Re: who wants a career-oriented resource?

2008-11-08 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'd may want to get involved in this... What are the specs? Enrique Joshua Zeidner writes: BTW- there are many stated reasons why the PLUG list is not 'strictly business'. ie. see my interview with Alan: http://www.joshuazeidner.com/2008/05/alan-dayley-phoenix-linux-users-group.html

Re: Disk wiping recommendations

2008-11-08 Thread eculbert
Resending an email from Nathan that he posted here almost 4 years ago. I used it on a few and afterwards, the system didn't even know any device was attached as I hadn't specified a starting block, it wiped block zero. It is the 'w' that writes. Without the w, it just verifies the blocks.

Re: Gedit/text editor question

2008-11-08 Thread Josef Lowder
On 11/7/08, jdawg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: if you use konsole (i.e. kde's terminal) you can just do CTRL-SHIFT-N to create a new terminal tab then use CTRL-right or CTRL-left to go between the tabs (i.e. terminal sessions) Interesting idea. News to me. On my systems, I found that I had to

Re: Gedit/text editor question

2008-11-08 Thread jdawg
Josef Lowder wrote: On 11/7/08, jdawg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: if you use konsole (i.e. kde's terminal) you can just do CTRL-SHIFT-N to create a new terminal tab then use CTRL-right or CTRL-left to go between the tabs (i.e. terminal sessions) Interesting idea. News to me. On

Re: Gedit/text editor question

2008-11-08 Thread Matt Graham
After a long battle with technology, jdawg wrote: Josef Lowder wrote: On 11/7/08, jdawg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: if you use konsole (i.e. kde's terminal) you can just do CTRL-SHIFT-N to create a new terminal tab then use CTRL-right or CTRL-left to go between the tabs Interesting idea.

Re: ubuntu 8.04 and firefox 3 woes

2008-11-08 Thread Craig White
On Sat, 2008-11-08 at 00:19 -0700, Joshua Zeidner wrote: On Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 12:15 AM, der.hans [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am 08. Nov, 2008 schwätzte jdawg so: Joshua Zeidner wrote: FF3 gives me

Re: Disk wiping recommendations

2008-11-08 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
you could also boot some Linux CD and: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/DRIVE2WIPE Easy... :) Enrique eculbert writes: Resending an email from Nathan that he posted here almost 4 years ago. I used it on a few and afterwards, the system didn't even know any device was attached as I hadn't

Re: who wants a career-oriented resource?

2008-11-08 Thread keith smith
What kind of resource? Skill building or career building . Keith Smith --- On Sat, 11/8/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: who wants a career-oriented resource? To: Main PLUG discussion list

Re: Upgrading Kubuntu

2008-11-08 Thread Dazed_75
On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 8:00 AM, Jon M. Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 11:20:43PM -0700, Dazed_75 wrote: On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 1:36 PM, Jon M. Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been using Linux for a long time and recently I've been playing around with Kubuntu.

Re: Fullscreen bug in firefox

2008-11-08 Thread Dazed_75
On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 5:39 PM, Mike Hoy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Every now and then my firefox browser window goes to full screen. I just push F11 and it goes away. I've seen some stuff on the web for work arounds on this, but none of it was current. For example the settings they suggested I

Re: Disk wiping recommendations

2008-11-08 Thread Dazed_75
please be careful if you really want a secure wipe. Use a real multipass tool (such as DBAN and others) for doing a secure wipe. Those single pass simple techniques like dd prevent common utilities from being able to see the old data but are really not secure from better forensic techniques.

Re: Fullscreen bug in firefox

2008-11-08 Thread mike havens
On Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 2:41 PM, Dazed_75 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: May be cool to some folks, it is a PITA to me. hey! wATCH YOUR LANGUAGE! :D :-)~MIKE~(-: --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe,

That picture has a secret.....

2008-11-08 Thread James Finstrom
I came across an article while stumbling around the interweb Basically concatenation of a jpeg followed by a zip makes a handy way to conceal your files. http://www.pinoytux.com/linux/tip-hiding-files-inside-an-image-in-linux James Finstrom ---

Re: Disk wiping recommendations

2008-11-08 Thread Josh Coffman
I went with dban, which is probably overkill in my case, but at least I have confidence someone wont be able to retrieve my invoices or whatever. I started it last night, and its almost halfway done. I've got decently large disks and running 3 passes on them. thanks, -j

feisty to hardy

2008-11-08 Thread betty
der Hans wrote: If you're running LTS ( long term support ), then you can go from LTS to LTS without the non-LTS updates. more stupid questions; how do i know i am running LTS? since i am on DIAL UP (agl) but i do have a CD (or DVD) for Hardy can i use that? assuming i have completed