Re: Booting from a USB Drive

2010-12-14 Thread Stephen
its an external usb to 2.5" pata drive enclosure and its a chip built into the usb-sata bridge. most annoying. On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 11:45 PM, Ben Trussell wrote: > If its a Sandisk Cruzer there is a utility to remove that infernal > "CD" mount.  check here: > > http://www.google.com/search?q=

Re: Booting from a USB Drive

2010-12-14 Thread Lisa Kachold
On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 9:52 PM, Steve Holmes wrote: > On Mon, Dec 06, 2010 at 07:26:33PM -0700, Dazed_75 wrote: > > Sure, that is why someone told you above to use the UUID to identify the > > drive instead of the changeagble /dev/?da type references. Here is a > > reference: > >https://help.

Re: Versioning system - Subversion Vs. Git

2010-12-14 Thread Ariel Gold
> We also have someone who wants to put all of our Drupal stuff into a versioning system so it would be easy to tell if something has changed on the server. I know to little to know if this is the way to go or if this is even possible. from drupal maintainers-news: CVS IS BEING REPLACED

where is squid proxy

2010-12-14 Thread Michael Havens
I waant to get empathy to work but am having problems. In my research I found this possible solution: * Problem*: Can add a Yahoo account but get a network error connecting (proxy server active) * Solution*: As Yahoo uses port 5050, this port has to be able to get through. If your interne

Re: where is squid proxy

2010-12-14 Thread Michael Havens
forgot to say: OS=ubuntuu9.10 On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 2:46 PM, Michael Havens wrote: > I waant to get empathy to work but am having problems. In my research I > found this possible solution: > > * Problem*: Can add a Yahoo account but get a network error connecting > (proxy server active) >

Re: Versioning system - Subversion Vs. Git

2010-12-14 Thread keith smith
Thanks!  That pretty much makes the decision for us. Keith Smith --- On Tue, 12/14/10, Ariel Gold wrote: From: Ariel Gold Subject: Re: Versioning system - Subversion Vs. Git To: "Main PLUG discussion list" Date: Tuesday, December 14, 2010, 11:57 AM > We also have s

OT: USB Drive enclosure help

2010-12-14 Thread AZ Pete
Hi All, I have a friend who's laptop (Windows) died, but thinks the drive should be ok. She bought a new MacBook and would like to copy her data from the old laptop. My thought was to take the drive out of the defunct laptop and put it in a USB enclosure which could then be connected to the ne

Re: OT: USB Drive enclosure help

2010-12-14 Thread Eric Cope
You may need MacFUSE so Mac can understand NTFS. Other than that, you should be fine. http://code.google.com/p/macfuse/ Eric On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 4:50 PM, AZ Pete wrote: > Hi All, > > I have a friend who's laptop (Windows) died, but thinks the drive should be > ok. She bought a new MacBook a

Re: OT: USB Drive enclosure help

2010-12-14 Thread Jim March
Any USB2 drive enclosure will do. As long as the old drive you're trying to pull data from is a SATA drive, you might want to consider this bad boy (or one like it at Fry's or whatever) as opposed to a traditional enclosure: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817182196&cm_re=ha

Re: OT: USB Drive enclosure help

2010-12-14 Thread Jim March
No, Macfuse or the like is needed to gain WRITE access to an NTFS drive, but any recent MacOS 10.whatever should read NTFS without a hiccup. Jim On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 5:01 PM, Eric Cope wrote: > You may need MacFUSE so Mac can understand NTFS. Other than that, you > should be fine. > > http:/

Re: where is squid proxy

2010-12-14 Thread Ed
Squid is a proxy server found at http://www.squid-cache.org/ I would guess that apt-get thinks of it as squid-cache. Unless you already have Squid (doesn't sound like it) already set up - this is a bit over the top just to let port 5050 past the firewall + NAT. If you have a home network, Squid is

Re: OT: USB Drive enclosure help

2010-12-14 Thread Eric Shubert
I wouldn't use one of these for a long term connection, but for data recovery I expect it'd work fine. I'd give this a shot. For long term use, I like and recommend Acomdata enclosures. I have several of them, and their customer support is tops. They even replaced a couple of power transformer

Re: OT: USB Drive enclosure help

2010-12-14 Thread Lisa Kachold
Hi Peter! On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 4:50 PM, AZ Pete wrote: > Hi All, > > I have a friend who's laptop (Windows) died, but thinks the drive should be > ok. She bought a new MacBook and would like to copy her data from the old > laptop. My thought was to take the drive out of the defunct laptop an