RE: not getting ip address

2014-10-21 Thread Stephen Partington
e gave it back to me. then she said I probably was connecting 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 > wrote: > > That is what it looks like. > > On Oct 21,

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" 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 if someone w

Re: liksys WRT54G

2014-10-22 Thread Stephen Partington
afraid of > bricking my device; but I live in Cottonwood and work EVERY Saturday. > > :-)~MIKE~(-: > > On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 5:42 AM, Stephen Partington > wrote: > >> On the plus side you can reset to factory defaults easily without a >> password. >> >>

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 wrote: > My father just gave me a netgear wireless USB dongle. How do I get it to > work? I plugged it in and I didn't get t

Re: liksys WRT54G

2014-10-22 Thread Stephen Partington
boot and login! In case you somehow found >out that you can't telnet, then ssh should be possible since your previous >settings before flashing remained (unless you usedsysupgrade -n) >- > > > > :-)~MIKE~(-: > > On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 1:07 PM, Stephen Partingt

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 wrote: > While in the process of looking at my wireless connection properties I > saw it said "security none". Needless to say this

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 wrote: > last few lines of dmesg: > > [350375.36] usb 1-5: Product: Remote Download Wireless Adapter > [350375.39] usb 1-5: Manufacturer: Broadcom > [350375.41] usb 1-5:

Re: self signed cert on CentOS 6.5

2014-10-23 Thread Stephen Partington
Well if you need IE testing MS has handily created a number of VM's for that. https://www.modern.ie/en-us/virtualization-tools hope it helps. On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 12:32 PM, Keith Smith wrote: > > Thank you Matt for your reply! > > > > On 2014-10-19 13:21, Matt Graham wrote: > >> On 2014-10-

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 wrote: > any ideas on how to get it working.. > > :-)~MIKE~(-: > > On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 5:34 PM, Mark Phillips > wrote: >

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 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 printer > is a wi

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 wrote: > I got a question. When I was creating virtual machines each was assigned a > unique ip address. Whenever I

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 wrote: > Correct. the DHCP server will reassign the same IP address to the same mac > address based on lease time and a cou

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" 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 states it is 1

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 . wrote: > Still nothing on the far west side. > > On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 2:40 PM, Michael Havens wrote: > >> I wonder if it is because now

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 wrote:

Re: Thank You

2014-12-02 Thread Stephen Partington
/cheers! On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 11:24 AM, Keith Smith wrote: > Hi, > > I've been on the PLUG list since maybe 1999. > > I want to thank everyone for your help! I am running Linux on my > workstation and am planning to build a web server from scratch to include > BIND and email. I'm sure I will

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/ http://www.azcentral.com/story/money/business

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" 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 there and look a

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, wrote: > test message 1412-10 at 4:08 pm > > > --- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, o

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 wrote: > > That would be good. From what I understand a lot of peo

Re: Using Dban

2014-12-14 Thread Stephen Partington
Todd thanks. I am filing this away for my own use later. On Sun, Dec 14, 2014 at 11:26 AM, Todd Millecam wrote: > > Oh, if it's SSD drives, don't do it this way, this is solely for plattered > drives. If you are using an SSD, then you just need to issue a secure > command to the drive and tell 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 wrote: > > Am 14. Dez, 2014 schwätzte Matt Graham so: > > moin moin, > > On 2014-12-14 15:10, Eric Oyen wrote: >> >>> sounds like the new owner of the

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" 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 connected through a us

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 wrote: > > HP is notoriously horrible about supporting linux on desktop or > la

Re: Reflashing BIOS.

2014-12-17 Thread Stephen Partington
setup screen. > Ya 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, S

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" wrote: > Well that's strange. We're there any recent changes? > On Dec 17, 2014 11:26 AM, "Stephen M" wrote: > >> Yes the BIOS does see them both. The trouble

Re: Reflashing BIOS.

2014-12-18 Thread Stephen Partington
n't see my USB drive when my laptop does. As for trying >> to open an EFI shell, thats not happening. >> >> >> On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 11:59 AM, Stephen Partington < >> cryptwo...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> Nevermind missed that this was p

Re: BSD-Windows

2014-12-18 Thread Stephen Partington
This is a rather simple answer for a look on story. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Microsoft_Windows On Dec 18, 2014 11:29 AM, "Michael Havens" wrote: > Linux is built off of GNU. What is BSD built off of? And then there is > Windows. I heard that Wi

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 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 your distributi

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 wrote: > > I wish that phone worked on Verizon. That is an awesome phone for an > incredible price. > > Brian Cluff > > On

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 wrote: > My d

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 a

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 wrote: > I'm putting Linux Mint 17.1 On a friends Inspiron 100

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 wrote: > In my search I happened upon this page: > > http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/dr

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 Sun

Re: Media Center setup

2014-12-28 Thread Stephen Partington
. On Dec 28, 2014 2:08 PM, "Stephen M" wrote: > Stephen, the only thing I plan on doing with this computer is streaming > videos over a local LAN and display them on a smartTV. So would I need it > if I wouldn't be using the computer itself? > > On Sun, Dec 28, 2014

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 this

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 deactiva

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 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 2015-01-02 19:17, j...@

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, wrote: > Found this compariso

Re: Not Debian/Ubuntu Desktop

2015-01-05 Thread Stephen Partington
you could try the fedora "desktop" release (they just made the split to create Desktop, Server, and Cloud releases. i installed it recently, and aside from the fact i have a chip-set that seems to really offend Linux it was really simple to set up. On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 7:39 PM, trent shipley wr

Re: Not Debian/Ubuntu Desktop

2015-01-06 Thread Stephen Partington
; At home, I use Gentoo, because there's no systemd requirement and > upgrading is incremental instead of "guaranteed downtime while you > reinstall the whole darn OS every couple of years." Gentoo may not fit > your criteria of "desktop oriented" though. > >

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" 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 and checking

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 i

Re: Windows 7 dual boot with Linux

2015-01-12 Thread Stephen Partington
that depends on workload. If you can afford it 4-6gb for general websurfing. 2-4 if you cannot. Its a matter of how well you want the system to perform, and what it will be doing. On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 5:42 PM, Michael Havens wrote: > How much RAM is enough? How much should you allocate to w

Re: OT- Can anyone help me to find a job?

2015-01-13 Thread Stephen Partington
Yes and no. There is a point where being an educator is about the learning process and less about the subject matter. This obviously changes as the depth or complexity of the subject changes. But there is always someplace to start. On Jan 13, 2015 2:42 PM, "Michael Havens" wrote: > to make money

Re: Web design

2015-01-14 Thread Stephen Partington
Some of the big things that draw me to a site like that would be the quality of the work, and pictures to do that. Most cell phones will not do that for you (some can do that very well now). Description of the services in detail that would be available. and pricing/location information. spend less

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, wrote: > What is the procedure to create a panel icon for a wine app that does not > show up in the Application launcher? And how can I launch t

Re: happy to report...

2015-01-26 Thread Stephen Partington
what wifi card? On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 3:31 PM, Michael Havens 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 going to need to >

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 wrote: > it was not made with an interior wifi card. > > :-)~MIKE~(-: > > On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 4:57 PM, Stephen Partington > wrote: > >> what

Re: happy to report...

2015-01-26 Thread Stephen Partington
Ok which one? On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 5:48 PM, Michael Havens 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 > wrote: > >> That does n

Re: happy to report...

2015-01-26 Thread Stephen Partington
l Havens wrote: > >> A Comfast. >> >> :-)~MIKE~(-: >> >> On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 5:50 PM, Stephen Partington > > wrote: >> >>> Ok which one? >>> >>> On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 5:48 PM, Michael Havens >>> wrote: &

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 ho

Re: Partition Question

2015-01-27 Thread Stephen Partington
2015 at 6:59 AM, Stephen Partington > 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 >&

Re: Partition Question

2015-01-27 Thread Stephen Partington
--add at the bottom of that text file-- > # > # Reduce the swap tendency > vm.swappiness = 10 > > > :-)~MIKE~(-: > > On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 8:57 AM, Stephen Partington > wrote: > >> Lol, >> >> With a mechanical drive i would give it a token bit of swa

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 wrote: > H0w can I us wget to retrieve the photos here >

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 wrote: > why would I blog? I don't know anything. unless it were a means to > teach me errr reinforc

Re: reboot

2015-02-08 Thread Stephen Partington
Depends on the update. Mainly kernel changes. On Feb 8, 2015 6:51 PM, "Michael Havens" wrote: > I got some guy saying you need to reboot Linux for updates to take effect. > I tell him no then he changes his stance, you need to reboot for kernel and > system library updates. I agree with the kerne

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 wrote: > How do I install ssh on a Mac? Is there something like apt-get? > I know a lady intereste

Re: MAC

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

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 wrote: > > http://www.geekwire.com/2015/silicon-desert-phoenix- > quickly-quietl

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 2F

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 > wrote: > >> Stolen but relevant. >> >> The Public and Private key pair comprise of two uniquely related >> cryptogra

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

2015-02-16 Thread Stephen Partington
an attachment. > > :-)~MIKE~(-: > > On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 8:35 PM, Stephen Partington > wrote: > >> The public key is meant to be available to sign data for that person. you >> do this so they can un-encrypt the data but they know it was signed. and >> only they ca

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 wrote:

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, wrote: > Hello there: > I need the tablet with the biggest screen (Android or Mac) that can be > visible in direct sunlight as well as dim(a

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" 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 instructions for

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

2015-03-16 Thread Stephen Partington
>From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Not to be confused with 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 bec

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 wrote:

Re: nacl_helper

2015-03-17 Thread Stephen Partington
very > frustrating and angering. > > I find everything about google's product qualities are coming unglued > these days, guess that happens when you hit a certain girth in any > corporation. At least google exec's aren't running around doing monkey > dances

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, 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 figure out how to lo

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 wrote: > The package system works by copying the database of available software > fr

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 combinati

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" wrote: > I want to use this card. Currently it is partitioned. Can I delete all of > the partitions by formatting it with mkfs? I would have

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" 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 netbook that only > ru

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 wrote: > I have a invite for a OnePlus One if anyone want

Re: OnePlus One invites

2015-04-20 Thread Stephen Partington
the Cyanogenmod 12 version as > soon as I get some play time. > > > On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 6:46 AM, Stephen Partington > 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
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 wrote: > Well, Dalvik is gone in 5.0 in favor of Art. No more JIT complies of > applications. > > On Mon, Apr 20, 201

Re: OnePlus One invites

2015-04-20 Thread Stephen Partington
;ll take it! > > -mb > > > > On 04/20/2015 07:40 AM, 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-man

Re: OnePlus One invites

2015-04-20 Thread Stephen Partington
ent workarounds. > > -mb > > > 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 > wrote: > >> CyanogenOS12 is nice, I am very happy with it. Bewa

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 thro

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 th

Re: moving!

2015-05-08 Thread Stephen Partington
happy hunting and good luck! On Fri, May 8, 2015 at 8:40 AM, Michael Havens 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 and the last

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 VM

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, wrote: > Is there such a thing as a private message exchange tool that one can > ins

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 libreoffi

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, wrote: > Thanks Stephen. > > > The Google drive simultaneous edit functionality > > is probably my favorite featu

Re: OT: private messaging tool?

2015-05-19 Thread Stephen Partington
Well i know if you sign up for hipchat you can do it for free, not on your server, but it offers some really nice archiving tools, and you can install on your own hardware. we use it at work, and its pretty nice. it will also talk with conventional Jabber clients and protocols in addition to their

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, 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 all the changes i

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, layo

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=term&q=knowledgebase On

Re: Article / Data warehouse cms software

2015-05-26 Thread Stephen Partington
ed. > > Most of the archival 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

Re: Article / Data warehouse cms software

2015-05-26 Thread Stephen Partington
repository, but > it seems to be much more streamlined and appropriate for my archiving > needs. Dspace is also a Java/Tomcat application, so 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 ex

Re: what to do if lost password

2015-05-27 Thread Stephen Partington
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 this if there are any local users present. (does not work on active directory accounts). On May 27, 2015 7:17 AM, "Michael Havens" wrote: > I go

Re: what to do if lost password

2015-05-27 Thread Stephen Partington
you) and run > passwd to reset the root password or passwd user to reset user's password. > > > :-)~MIKE~(-: > > On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 8:06 AM, Stephen Partington > wrote: > >> This works great on Linux based systems. But on something running Linux >> you will

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" wrote: > I'm pretty abusive on my sy

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 e

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