g++

2012-07-09 Thread Trent Shipley
I am reading a C++ book on Kindle and I am enjoying it.  I could just download the free Microsoft C++ compiler and IDE, but I would like to work in a Linux (Ubuntu) environment. I have obtained the g++ package.  I have obtained Eclipse, which seems to have a C++ plug-in. Is there a good, recen

Re: Migrating to Mac

2011-11-16 Thread Trent Shipley
ember and December are > always in conflict with people's holiday plans. > > On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 4:17 PM, Trent Shipley wrote: > It seemed like the drive on my old Dell running Ubuntu 10.10 was dying, so I > got a new Apple Mac. I also have a copy of VMware Fusion 4 that

Migrating to Mac

2011-11-16 Thread Trent Shipley
It seemed like the drive on my old Dell running Ubuntu 10.10 was dying, so I got a new Apple Mac. I also have a copy of VMware Fusion 4 that I have yet to install. I want to migrate as much of my Ubuntu machine as possible (and my home directory at a minimum) to an Ubuntu guest machine on the

Re: OT - Explaining periods of unemployment on an application

2010-09-16 Thread Trent Shipley
I have seen the question framed as have you ever been arrested (NOT convicted) for a serious misdemeanor or felony. On 09/16/2010 03:03 PM, JD Austin wrote: > I'm glad I don't work somewhere like that. If I was > acquitted/exonerated of a crime I wouldn't list it on an application > either! I c

Re: ext3 disk full

2010-08-10 Thread Trent Shipley
les that are taking up too much space and > may not be needed. > > --- On *Tue, 8/10/10, Trent Shipley //* wrote: > > > From: Trent Shipley > Subject: ext3 disk full > To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > Date: Tuesday, August 10, 2010, 9:48 PM > &

ext3 disk full

2010-08-10 Thread Trent Shipley
My 250GB ext3 disk on Ubuntu 10.4 is full. I can't find more than 20GB worth of data on the disk. Disk Usage Analyzer and GUI file tools show the disk with only 10GB free. Disk utility and e2fsck show the drive as fine so I can't get it to repair itself. Even so I have about 220GB of myster

Re: App Engine?

2010-07-14 Thread Trent Shipley
Do those massive, distributed, and fast Internet platforms give up flexibility? A RDBMS is designed as a general solution for storing and querying structured data. If the Internet solutions are general solutions why haven't they displaced the enterprise scale solutions? _

Re: ditching Apple products due to boycotts?

2010-05-17 Thread Trent Shipley
On 05/17/2010 07:57 PM, Russell Deneault wrote: > I joined this list recently to see about participating more with PLUG. > Is this really what a Linux-oriented mailing list is about? My mailbox > as never been so full of crap. > > What's the usual ratio of rabid howling to actual technical discuss

External drive mounts with root permissions.

2010-04-08 Thread Trent Shipley
My machine automounts an external drive with root permissions. My main goal is to use the drive for backups, which seem to fail even though the GUI back up program runs a sudo window before launch. How can I mount the drive at a stable mount-point? How can I automount it with universal permiss

Share a monitor

2010-03-01 Thread Trent Shipley
Back in the day you shared a monitor, mouse, and keyboard with a KVM. I have two Ubuntu desktops and I need to share a keyboard, mouse, and monitor between them. What is current best practice? --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plu

Re: ubuntu 9.10

2010-02-24 Thread Trent Shipley
Jim March wrote: > On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 1:47 PM, Michael Havens wrote: > >> when I tried to start Ruby it told me to apt-get it. Unfortunately, I do not >> have internet for that box. >> > > Michael, the thing about FOSS software is, because it's free nobody > spends a lot of time nice

Re: degausser

2010-02-15 Thread Trent Shipley
again for anything (there are still people using them believe it or not), they'll need to be formatted after degaussing them. Preferrable a full format to weed out bad disks. Otherwise, I suppose you could just bust 'em apart and recycle the outside plastic parts. Trent Shipley wr

Re: degausser

2010-02-15 Thread Trent Shipley
But time consuming. I like the powerful permanent magnet idea. From: Eric Shubert To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us Sent: Mon, February 15, 2010 5:59:31 PM Subject: Re: degausser Craig White wrote: > On Mon, 2010-02-15 at 17:47 -0700, Trent Ship

degausser

2010-02-15 Thread Trent Shipley
My Mom wants to decommission all her old floppies. Is the tool you would use to do that called a "degausser"? Fry's said they didn't have a thingy to scramble the magnetic domains on floppies or tapes. --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@li

Re: SAMBA PDC

2010-02-08 Thread Trent Shipley
Craig White wrote: > On Mon, 2010-02-08 at 20:13 -0700, Trent Shipley wrote: > >> Craig White wrote: >> >> >>> On Mon, 2010-02-08 at 18:38 -0700, Trent Shipley wrote: >>> >>> >>>> This is for curiosity, I'm not

Re: SAMBA PDC

2010-02-08 Thread Trent Shipley
Craig White wrote: > On Mon, 2010-02-08 at 20:13 -0700, Trent Shipley wrote: > >> Craig White wrote: >> >> >>> On Mon, 2010-02-08 at 18:38 -0700, Trent Shipley wrote: >>> >>> >>>> This is for curiosity, I'm not

Re: SAMBA PDC

2010-02-08 Thread Trent Shipley
Craig White wrote: > On Mon, 2010-02-08 at 18:38 -0700, Trent Shipley wrote: > >> This is for curiosity, I'm not presently trying to implement Windows >> networking using a Linux box as the Primary Domain Controller. How >> would a Linux PDC emulate Active Dire

VirtualBox Install

2010-02-08 Thread Trent Shipley
A while ago I wrote that I wanted to run some Windows OSes as virtual machines under Linux. I wound up selecting Sun's VirtualBox. Ubuntu knew about the VirtualBox package so installation was trivial. Installing the guest OSes was also pretty easy. I did learn that if you made a mistake on the

SAMBA PDC

2010-02-08 Thread Trent Shipley
This is for curiosity, I'm not presently trying to implement Windows networking using a Linux box as the Primary Domain Controller. How would a Linux PDC emulate Active Directory Services? Do you still need a server grade Windows license running to provide ADS? -

Re: comments in /eetc/passwd and group

2010-02-03 Thread Trent Shipley
If you have a lab computer you could experiment. Save passd to passd.bak or whatever. Alter the file to include comments. Test by trying to log into another account on another virtual terminal or x session. If you fail you still have a good session to swap the files back. Shawn Badger

Re: network woes

2010-01-02 Thread Trent Shipley
Eric Shubert wrote: > Trent Shipley wrote: > >> Eric Shubert wrote: >> >>> Trent Shipley wrote: >>> >>>> Benjamin Francom wrote: >>>> >>>>> On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 7:18 PM, Mark Phillips >

Re: itsy bitsy CRM .. open and free

2009-12-31 Thread Trent Shipley
Joseph Sinclair wrote: > Centric was recently renamed to Concursive (www.concursive.com), and it's not > going to run well on a laptop. It's still a fairly simple install if you > have basic Java skills (you have to build it from source to use the AGPL > version), but it's still a web-based se

Re: itsy bitsy CRM .. open and free

2009-12-31 Thread Trent Shipley
Joshua Zeidner wrote: > On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 1:36 PM, Trent Shipley wrote: > >> I'm thinking that for this "CRM" running on a laptop and saving data in >> Access or SQL Server Lite (or >> >> HSQL database engine or "touchless" MySQ

Re: itsy bitsy CRM .. open and free

2009-12-31 Thread Trent Shipley
I'm thinking that for this "CRM" running on a laptop and saving data in Access or SQL Server Lite (or HSQL database engine or "touchless" MySQL) would be appropriate, so J2EE is a bad sign right there. Is it reasonable for a user with decent user level skills and a laptop to use Centric CRM?

itsy bitsy CRM .. open and free

2009-12-30 Thread Trent Shipley
dancer: I'm building a custom data-base for my student records - silly me.. 8:54pmTrent: what kind of student records? like a customer database? you might find something for free... {discussion wanders} 8:55pmTrent: so what about this student database. 8:55pmDancer:As for the data base - I need

Re: network woes

2009-12-22 Thread Trent Shipley
Eric Shubert wrote: > Trent Shipley wrote: >> Benjamin Francom wrote: >>> On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 7:18 PM, Mark Phillips >>> wrote: >>>> Trent, >>>> >>>> I ran into a similar problem today - my network slowed waay >>

Re: network woes

2009-12-22 Thread Trent Shipley
s. You can find a out a lot of >> information by being methodical and knowing your network topology. >> >> Good Luck! >> >> Mark >> >> On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 5:52 PM, Trent Shipley wrote: >>> Somewhere my connection to the Internet is borken. Load time

Re: network woes

2009-12-22 Thread Trent Shipley
Eric Shubert wrote: > Trent Shipley wrote: > >> Somewhere my connection to the Internet is borken. Load times take >> forever. It doesn't seem to effect the wireless client routers, but I >> have had trouble on both the wired machines under Ubuntu 9.10 and >

network woes

2009-12-22 Thread Trent Shipley
Somewhere my connection to the Internet is borken. Load times take forever. It doesn't seem to effect the wireless client routers, but I have had trouble on both the wired machines under Ubuntu 9.10 and Windows Vista. Sometimes the Linux machine effectively looses connectivity with the Internet.

SOT: virtualization

2009-12-15 Thread Trent Shipley
(SOT: somewhat off topic) I want to set up a Windows lab computer. I want to work with XP, Vista, and Win7. On an MS list it was suggested that I use virtualization rather than multiboot. I'm thinking I'd run a Linux distro natively, run FOSS virtualization software on Linux, and run the thr

Re: Mysql Injection Scanner

2009-12-01 Thread Trent Shipley
The classic recommendation to protect yourself from SQL injection is to use parameterized queries religiously. A potential SQL injection point is anywhere you concatenate SQL including user contributed text instead of putting the user text into a SQL parameter. A side effect of parameterized que

Droid/Android

2009-12-01 Thread Trent Shipley
Craig White wrote: > On Tue, 2009-12-01 at 15:27 -0700, Trent Shipley wrote: > >> Well, it seems like the list has come down to two major desktop distros, >> Ubuntu and Fedora and as far as I know neither is commercial. There was >> a time when Mandrake, Debian, Red Ha

Re: linux distro

2009-12-01 Thread Trent Shipley
Well, it seems like the list has come down to two major desktop distros, Ubuntu and Fedora and as far as I know neither is commercial. There was a time when Mandrake, Debian, Red Hat, SuSE, and others were all looking at the desktop as a potential market. The survivors seem to have headed for big

Re: GNOME virtual desktop

2009-11-24 Thread Trent Shipley
sume that the > Nautilus process is parented properly, and will cause weird behavior if it's > started from a command line. > > Trent Shipley wrote: > >> Occasionally, when I am using out-of-the-box Ubuntu, I wind up on an >> empty screen with only the wall pape

GNOME virtual desktop

2009-11-24 Thread Trent Shipley
Occasionally, when I am using out-of-the-box Ubuntu, I wind up on an empty screen with only the wall paper showing--no system stuff, no icons on the desktop, nothing but wallpaper. I suspect what I am doing is getting to a new virtual desktop, but maybe not because in KDE and OS X a new virtual de

Re: VOT: A+

2009-11-22 Thread Trent Shipley
er as its been > 10+ years since its manufacture date and at least > 5 years since the EOL'ed it. > > Trent Shipley wrote: > >> (VOT -- very off topic) >> >> WARNING: MS Windows >> >> >> I am taking an A+ class at Rio Salado community col

Re: Distro War: the netbook

2009-11-22 Thread Trent Shipley
I suppose I should change that setting and see if it helps. What a waste of battery life. James Mcphee wrote: > The *bunt* that I'm using disables suspend on lid close completely. > For now at any rate. > > On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 8:08 PM, Trent Shipley <mailto:tship

Re: Distro War: the netbook

2009-11-22 Thread Trent Shipley
oogle search indicates that Canonical is having problems with this bug. Some OEMs are upset, so I expect it to be fixed soon. Trent Shipley wrote: > Stephen wrote: > > >> see if you have ndis wrapper installed and maybe you can wake it up? >> you might possibly have

Re: Distro War: the netbook

2009-11-22 Thread Trent Shipley
vers. Wireless now works. > On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 5:39 PM, Trent Shipley wrote: > >> I got netbook Ubuntu installed and working beautifully...except for >> wireless networking. Unfortunately, the main reason for getting a >> netbook was for wireless netw

Re: Distro War: the netbook

2009-11-22 Thread Trent Shipley
I got netbook Ubuntu installed and working beautifully...except for wireless networking. Unfortunately, the main reason for getting a netbook was for wireless networking. Trent Shipley wrote: > Tuna wrote: > > >> *bump because the timestamp is crazy-early and probably at t

Re: Distro War: the netbook

2009-11-22 Thread Trent Shipley
Tuna wrote: > *bump because the timestamp is crazy-early and probably at the bottom > of everyone's mail client* > > Ryan Rix will tell you Fedora, and can also tell you a thing or two about > bootable USB drives on netbooks. > > Can you tell us what make and model of netbook it is? > http://w

Distro War: the netbook

2009-11-22 Thread Trent Shipley
I just got a netbook and it is running Windows 7 Starter. I intend to promiscuously attach it to public networks. I figure I can avoid a lot of heartache by changing the OS to Linux. I already have Kubuntu on my favorite desktop. I like it, except that after every major upgrade it gets flaky f

Re: not *buntu for netbook.

2009-11-20 Thread Trent Shipley
James Mcphee wrote: > What kind of netbook do you have? They tend towards odd hardware, > and not all distros work well on each netbook. HP Mini 110-1125NR s/n CNU94438GZ p/n VM 135UA#ABA > > On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 8:39 PM, Trent Shipley <mailto:tship...@deru.com>> wrot

not *buntu for netbook.

2009-11-20 Thread Trent Shipley
I just got a netbook and it is running Windows 7 Starter. I intend to promiscuously attach it to public networks. I figure I can avoid a lot of heartache by changing the OS to Linux. I already have Kubuntu on my favorite desktop. I like it, except that after every major upgrade it gets flaky f

VOT: A+

2009-11-20 Thread Trent Shipley
(VOT -- very off topic) WARNING: MS Windows I am taking an A+ class at Rio Salado community college. It covers the 2006 A+ exams which are all about the XP. I have a Vista computer I can use for tear down/rebuild. I'd like to multi-boot to Vista, XP Pro, and Windows 2000 Pro, although losing

CompTIA cert

2009-10-05 Thread Trent Shipley
I want to get an A+ certification, and I want training instead of trying to learn from a book. My first choice in these things is always the community college system, but I expect to get laid off, so the semester system won't work for me. Can anyone suggest some A+ training institutes in the V

Account of Employee owned IT consulting meeting.

2009-09-02 Thread Trent Shipley
We met to talk about employee owned IT contracting firms, sharing space with PLUG's Installfest. There were five participants, two were currently independent IT practitioners and one had been and independent practitioner in the past. There was a genuine feeling that small businesses were not

Re: Employee owned IT consulting meeting.

2009-08-27 Thread Trent Shipley
http://plug.phoenix.az.us/node/135 Steven A. DuChene wrote: > Where is more information about this installfest? > I looked on the plug web site and the only installfest listed is > for Jun 27 - 10:00 > > -Original Message- >> From: Trent Shipley >> Sent: Aug 2

Employee owned IT consulting meeting.

2009-08-27 Thread Trent Shipley
We will meet this Saturday (2009-08-29) a the Installfest at UAT at Noon to discuss employee owned IT consulting groups serving small and medium businesses. Please cross post to other lists. We need all sorts, even Microsoften zombies, pointy haired managers, and sales geeks.

Re: MySQL DBA

2009-08-26 Thread Trent Shipley
t GangPlank. > I just started going last week after the postings on this list and it is > pretty darned interesting. > > This is an intriguing idea! > > Ed > > > On 8/20/09 8:37 PM, "Trent Shipley" wrote: > >> The major downside being that it i

Re: MySQL DBA

2009-08-20 Thread Trent Shipley
. > > > On Thu, 2009-08-20 at 19:40 -0700, Eric Shubert wrote: >> I agree Trent. I'd be interested in hashing it over. >> >> Trent Shipley wrote: >>> I just finished the Master of Science in Information Management at ASU. >>> I guess there's

Re: MySQL DBA

2009-08-20 Thread Trent Shipley
as > they can, and move on once they pick one of those skills to focus on in > bigger companies that have already learned the value of the separate > skill sets among employees. > > -mb > > > On Thu, 2009-08-20 at 16:27 -0700, Trent Shipley wrote: >> I am

MySQL DBA

2009-08-20 Thread Trent Shipley
I am used to seeing jobs involving MySQL as part of positions being advertised for a LAMP generalist. I never respond. Not only am I not particularly competent in any of the components, I have a hard time seeing myself as competent to manage that kind of stack. I actually doubt many people are r

Re: What laptop to get to replace my 15" macbook?

2009-08-19 Thread Trent Shipley
Josef Lowder wrote: > 7. Most of the *nix command-line commands and utilities that I am used > to using do not seem to work on Mac OS-X I have the impression that it is possible to put an X-Windowing system and the *nix collection of utilities on OS-X and run all the goodies natively. Is this po

Re: HP LaserJet

2009-08-12 Thread Trent Shipley
Eric Shubert wrote: > Trent Shipley wrote: >> GK wrote: >>> Hey. >>> >>> HP's usually need the hplip and hpijs ppds. Throwing ing cups-pdf, >>> gutenprint won't hurt either. >>> >>> V >>> >>> -

Re: HP LaserJet

2009-08-12 Thread Trent Shipley
GK wrote: > Hey. > > HP's usually need the hplip and hpijs ppds. Throwing ing cups-pdf, > gutenprint won't hurt either. > > V > > --- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your

SAMBA PDC was GUI Firewall configuration tools

2009-08-11 Thread Trent Shipley
enix.az.us >> [mailto:plug-discuss-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On >> Behalf Of Trent Shipley >> Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2009 4:26 PM >> To: Main PLUG discussion list >> Subject: GUI Firewall configuration tools WAS HP LaserJet >> troubleshooting >>

GUI Firewall configuration tools WAS HP LaserJet troubleshooting

2009-08-11 Thread Trent Shipley
JD Austin wrote: > The other port is 9100 > > On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 3:52 PM, Matt Graham <mailto:danceswithcr...@usa.net>> wrote: > > From: Trent Shipley mailto:tship...@deru.com>> > > I have an HP LaserJet. > > Model#? They only made

HP LaserJet troubleshooting

2009-08-11 Thread Trent Shipley
I have an HP LaserJet. The three Macs find it and print to it (when it wakes up), when I boot my Mac into windows it prints fine. Unfortunately the Ubuntu 9.04.x box can't find it. If I bring up the browser based manager for CUPS, I can't find anything. I give it the IP address for the machine,

Re: BAD kubuntu

2009-08-06 Thread Trent Shipley
Dazed_75 wrote: > > > On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 5:27 PM, Trent Shipley <mailto:tship...@deru.com>> wrote: > > Dazed_75 wrote: > > > > > > On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 8:07 PM, Trent Shipley <mailto:tship...@deru.com> > &g

Re: Horribly OT

2009-08-05 Thread Trent Shipley
Craig White wrote: > On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 20:12 -0700, Trent Shipley wrote: >> We used to do that before World War Two and the GI Bill. Very few >> people went to college. If you were willing to sacrifice any pretense >> of a knowledge economy and to target a low wag

Re: Horribly OT

2009-08-05 Thread Trent Shipley
l? -jmz > > On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 8:00 PM, Trent Shipley wrote: >> Subsidies to community colleges and state universities should be >> replaced with a one-size-fits-all higher education vouchers. Using >> vouchers will contribute to a free market in higher education

Horribly OT

2009-08-05 Thread Trent Shipley
Subsidies to community colleges and state universities should be replaced with a one-size-fits-all higher education vouchers. Using vouchers will contribute to a free market in higher education services, leveling the playing field between the University of Phoenix, Grand Canyon University,

Re: BAD kubuntu

2009-08-05 Thread Trent Shipley
Dazed_75 wrote: > > > On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 8:07 PM, Trent Shipley <mailto:tship...@deru.com>> wrote: > > > > Memtest86 passed. > > So far people have also suggested the cause as hardware > incompatibility, hard drive issues, BIOS (Dell&#

Re: OT: (partially) Where to submit Macbook questions?

2009-08-01 Thread Trent Shipley
On Aug 1, 2009, at 5:07 PM, Matrix Mole wrote: >> And there is no simple "notepad" or simple/efficient editor (that I >> could find). > > Textedit comes with the mac by default, in the application folder as > mentioned by Jon. I don't care for it personally. MacVim is a really > good editor (if y

Re: BAD kubuntu

2009-08-01 Thread Trent Shipley
On Jul 31, 2009, at 9:53 PM, Ryan Rix wrote: > On Fri 31 July 2009 8:07:17 pm Trent Shipley wrote: >> (Dell's site does recommend >> updating the BIOS for my motherboard but their program won't run from >> a CD and I couldn't figure out how to make a bootable

Re: BAD kubuntu

2009-07-31 Thread Trent Shipley
On Jul 31, 2009, at 9:00 AM, Alan Dayley wrote: > Are you able to get to the initial menu where it asks if you want to > boot or install or etc.? On that menu is a memory test choice. It'll > crank up memtestx86 and start testing your RAM. > > The problems you describe could be RAM issues. Man

BAD kubuntu

2009-07-29 Thread Trent Shipley
I've been running Kubuntu on my desktop for a while now. Since the upgrade to 9.04 it has worked really well. Today the update program said the kernel had to be updated for security reasons, so I updated. Now the @#$% computer won't finish booting. This has happened before -- frequently. Un

Re: Has anyone made a solar power setup for a computer?

2009-07-27 Thread Trent Shipley
and one of these: >> >> http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/10/7-portable-solar-laptop-chargers-worth-considering.php >> >> >> On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 3:50 PM, Trent Shipley wrote: > Joshua Zeidner wrote: >>>>> Im interested in this topic as well

Re: Has anyone made a solar power setup for a computer?

2009-07-27 Thread Trent Shipley
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Joshua Zeidner wrote: > Im interested in this topic as well. If you manage to build this, > please let us know how it goes. > > -jmz > > On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 3:35 PM, Josef Lowder wrote: >> Have any of you made a solar power setup for your co

Re: cat-5

2009-07-23 Thread Trent Shipley
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 mike havens wrote: > Will twisting it at the ends (so the tswists go under the sheath) fix > this? > > On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 4:55 PM, Technomage > wrote: > > mike havens wrote: > > all I need it for is

Ham list

2009-07-02 Thread Trent Shipley
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have a friend, a belly dancer, who has an opt-in ham list with roughly 1000 addresses. (Of course, with 1000 subscribers a lot of people will consider the mailing spam, but won't ask to be removed from the list) She has divided the list into s

Re: USB Live Ubuntu Persistence

2009-06-29 Thread Trent Shipley
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I was looking into putting a DOS bootable partition on a USB memory stick. The recommended method seemed to start "put GRUB" on the USB stick then ... Ryan Rix wrote: > On Mon 29 June 2009 4:15:45 pm Dazed_75 wrote: >> Mathew, I believe there are sev

Ubuntu 9.04

2009-04-28 Thread Trent Shipley
After mysteriously refusing to update, the synaptic updater just started working last night. And darned if (with some hiccups) it didn't boot from the latest kernel. I am hoping to see many of my Ubuntu 8.10 woes cured, and I am chancing my luck with KDE again.

Re: flash bios dos usb stick

2009-02-26 Thread Trent Shipley
-0700 > > His issue is the bios update util is a dos based application so it > needs to run in dos/windows/freedos. > > i know there are some tools that will take floppy boot images and > reproduce them to usb devices turning it into a usb disk.. then you > cna get a freedos boot

Re: flash bios dos usb stick

2009-02-25 Thread Trent Shipley
nesday, February 25, 2009 3:32:07 PM > Subject: Re: flash bios dos usb stick > > I know this will depend on the bios i think and what order it places > yoru USB devices compared to your Hard disk device. > > On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 9:56 PM, Trent Shipley wrote: > > I am

Re: flash bios dos usb stick

2009-02-25 Thread Trent Shipley
know this will depend on the bios i think and what order it places yoru USB devices compared to your Hard disk device. On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 9:56 PM, Trent Shipley wrote: > I am trying to build a bootable DOS memory stick so that I can flash my BIOS. > > The instructions (http://en.g

flash bios dos usb stick

2009-02-24 Thread Trent Shipley
I am trying to build a bootable DOS memory stick so that I can flash my BIOS. The instructions (http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/FreeDOS_Flash_Drive) say: And finally, you can install GRUB : grub grub> device (hd5) /dev/sdb grub> root (hd5,0) grub> setup (hd5) grub> quit ---

Re: Microsoft force installs Firefox extension

2009-02-02 Thread Trent Shipley
It's cool in an evil sort of way. Do you think the Mozilla folks can fix this security hole that allows for extensions that cannot be uninstalled? From: KevinO To: PLUG discuss Sent: Monday, February 2, 2009 8:01:26 AM Subject: Microsoft force installs Firef

Re: ****Re: KDE 4 and Kubuntu?

2008-08-28 Thread Trent Shipley
On Tuesday 2008-08-26, Craig White wrote: > On Tue, 2008-08-26 at 18:07 -0700, Trent Shipley wrote: > > On Monday 2008-08-25, Craig White wrote: > > > On Mon, 2008-08-25 at 16:58 -0700, Trent Shipley wrote: > > > > I too prefer KDE over Gnome. I've done fine wit

Re: KDE 4 and Kubuntu?

2008-08-26 Thread Trent Shipley
On Monday 2008-08-25, Craig White wrote: > On Mon, 2008-08-25 at 16:58 -0700, Trent Shipley wrote: > > I too prefer KDE over Gnome. I've done fine with Kubuntu with some > > caveats. > > > > --I have to alter the GRUB instruction file to get the @#$% kernel to

Re: KDE 4 and Kubuntu?

2008-08-26 Thread Trent Shipley
I thought the goal was free software for the masses. On Tuesday 2008-08-26, Dan Lund wrote: > It boils down to being unfamiliar with Linux in this position, which > means you should buy a Windows machine with those questions. > > Thanks, > Dan Lund > It is necessary for him who lays out a state an

Re: KDE 4 and Kubuntu?

2008-08-25 Thread Trent Shipley
I too prefer KDE over Gnome. I've done fine with Kubuntu with some caveats. --I have to alter the GRUB instruction file to get the @#$% kernel to load on the Dell motherboard. This is particularly annoying since the machine shipped with Ubuntu. --It took several kernel releases before Hardy w

Re: Annoying error message.

2008-08-10 Thread Trent Shipley
I got the apt for Krusader and will forget all about Dolphin. > https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dolphin/+question/15881 > > Harold > > -----Original Message- > From: Trent Shipley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], Main PLUG discussion lis

Annoying error message.

2008-08-10 Thread Trent Shipley
Dolphin (a KDE file browser application) under KUbuntu Hardy. Gives this error. I run into a lot of problems with program's wanting root access. I suspect that in this case it is a permissions problem again. Any suggestions are welcome. Unable to save bookmarks in /home/tshipley/.kde/share/

Re: ubuntu, x11, nvidia

2008-07-31 Thread Trent Shipley
On Wednesday 2008-07-30, Matt Graham wrote: > From: Trent Shipley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Ubuntu won't autodetect my new Westinghouse L1916HW monitor. > > CRT, LCD, TV, what is it? And what do you mean "won't autodetect"? > Monitors are simple. Di

ubuntu, x11, nvidia

2008-07-30 Thread Trent Shipley
Ubuntu won't autodetect my new Westinghouse L1916HW monitor. Is there an Ubuntu tool to configure X11? If not, how do I do configure X11 with a text editor? --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscri

Fwd: ISACA Phoenix Chapter - UNIX Security Seminar - Early Registration ends 6/30!!!

2008-06-27 Thread Trent Shipley
-- Forwarded Message -- Subject: ISACA Phoenix Chapter - UNIX Security Seminar - Early Registration ends 6/30!!! Date: Friday 2008-06-27 From: "Adam Remis, ISACA Phoenix Chapter President" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

FOSS text editor

2008-06-17 Thread Trent Shipley
Does anyone know of a good FOSS text editor for Windows? I have used Xemacs, but it doesn't come with a dictionary. --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http

Linux hardware report

2008-05-04 Thread Trent Shipley
Windows can report on connected hardware (eg CPU and Motherboard make and model). Can Linux do this. I would like to see if my BIOS needs an update, but first I need to know about my motherboard. --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.

Re: Ubuntu Hardy release parties

2008-04-29 Thread Trent Shipley
On Tuesday 2008-04-29, Rhune Lord wrote: > Sad that I missed them but I have been at least downloading the ISO's > and I am going to try the server edition and run Myth TV off it. > > Wish me luck > --- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists

Re: Can't boot

2008-04-28 Thread Trent Shipley
/USB-SATA_race_condition_causes_hang - Original Message From: eculbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Main PLUG discussion list Sent: Monday, April 28, 2008 11:27:15 AM Subject: Re: Can't boot --- Dazed_75 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 10:06 PM, Trent Shipley >

Re: Can't boot

2008-04-26 Thread Trent Shipley
l Brown about it (maintainer of mdadm) and he is of the same mind as many others: something with the SATA drivers and the particular chipset. What is the chipset of the controller connected to this drive? On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 7:10 PM, Trent Shipley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >

Re: Can't boot

2008-04-26 Thread Trent Shipley
of the same mind as many others: something with the SATA drivers and the particular chipset. What is the chipset of the controller connected to this drive? On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 7:10 PM, Trent Shipley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I upgraded to Ubuntu 8.03. Now, during the post-b

Re: Can't boot

2008-04-26 Thread Trent Shipley
I have booted using the Ubuntu 7.10 CD. - Original Message From: Trent Shipley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us Sent: Saturday, April 26, 2008 7:10:38 PM Subject: Can't boot I upgraded to Ubuntu 8.03. Now, during the post-boot initialization p

Can't boot

2008-04-26 Thread Trent Shipley
I upgraded to Ubuntu 8.03. Now, during the post-boot initialization process the system goes into a fugue trying to mount the CD/DVD drive. It keeps trying: ata2.00: Exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 Action Frozen ata2.00: cmd a0/00:00:00:24:00/ et cetera ata2.00: status {DRDY} So I try t

kmymoney2

2008-04-21 Thread Trent Shipley
Is anyone familiar with kmymoney2? --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss

Re: Ubuntu boot screen

2008-04-21 Thread Trent Shipley
On Monday 2008-04-21, Technomage-hawke wrote: > On Monday 21 April 2008, Trent Shipley wrote: > > Dell loaded Ubuntu 7.10 on my new system. One problem that it's had > > since I got it is that it seems to hang on boot. I can't really tell if > > it is hanging. The

Ubuntu boot screen

2008-04-21 Thread Trent Shipley
Dell loaded Ubuntu 7.10 on my new system. One problem that it's had since I got it is that it seems to hang on boot. I can't really tell if it is hanging. The thing only displays a progress bar in its normal boot sequence. The progress bar fails to progress. I get impatient and hit ctrl-alt-

HP JetDirect

2008-04-18 Thread Trent Shipley
I have a new color printer connected to the network using HP JetDirect. How do I print to it using CUPS? --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.P

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