd or something similar and you can just re-image back to stock if you need to do warranty work ect. then you cna full wipe and

Re: Looking for Virtual Hosting

2014-09-14 Thread Stephen Partington
I cannot recall their prices but dream host has vps and they are great for hosting in general. On Sep 14, 2014 5:23 PM, Mark Phillips m...@phillipsmarketing.biz wrote: I have been using linode for many years now. One of my linodes died after a reboot, and their tech support could not figure out

Re: ot: problems

2014-09-18 Thread Stephen Partington
Have you tried a live CD of any flavor to see if it persists? On Sep 18, 2014 8:35 AM, Michael Havens bmi...@gmail.com wrote: when the keybosrd problem stsrted about 6 months ago getting another keyboard was the first thing I did and there was no problem with it when I attached an external

Re: OT: how to overlay text on a google doc graphic background

2014-09-18 Thread Stephen Partington
I have not yet figured this out. On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 4:52 PM, j...@actionline.com wrote: How can I put a form as the entire background of a google drive document and type text over the top in the areas where I want the text to appear? ---

Ok - OnePlus invites available

2014-09-19 Thread Stephen Partington
I have some OnePlus invites to share. Phone is 100% att and t-mobile compatible. For more http://oneplus.net --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:

Re: Ok - OnePlus invites available

2014-09-19 Thread Stephen Partington
One left! On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 7:25 AM, Shawn Badger sh...@badger.pro wrote: Can I get one please? On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 5:36 AM, Stephen Partington cryptwo...@gmail.com wrote: I have some OnePlus invites to share. Phone is 100% att and t-mobile compatible. For more http

Re: Ok - OnePlus invites available

2014-09-19 Thread Stephen Partington
All gone! On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 7:57 AM, Shawn Badger sh...@badger.pro wrote: Thank you!! On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 7:32 AM, Stephen Partington cryptwo...@gmail.com wrote: One left! On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 7:25 AM, Shawn Badger sh...@badger.pro wrote: Can I get one please? On Fri

Re: Ok - OnePlus invites available

2014-09-19 Thread Stephen Partington
Enjoy your devices, I have been loving mine. On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 9:41 AM, AZ RUNE arizona.r...@gmail.com wrote: Awesome sauce, thanks! On Sep 19, 2014 8:27 AM, Stephen Partington cryptwo...@gmail.com wrote: All gone! On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 7:57 AM, Shawn Badger sh...@badger.pro wrote

Re: what I heard... is it true?

2014-09-19 Thread Stephen Partington
At one time this was very true, and in some ways it can still be true. parts like the fans wear out, and due to the space constraints in a laptop this is more critical, and there are some thermal considerations to think about as well. but as long as you are giving decent airflow around the laptop,

Re: what I heard... is it true?

2014-09-19 Thread Stephen Partington
bmi...@gmail.com wrote: That explains the fan but not the internet switch. :-)~MIKE~(-: On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 9:53 AM, Stephen Partington cryptwo...@gmail.com wrote: At one time this was very true, and in some ways it can still be true. parts like the fans wear out, and due to the space

Re: Installation frustrations

2014-09-23 Thread Stephen Partington
I'll second ubuntu for desktops. I usually use a server install disk unless I am doing something built on a main iso like kbuntu ect. On Sep 22, 2014 10:27 PM, Phil Waclawski phil.waclaw...@mesacc.edu wrote: I myself rather like kubuntu for my laptops/desktop but that is just my preference. I

Re: Phone apps for setting up personal WiFi hotspots with lots of DHCP addresses?

2014-09-23 Thread Stephen Partington
I would have to test it but CyanogenMod's base hotshot does not have that limit. Cannot recall the app I used to use.. On Sep 23, 2014 5:55 PM, David Schwartz newslett...@thetoolwiz.com wrote: Simple question: I'm looking to see if anybody knows of any mobile apps that run in either iOS or

Re: Cannot burn DVD but can burn CD's.

2014-09-24 Thread Stephen Partington
I have seen burning software get weird with an explicit choice in burning medium. so if you make it think CD and not DVD it will see a DVD and say media not valid. I have seen this in Windows and Linux software. On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 9:53 PM, techli...@phpcoderusa.com wrote: Hello, I have

Re: Phone apps for setting up personal WiFi hotspots with lots of DHCP addresses?

2014-09-24 Thread Stephen Partington
So i did some research on this idea. Very slanted, but has some interesting points http://blog.dlink.com/why-using-a-wi-fi-portable-router-is-better-than-tethering/ and they suggest this device, which i think is pretty spiffy for a portable device to do this very thing.

Re: Cannot burn DVD but can burn CD's.

2014-09-24 Thread Stephen Partington
is 4.4GB. If I try to burn with more than 4.4GB of data it does not recognize the DVD. When I remove data and go below 4.4GB it recognized the DVD and will burn the data to the disc. Minor bug I would say. All is good now!! On 2014-09-24 08:52, Stephen Partington wrote: I have seen burning

Re: Reducing image size

2014-09-24 Thread Stephen Partington
I shoot raw and keep them at full resolution and then render out the correct size i need. The downside to changing the resolution is that you will lose detail and you will never get it back. so the first step is to play with the various resolutions and see which ones look best to you. This is a

Re: Reducing image size

2014-09-25 Thread Stephen Partington
downside to that you will see the quality loss on printing. On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 5:27 PM, Wayne Davis wayda...@centurylink.net wrote: One way is to convert to .JPG and select a quality of about 72% MOST times you will not notice the difference.

Re: Is this list wilting?

2014-09-29 Thread Stephen Partington
Ask questions. Start discussion. I for one am caught up in the back to school season. On Sep 29, 2014 9:46 PM, techli...@phpcoderusa.com wrote: Not much traffic compared to years gone by. --- PLUG-discuss mailing list -

Re: Is this list wilting?

2014-09-30 Thread Stephen Partington
for like 100. I can get other things for like 60. What do you all recommend for around 100. :-)~MIKE~(-: On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 10:03 PM, Stephen Partington cryptwo...@gmail.com wrote: Ask questions. Start discussion. I for one am caught up in the back to school season. On Sep 29

Re: Need android stock rom

2014-10-04 Thread Stephen Partington
You see either of these? http://www.freaktab.com/showthread.php?6515-NEXT7P12-8G-Stock-Rom On Oct 4, 2014 2:42 PM, Derek Trotter expat.arizo...@gmail.com wrote: I have a Nextbook Next7P12-8G tablet. Sometimes it's identified as a YIFANG Next7P12-8G. I was going to give it to a friend, but

Re: Ubunto iso -- dvd

2014-10-05 Thread Stephen Partington
wichever is cheaper really. not much difference anymore. I usually use unetbootin to make bootable thumb drives for install media anymore. On Sun, Oct 5, 2014 at 5:57 AM, Mark Jarvis m.jar...@cox.net wrote: It's been lo-o-ong time since I played with burning ISO files to media. The latest

Re: Ubuntu boot problems

2014-10-05 Thread Stephen Partington
Default graphics are not your friend it sounds like. Maybe look into the graphics compatibility? On Oct 5, 2014 5:15 PM, Mark Jarvis m.jar...@cox.net wrote: For those of you old enough to remember the Li'l Abner comic strip, I'm beginning to feel like Joe Btfsplk, the hard luck character who

Re: KDE Users: kdeconnect

2014-10-09 Thread Stephen Partington
Well now that is something I will need to investigate. On Oct 8, 2014 10:29 PM, Brian Cluff br...@snaptek.com wrote: I've been using it for months. It's a great utility. I use mine with WiFi, so no bluetooth is needed. As long as your computer is on the same network as your phone they will

Re: memory

2014-10-10 Thread Stephen Partington
Most hardware will drop to the least common denominator. So you should be fine. On Oct 9, 2014 10:37 PM, Michael Havens bmi...@gmail.com wrote: sorry about the delay I had to go to work. top - 22:16:50 up 1 day, 8:59, 2 users, load average: 0.30, 0.19, 0.15 Tasks: 168 total, 2

Re: memory

2014-10-10 Thread Stephen Partington
not that i have experienced so far. On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 11:45 AM, Michael Havens bmi...@gmail.com wrote: if I were to get a new laptop would I have problems putting Linux on it? :-)~MIKE~(-: On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 11:12 AM, Brian Cluff br...@snaptek.com wrote: Don't get me wrong.

Re: internet problem

2014-10-15 Thread Stephen Partington
Silly question did you reboot the cable modem in all of this? On Oct 15, 2014 12:55 PM, Michael Havens bmi...@gmail.com wrote: this was working until I moved my computer to be against another wall in the same room. I checked all the connections. The Link status lights are all correct. How do I

Re: internet problem

2014-10-15 Thread Stephen Partington
generally anytime you change the interface that catches the modem it needs a reboot a well to identify the new device. also you need the outside world connected to the internet port, inside world to your lan side. On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 12:57 PM, Michael Havens bmi...@gmail.com wrote: I think

Re: How smart is S.M.A.R.T.?

2014-10-18 Thread Stephen Partington
Dell currently uses allot of seagate drives. I have generally been a huge fan of Western Digital. they have always been very reliable for me and have doe very well for longevity in both server and desktop applications. I personally have had issues with seagate drives longevity, however their

Re: VM config question

2014-10-18 Thread Stephen Partington
Well in most VM hosts you can create multiple virtual networks that are part of the outside and not part of the outside or even relate to two physical network interfaces. the how and what you are doing will depend on what your virtual iron is (vmware, virtualbox, kvm/qemu, ect) and what exactly

Re: VM config question

2014-10-18 Thread Stephen Partington
Also there is bridged vs NAT networking NAt is like having a personal router in your vm, Bridged means the mac is exposed to your physical network and you get an ip normally that you can route to. On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 10:41 AM, Stephen Partington cryptwo...@gmail.com wrote: Well in most VM

Re: nvidia card

2014-10-19 Thread Stephen Partington
The 6150 I think uses turbo cache and I have never seen that work well in Linux. You may not have such a card but you might check. If so your best bet is the NVIDIA proprietary drivers. On Oct 19, 2014 2:00 PM, Michael Havens bmi...@gmail.com wrote: I have an nvidia geforce6150 and it doesn't

Re: nvidia card

2014-10-19 Thread Stephen Partington
The 6150 was not a great design. And it had trouble in Windows as well as Linux. On Oct 19, 2014 7:59 PM, Michael Havens bmi...@gmail.com wrote: I installed the proprietary driver. it helped but the help was VERY limited. :-)~MIKE~(-: On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 6:36 PM, Stephen Partington

Re: Hardware question

2014-10-20 Thread Stephen Partington
How old are you wanting, I have an old Dell Optiplex 280 that works but is well a POS cause its old. On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 9:23 AM, Carruth, Rusty ru...@smartm.com wrote: ISTR seeing computers somewhere - maybe it was Savers? Also you can find used computers on craigslist, but I don't

Re: not getting ip address

2014-10-21 Thread Stephen Partington
Havens bmi...@gmail.com wrote: kind of connectivity, DB levels, fully connected? How do I determine that? :-)~MIKE~(-: On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 11:36 AM, Stephen Partington cryptwo...@gmail.com wrote: what kind of connectivity are you getting, DB levels and the like on your wireless. is it even

Re: not getting ip address

2014-10-21 Thread Stephen Partington
Power Management:off it looks to me like it is nponexhistant. so I need to take it back to the shop becAuse she disconnected the antenna. Right? :-)~MIKE~(-: On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 11:48 AM, Stephen Partington cryptwo...@gmail.com wrote: this post will give you a nudge in the right

RE: not getting ip address

2014-10-21 Thread Stephen Partington
to the wrong access point. how do you select ap with xfce wm? :-)~MIKE~(-: On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 12:13 PM, Stephen Partington cryptwo...@gmail.com wrote: That is what it looks like. On Oct 21, 2014 12:06 PM, Michael Havens bmi...@gmail.com wrote: iwconfig wlan0 wlan0 IEEE 802.11bgn

Re: liksys WRT54G

2014-10-22 Thread Stephen Partington
On the plus side you can reset to factory defaults easily without a password. On Oct 21, 2014 8:53 PM, koder iscream...@gmail.com wrote: Mike, My router came with a default password on it for the admin account. The exciting password for the 'admin' account is 'admin' I have always wondered

Re: liksys WRT54G

2014-10-22 Thread Stephen Partington
in Cottonwood and work EVERY Saturday. :-)~MIKE~(-: On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 5:42 AM, Stephen Partington cryptwo...@gmail.com wrote: On the plus side you can reset to factory defaults easily without a password. --- PLUG-discuss mailing list

Re: wireless USB device

2014-10-22 Thread Stephen Partington
did you look in dmesg to see if it shows up at all? its not like a thumb drive and will not respond the same way in Linux. On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 1:09 PM, Michael Havens bmi...@gmail.com wrote: My father just gave me a netgear wireless USB dongle. How do I get it to work? I plugged it in and

Re: liksys WRT54G

2014-10-22 Thread Stephen Partington
) - :-)~MIKE~(-: On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 1:07 PM, Stephen Partington cryptwo...@gmail.com wrote: I would read through the install, for the wrt its really well known and as long as you do it over the wire its very simple to update and run the custom ddwrt. just like loading a normal firmware

Re: wired network security

2014-10-22 Thread Stephen Partington
well you might want to turn it on. because you are now an open AP http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_security On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 8:08 PM, Bob Holtzman hol...@cox.net wrote: While in the process of looking at my wireless connection properties I saw it said security none. Needless

Re: wireless USB device

2014-10-23 Thread Stephen Partington
jackpot. now you have a string to search for with your google Fu! On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 11:38 PM, Michael Havens bmi...@gmail.com wrote: last few lines of dmesg: [350375.36] usb 1-5: Product: Remote Download Wireless Adapter [350375.39] usb 1-5: Manufacturer: Broadcom

Re: wireless USB device

2014-10-24 Thread Stephen Partington
That mint article kind of tells you the basics of how to get it working. the rest is basic WiFi management in Linux. On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 12:16 AM, Michael Havens bmi...@gmail.com wrote: any ideas on how to get it working.. :-)~MIKE~(-: On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 5:34 PM, Mark Phillips

Re: Configuring printer

2014-10-28 Thread Stephen Partington
if it does not support wireless config via the printer directly that may be true. On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 2:44 AM, Michael Havens bmi...@gmail.com wrote: I finally got all of my devices on the same network (192.168.0.x) but I still can't connect to the printer (an HP Photosmart C7250). The

Re: DHCPed ip addresses

2014-11-03 Thread Stephen Partington
Correct. the DHCP server will reassign the same IP address to the same mac address based on lease time and a couple of other factors. On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 7:56 PM, Michael Havens bmi...@gmail.com wrote: I got a question. When I was creating virtual machines each was assigned a unique ip

Re: DHCPed ip addresses

2014-11-03 Thread Stephen Partington
some additional reading: http://www.tcpipguide.com/free/t_DHCPLeaseLifeCycleOverviewAllocationReallocationRe.htm On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 8:51 PM, Stephen Partington cryptwo...@gmail.com wrote: Correct. the DHCP server will reassign the same IP address to the same mac address based on lease

Re: VirtualBox

2014-11-05 Thread Stephen Partington
You can tell virtualbox to load bios on next boot via gui. On Nov 5, 2014 6:17 PM, Stephen M smelhei...@gmail.com wrote: 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

Re: kinda quiet out there in plug-land.....

2014-11-10 Thread Stephen Partington
I have been quite distracted. But i may be building a new machine (from spare parts) and make Linux is primary. On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 2:54 PM, druid001 . dtroy...@gmail.com wrote: Still nothing on the far west side. On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 2:40 PM, Michael Havens bmi...@gmail.com wrote: I

Re: VirtualBox

2014-11-14 Thread Stephen Partington
I have seen more gimping of hardware in hp desktops/laptops that were deemed budget oriented than any other vendor. To the point of killing features that the cpu/chips ET would natively support. It looks like you have discovered this in spades. On Friday, November 14, 2014, Michael Butash

Re: FTTH Areas

2014-12-04 Thread Stephen Partington
most of the fiber areas are the really new locations. however due to the google fiber rollout this is changing alot right now as Cox is getting ready to announce gigabit speeds in order to compete with google fiber. https://fiber.google.com/newcities/

Re: Second computer.

2014-12-08 Thread Stephen Partington
Why would I want one of these ancient monsters... I am better off with a VM. On Dec 8, 2014 7:18 PM, Michael Havens bmi...@gmail.com wrote: There isn't really an excuse not to have a second PC with all of the windows PCs that are being donated to second hand stores/thrift shops. You go in

Re: test message 1412-10 at 4:08 pm

2014-12-10 Thread Stephen Partington
Got 4 of these between 3:45 and 4:08... was that the desired operation? On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 4:06 PM, j...@actionline.com wrote: test message 1412-10 at 4:08 pm --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe,

Re: Test message 1412-09 at 10:42

2014-12-11 Thread Stephen Partington
gmail does this on occasion. If you delete a message enough without opening it it gets automatically sent to spam. Ill occasionally have to unspam certain mailing lists and the like. On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 6:41 AM, Keith Smith techli...@phpcoderusa.com wrote: That would be good. From what I

Re: NEW TEMPORARY LOCATION: Free/Open Source Software Stammtisch on Tues (12/16)

2014-12-14 Thread Stephen Partington
This to me sounds like a much more favorable situation. It will be interesting to see how it works out. On Sun, Dec 14, 2014 at 5:43 PM, der.hans pl...@lufthans.com wrote: Am 14. Dez, 2014 schwätzte Matt Graham so: moin moin, On 2014-12-14 15:10, Eric Oyen wrote: sounds like the new

Re: dban

2014-12-15 Thread Stephen Partington
Test disk by get (i think) is very good at finding data on drives that have had wipes and the like. On Dec 15, 2014 2:26 PM, Stephen M smelhei...@gmail.com 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

Re: Reflashing BIOS.

2014-12-17 Thread Stephen Partington
2 thoughts, 1 - Does the bios see the drive physically? 2 - you will need a boot disk (freeDOS or something similar) to run the executable. or a windows environment. On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 11:19 AM, Michael Butash mich...@butash.net wrote: HP is notoriously horrible about supporting linux

Re: Reflashing BIOS.

2014-12-17 Thread Stephen Partington
thats what I am trying to work with. I have a copy of WINs7 but it doesn't want to load. This computer doesn't have a floppy and I don't have access to one at the moment. So I need to find other solutions. On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 11:21 AM, Stephen Partington cryptwo...@gmail.com wrote: 2

Re: Reflashing BIOS.

2014-12-17 Thread Stephen Partington
Nevermind missed that this was post dban. On Dec 17, 2014 11:58 AM, Stephen Partington cryptwo...@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

Re: Reflashing BIOS.

2014-12-18 Thread Stephen Partington
at 11:59 AM, Stephen Partington cryptwo...@gmail.com wrote: Nevermind missed that this was post dban. On Dec 17, 2014 11:58 AM, Stephen Partington cryptwo...@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

Re: apt-get upgrade

2014-12-18 Thread Stephen Partington
what he said, Was typing it up based on http://linux.die.net/man/8/apt-get On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 6:37 PM, Todd Millecam tyg...@gmail.com wrote: Any packages that don't have a newer version in the repo that you currently have installed. What it actually installs is entirely determined by

Re: Fwd: You have received a new OnePlus invitation

2014-12-19 Thread Stephen Partington
They are pretty slick. and not being on Verizon is a good thing in my book. Only device better right now i think is the Nexus 6 On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 9:25 AM, Brian Cluff br...@snaptek.com wrote: I wish that phone worked on Verizon. That is an awesome phone for an incredible price. Brian

Re: Laptop Woes

2014-12-23 Thread Stephen Partington
I have a D620 that is in pretty good shape. The batteries are just dead. It also has a fresh ubuntu install on it but i would guess you just will swap the drive and move on. It is the Core duo with 2GB ram. Let me know if you want it. On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 9:30 AM, Mark Phillips

Re: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

2014-12-24 Thread Stephen Partington
i like the Ubuntu release cycle a great deal. they have a long term support release, and then incremental releases on a stability and then feature swing each year. this to me is a great model. The parts i did not like about red hat, even as a server, i spent more time compiling applications than

Re: new install- getting wireless to work

2014-12-25 Thread Stephen Partington
Have you connected to wired to do your apt-get update/upgrade and then open up your restricted drivers. Inspirons usually detect pretty well with the Ubuntu/Mint tools for such things. On Thu, Dec 25, 2014 at 12:58 PM, Michael Havens bmi...@gmail.com wrote: I'm putting Linux Mint 17.1 On a

Re: new install- getting wireless to work

2014-12-25 Thread Stephen Partington
are you having trouble with wired or wireless? because that driver information is all wired. http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/hardy/man4/if_sis.4.html On Thu, Dec 25, 2014 at 1:09 PM, Michael Havens bmi...@gmail.com wrote: In my search I happened upon this page:

Re: Media Center setup

2014-12-28 Thread Stephen Partington
If you can getting a cheap graphics card can give you an extended life on the Pentium dual core, just make sure it supports decoding functions. something like the nvidia 720 or AMD R5 or R7 low end gpu's. Read up on drivers based on the multimedia application or solution you will be using. On

Re: Media Center setup

2014-12-28 Thread Stephen Partington
, Stephen Partington cryptwo...@gmail.com wrote: If you can getting a cheap graphics card can give you an extended life on the Pentium dual core, just make sure it supports decoding functions. something like the nvidia 720 or AMD R5 or R7 low end gpu's. Read up on drivers based on the multimedia

Re: Fwd: You have received a new OnePlus invitation

2014-12-30 Thread Stephen Partington
I have a oneplus on Tmobile, and the phone is great, the service is great, the two combined has a few weirdnesses in it. What i have found is that the oneplus has one weakness, its radio. While plenty powerful it lacks the 700mhz band that tmobile is focusing on for its LTE expansion. Add to

Re: Kill ghost connects

2014-12-30 Thread Stephen Partington
Is there still access via Web mail going on? Normal settings will enable Google talk at the same time. This would use the credentials of the Gmail session. Additionally authorised applications can use a token instead of password to preserve access. Head to authorized applications and just

Re: lshw -short

2015-02-02 Thread Stephen Partington
Well your paths of discovery are pretty educational. Getting them on a blog that could be indexed and searched could help some folks... On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 1:00 PM, Michael Havens bmi...@gmail.com wrote: why would I blog? I don't know anything. unless it were a means to teach me

Re: How to create a panel icon for a hidden wine app?

2015-01-15 Thread Stephen Partington
The same way you would make an icon for a terminal command. Just Google shortcut ubuntu terminal command or something similar. On Jan 15, 2015 5:41 PM, j...@actionline.com wrote: What is the procedure to create a panel icon for a wine app that does not show up in the Application launcher? And

Re: MAC

2015-02-11 Thread Stephen Partington
a program it doesn't have. :-)~MIKE~(-: On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 1:44 PM, Stephen Partington cryptwo...@gmail.com wrote: ssh is installed by default in OSX, just use ssh usern...@ip.addr.or.hostname.something and it will ask for a password This is from the terminal. On Wed, Feb 11, 2015

Re: MAC

2015-02-11 Thread Stephen Partington
ssh is installed by default in OSX, just use ssh usern...@ip.addr.or.hostname.something and it will ask for a password This is from the terminal. On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 1:39 PM, Michael Havens bmi...@gmail.com wrote: How do I install ssh on a Mac? Is there something like apt-get? I know a

Re: Fwd: public/private keys.... what are they?

2015-02-16 Thread Stephen Partington
the opposite as was done to the message before it was sent. :-)~MIKE~(-: On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 8:18 PM, Stephen Partington cryptwo...@gmail.com wrote: Stolen but relevant. The Public and Private key pair comprise of two uniquely related cryptographic keys (basically long random numbers). Below

Re: Fwd: public/private keys.... what are they?

2015-02-16 Thread Stephen Partington
Stolen but relevant. The Public and Private key pair comprise of two uniquely related cryptographic keys (basically long random numbers). Below is an example of a Public Key: 3048 0241 00C9 18FA CF8D EB2D EFD5 FD37 89B9 E069 EA97 FC20 5E35 F577 EE31 C4FB C6E4 4811 7D86 BC8F BAFA 362F 922B F01B

Re: happy to report...

2015-01-26 Thread Stephen Partington
bmi...@gmail.com wrote: A Comfast. :-)~MIKE~(-: On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 5:50 PM, Stephen Partington cryptwo...@gmail.com wrote: Ok which one? On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 5:48 PM, Michael Havens bmi...@gmail.com wrote: I didn't buy a card. I bought a wireless USB adapter because

Re: happy to report...

2015-01-26 Thread Stephen Partington
what wifi card? On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 3:31 PM, Michael Havens bmi...@gmail.com wrote: a friend bought a computer at a yard sale. It housed XP. I nuked XP in favor of Mint. The computer did not have a wifi card in it so I bought a USB wifi for it. I got it today. I was so worried I was

Re: happy to report...

2015-01-26 Thread Stephen Partington
That does not tell me what brand/make/model of the WiFi card you bought. On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 5:22 PM, Michael Havens bmi...@gmail.com wrote: it was not made with an interior wifi card. :-)~MIKE~(-: On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 4:57 PM, Stephen Partington cryptwo...@gmail.com wrote: what

Re: Partition Question

2015-01-27 Thread Stephen Partington
My normal partition setup is usually /boot of about 1-2GB (excessive but i have run out of boot space before and it was ugly) and / and for mechanical HDD's 2-6gb swap depending on use/ram availability, for my recent install i have no swap and 16gb ram and running linux on an ssd. space used in

Re: wget

2015-01-27 Thread Stephen Partington
you can write a script to yank out the jpg links. or just use something like https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/downthemall/ On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 12:12 PM, Michael Havens bmi...@gmail.com wrote: H0w can I us wget to retrieve the photos here

Re: Partition Question

2015-01-27 Thread Stephen Partington
:59 AM, Stephen Partington cryptwo...@gmail.com wrote: My normal partition setup is usually /boot of about 1-2GB (excessive but i have run out of boot space before and it was ugly) and / and for mechanical HDD's 2-6gb swap depending on use/ram availability, for my recent install i have no swap

Re: Partition Question

2015-01-27 Thread Stephen Partington
of that text file-- # # Reduce the swap tendency vm.swappiness = 10 :-)~MIKE~(-: On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 8:57 AM, Stephen Partington cryptwo...@gmail.com wrote: Lol, With a mechanical drive i would give it a token bit of swap, but with an SSD i am more interested in reducing write cycles

Re: happy to report...

2015-01-26 Thread Stephen Partington
Ok which one? On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 5:48 PM, Michael Havens bmi...@gmail.com wrote: I didn't buy a card. I bought a wireless USB adapter because there is no card in it. :-)~MIKE~(-: On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 5:41 PM, Stephen Partington cryptwo...@gmail.com wrote: That does not tell me

Re: How to change command line prompt?

2015-01-05 Thread Stephen Partington
That Cyberciti page is pretty detailed. I would suggest you go with it. On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 6:31 PM, Keith Smith techli...@phpcoderusa.com wrote: I have been interested in this also. Found this site : http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/howto-linux-unix-bash-shell- setup-prompt.html On

Re: Chrome -vs- Chromium

2015-01-05 Thread Stephen Partington
I generally move to chrome over chromium so i can use its integrated flash. for any desktop based system. Unless i specifically want to remove flash. for servers ill move chromium to remove any excess of plugins or roll with firefox. On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 2:00 PM, j...@actionline.com wrote:

RE: Windows 7 dual boot with Linux

2015-01-11 Thread Stephen Partington
What you can try is creating an empty partition on the new drive so there is empty space equal to windows. Then use something like clonezilla to clone the windows install to the empty space. The delete the temp partition and install Linux in that empty space. Depending on what is missing the grub

Re: Silicon Desert: How Phoenix is quickly -- and quietly -- becoming a hub for innovation

2015-02-13 Thread Stephen Partington
We are awesome for this, next to no natural disasters makes us incredibly stable. lots of call centers give a general basis for tech career starts. in all it makes sense. On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 7:40 PM, Keith Smith techli...@phpcoderusa.com wrote:

Re: How to increase sound volume on laptop

2015-01-07 Thread Stephen Partington
Would not affect the headphones. You running alsa ? On Jan 7, 2015 12:29 PM, Todd Millecam tyg...@gmail.com wrote: Well, it sounds like you might just have a blown-out speaker, which would mean replacing the physical speaker on your laptop. Apart from that, running alsamixer from a terminal

Re: nacl_helper

2015-03-17 Thread Stephen Partington
I have had no issues with syncing my profile in chrome. Its a handy tool (Firefox is also able to do this) and i nearly swapped to Firefox recently but their profile swapping was less than satisfactory (it exists, but is kludgy as hell to do) On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 8:01 AM, Michael Butash

Re: swap

2015-03-16 Thread Stephen Partington
There are some handy benefits to having swap, if only a small amount of it. Specifically if you are a developer and make an oops in your code and develop a memory leak. this will help you to gracefully identify whats going on and do whatever testing you need to resolve your leak. it will allow you

Re: nacl_helper

2015-03-17 Thread Stephen Partington
that happens when you hit a certain girth in any corporation. At least google exec's aren't running around doing monkey dances, yet. -mb On 03/17/2015 08:19 AM, Stephen Partington wrote: I have had no issues with syncing my profile in chrome. Its a handy tool (Firefox is also able to do

Re: OT: How to load and view html on Android phone?

2015-03-18 Thread Stephen Partington
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.xeustechnologies.android.kws maybe? On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 6:42 PM, j...@actionline.com wrote: OT: How to load and view html on Android phone? I can view html web pages from my Android phone (Samsung Note 2); but I have not been able to

Re: nacl_helper

2015-03-16 Thread Stephen Partington
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphics_processing_unit#mw-head http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphics_processing_unit#p-search Not to be confused with Graphics card http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphics_card. GPU redirects here. For other uses, see GPU

Re: nacl_helper

2015-03-16 Thread Stephen Partington
the intel GPU's are pretty fair nowadays, with the HD 4200+ graphics systems. but if you have a discrete GPU from nvidia or AMD as well as one on the motherboard you may want to disable the onboard one. this can cause issues unless your drivers can integrate it well. Laptops are a bit different

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