Re: OT: Which tablet?

2015-03-09 Thread Stephen Partington
I have been very pleased with my OnePlus under these circumstances. but your screen requirements are a little open ended. On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 9:27 AM, kitepi...@kitepilot.com wrote: Hello there: I need the tablet with the biggest screen (Android or Mac) that can be visible in direct

Re: openelec

2015-03-14 Thread Stephen Partington
I think that it would depend on where you are installing. http://wiki.openelec.tv/index.php?title=Installation On Mar 14, 2015 7:03 AM, Michael Havens bmi...@gmail.com wrote: I've decided to try to run the operating system openelec. I was wondering how big of an SD card I need for it. The

Re: OT Cable Modem Woes

2015-02-25 Thread Stephen Partington
As long as you are willing to pay for it they can do a good job, but there are also some real dingbats doing the job as well. If you get a cox direct guy then you likely are going to get a good deal. if you get a contractor then not so much... On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 1:44 PM, Mark Phillips

ProxMoxVE, Ceph, and migrating from HyperV

2015-04-02 Thread Stephen Partington
So as part of a project here i have been experimenting with Proxmox and Ceph. It up and running and works really well. Bur we have a few MUST HAVE vm's i need to bring over. So far i have not found a graceful way to do this in this configuration. The most graceful so far appears to be a

Re: OnePlus One invites

2015-04-20 Thread Stephen Partington
to the Cyanogenmod 12 version as soon as I get some play time. On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 6:46 AM, Stephen Partington cryptwo...@gmail.com wrote: This phone just received 2 different official lollipop releases of Cyanogen 12 and OxygenOS both are slick, So far i am login the update

Re: OnePlus One invites

2015-04-20 Thread Stephen Partington
On 04/20/2015 08:02 AM, Shawn Badger wrote: Thanks for the heads up on the play store issue. On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 7:40 AM, Stephen Partington cryptwo...@gmail.com wrote: CyanogenOS12 is nice, I am very happy with it. Beware the wakelock issue with Google Play services. http://www.xda

Re: OnePlus One invites

2015-04-20 Thread Stephen Partington
Oh and they dropped the invite system, https://blog.oneplus.net/2015/04/open-sales-for-the-oneplus-one-forever/ On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 8:01 AM, Stephen Partington cryptwo...@gmail.com wrote: Well, Dalvik is gone in 5.0 in favor of Art. No more JIT complies of applications. On Mon, Apr 20

Re: OnePlus One invites

2015-04-20 Thread Stephen Partington
, Stephen Partington wrote: CyanogenOS12 is nice, I am very happy with it. Beware the wakelock issue with Google Play services. http://www.xda-developers.com/psa-google-play-services-wakelock-affects-many-5-x-roms/ On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 7:34 AM, Shawn Badger sh...@badger.pro wrote: I am

Network bridge over bond?

2015-04-22 Thread Stephen Partington
I am working on a ProxmoxVE cluster i have set up. I am needing a bit better network performance as i am also running CEPH for the stoage layer This is what i have for network configuration is the following. it seems to be working. the nodes i have configured appear to be running with better

Re: Have you heard of this yet?

2015-05-07 Thread Stephen Partington
As long as the customer hasi their paid for bandwidth there should be no issue with that service set up. I would take it the next step and provide the modem for free with the profision that this Antenna, X we call it will be used for that purpose so you save the cash on modem rental. cox manages

Re: moving!

2015-05-08 Thread Stephen Partington
happy hunting and good luck! On Fri, May 8, 2015 at 8:40 AM, Michael Havens bmi...@gmail.com wrote: Well, as the heading for this email implies I am moving. Where are you moving, Mike? Where am I moving? Glad you asked. I'm moving to Jacksonville initially. I keep in touch with my buddies

Re: ubuntu and kvm

2015-05-13 Thread Stephen Partington
I had some very strange issues running qemu/kvm with ubuntu, lacked the time to track it down and had to move on to a different solution. I cannot say it was qmeu/kvm or what, but that whole project was scrapped. MAde me sad too, because proxmox and ceph were exceeding neat to manage. but if my

Re: Chrome/chromium constantly exhausting file handlers/ulimits

2015-04-15 Thread Stephen Partington
I have recently started migrating back to Firefox. Chrome memory utilization has become absurd. On Apr 15, 2015 12:48 PM, Kevin Fries ke...@fries-biro.com wrote: I have seen both Chrome and Chromium go ape s#$ on my system. While it does happen very occasionally on other systems, my old

Re: OnePlus One invites

2015-04-17 Thread Stephen Partington
This phone just received 2 different official lollipop releases of Cyanogen 12 and OxygenOS both are slick, So far i am login the update to Cyanogen. And it will not work on sprint either ;-) On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 6:18 AM, Shawn Badger sh...@badger.pro wrote: I have a invite for a OnePlus

Booting Linux on Canon cameras!

2015-04-04 Thread Stephen Partington
http://www.magiclantern.fm/forum/index.php?topic=14847 Just thought a few of you might enjoy the geekout. -- 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 have an 8GB card....

2015-04-04 Thread Stephen Partington
Personally I would have used cfdisk parted or gparted to look at the partition layout and make applicable changes. On Apr 4, 2015 9:24 AM, Michael Havens bmi...@gmail.com wrote: I want to use this card. Currently it is partitioned. Can I delete all of the partitions by formatting it with mkfs?

Re: apt-get upgrade vs synaptic

2015-04-02 Thread Stephen Partington
As a result of this i usually run an apt-get update/upgrade after i successfully complete one just to make sure i didn't miss anything (might as well while i am there) On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 8:36 AM, Brian Cluff br...@snaptek.com wrote: The package system works by copying the database of

Re: OT: private messaging tool?

2015-05-19 Thread Stephen Partington
So newsgroup? or even really old school with UUCP? sorry, low blow :-) you can certainly host a jabber instance pretty easy. or even an IRC server? On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 2:12 PM, j...@actionline.com wrote: Thanks Stephen. The Google drive simultaneous edit functionality is probably my

Re: OT: private messaging tool?

2015-05-19 Thread Stephen Partington
oh the part of owncloud that i forgot to mention, https://apps.owncloud.com/ they have apps that you can use to add functionality past stock. They also have a libreoffice integration that i have yet to try to set up. but it suggests you can integrate directly with libreoffice or stream

Re: OT: private messaging tool?

2015-05-19 Thread Stephen Partington
The Google drive simultaneous edit functionality is probably my favorite feature of their services... however. Take a look at owncloud. it is an opensource/php driven relative. On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 12:43 PM, j...@actionline.com wrote: Is there such a thing as a private message exchange tool

Re: Fan-fic site

2015-06-07 Thread Stephen Partington
I will second wordpress, It is pretty much designed for written content management. and its plugins allow you to do other strange and interesting things. On Sun, Jun 7, 2015 at 7:42 AM, Keith Smith techli...@phpcoderusa.com wrote: If you are going to write reviews WordPress would work just fine

Re: Fan-fic site

2015-06-08 Thread Stephen Partington
a difference. Mark On Jun 7, 2015 8:58 PM, Stephen Partington cryptwo...@gmail.com wrote: I know it is not likely django's fault but my last experience with it was awful... On Sunday, June 7, 2015, Mark Phillips m...@phillipsmarketing.biz wrote: Just to be different, I really like django ( https

Re: Fan-fic site

2015-06-07 Thread Stephen Partington
/1.8/ see First Steps. A very strong and helpful community. Have fun! Mark On Sun, Jun 7, 2015 at 12:04 PM, Stephen Partington cryptwo...@gmail.com javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','cryptwo...@gmail.com'); wrote: I will second wordpress, It is pretty much designed for written content management

Re: OT: Data Recovery

2015-06-02 Thread Stephen Partington
1 to of online storage can be had for cheap. USB backup drives. Or even a simple raid 1. Look at your Data stored if the cost of any of those is worth less than the data you store there do something about it. Advice I give to EVERYONE. Heck look at the disk recovery costs listed. A 2nd drive and

Re: OT : Using gmail

2015-06-09 Thread Stephen Partington
I use google apps at work, as well as gmail for personal use. It has a ton of solid features. i really like them. i also like that android and chrome can be set up to keep multiple google profiles and keep them separate. Let me know if you have specifc questions. my biggest suggestion is to use

Re: OT : Using gmail

2015-06-09 Thread Stephen Partington
-09 12:11, Stephen Partington wrote: I use google apps at work, as well as gmail for personal use. It has a ton of solid features. i really like them. i also like that android and chrome can be set up to keep multiple google profiles and keep them separate. So far I think I just need one. I

Re: OT - sort of

2015-06-23 Thread Stephen Partington
Evo850 by Samsung is the winner for me. They are fast. Cheap. And come with a 5 year warranty. On Jun 23, 2015 12:11 PM, Lyle Tuttle l.tut...@cox.net wrote: OK, the hard drive on my windows box is getting old, and every now and then during startup, I hear a short burst of chattering..no

Re: Games....

2015-06-18 Thread Stephen Partington
http://store.steampowered.com/browse/linux/ a fast start. On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 11:27 AM, Michael Havens bmi...@gmail.com wrote: I am not a gamer but I was wondering how the selection of games is in recent times. It is strange, they don't seem to advertise for games any longer. But then

Re: xorg: Maximum number of clients reached

2015-06-16 Thread Stephen Partington
Now this is interesting. It looks like they tuned the FB from a few angles in Linux. http://news.softpedia.com/news/Nvidia-352-21-Linux-Video-Driver-Is-a-Massive-Update-484392.shtml On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 10:57 PM, Michael Butash mich...@butash.net wrote: Yeah, I've run into that first, I

Re: xorg: Maximum number of clients reached

2015-06-14 Thread Stephen Partington
website from nvidia makes me loathe to want to invest there either, figuring I'll see the same brokenness I see with amd. -mb On 06/12/2015 06:45 PM, Stephen Partington wrote: I need to install and check. On Jun 12, 2015 4:20 PM, Michael Butash mich...@butash.net wrote: Stephen, out

Re: OT: Laptop Disposal

2015-06-13 Thread Stephen Partington
There are some similar parts between the 610 and the 620 On Jun 13, 2015 5:45 PM, Mark Phillips m...@phillipsmarketing.biz wrote: I wonder if it would work on a Dell D620? I have one of those that works (I think) but the screen is dead. Or, perhaps we are both in need of a donation drop for

Re: xorg: Maximum number of clients reached

2015-06-14 Thread Stephen Partington
, Stephen Partington cryptwo...@gmail.com wrote: I think their consumer cards and quadros are limited to 2 displays. And the nvs line is built for 4. Now depending on what your system has available you could go with 3 cheaper desktop cards and run them that way. Makes me wonder if Matrox is still

Re: xorg: Maximum number of clients reached

2015-06-12 Thread Stephen Partington
I have almost given up on ATI, if i want just multiple screens i would look into the Quadro NVS cards. Such as the NVS 510 or the K1200. They may be very proprietary to get running, but my success with Nvidia cards in both linux and windows really makes it worthwhile. These cards will only do a

Re: xorg: Maximum number of clients reached

2015-06-12 Thread Stephen Partington
ebay agents to look for decent quadro's to snipe. I had good luck getting my last few amd cards that way on the cheap, gotta love jbidwatcher for cheating some other person with a last-second bid. Thanks as always for the input Stephen. -mb On 06/12/2015 03:20 PM, Stephen Partington

Re: Fan-fic site

2015-06-13 Thread Stephen Partington
) A dead tree book on WordPress Eclipse or whatever IDE you develop PHP in (maybe) A web authoring program. Feedback is much appreciated. On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 4:16 PM Stephen Partington cryptwo...@gmail.com wrote: I am more suspect of the experience than Django as a whole. Mainly because

Re: xorg: Maximum number of clients reached

2015-06-11 Thread Stephen Partington
Have you tried weyland yet to see if it is any improvement? I think fedora has a build running weyland. (memory is fuzzy on this one.) On Jun 11, 2015 5:20 PM, Michael Butash mich...@butash.net wrote: So this seems to be a big problem for me, in that it simply refuses to open new apps, and find

Re: what to do if lost password

2015-05-27 Thread Stephen Partington
or passwd user to reset user's password. :-)~MIKE~(-: On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 8:06 AM, Stephen Partington cryptwo...@gmail.com wrote: This works great on Linux based systems. But on something running Linux you will need to hash the registry and reset the password. There is a tool to do

Re: Article / Data warehouse cms software

2015-05-26 Thread Stephen Partington
a bit heavier than I wanted to host for my project. Just my 2 cents based on a fair amount of research in this area. I am by no means an expert! Mark On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 3:55 PM, Stephen Partington cryptwo...@gmail.com wrote: Well if you are looking to store a digital library you can

Re: Chromium -vs- chrome on Linux Mint?

2015-06-02 Thread Stephen Partington
Well chrome/chromium both use lots of ram and file handlers intentionally. Pre caching page loads and a few other things. Extra threads so that (in theory) one page bites it the other process should still be just fine. On Jun 1, 2015 11:14 PM, Michael Butash mich...@butash.net wrote: I'm pretty

Re: Laptop teardown

2015-07-03 Thread Stephen Partington
I know on amazon right now you can find 15 based Dell Lattitude E5420's for 200-250 with 4GB ram. they are refurbished but its a pretty smokin deal for a laptop that is easier to work on than your average consumer use laptop. On Fri, Jul 3, 2015 at 10:00 AM, Michael Havens bmi...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: A question regarding LAG/Ping on game servers.

2015-07-03 Thread Stephen Partington
Mostly it's in how they are making cheaper gigabit ethernet. On Jul 3, 2015 4:40 PM, Wayne D wayda...@centurylink.net wrote: I have a question regarding ping times in game servers: I've noticed when playing several online games that ping times go up as more players connect. I also run a

Re: New controller card

2015-06-28 Thread Stephen Partington
I have not seen this combination before. I have seen headers that will export a Satan connection to e-sata. And USB3 cards. But both sepereate especially when power is involved. On Jun 27, 2015 9:28 PM, Steve B stev...@gmail.com wrote: Can anyone direct me to a PCIe controller card that has an

Re: Self signed cert for multiple websites

2015-07-04 Thread Stephen Partington
As long as the domain remains the same the same cert should work. Once that changes you will need a new cert. On Sat, Jul 4, 2015 at 6:04 AM, Keith Smith techli...@phpcoderusa.com wrote: Hi, I've configured a VM using VirtualBox and it is running CentOS 6.6. To create the self signed cert

Re: OT: Is it just me or is Firefox slowing worse?

2015-05-23 Thread Stephen Partington
I actually have been noticing this. Have since moved back to Chrome for a small handful of reasons. On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 4:43 PM, j...@actionline.com wrote: Is it just me or is Firefox slowing down worse all the time? Is there anything (new) that can be done to speed it up? I've made

Re: Article / Data warehouse cms software

2015-05-26 Thread Stephen Partington
If you know wordpress i would stick with it. additionally there are plugins for wiki as well. https://wordpress.org/plugins/search.php?q=wiki and knowledge base functionality. (might have to investigate these for my own use) https://wordpress.org/plugins/search.php?type=termq=knowledgebase On

Re: Article / Data warehouse cms software

2015-05-26 Thread Stephen Partington
CMS is really meant to be touched allot and make for easy updates, blogging etc. Wiki is still a really good candidate, also knowledgebase systems would be something to consider. whatever you use make sure it has a god application of meta tagging. In the end all that matters is searchability,

Re: Article / Data warehouse cms software

2015-05-26 Thread Stephen Partington
software I looked at are Java based, and I prefer Python because for this small project it uses less resources. Let me know if you plan to use it. Perhaps we could help each other understand the project. Mark On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 11:19 AM, Stephen Partington cryptwo...@gmail.com wrote

Re: Seeking recommendations for best Linux ultralights

2015-07-07 Thread Stephen Partington
I have been trying to wrap my head around a Chromebook experience with limited success. I would also be interested in hearing about your experience. On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 9:29 AM, Keith Smith techli...@phpcoderusa.com wrote: Please post your experience so we can learn from it. On

Re: OT: Strong wireless signal on phone won't connect??

2015-07-31 Thread Stephen Partington
check the router for errors or mac address blocks? On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 9:49 PM, j...@actionline.com wrote: Why is wifi failing to connect on one phone when others on my system connect okay? It says the signal is excellent and Authenticating with secured WPA/WPA2 PSK a correct password

Ubuntu Touch on Nexus 7 2013 (LTE)

2015-08-18 Thread Stephen Partington
So i was recently able to get a hold of a 2013 Nexus 7 tablet. Didn't last long before stock was no fun anymore (its an issue i know) and installed CM 12.1 this is working well for me but i then recalled how much i have been wanting to try Ubuntu Touch. so i set myself up to install today. so far

Re: Ubuntu Touch on Nexus 7 2013 (LTE)

2015-08-18 Thread Stephen Partington
so far it is really nice. just signed in to Ubuntu One and am getting updates. On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 10:09 AM, Michael Havens bmi...@gmail.com wrote: you're cool man! On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 1:07 PM, Stephen Partington cryptwo...@gmail.com wrote: So i was recently able to get a hold

Re: Ubuntu Touch on Nexus 7 2013 (LTE)

2015-08-18 Thread Stephen Partington
could be made to work enough for the runtimes natively, and apparently others have or are figuring it out in much more foreign waters (ew, windoze phone). -mb On 08/18/2015 10:27 AM, Stephen Partington wrote: Now if they could get some application development

Re: Windows 10 – Microsoft’s Big Data-grabbing (or spying?) OS

2015-08-18 Thread Stephen Partington
going to have to change their access point names ? First windows 10 phone to enter the pentagon, will send out all the passwords lmao. On Aug 17, 2015 7:00 AM, Stephen Partington cryptwo...@gmail.com wrote: ​While they are broad, these are all things you can turn on or off.​ On Mon, Aug 17

Re: Windows 10 – Microsoft’s Big Data-grabbing (or spying?) OS

2015-08-18 Thread Stephen Partington
passwords like candy. I just keep shaking my head about this one. On Aug 18, 2015 6:33 AM, Stephen Partington cryptwo...@gmail.com wrote: you get the choice of sharing with your friends. and it is specifically your friends only that get that information. My concern is if i bring my friend

Re: Windows 10 – Microsoft’s Big Data-grabbing (or spying?) OS

2015-08-17 Thread Stephen Partington
Still about MS covering their ass not the NSA. This just makes sure that the NSA is the one that takes the heat and not them. On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 1:49 PM, Lyle l.tut...@cox.net wrote: On 08/17/2015 09:27 AM, Stephen Partington wrote: The same is true of most social media networks when

Re: My machine died two days before I hit the road.

2015-08-02 Thread Stephen Partington
, install Linux, have fun. * For extra credit, you might want to install 16GB RAM on there and turn it into a monster VM machine. Take it from me, VMs, not metal, are where you want to do your experimentation. SteveT On Sun, 2 Aug 2015 09:09:04 -0700 Stephen Partington cryptwo...@gmail.com

Re: $89 computer

2015-08-03 Thread Stephen Partington
But they are based on an Ubuntu core so that will have an effect. On Aug 3, 2015 1:23 PM, Michael Havens bmi...@gmail.com wrote: Mint is NOT ubuntu. On 8/3/15, Kevin Fries ke...@fries-biro.com wrote: I thought about trying Mint, but Ubuntu makes some horrible design choices. Went to Arch,

Re: $89 computer

2015-08-03 Thread Stephen Partington
You can get a Debian core Mint now as well (on version 2 based on Debian Jessie.) On Aug 3, 2015 1:16 PM, Kevin Fries ke...@fries-biro.com wrote: I thought about trying Mint, but Ubuntu makes some horrible design choices. Went to Arch, and have never looked back. If it isn't in pacman, AUR

Re: in need of a computer

2015-08-08 Thread Stephen Partington
Once you jump hoops they generally are pretty good about moving you along ASAP. its better for their AHT. On Sat, Aug 8, 2015 at 8:41 PM, coverturtle covertur...@gmail.com wrote: Call your ISP. They'll tell you to power cycle the modem and the computer but you tried that and it didn't work,

Re: did I screws up router?

2015-08-09 Thread Stephen Partington
Power surge can affect the Modem and router just as easily as any other electrical device. So you may need to fully powercycle the modem and router (power both off, power on modem first and fully then router on) and see if that resets you. but much like a previous thread you may have to reset

Re: Samba Connecting, cannot transfer files

2015-07-26 Thread Stephen Partington
Also make sure that your network is set in such a way that you can ping and see your VM. ( i have wanted to put my head into the wall because i let virtualbox put a VM on nat that i was expecting to be bridged. On Sun, Jul 26, 2015 at 9:56 AM, Todd Millecam tyg...@gmail.com wrote: If I remember

Re: Samba Connecting, cannot transfer files

2015-07-26 Thread Stephen Partington
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-newbie-8/samba-smbpasswd-file-missing-750367/ On Sun, Jul 26, 2015 at 10:22 AM, Keith Smith techli...@phpcoderusa.com wrote: Thanks!! I added the Samba user as one of the first steps. My smb.config shows passdb backend = tdbsam. I cannot find

KDE enters the mobile development space

2015-07-26 Thread Stephen Partington
http://itsfoss.com/kde-announces-plasma-mobile 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 --- PLUG-discuss mailing list -

Re: KDE enters the mobile development space

2015-07-26 Thread Stephen Partington
devices. That doesn't sound very good to me (I'm talking to you Windows and Ubuntu). :) Brian Cluff On 07/26/2015 10:27 AM, Stephen Partington wrote: http://itsfoss.com/kde-announces-plasma-mobile Interesting. -- A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from

Re: KDE enters the mobile development space

2015-07-26 Thread Stephen Partington
the same interface across all devices doesn't work very well. Brian Cluff On 07/26/2015 03:45 PM, Stephen Partington wrote: Windows 10 desktop environment is i think the best it has been. Not saying it does not have issues. But it is a good environment to work in. My weirdness is the lack

Juniper and Caononical networking

2015-07-25 Thread Stephen Partington
Saw this post wander by, and was wondering what some of your takes would be. I for one am a huge supporter in the idea of opensource networking infrastructure. but also the idea of a network that is even more modular... = World waves 'goodbye' to CISCO! With new

LVM and raid

2015-07-21 Thread Stephen Partington
I am working on a home server running EFI. i have Ubuntu 15.04 installed and am looking to find out if there is a way to migrate to raid on a running system. In theory i should be able to do this by creating a degraded portion of the raid volume on the empty disk, extend/move my LVM to that disk

Re: O/T : Looking for an entry level LAMP developer for contract work.

2015-07-23 Thread Stephen Partington
For all of the weirdness in the Pearson hiring process the Hiring Manager writes the requirements in full for any posting. Not HR or whomever. On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 6:46 AM, David Schwartz newslett...@thetoolwiz.com wrote: The current process of matching resumes with job reqs passed from

Re: O/T : Looking for an entry level LAMP developer for contract work.

2015-07-23 Thread Stephen Partington
The amount of Truth in this is daunting. On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 10:40 PM, der.hans pl...@lufthans.com wrote: Am 22. Jul, 2015 schwätzte Nathan England so: moin moin, The company I currently work for has 3 developer position openings and in 4 months we've had only two candidates apply.

Re: LVM and raid

2015-07-23 Thread Stephen Partington
Graham mhgra...@crow202.org wrote: On 2015-07-21 13:28, Stephen Partington wrote: Ubuntu 15.04 installed and am looking to find out if there is a way to migrate to raid on a running system. In theory i should be able to do this by creating a degraded portion of the raid volume on the empty

Re: Fedora 22 issues

2015-07-16 Thread Stephen Partington
If the various caches are getting cleared this will cause an issue. If you have any scripts or settings that will clear this you will see this sort of behavior. Note, you can set up last pass separately on each browser (2 accounts). what is clearing this i am not sure. On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at

Re: cox vs centurylink

2015-07-17 Thread Stephen Partington
impression. On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 11:14 AM, der.hans pl...@lufthans.com wrote: Am 17. Jul, 2015 schwätzte Stephen Partington so: moin moin Stephen, I am curious about the difference as well. I have been running Cox services for quite some time as us west was horrible about random new

Re: cox vs centurylink

2015-07-17 Thread Stephen Partington
that is correct. I really look forward to the shake up that will happen with Google fiber... On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 11:21 AM, der.hans pl...@lufthans.com wrote: Am 17. Jul, 2015 schwätzte Stephen Partington so: moin moin Stephen, Well i have to say in my area Century Link is a horrible

Re: backup software?

2015-07-19 Thread Stephen Partington
That's a huge failure in my book. On Jul 19, 2015 12:35 PM, Matt Graham mhgra...@crow202.org wrote: On 2015-07-17 12:38, Stephen Partington wrote: rsbackup is another one i thought was pretty slick. The idea's good. I installed it and tried it out, and may keep using it in the future

Re: tablet

2015-07-19 Thread Stephen Partington
​the surface pro are pretty swanky ​ On Sun, Jul 19, 2015 at 4:29 PM, Mark Phillips m...@phillipsmarketing.biz wrote: How about a MS Surface Pro - core i7? You can wipe Windows and install Linux. Very portable. But expensive. Mark On Sun, Jul 19, 2015 at 3:04 PM, Stephen Partington cryptwo

Re: tablet

2015-07-19 Thread Stephen Partington
This is an idea. http://linuxgizmos.com/tablet-runs-ubuntu-touch-on-intel-core-m/ Also I would suggest the nexus tablets. You can even install ubuntu touch on them. (in addition to being a good device) On Jul 19, 2015 3:01 PM, Michael Havens bmi...@gmail.com wrote: Hey guys, My laptop crapped

Re: tablet

2015-07-19 Thread Stephen Partington
Havens bmi...@gmail.com wrote: no tablet. I need a laptop with a windows os so I can update my tomtom gps unit. On Sun, Jul 19, 2015 at 3:04 PM, Stephen Partington cryptwo...@gmail.com wrote: This is an idea. http://linuxgizmos.com/tablet-runs-ubuntu-touch-on-intel-core-m/ Also I would

Fwd: Linux Administrator Opportunity in Chandler

2015-08-25 Thread Stephen Partington
Just in case any of you would be interested. -- Forwarded message -- From: Casas, Michael (00210) michael.ca...@rht.com Date: Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 9:57 AM Subject: Linux Administrator Opportunity in Chandler To: Casas, Michael (00210) michael.ca...@rht.com Good Morning, My

Re: When Linux provides so many high-quality operating systems of many varieties free of...? - Quora

2015-10-25 Thread Stephen Partington
I love my high end current hardware with Linux. :-D On Sun, Oct 25, 2015 at 5:35 PM, Michael Havens wrote: > why in the world would anyone buy new equipment if they use Linux? (not > counting laptops used laptops suck! Though I did put Linux on an xp > laptop for a lady I

Re: LinuxMint Question

2015-10-29 Thread Stephen Partington
Dont forget that there are options for live cd's so he can try both and see which he likes the most. On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 12:41 AM, Phil Waclawski wrote: > Well, if he's never used Linux before, one of the desktop friendly distros > (Mint, Ubuntu, Kubuntu) is

Re: cheap ISP for low-bandwidth use?

2015-10-27 Thread Stephen Partington
Cox is pretty much the best option in the metro valley. 35/mo for 5 up / 1 down. and they only close of port 80 and the various smtp ports (but allow you to use their smart forwarders) Century link is offering 20/mo for 10 down / something up (im guessing 2mb or so) but i have no idea what they

Re: When Linux provides so many high-quality operating systems of many varieties free of...? - Quora

2015-10-25 Thread Stephen Partington
I certainly was getting nervous until i found solaar to manipulate the Logitech unifying devices. Really the only thing i am having trouble with is getting Nvidia drivers to work with this fool Macbook Pro. On Sun, Oct 25, 2015 at 9:19 AM, Michael Havens wrote: > I don't know

Re: Anyone install kubuntu on one of these?

2015-11-09 Thread Stephen Partington
I have personally not done this. but there seems to be a group that does... http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2181460 http://expiredpopsicle.com/2015/10/09/Cintiq_Companion_2_Running_Linux.html On Sun, Nov 8, 2015 at 11:12 PM, Phil Waclawski wrote: > >

Re: Anyone install kubuntu on one of these?

2015-11-09 Thread Stephen Partington
Not sure if it is worth taking a risk for that kind of money. > > Phil W > > On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 7:46 AM, Stephen Partington <cryptwo...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> I have personally not done this. but there seems to be a group that >> does... >> >> http://ub

Re: POLICE WEB APPLICATION DEVELOPER

2015-10-14 Thread Stephen Partington
"Thanks for posting this Keith. I don't make it to the mailing list very often any more. Just as a reminder the position closes this Friday so please power the application site to get your name in." This may be part of why you might not have heard back... On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 8:36 AM, Shawn

Re: google maps

2015-10-19 Thread Stephen Partington
you have to zoom out, and then choose earth at the bottom, then zoom out again. On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 1:28 PM, Michael Havens wrote: > I can't repeat the process. I think you need to have the pictures along > the bottom of the window showing before you zoom out because the

MacBook Pro Late 2010 and Ubuntu

2015-10-20 Thread Stephen Partington
So i have been tinkering with this macbook, and Everything works right up to the point i give it the Nvidia base driver (replacing Nouveau) at this point the instant X comes up the whole thing just stops rendering video. Kind of frustrating So far this round this is the only hope i have found:

Re: i3/i5/i7 vs Intel Xeon

2015-10-10 Thread Stephen Partington
nice lil pocket server for sure. On Sat, Oct 10, 2015 at 9:17 AM, Keith Smith wrote: > > I don't know how I ended up on this page : > http://www.dell.com/us/business/p/deals?~ck=mn#!dlpgid=poweredge-tower-server-deals > Probably because I am always looking for deals.

Re: Open Relay question

2015-10-11 Thread Stephen Partington
google open relay test there are a number of ways to test. If you are behind cox then you have to use a forward via one of their servers. On Sun, Oct 11, 2015 at 3:34 PM, Keith Smith wrote: > > > > Hi, > > How can I verify my server is not an open relay which will

Re: ups

2015-10-12 Thread Stephen Partington
On a machine that old you would have a better and smoother experience just converting it to a VM. There are some good tools to convert to KVM/Quemu from raw disk. On Sun, Oct 11, 2015 at 11:34 PM, Steve Litt wrote: > LOL, > > Sitting right next to me, I have a 1997

Re: ups

2015-10-12 Thread Stephen Partington
I just pitched one of these this last summer. On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 7:14 AM, Keith Smith wrote: > On 2015-10-11 21:54, Michael Havens wrote: > >> you have 12 year old computers? >> >> > No those computers are long gone. The event was 13 or 14 years ago. My >

Re: ups

2015-10-12 Thread Stephen Partington
I have to say i have always liked working with Supermicro hardware. Built hundreds of systems with their hardware. less than 1% fail rate (SM parts specifically) On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 9:14 AM, Steve Litt wrote: > Yes. > > What's amazing is how solid this machine is.

Re: What is your system advice? Solved.

2015-10-07 Thread Stephen Partington
you bought it an SSD instead of a fan? On Wed, Oct 7, 2015 at 10:43 AM, Nathan England wrote: > > > I have a T500 that I bought years ago. I begged and begged and Lenovo > support sent me the better hard-backed keyboard which I promptly replaced. > It was originally a core 2

Re: DNS Servers

2015-10-05 Thread Stephen Partington
​I am running my own internal DNs server and the list i had earlier is what i am using to seed my DNS.​ On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 1:04 PM, Keith Smith wrote: > > I'm running bind, does that change my question? I was talking about the > two DNS servers that are part of

Re: How to add an ssd drive?

2015-10-06 Thread Stephen Partington
Looks like what I want to do for my wife's laptop On Oct 6, 2015 5:41 PM, wrote: > Brian Cluff last wrote: > > You'll enjoy that Laptop a lot. I just picked up a T420 myself > > a few weeks ago and everything works perfect right out of the box. > > I did add 8 gigs of ram

Re: build your own DSN receiver

2015-10-09 Thread Stephen Partington
Awesome On Oct 9, 2015 9:21 PM, "der.hans" wrote: > moin moin, > > last night we had a question about building your own satellite dish for > listening in on the deep space network. > > Looks like someone has figured it out for less than $400. > >

Re: i3/i5/i7 vs Intel Xeon

2015-10-09 Thread Stephen Partington
Those are some sexy blades. On Oct 9, 2015 9:58 PM, "Kevin Fries" wrote: > I7 is quad core, Xeon can go to 18 core and have dual procs. We are > currently considering Power Edge blades with 2x14 cores to build private > cloud. > > Kevin > On Oct 9, 2015 2:10 PM, "Keith

Re: RHEL 8

2015-10-13 Thread Stephen Partington
Fedora 23 is looking really slick... and i am liking their Workstation/Server/Cloud installer splits. On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 3:30 PM, Ed wrote: > Kieth - not for years, besides most biz are still looking at the 6->7 > migration as a TODO. > If you are itching for RHEL8 - get

Re: i3/i5/i7 vs Intel Xeon

2015-10-09 Thread Stephen Partington
Intel has some amazing documentation on this. And ark.intel.com has some solid data on processors. The main difference in a nutshell is no gpu support and fewer desktop features and more server features. On Oct 9, 2015 1:10 PM, "Keith Smith" wrote: > > > Hi, > > I was

Re: OT: Blocking Sites

2015-07-07 Thread Stephen Partington
the fastest solution would be to route the domains via local copy of the hosts file. to say localhost or some place you approve of. then you can look for a more long term solution. On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 1:26 PM, AZ Pete p...@cactusfamily.com wrote: All, I have two boys who's video gaming

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