Re: [GTALUG] Brand-name desktop recommendation?

2017-11-10 Thread Howard Gibson via talk
William, I did not know that HP had a quality problem. I regularly tell people I hate Hewlett Packard printers. The printer paper must pass over a roller at the back, which seems to be quite a bend in the paper. This works fine with paper, but it is not reliable at printing heavier

[GTALUG] Brand-name desktop recommendation?

2017-11-10 Thread William Park via talk
I've been asked by few people about which desktop to buy. They are technical enough to swap components, but definitely don't have time to troubleshoot. They have more important things to do. So, I said any brand, new or refurbished, except HP. Things may have changed, and HP may be good now.

Re: [GTALUG] Fan Control on Linux

2017-11-10 Thread Kevin Cozens via talk
On 2017-11-10 03:31 PM, Giles Orr via talk wrote: I have a very old laptop I'm trying to rehabilitate and use with Debian: it's got an AMD Turion chip and 1G of RAM.  Works fine.  But one annoying problem under Linux: the fan runs flat out all the time. If the fan connection to the MB is

[GTALUG] Fan Control on Linux

2017-11-10 Thread Giles Orr via talk
I have a very old laptop I'm trying to rehabilitate and use with Debian: it's got an AMD Turion chip and 1G of RAM. Works fine. But one annoying problem under Linux: the fan runs flat out all the time. If the 'sensors' command is correct, the CPU has never gone above 35C, so the fan isn't

[GTALUG] Canonical looking for an SRE

2017-11-10 Thread Jamon Camisso via talk
We're looking for an SRE to fill an open position. Work is home based and the team spans APAC, EMEA, and Americas. https://ldd.tbe.taleo.net/ldd03/ats/careers/requisition.jsp?org=CANONICAL=1=1300 If you're interested give me a shout offlist and I'll see about making sure the right people are

[GTALUG] suggestion: disable fprintd

2017-11-10 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk
fprintd(1) handles finger-print recognition for some kind of authentication (logins and who knows what else). At least on my current Fedora and CentOS systems, fprintd is automatically enabled. I don't know about other systems. Most of my systems have no fingerprint hardware, so the only