Re: Help Desk Tier 1

2017-10-31 Thread Stephen Partington
If you can find the right place you can move from entry phones into dev work. I have seen that happen at my current employer. Help desk where I am is kind of a dead end because the options locally are finite because IT resides in another state. On Oct 31, 2017 12:06 AM, "trent shipley" wrote:

Re: Scriptsheets

2017-11-02 Thread Stephen Partington
Google and LibreOffice both have similar functionality. (not VB, but they have built in scripting tools) On Thu, Nov 2, 2017 at 8:03 AM, wrote: > > How would this be different from using Visual Basic for Applications > (VBA). It has literally been 20 years since I used VBA, however I seem to >

Re: Network gurus

2017-11-05 Thread Stephen Partington
This sounds like it is in a loose slot or that you flex the mainboard when you open it up. Just reseat it much like the Graphics card. Virus-free. www.avast.com

Re: VPN recommendations

2017-11-06 Thread Stephen Partington
OpenVPN comes to the top of my litst Virus-free. www.avast.com

Re: Salary Average ...

2017-11-08 Thread Stephen Partington
Your pretty much on they money. Also scale of the company and where you rank in the hierarchy will an impact on what you can get. On Nov 8, 2017 7:08 PM, "Snyder, Alexander J" wrote: > Hello folks -- > > Interested to know if the group could advise on what a reasonable yearly > salary would be f

Re: png or tiff

2017-11-12 Thread Stephen Partington
I love PNG for many things. But when dealing with Raw portability sometimes a Tiff is needed. The real challenge is what is your end goal and what are you looking to do with it. I acutually use JPG to protect my images from full theft because only i have access to the 100% RAW image. my Jpg's at be

Re: gimp and nef

2017-11-12 Thread Stephen Partington
Because gimp is not a RAW processor. That is why darktable and lightroom are so important. You use them as your raw processor then export to gimp. This article is for Adobe products but it explains the basics well https://www.photoshopessentials.com/photo-editing/camera-raw-vs-photoshop/ On Nov

Re: seeking 4k curved monitor recommendation

2017-11-15 Thread Stephen Partington
Having dealt with 4k and 2k screens I am a huge proponent of 2k (2560x1440) at 27 in o ​r less. ​And in all I am a huge fan of 2k screens for text, gaming, video. ​The inherent cost of 4k monitors still leaves me comfortable with the 2k x 27 in area.​ On Nov 14, 2017 5:53 PM, "Jerry Snitselaar"

Re: darktable rebooting computer

2017-11-15 Thread Stephen Partington
All of that data suggests your wireless card is the issue. I see no other errors. See the following: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1422190 and https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/404313 404313 actually has a workaround as well that looks like it might eliminate t

Re: darktable rebooting computer

2017-11-15 Thread Stephen Partington
see also https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=226456 On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 7:01 AM, Stephen Partington wrote: > All of that data suggests your wireless card is the issue. I see no other > errors. > > See the following: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lin

Re: seeking 4k curved monitor recommendation

2017-11-15 Thread Stephen Partington
How far back are you from the screens in your setup? and how well does the text render? On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 12:23 PM, Michael Butash wrote: > I went the route of getting a 48" samsung 4k/60hz tv's for around $620/ea > a few years ago during black friday sales, which I love using now as a > g

Re: seeking 4k curved monitor recommendation

2017-11-15 Thread Stephen Partington
Something to consider with text display on a "TV" is to turn off most of the movement enhancing functions. On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 1:08 PM, der.hans wrote: > Am 15. Nov, 2017 schwätzte David Schwartz so: > > moin moin, > > yeah, I ended up with the 50" TV because one of my 27" monitors went out

Re: Cox Gigablast

2017-11-17 Thread Stephen Partington
I have had GB from Aug this year. And it is fantastic. 1g up and down is a beautiful thing. On Nov 17, 2017 12:38 PM, "Charles Lewton" wrote: > Hello Jerry et al, > > We have been using Gigablast since May, 2016. It has been excellent > results and reliable service. > > I would subscribe again

Re: Cox Gigablast

2017-11-17 Thread Stephen Partington
More clarity I am in Tempe between mill and rural north of Southern. This I noticed are that most sites cannot support 1g of bandwidth. However if you use a multi peering download like torrent things go stupid fast. On Nov 17, 2017 12:49 PM, "Stephen Partington" wrote: > I have ha

RE: Re: Cox Gigablast

2017-11-18 Thread Stephen Partington
This is what i had before gig. And the service was great. But i use way more than 1t of data in a month. So gig was actually a savings. On Nov 18, 2017 4:38 PM, wrote: > I am using Cox Communications "Ultimate" package. 300 Mbps download, 30 > Mbps upload, with measured values usually 5 to 10 p

Re: Re: Cox Gigablast

2017-11-19 Thread Stephen Partington
Last I read gigablast was 2t not 1. On Nov 19, 2017 12:05 PM, wrote: On Sat Nov 18 17, Stephen Partington wrote: > This is what i had before gig. And the service was great. But i use way > more than 1t of data in a month. So gig was actually a savings. > > They have capped n

Re: Re: Cox Gigablast

2017-11-19 Thread Stephen Partington
Wow. Looks like they did change it right after I got it. https://www.cox.com/aboutus/policies/speeds-and-data-plans.html?zip=85228 On Nov 19, 2017 12:48 PM, "Jerry Snitselaar" wrote: > On Sun Nov 19 17, Stephen Partington wrote: > >> Last I read gigablast was 2t not 1. &g

Re: Re: Cox Gigablast

2017-11-19 Thread Stephen Partington
Wow. Looks like they did change it right after I got it. https://www.cox.com/aboutus/policies/speeds-and-data-plans.html?zip=85228 On Nov 19, 2017 12:48 PM, "Jerry Snitselaar" wrote: > On Sun Nov 19 17, Stephen Partington wrote: > >> Last I read gigablast was 2t not 1. &g

Re: Cox Gigablast

2017-11-19 Thread Stephen Partington
> On Nov 19, 2017, at 4:31 PM, Brian Cluff wrote: > > Wow... so they are literally selling you a connection that you can exceed > your monthly allowance in a little over 15 minutes of use if you could find > a service that would saturate your connection. > > LAME! > > Brian

Re: Cox Gigablast

2017-11-19 Thread Stephen Partington
g at putting an SDR on > there for remote hf/vhf/uhf/shf reception). I was thinking a raspberry pie > late generation. > > -eric > from the central offices of the Technomage Gu > On Nov 19, 2017, at 5:48 PM, Stephen Partington wrote: > > I got in when they were around 2 tb. An

Re: Cox Gigablast

2017-11-19 Thread Stephen Partington
gt; > On Nov 19, 2017 7:01 PM, "Eric Oyen" wrote: > >> oh joy! they would make you have to adapt to a new technology. >> >> -eric >> from the central offices of the Technomage Guild, You can't get there >> from here Dept. >> >> On

Re: Cox Gigablast

2017-11-20 Thread Stephen Partington
> from the central offices of the Technomage Guild, You can't get there >> from here Dept. >> >> On Nov 19, 2017, at 6:59 PM, Stephen Partington wrote: >> >> I am looking at a node.js nginx build because my current hosting company >> won't support nod

Re: Cox Gigablast

2017-11-20 Thread Stephen Partington
So I can take everything that comes in at 80 and 443 and send them to 443, then use letsencrypt for certs. [image: Inline image 1] On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 6:38 AM, Stephen Partington wrote: > That is very true, Google Domains has a DDNS functionality that you can > use to update your I

Re: Cox Gigablast

2017-11-20 Thread Stephen Partington
ort. Cox residential blocks quite a > few ports it turns out. > > On Nov 19, 2017 8:20 PM, "Stephen Partington" > wrote: > >> Google Domains will do a pure redirect of all 80 to any URL. even https >> over http. >> >> Https is not blocked. >> >&g

Re: Cox Gigablast

2017-11-20 Thread Stephen Partington
017 at 11:28 AM, kelly stephenson < > stephenson2...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Yes definitely, I signed up for gigablast this weekend which was inspired >> by the chatter. >> >> >> On Nov 20, 2017 10:11 AM, "Stephen Partington" >> wrote: >>

Re: OT: How to print a pdf document larger?

2017-11-20 Thread Stephen Partington
Some print drivers will give an option fit to page with an enlarge. Otherwise you may have to modify the doc. On Nov 20, 2017 4:51 PM, wrote: > Is there a way to print a pdf document that is > formatted to 6" x 9" to an 8.5" x 11" page? > > And how can one do that for a multi-page book? > > > >

Re: SBG 6700 AC

2017-11-20 Thread Stephen Partington
Define not working On Nov 20, 2017 6:58 PM, "Michael" wrote: > I bought a Arris SBG 6700 AC and it does not work any advice on how to get > it to work? > > --- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscrib

Re: SBG 6700 AC

2017-11-20 Thread Stephen Partington
And are you talking about this guy? http://www.arris.com/surfboard/products/wi-fi-cable-modems/sbg6700-ac/ On Nov 20, 2017 8:06 PM, "Stephen Partington" wrote: > Define not working > > On Nov 20, 2017 6:58 PM, "Michael" wrote: > >> I bought a Arris SBG 6

Re: SBG 6700 AC

2017-11-21 Thread Stephen Partington
you try contacting your cable provider or looking up the manual and seeing what that error code means? On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 8:47 PM, Michael wrote: > Top light solid. Second light blinking. 3rd and 4th light out bottom two > lights solid > > On Nov 20, 2017 10:06 PM, "S

Re: Debian Stable vs Ubuntu LTS vs Others for a NAS

2017-11-21 Thread Stephen Partington
I use ubuntu, because it is familiar. If you are familiar with Debian use that. I am a fan of openfiler and freeNAS for dedicated nas solutions. but I will use whatever fits the need. On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 9:39 PM, Brien Dieterle wrote: > I would just go with Debian Stable. You're already co

Re: Why does ps -ef show four entries for chrome?

2017-11-23 Thread Stephen Partington
I am amazed that you only have 4. I usually have dozens going. On Nov 22, 2017 4:16 PM, "James Mcphee" wrote: > Chrome runs each tab in a seperate process, and the same for plugins, etc, > though sometimes those are shared. If you run ps -ef instead of top and > get the parent processid, they'd

Re: kodi tvaddons

2017-11-23 Thread Stephen Partington
The funny part is I don't mind paying for the content. I just really despise the way I am being forced to consume it. And that is actually the biggest reason I will look I to alternate methods of consumption. On Nov 22, 2017 11:42 PM, "Michael Butash" wrote: > Legal conundrum. Media cartels wan

Re: Amazon EC2 cloud desktop

2017-11-23 Thread Stephen Partington
​That is a neat article​ Virus-free. www.avast.com

Re: new thread: QoS, latency, bandwidth and the FCC/net neutrality debate

2017-11-24 Thread Stephen Partington
It is not that simple in my mind. Network QoS is very different then the possibility of the customers pay extra for additional services. Besides Netflix has cache devices that can and are frequently in local is Datacenters to alleviate latency and Bw issues. And given the current fcc chairs attit

Re: OT: Excess files

2013-12-09 Thread Stephen Partington
Actually yes it can, There is an IIS install that works for XP just fine. I suspect all of that directory was installed by IBM as part of a Maintenance suite. or similar "helpful" software. On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 1:02 AM, ChasM wrote: > Win-XP shouldn't have IIS cabinet files. > IIS is Microsof

Ubuntu Touch emulator

2013-12-11 Thread Stephen Partington
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Touch/Emulator this was a bit of interesting technology that popped up this morning. I thought i would share it with you guys. -- 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.

Re: how to start a sh script from launcher?

2013-12-16 Thread Stephen Partington
http://askubuntu.com/questions/141229/how-to-add-a-shell-script-to-launcher-as-shortcut First hit via google. But the os and window manager you are using would be helpful. On Monday, December 16, 2013, wrote: > Can In see the script? > I execute shell scripts from GUIs all day long... > ET > > >

Re:

2013-12-16 Thread Stephen Partington
For Linux based Desktop Virtualization i have had the most success with VirtualBox. You can even pass some 3d rendering on to the GPU and enable an overlay mode that makes windows blend into the Host OS more so it feels like Linux with bits of windows coming in. You can also look up some of the win

Re: Steam OS was released for all you gamers out there

2013-12-16 Thread Stephen Partington
Well here are the installation options from Steam itself. http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=204085700 Enjoy! I plan on checking it out at home. Just need to figure out a way to shove another drive into my system. On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 9:48 AM, Michael Butash wrote: > I'

Re: Steam OS was released for all you gamers out there

2013-12-16 Thread Stephen Partington
Whups. wrong link: http://store.steampowered.com/steamos/buildyourown On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 10:08 AM, Stephen Partington wrote: > Well here are the installation options from Steam itself. > > http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=204085700 > > Enjoy! I plan on

Re: Steam OS was released for all you gamers out there

2013-12-17 Thread Stephen Partington
I generally do that anyhow... On Tuesday, December 17, 2013, Dazed_75 wrote: > Aye, but the worse thing is I am seeing a few that are OEM installed to > use FAKE Raid0. That is so bad that they may as well say "Wipe this > machine when you get it" > > > On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 11:18 PM, Robert H

Re: Linux command line utility to send to email list?

2013-12-17 Thread Stephen Partington
The idea of a mailing list might be a better idea. you can power one yourself with a listserv or use Google groups. On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 2:18 PM, wrote: > What would be the best *simple* command line utility to send an email > message to a small (100) list of email addresses? > > I googled f

Re: [AZC] Linux-Based Web Kiosk

2013-12-18 Thread Stephen Partington
I personally am curious. I am not sure how automated i would make it off the cuff. Unfortunately my ideas would have a sharp learning curve because i would make webmin an alternate "switchable" admin interface. moving to something like puppet or chef i think would be a better long run solution for

Spiffy new Darkroom workflow for linux

2014-01-02 Thread Stephen Partington
Native RAW support, and it works very well in my experiments so far. So if you wanted something for managing digital raw workflow and wanted opensource... http://www.leettips.org/2014/01/darktable-virtual-lighttable-and.html -- A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you f

Re: Damn ubuntu.

2014-01-05 Thread Stephen Partington
If i want an advanced disk arrangement or an alternate desktop environment i use the server install media. Frequently if my hardware is at all iffy or i have bleeding edge graphics ill use it then as well. On Sunday, January 5, 2014, Michael Butash wrote: > On 01/05/2014 12:14 PM, Brian Cluff wro

Re: OT motorola google phone

2014-01-24 Thread Stephen Partington
So far my only hesitation is the screen resolution. Having used a 1080 screen for over a year now it is really hard for me to drop back down. On Jan 24, 2014 12:25 PM, "webcanine" wrote: > Anyone have a Moto X and any comments on it? I'm looking to replace my > current smartphone and value list i

Re: monitor

2014-01-25 Thread Stephen Partington
Some quick Google Fu comes up with http://www.amazon.com/s/?ie=UTF8&keywords=vga+to+cat5+extender&tag=googhydr-20&index=aps&hvadid=19821893124&hvpos=1t1&hvexid=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=564914442574118459&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=b&hvdev=c&ref=pd_sl_21x0mhctxp_b I got good results with: vga to cat6 extender

Re: monitor

2014-01-25 Thread Stephen Partington
well this is a little more interesting. If you have on-board graphics and a Yellow (composite) video out you should be able to hook up a TV and treat it like a low resolution monitor. This would depend entirely on the graphics card and driver you have. On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 10:58 AM, Michael Ha

Re: monitor

2014-01-25 Thread Stephen Partington
Not that I have heard of. On Jan 25, 2014 2:59 PM, "Michael Havens" wrote: > thanks for your help. are you saying there is no way to redirect video > output to say the mic or headphones jack? > > :-)~MIKE~(-: > > > On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 12:01 PM, Stephen Parting

Re: memory and 64 bit processor

2014-01-30 Thread Stephen Partington
If he has 4GB or more of ram, yes quite a difference. On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 10:04 AM, Michael Havens wrote: > My dad got an NUC for XBMC. Will there be any noticeable difference > between running the 32 or 64 bit versions? > > :-)~MIKE~(-: > > > On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 9:44 AM, Matt Graham w

Re: any ideas how to opt out of all this c$%^P google is tossing

2014-02-10 Thread Stephen Partington
Yes, a bit buried but there are some opt-outs if you look. On Feb 9, 2014 10:16 PM, "Dazed_75" wrote: > > at us with no explanation? I am about ready to destroy evey oomputer I > have ever owned, > -- > Dazed_75 a.k.a. Larry > > Please protect my address like I protect yours. When sending messag

Re: any ideas how to opt out of all this c$%^P google is tossing

2014-02-10 Thread Stephen Partington
Google+ -> skip inbox -> delete > > -- JD Austin > Voice: 480.269.4335 (480 2MY Geek) > j...@twingeckos.com > > > > On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 5:44 AM, Stephen Partington > wrote: > >> Yes, a bit buried but there are some opt-outs if you look. >> On Feb

Re: OT: Managing a Contact List

2014-02-12 Thread Stephen Partington
well depending on what you are doing with that information a CRM may be needed. On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 11:38 AM, keith smith wrote: > Hi, > > I'm collecting a large number of contacts from within the community. > Short of a spreadsheet, is there any other options I may have? > > A spreadsheet

Re: best mail client for kubuntu

2014-03-13 Thread Stephen Partington
Geary is interesting as well. On Thursday, March 13, 2014, keith smith wrote: > Thanks!! > > > Keith Smith > > > On Thursday, March 13, 2014 6:05 PM, Nathan England < > plug-disc...@nmecs.com> > wrote: > > I personally use Kontact because it has calendaring and much mo

Re: best mail client for kubuntu

2014-03-14 Thread Stephen Partington
You can also take a look at seamonkey its an odd project that is showing promise as Mozilla is trying to merge web email and calendar back together again. On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 10:01 AM, Brian Cluff wrote: > If you install the package xul-ext-lightning, it will give you a nice > calender with

Re: bitcoin mining

2014-03-20 Thread Stephen Partington
well if you Google beowulf cluster you will find the first one i had learned about. but there are a number of options out there. the main thing is once you have it set up you need to figure out what you will do with it. and that is where it gets interesting because you then usually have to build a

Re: Speaking of quad cores . . .

2014-03-22 Thread Stephen Partington
I would put it to use. On Mar 22, 2014 2:08 PM, "George Toft" wrote: > I have an AMD quad core box for free - it was my VMware server. 4GB RAM, > AMD Phenom X4 @1.8GHz, no hard drive, tower case, Gateway brand. > > -- > Regards, > > George Toft > > ---

Re: looking for some project advice for a startup

2014-03-24 Thread Stephen Partington
I will second the documentation comments here. At the office we dealt with a bunch of programmers that were given their head and there is such a black hole of knowledge about what is doing what. Not that the relationship ended the code is ours but the leftover kludge is takeoff more time to deciphe

Re: What are the $%& boxes waiting for? :(

2014-03-24 Thread Stephen Partington
the second coming? On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 8:10 AM, wrote: > Hello collective wisdom... > I have several Linux boxes (different distros, no common denominator) that > for no apparent reason have the processor(s) go into a 'waiting' state > rather way too often. > And then they wait... > and wai

Re: Backup VPS before cancelling account

2014-03-25 Thread Stephen Partington
i think if you wanted to be really slick you could tar/gzip via scp in a single command. or you could tar/gz and then use SCP to retrive the file. A rough example. tar -zc path/to/source | ssh user@remote tar -zxC path/to/destination On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 10:51 AM, keith smith wrote: > Hi,

Re: bootable USB

2014-03-31 Thread Stephen Partington
My favorite tool so far has been UnetBootin they build the tool for the big 3 OS's (Mac, Win, Lin). Its worth looking t and it has some persistence tools available as well. On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 12:14 AM, Michael Havens wrote: > how does one create a bootable USB with persistance with an alre

Re: bootable USB

2014-03-31 Thread Stephen Partington
I will need to do this sometime. because that is pretty spiffy. On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 7:00 AM, wrote: > I am dumb, so I do dumb things: > 1.- Boot with the install CD of your preference (Debian in my book), > 2.- plug the USB, > 3.- find the /dev/sd? of the USB (cat /prop/partitions), > 4.- r

Re: I'm building linux from scratch in a virtual machine

2014-04-02 Thread Stephen Partington
IP addr but also if config usually needs to be run as root. So a normal user won't have the command. On Wednesday, April 2, 2014, Michael Havens wrote: > I need to find the ip of the virtual debian machine. I tried ipconfig. > Command not found. I tried ifconfig. Command not found. Well I though

Re: I'm building linux from scratch in a virtual machine

2014-04-03 Thread Stephen Partington
If the permissions are set the command is not even visible. With certain commands that is ideal because it is harder to manipulate a file you cannot even see. On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 10:20 PM, Michael Havens wrote: > the problem was that I wasn't running it as root. I come to find it > doesn't g

Re: Off Topic Server recommendations

2014-04-07 Thread Stephen Partington
I will usually build my own server for anything i manage directly. For anything that i am not likely to be around for i will generally use a dell server. I like building my own because i can get very granular with my hardware needs and concerns and make the choices that fit the needs best (space,

Re: Off Topic Server recommendations

2014-04-08 Thread Stephen Partington
This is a somewhat risky combination to put on the same server. The reason being you now have your entire company exposed to the outside world. An option would be to use a VM solution on the bare metal and then you could separate your Services and even use different OS's for each based on needs. as

Re: looking for a junior developer role somewhere in Phoenix...

2014-04-09 Thread Stephen Partington
Something to consider: http://pearson.jobs/jobs/?q=develop&location=Chandler%2C+AZ We have development needs all over the place right now, and they are only getting bigger. Great benefits and good pay. On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 7:04 AM, Ted Gould wrote: > > First, I love the mail, I love how you

Re: scp connection refused

2014-04-09 Thread Stephen Partington
Can you ssh into the VM? romt he looks of it your not even being allowed to connect. you may need to turn on openssl. On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 1:33 PM, Michael Havens wrote: > I attempted to transfer a file from a virtual machine to the host with > less than stellar results: > > root@LFS:/# scp

Re: scp connection refused

2014-04-09 Thread Stephen Partington
should be "/etc/init.d/sshd start" or something similar and then depending on dist you simply ad that start script to the system startup chkconfig or something similar. you can also list what is in your init.d and see what is there. On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 1:57 PM, Michael Havens wrote: > how d

Re: scp connection refused

2014-04-09 Thread Stephen Partington
o_start >> case "$?" in >> 0) log_end_msg 0 ;; >> 1) log_end_msg 1 ;; # Old process is still running >> *) log_end_msg 1 ;; # Failed to start >> esac >> ;; >> *) >># Failed to stop >> log_end_msg 1 >> ;; >> esac >

Re: Is my hard drive hosed?

2014-04-12 Thread Stephen Partington
spin right is awesome, but i would clone the drive asap an run some hardware diagnostics. On Apr 12, 2014 7:27 PM, "Sean Brown" wrote: > I would check out a product called Spin Right by Steve Gibson. > > Thanks, > > Sean Brown > > > On Apr 12, 2014, at 7:14 PM, Mark Phillips > wrote: > > > > I h

Re: Looking for Advice on a New Server

2014-04-14 Thread Stephen Partington
An Optiplex is not a server. it does not have any of the Build quality i would want in a server. You can get away with a non server case but you want the server Powersupply and motherboard. Here a few quick links to Newegg, I personally have had wonderful success with Linux on SuperMicro hardware.

Re: Looking for Advice on a New Server

2014-04-14 Thread Stephen Partington
Well netgear makes some nice Nas devices that are very reasonable On Apr 14, 2014 4:35 PM, "Mark Phillips" wrote: > KevinO, > > Yes I agreeI really should replace 2 machines with 2 machines..one > for web and one for files. Back to the search. > > Mark > > > On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 11:37

Re: Computer Down Need Help!!

2014-04-22 Thread Stephen Partington
I have had very poor experience with the technical knowledge at fry's electronics. Data doctors is good but pricy. Some things you can try is pull all components except CPU and the rest the bios. If you get beeps your board is not 100% gone. The add one stick ram and video. If you still get beeps

Re: Computer Down Need Help!!

2014-04-22 Thread Stephen Partington
If it is not posting he will need to disconnect the disk drive to test, wich is part of the suggestion to remove all peripherals first to see if he can post. On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 6:44 AM, Bob Elzer wrote: > Are you sure it's not the disk drive? > > Try booting from a live CD and see if that

Re: burning iso

2014-04-24 Thread Stephen Partington
you could try this as a plan B: http://osxdaily.com/2012/03/13/burn-an-iso-image-from-the-command-line/ On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 10:36 AM, Michael Havens wrote: > I'm trying to burn an iso and brasero disk burner is not working. It says: > >Please wait until the estimation of the size is com

Re: Linux on USB

2014-04-24 Thread Stephen Partington
There are a few ways to do this, from installing to the USB as if it were a hard drive. or setting up a livecd with persistence (this would pair well with a load to ram option for the livcd) just depends on how big a Thumb drive you have, and how much persistence you want. On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 a

Re: Linux on USB

2014-04-25 Thread Stephen Partington
Most systems now identify by uuid. As an idea if you have an internal USB header and related io plate you coul use that and tie it up internally so it does not get pulled by mistake. And Ubuntu 14.04 sees USB drives as valid install destinations without any need to change. On Thursday, April 24,

Re: Thumb drive longevity (was RE: Linux on USB)

2014-04-25 Thread Stephen Partington
I shut of swap/virt mem on SSD's anyhow. then again i also put a large ish amount of memory in those machines for that purpose. Good read however. It explains some issues with gaming from an SSD and the issues inherent with it. and why it works better as an "OS" drive than game install drive. On

Re: OT android question

2014-04-26 Thread Stephen Partington
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sylkat.AParted Is the first thing I have found. Looks interesting. On Apr 25, 2014 10:48 PM, "Derek Trotter" wrote: > I have an android tablet and have link2sd installed on it so there's > room to install what I want on it. This works fine, how

Re: OT android question

2014-04-26 Thread Stephen Partington
et an error message > whenever I try to download it. > > On 04/26/2014 07:35 AM, Stephen Partington wrote: > > https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sylkat.AParted > > Is the first thing I have found. Looks interesting. > On Apr 25, 2014 10:48 PM, "Derek Tr

Re: question - Thunderbird

2014-04-28 Thread Stephen Partington
Go to "Online Accounts" click on the account you want to remove, in the lower right there is a "Remove Account Button". I just typed Accounts into the main search area. (this was in 14.04) On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 9:46 PM, Lyle Tuttle wrote: > Yes, I saw that - problem is, those instructions mu

Re: question - Thunderbird

2014-04-28 Thread Stephen Partington
HAH, i should read the subject first. In Thunderbird: Go to Edit -> Properties Click on your Account (top on your email address) at the bottom use account actions and then remove account This is the ubuntu 14.04 default thunderbird install. On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 7:35 AM, Stephen Parting

Re: question - Thunderbird

2014-04-28 Thread Stephen Partington
Sorry, too many email clients at once today. At the top: Edit -> Account Settings, the rest should be the same. On 04/28/2014 08:00 AM, Lyle Tuttle wrote: At 07:38 AM 4/28/2014, Stephen Partington wrote: HAH, i should read the subject first. In Thunderbird: Go to Edit -> Propertie

Re: question - Thunderbird

2014-04-28 Thread Stephen Partington
t; on your edit menu? On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 8:20 AM, Stephen Partington wrote: > Sorry, too many email clients at once today. > > At the top: Edit -> Account Settings, the rest should be the same. > > > On 04/28/2014 08:00 AM, Lyle Tuttle wrote: > > At 07:38 AM 4/28/20

Re: Computer Down Need Help!!

2014-05-04 Thread Stephen Partington
Intel support is freaking amazing from my experiences with them, so is EVGA and Thermaltake. but i haven't talked to thermaltake in some time. On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 4:54 PM, AZ Pete wrote: > Hi All, > > I thought I'd report back with the resolution to this mess. First of all, > thanks to all

Re: hyperthreading....

2014-05-05 Thread Stephen Partington
First Gen Hyperthreading was interesting but the processors and corresponding front side bus's did not have enough bandwidth to utilize the technology correctly. the current rendition has far more bandwidth available and it is far more useful. In working with linux it is much better at using hyper

Re: test

2014-05-07 Thread Stephen Partington
Well, Google thinks there is something wrong with your email headers and is classifying you as spam. this might be why you are getting de-listed? "*Be careful with this message.* Our systems couldn't verify that this message was really sent by yahoo.com. You might want to avoid clicking links or

Re: test

2014-05-07 Thread Stephen Partington
. I've > been on the list for maybe 12 years with this email account without any > issues until now. > > Thank you for your insight!! > > Keith > > On Wednesday, May 7, 2014 7:03 AM, Stephen Partington < > cryptwo...@gmail.com> wrote: > Well, Google th

Re: I keep getting dropped

2014-05-09 Thread Stephen Partington
It made it to the list, but again Gmail flagged it as spam. On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 9:05 PM, keith smith wrote: > I was dropped from the list for the 3rd time because of excessive > bounces. I tried to subscribe using my gmail account and that does not > seem to be working either. Not sure thi

Re: Cox Data Usage Notification

2014-05-13 Thread Stephen Partington
I was getting these monthly while on premier. But i have about 6 people at any given time pulling data, Gaming, Streaming video, ect. so i would pop my cap pretty readily, pushing upwards of 450GB/month. If your router/firewall supports it turn on metering and watch where you pull data and how. I

Re: mX14

2014-05-13 Thread Stephen Partington
this? http://distrowatch.com/?newsid=08356 On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 10:56 PM, Michael Havens wrote: > for those with older hardware Mx14 is just for you. > :-)~MIKE~(-: > > --- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To sub

Re: Cox Data Usage Notification

2014-05-13 Thread Stephen Partington
A vpn will make the usage anonymous, but not give you more or less. And Google fiber is why my move is specifically staying in Tempe :-) On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 8:22 AM, AZ Pete wrote: > I use Strong VPN and have been very happy with it. > http://www.strongvpn.com/ > > This is also worth a lo

Re: Cox

2014-05-13 Thread Stephen Partington
https://fiber.google.com/about/ On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 2:57 PM, Carruth, Rusty wrote: > Well, http://fiber.google.com/ worked for me :-) > > > > -Original Message- > From: plug-discuss-boun...@lists.phxlinux.org on behalf of Phil Waclawski > Sent: Tue 5/13/2014 2:52 PM > To: Main PLUG

Re: Is anybody there ?

2014-05-18 Thread Stephen Partington
there have been email messages all week last week. On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 9:46 AM, wrote: > Is anybody still there? > Haven't seen any PLUG messages since I posted > this a week ago ??? > > > Original Message > Subject: Libre Office fonts ?? > From:j...@actionline.com > D

Re: Still trying to trace PLUG emails

2014-05-19 Thread Stephen Partington
I saw it. On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 7:58 PM, wrote: > Thanks to Brian I think we are making progress trying to > solve this problem, so this email message is another test > to see if it will succeed ... > > > --- > > Kevin O responded to me privately to let me know > > that there have bee

OT - Adobe Photography bundle

2014-05-21 Thread Stephen Partington
I was talking to a gentleman last night at the sammitch and cannot recall his name. and we got to talking about the creative commons version for photography. http://www.adobe.com/products/creativecloud/photography.html Its down to 9.99 a month again. -- A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm

Re: fragmentation on a USB drive

2014-05-25 Thread Stephen Partington
On a direct access drive such as compact flash or SSD fragmentation is not relevant as there is no real seek time like there is on a conventional spinning platter drive. and in the case of flahs and SSD media can dramatically reduce the life of the drive. Some addditional reading: http://www.compu

Re: mail clients slow on Linux

2014-05-27 Thread Stephen Partington
If you are using IMAP the connection can have a significant affect as well. But yor setup should be ok. Maybe start poking around with logging and see if there is anything that stands out with your issues. On Tuesday, May 27, 2014, wrote: > > > Hi, > > I'm running Kubuntu 14.04 LTS on a Dell i5

Re: email list

2014-05-28 Thread Stephen Partington
Google groups. I find them very handy. Or dreamhost. But that is part of paid hosting. On May 27, 2014 11:07 PM, "Michael Havens" wrote: > well if anyone out there has been following my threads it seems as if > I am going to be starting an email list. Any tips on how I can do this with > very

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