Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Failing/failed hard disk advice

2014-06-19 Thread Alex Mandel
I actually find it's often the enclosure. I have one external 2.5 that beeps and fails to mount on all but 1 usb port on my laptop. Absolutely a power issue - even though I have tried some of those dual power usb cables. It's actually why I'm partial to buying the drive and enclosure separate.

Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Failing/failed hard disk advice

2014-06-17 Thread Alex Mandel
On 06/17/2014 10:37 AM, brendanperrine wrote: On Tue, 17 Jun 2014 02:25:03 -0700 Michael Paoli michael.pa...@cal.berkeley.edu wrote: or wiped, even if not operational? I think the gnome-disks tools may be able to get smart data of usb drives it works for my seagate expansion drives

Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Least painful way to upgrade 12.10?

2014-06-17 Thread Alex Mandel
On 06/17/2014 11:29 AM, Josh Berkus wrote: All, So I have a Zenbook Prime running 12.10, which is EOL. I understand I'm going to have to step it through upgrades to 13.04 and 13.10 to get it to 14.04. Questions: a) is there a least painful way to do this? b) is there a good way to

Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Install fests

2013-08-11 Thread Alex Mandel
Google Hangout would likely work similarly to that method on 64bit... I'm sure there are some other ways too. Enjoy, Alex On 08/11/2013 04:37 PM, Robert Lewis wrote: If the install is going to be on a 32-bit machine (not a 64-bit machine) you can use Teamviewer remotely to talk her through it.

Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Is this a good place to ask a Ubuntu Command line question... ?

2012-07-30 Thread Alex Mandel
Ubuntu (and I believe Debian) all use the sudo concept. To elevate privaleges to equivalent of root you need to use sudo. sudo su gets you what you probably expected (su to user root). However best practices says you should just use sudo command to do what you want Look for the ubuntuguide and

Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Ubuntu for students... Canonical sponsorship.

2012-05-25 Thread Alex Mandel
On 05/25/2012 03:07 PM, Christian Einfeldt wrote: hi John, On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 2:21 PM, John Kim jkgodzvis...@gmail.com wrote: Do you think its possible to have Canonical sponsor this project? Our school obviously has limited resources, from laptops to computers. Where are you

Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] launchpad and documentation

2011-03-09 Thread Alex Mandel
Sounds to me like Seidos is looking for a component to host/write documentation to go along with application development hosted on launchpad. Along with that would be a standard link at the top of each project to it's documentation section. I haven't seen this on Launchpad and am unaware of plans

Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Software Freedom Day

2010-08-18 Thread Alex Mandel
On 08/18/2010 06:51 AM, Mark Weisler wrote: Ilan Rabinovitch wrote: Hello, Do we have any plans for the upcoming software freedom day? It would be great to setup a table at a local library, farmers market, or similar non-tech venue and spread the word about FL/OSS. Specifically I was

[Ubuntu-US-CA] Fwd: Linux Installfest workshop in Davis - Saturday, June 12th

2010-06-01 Thread Alex Mandel
Another local Installfest (Northern Ca/Central Valley)... While not focused on Ubuntu that is the majority of what we install and we will have 10.04 on hand in various flavors. Volunteers and spectators are welcome. A few official disks would be nice if anyone is planning to head this way.

Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] No California Ubuntu Mirror?

2010-04-22 Thread Alex Mandel
On 04/22/2010 03:30 PM, Jono Bacon wrote: On Thu, 2010-04-22 at 15:28 -0700, giovanni_re wrote: Must be time for California to pack it up go home. http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/downloadmirrors No technology going on in this state. Not entirely sure that just because there is not a