Re: [vox-tech] In need of assistance with partition ownership adjustment, please

2023-01-02 Thread Alex Mandel
Doug, I don't think this is a matter of ownership, but rather encryption. Do you recall when you setup the OS what encryption settings you picked for this drive? Does the drive in question contain any files you will miss? If not reformatting and remounting it would probably be the easiest solu

Re: [vox-tech] My wife's website

2018-01-12 Thread Alex Mandel
On 01/12/2018 08:30 AM, Rick Moen wrote: > Quoting Richard S. Crawford (rich...@underpope.com): > >> That's what I was afraid of. Unfortunately I can't find the malware itself. > > https://codex.wordpress.org/FAQ_My_site_was_hacked > http://www.wpbeginner.com/beginners-guide/beginners-step-step-g

Re: [vox-tech] UC Davis VPN using openconnect

2016-12-16 Thread Alex Mandel
On 12/15/2016 02:43 PM, Aleksandr Michuda wrote: > Hi, > > I've been trying to connect to the UC Davis library VPN and seem to be > having trouble. Below is the error that I get: > > Connected to HTTPS on vpn.library.ucdavis.edu > Got HTTP response: HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request > Unexpected 400 resul

Re: [vox-tech] Using UC Davis vpn with the new Linux client PulseClient?

2016-06-28 Thread Alex Mandel
Matt, You should get on the ucdavis.slack.com #linux channel. We've actually been discussing this for a few weeks. Bill Broadley has a method using an OpenVpn client instead of Pulse, though it might not work for 12.04. He's also been in touch with the library, so if it's a problem on their side,

Re: [vox-tech] Risks of upgrading past CentOS 6 supported PHP 5.4?

2016-06-02 Thread Alex Mandel
This might be a a good use case for a Docker container, which is essentially all the components you need but not messing with your system libraries and dependencies. If you're open to other options, python+ django/pyramid/ or flask, + postgres/,mysql, sqlite. Or Ruby + Rails + Database. Those are

Re: [vox-tech] Ubuntu 16.04 install issue

2016-04-21 Thread Alex Mandel
On 04/21/2016 07:39 AM, Bruce Wolk wrote: > I recently built a new Skylake based computer and installed Windows 10 > intending to dual-boot with linux. This morning I downloaded the just > released Ubuntu 16.04 distribution and installed it to USB flash drive. > When I boot to the USB drive I get

Re: [vox-tech] Seeking recommendation: USB or low-profile PCI WiFi adapter

2016-04-20 Thread Alex Mandel
On 04/20/2016 08:28 PM, Bill Kendrick wrote: > > We received a second-hand desktop PC (I know, right!?) that > we've set up for my older son to use. We recently moved it > far, far away from our home office, and I don't want to even > contemplate wiring up Ethernet across the house for it. > > I

[vox-tech] Vendors for Laptop Battery Replacement

2016-03-11 Thread Alex Mandel
Anyone have recommendations on companies that sell reasonably priced laptop batteries? Not el cheapos that are likely to catch on fire. I'm looking to replace a 9 cell battery on a Lenovo T410 (6 yrs old I think). So far Lenovo is $160 Best candidate for a sane purchase is $90 http://www.laptopba

Re: [vox-tech] Available instructions for UC Davis vpn?

2016-01-12 Thread Alex Mandel
On 01/11/2016 05:19 PM, Matthieu Stigler wrote: > Hi everyone > > I was trying to use the vpn for the US Davis library, but it seems more > complicated on Linux, given that it seems to rely on a specific client, > Network Connect, which seems only indirectly available under Linux: > https://www.li

Re: [vox-tech] Advice for dealing with adobe pdf forms etc on linux?

2015-08-05 Thread Alex Mandel
I often use Inkscape and/or GIMP to add form entries on top of the existing pdf and then print to pdf. It's not really filling in the "Form" and is really not shareable back to Win/Mac users. Not sure where I found it but it seems I have 9.5.5 acroread installed via package on ubuntu (says it's fo

[vox-tech] Ticket Tracking Suggestions

2015-07-01 Thread Alex Mandel
I'm looking to implement an email based ticket tracking system. The classic email h...@whatever.org, auto-reply with ticket number, etc... Looking for some open source solutions, or hosted solutions. Thanks, Alex ___ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists

Re: [vox-tech] Synaptics driver problem on Lenovo Thinkpad e455

2015-04-27 Thread Alex Mandel
On 04/27/2015 06:54 AM, Nick Schmalenberger wrote: > On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 01:21:17AM -0700, Bill Kendrick wrote: >> >> My wife just picked up a used Thinkpad e455 laptop and it's >> working fairly well with Kubuntu 14.04 (trusty). >> >> One big problem is: we're unable to get KDE to disable the

Re: [vox-tech] some people can't send to list

2015-03-21 Thread Alex Mandel
If you're seeing this on the list then I think it's fixed. -Alex On 03/21/2015 05:29 PM, Brian E. Lavender wrote: > Echo! > > On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 04:58:33PM -0700, Bill Kendrick wrote: >> >> Brian came over, I did the song & dance to gain access to the >> account at domaindiscover aka tierra

Re: [vox-tech] Linux video editing

2014-04-25 Thread Alex Mandel
On 04/25/2014 02:30 PM, Darth Borehd wrote: > What is the best software for editing videos that will be posted to YouTube? > > OpenShot + Handbrake Handbrake is not required if you don't want/need to compress it yourself. Openshot is the easiest to use currently, Inkscape svg for titles etc...

Re: [vox-tech] Ubuntu tahr upgrade from UC Davis mirror?

2014-04-21 Thread Alex Mandel
On 04/21/2014 01:39 PM, Carl Boettiger wrote: > Hi list, > > I was just trying to upgrade my ubuntu distribution from the UC Davis > mirror and keep getting errors that the download of some of the files fails > as the files don't match their checksums. Has anyone else had success or > hit this is

Re: [vox-tech] need help with an error installing Ubuntu through Live USB Creator (LiLi)

2014-04-02 Thread Alex Mandel
It sounded like a 32 bit Vista machine so I'm not sure it has PAE or VT instruction sets. But yes, drop by the Makerspace since it sounds like someone can help you there. Thanks, Alex PS: Maybe we should do an Installfest @ the makerspace in May or June. On 04/02/2014 12:08 PM, Nicholas Weigand

Re: [vox-tech] need help with an error installing Ubuntu through Live USB Creator (LiLi)

2014-04-02 Thread Alex Mandel
Aida, Step 1, if you want to run Ubuntu in a window inside of Windows, then that is called a Virtual Machine. This method does not a require a USB drive at all, only the ISO of the Ubuntu version you want and virtual machine software. Step 2, sounds like you picked Virtual Box. Try following this

Re: [vox-tech] Cannot install Ubuntu alongside Windows 7

2013-11-08 Thread Alex Mandel
> although I could run Windows in a virtual environment, I don't know how >> well that would work when I need to remote desktop into my office computer. >> >> >> On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 9:37 AM, Alex Mandel >> wrote: >> >>> Generally turning

Re: [vox-tech] Cannot install Ubuntu alongside Windows 7

2013-11-08 Thread Alex Mandel
need to remote desktop into my office computer. > > > On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 9:37 AM, Alex Mandel wrote: > >> Generally turning Secure Boot off makes life easier (Isn't supposed to >> be necessary after 12.10). Also turning fast boot off while working on

Re: [vox-tech] Cannot install Ubuntu alongside Windows 7

2013-11-08 Thread Alex Mandel
Generally turning Secure Boot off makes life easier (Isn't supposed to be necessary after 12.10). Also turning fast boot off while working on an install generally helps make it easier to switch around settings when troubleshooting. UEFI should be ok, but if turning off Secure boot doesn't help you

Re: [vox-tech] recommended partition scheme for a dual boot windows 7/ubuntu machine?

2013-11-03 Thread Alex Mandel
On 11/03/2013 03:04 PM, Thomas Johnston wrote: > I need to do a clean reinstall of both Windows and Linux and was wondering > if the following partition scheme makes sense. > > /dev/sda1ntfs 150 GB (for Win) (obviously a primary > partition) > /dev/sda2ext2 1 GB

Re: [vox-tech] mmap()

2013-10-22 Thread Alex Mandel
On 10/22/2013 06:21 PM, Alex Mandel wrote: > On 10/22/2013 03:45 PM, Norm Matloff wrote: >> Anyone here know much about mmap()? I have following problem: >> >> Machines A and B, running Fedora, share files through NFS. I use mmap() >> to create a file-backed array

Re: [vox-tech] mmap()

2013-10-22 Thread Alex Mandel
On 10/22/2013 03:45 PM, Norm Matloff wrote: > Anyone here know much about mmap()? I have following problem: > > Machines A and B, running Fedora, share files through NFS. I use mmap() > to create a file-backed array on A and B, shared via the common file > system. I want changes to the array at

Re: [vox-tech] Linux on Chromebook?

2013-08-08 Thread Alex Mandel
On 08/08/2013 11:20 PM, Norm Matloff wrote: > Has anyone here tried putting Linux on a Chromebook? The information I > see on the Web for this is intriguing. > > Norm > Yes we tried at an installfest. It was kinda tricky but definitely possible and at the time (year ago I think) there was only

[vox-tech] File Transfers slowing over time

2013-07-23 Thread Alex Mandel
Can someone explain why a large file transfer might slow over time between 2 machines on the same switch, or even over a local network. My coworkers and I have experienced this independently with Windows Copy, SCP, SFTP. Example, a file transfer starts at 40 M/s but eventually ends up in the 1-5

Re: [vox-tech] Hard drive Reliability

2013-07-22 Thread Alex Mandel
On 07/22/2013 09:02 PM, David Spencer wrote: > What brand are you buying and what rotational speed? I've had good luck with > Seagate at 7200RPM. But that's just me. I always mirror whatever drives I get. > > -- Dave Spencer > > On Jul 22, 2013, at 7:58 PM, Peter Salzman wrote: > >> For the pa

Re: [vox-tech] GDB for Go

2013-04-02 Thread Alex Mandel
On 04/02/2013 04:36 PM, Richard Harke wrote: > I'm playing around with the Go language but I need a newer version of GDB > I have 7.0 but 7.3-1 is in debian-squeeze backports ( I'm running squeeze) > I added the squeeze backports to my sources.list but when I run apt-get > it says cannot find it. I

Re: [vox-tech] Package file invalid error when installing android apps

2013-03-31 Thread Alex Mandel
On 03/31/2013 01:46 PM, Brian Lavender wrote: > On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 12:50:40PM -0700, Brian Lavender wrote: >> On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 11:11:40AM -0700, Alex Mandel wrote: >>> On 03/31/2013 10:48 AM, Brian Lavender wrote: >>>> On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 12:35:04

Re: [vox-tech] Package file invalid error when installing android apps

2013-03-31 Thread Alex Mandel
On 03/31/2013 10:48 AM, Brian Lavender wrote: > On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 12:35:04AM -0700, Brian Lavender wrote: >> I keep getting the "Package File Invalid" error when I try to install apps >> on my android. I tried clearing caches and data, but I can not seem to >> get any apps to install. I have

Re: [vox-tech] track pointer scroll

2013-03-29 Thread Alex Mandel
On 03/29/2013 12:10 PM, Brian Lavender wrote: > I am trying to enable scrolling with my track pointer on my Thinkpad T60 > running Debian squeeze. > According to this page I can use the xinput command to enable it. > > http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/How_to_configure_the_TrackPoint > > Problem is, t

Re: [vox-tech] Seeking Suggestions for Form Designer

2013-01-27 Thread Alex Mandel
On 01/27/2013 09:43 AM, Chris Jenks wrote: > >Hello, > >As a mostly self-taught programmer, I've noticed myself creating > web applications over the years which seem similar enough that a tool may > exist to create them with less redundant effort. Things like timesheets, > equipment in

Re: [vox-tech] Thunderbird Lightning and WebDav

2012-08-14 Thread Alex Mandel
On 08/14/2012 01:06 PM, Tony Cratz wrote: > Hello, > > > I'm still use Thunderbird and have added Lightning for > calendaring. > > Now I want to be able to share my private calendar with myself > on other computers, so I'm trying to get WebDav working in > Apache on

Re: [vox-tech] Cheap laptop

2012-07-13 Thread Alex Mandel
On 07/13/2012 07:23 AM, Wes Hardaker wrote: > Richard Harke writes: > >> Old is not important. Cheap is. Obviously, with the cheapest new machines >> running around $250, >> I would want to beat that by a good margin. Need to have a working network >> interface, wired or Wi-Fi >> supported by li

Re: [vox-tech] Cheap laptop

2012-07-12 Thread Alex Mandel
On 07/12/2012 08:31 PM, Richard Harke wrote: > My wife is looking for a cheap, used laptop. It doesn't need to have a > large drive or a lot of memory. > It would need to be able to run linux. Does anyone here have an old machine > they would like to sell? > (Reply off list) > > Richard Harke > >

Re: [vox-tech] Linux Kiosk Distro

2012-06-12 Thread Alex Mandel
On 06/12/2012 06:00 PM, Tony Cratz wrote: > On 06/12/2012 05:58 PM, Thomas Johnston wrote: >> I will take a look at the freecode site you mentioned. >> >> They kiosk will be used to access the internet. I am not too concerned >> with restricting what sites that they visit. Rather, I want to prevent

Re: [vox-tech] Linux Kiosk Distro

2012-06-12 Thread Alex Mandel
On 06/12/2012 12:57 PM, Thomas Johnston wrote: > A friend of mine asked me if I could help him with a project: building an > internet kiosk machine running some flavor of Linux. The computer is to be > used by the public in his volunteer organization. I said I have no real > exerience with that, bu

Re: [vox-tech] Cloning LVM volume over network

2012-06-03 Thread Alex Mandel
On 06/03/2012 08:31 AM, timri...@appahost.com wrote: >> Original Message >> Subject: Re: [vox-tech] Cloning LVM volume over network >> From: Alex Mandel >> Date: Tue, May 29, 2012 2:09 pm >> To: lugod's technical discussion forum >> Cc:

Re: [vox-tech] Cloning LVM volume over network

2012-05-29 Thread Alex Mandel
ub to work. Thanks, Alex On 05/29/2012 02:59 PM, Brian Lavender wrote: > On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 02:09:16PM -0700, Alex Mandel wrote: >> On 05/29/2012 11:36 AM, Brian Lavender wrote: >>> On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 09:16:24AM -0700, Wes Hardaker wrote: >>>> Alex Mandel wri

Re: [vox-tech] Cloning LVM volume over network

2012-05-29 Thread Alex Mandel
O#. .OO#. rocks...1k > --- > Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity. > > Alex Mandel wrote: > >> On 05/29/2012 11:36 AM, Brian Lavender wrote: >>> On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 09:16:24AM -0700, Wes

Re: [vox-tech] Cloning LVM volume over network

2012-05-29 Thread Alex Mandel
On 05/29/2012 11:36 AM, Brian Lavender wrote: > On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 09:16:24AM -0700, Wes Hardaker wrote: >> Alex Mandel writes: >> >>> I'm looking for the most efficient way to clone an LVM volume 50GB from >>> one physical machine to another. Both ma

Re: [vox-tech] Cloning LVM volume over network

2012-05-29 Thread Alex Mandel
On 05/27/2012 09:16 AM, Wes Hardaker wrote: > Alex Mandel writes: > >> I'm looking for the most efficient way to clone an LVM volume 50GB from >> one physical machine to another. Both machines must stay up, so that >> rules out clonezilla. I'd also like i

[vox-tech] Cloning LVM volume over network

2012-05-25 Thread Alex Mandel
I'm looking for the most efficient way to clone an LVM volume 50GB from one physical machine to another. Both machines must stay up, so that rules out clonezilla. I'd also like it to be more efficient that dd, so more similar to partimage or partclone where it skips the empty space and only copies

Re: [vox-tech] Secure Wiping hard drives

2012-05-11 Thread Alex Mandel
On 05/11/2012 09:32 AM, Darth Borehd wrote: > We need a fast way to securely wipe hard drives. > > Is there really any way to recover data after doing 1 pass writing zeros to > every sector? (This is what we are doing now using the free version of > Active Killbits, but it takes over an hour per h

Re: [vox-tech] [Solved] Cloning image to mulitple usb sticks at once

2012-05-02 Thread Alex Mandel
rives. Tomorrow I'll be doing 8x 8GB drives at a time and will time that too. Note, my times might be faster than most as the source was a 3G SATA SSD drive. Thanks, Alex On 05/01/2012 02:41 PM, Alex Mandel wrote: > That's actually what I was afraid would be the bottleneck. Guess

Re: [vox-tech] [SPAM?] Cloning image to mulitple usb sticks at once

2012-05-01 Thread Alex Mandel
. with > /Software/Embedded Controllers) .OO#. .OO#. rocks...1k > --- > Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity. > > Alex Mandel wrote: > >> So I've got a bootable usb

[vox-tech] Cloning image to mulitple usb sticks at once

2012-05-01 Thread Alex Mandel
So I've got a bootable usb stuck I want to clone. It works fine to use Clonezilla (partclone) to do one at a time. But I've got to do at least 25. Does anyone know a way that I can do more than 1 at a time. I was thinking of just opening more than one terminal and using the same source image file,

Re: [vox-tech] Bash completion mystery

2012-02-24 Thread Alex Mandel
Isn't this what locate does? assuming the db is up to date, and if it isn't sudo updatedb locate somefile.txt Thanks, Alex On 02/24/2012 01:05 PM, Chris Jenks wrote: > > Dear Bruce, > > I expect that your question has been satisfied already, but one general > fast strategy I use to find f

[vox-tech] Slides from my talk about Neogeography

2012-02-22 Thread Alex Mandel
My slides are up for those who missed and wanted to see. Mostly lots of links and words to Google. http://www.scribd.com/doc/82530099/intro-to-neogeography Brian/Bill feel free to store a copy on the Lugod site. Thanks, Alex ___ vox-tech mailing list v

Re: [vox-tech] Default directory permissions

2012-02-14 Thread Alex Mandel
On 02/14/2012 09:38 AM, Richard S. Crawford wrote: > On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 9:05 PM, wrote: > >>> Original Message >>> Subject: [vox-tech] Default directory permissions >>> From: "Richard S. Crawford" >>> Date: Fri, February 10, 2012 5:17 pm >>> To: "lugod's technical discussi

Re: [vox-tech] Default directory permissions

2012-02-10 Thread Alex Mandel
On 02/10/2012 05:17 PM, Richard S. Crawford wrote: > I have a directory on my server which has several people that can write to > it. Each person has their own username but they all belong to the same > group. I would like to make sure that every file and directory that is > created in that directo

Re: [vox-tech] sata 2

2012-01-31 Thread Alex Mandel
On 01/31/2012 10:34 AM, Shwaine wrote: > On Mon, 30 Jan 2012, jimbo wrote: > >> Greetings: >> >> I am compiling a list of possible components to build a mini pc. I want to >> use a solid state drive that is sata 2. I am not sure if this is compatible >> with the ITX board I am interested in. Acc

Re: [vox-tech] sata 2

2012-01-30 Thread Alex Mandel
On 01/30/2012 12:08 PM, jimbo wrote: > Greetings: > > I am compiling a list of possible components to build a mini pc. I want to > use a solid state drive that is sata 2. I am not sure if this is compatible > with the ITX board I am interested in. According to light research sata 2 > is just

Re: [vox-tech] Schematics for motherboard

2011-12-30 Thread Alex Mandel
There's also a new shop in Davis that might be able to handle the task: http://daviswiki.org/iFIX_ELECTRONICS?action=show&redirect=i+Fix+Electronics Who knows they might sell you the part. Otherwise Metro electronics is great but don't expect them to know anything about computers specifically. En

Re: [vox-tech] windows-linux connection

2011-11-29 Thread Alex Mandel
On 11/29/2011 03:18 PM, Dylan Beaudette wrote: > Hi, > > I have a windoze computer and linux box sitting next to each other on > my desk. One is a government computer, locked-down and on a secured > network, the other on a DSL connection to the internet. I can get the > windows computer to talk to

Re: [vox-tech] [vox] Shopping for 17x22" flatbed scanner or bigger

2011-10-26 Thread Alex Mandel
t try them for information about their equipment. > > IMHO, > > MJR > > On 10/12/2011 1:48 PM, Alex Mandel wrote: >> Anyone know what companies make really big flatbed scanners? I'm talking >> about ANSI C paper or bigger (17x22). >> >> I am open to ot

Re: [vox-tech] Wi-Fi

2011-10-21 Thread Alex Mandel
On 10/21/2011 09:03 AM, Cam Ellison wrote: > On 11-10-21 04:08 AM, Jeff Newmiller wrote: >> I think that putting wlan0 in your interfaces file interferes with >> proper function of automated tools like wicd. > Perhaps, but that doesn't explain why it works with one network and not > with another.

Re: [vox-tech] Is there better spam detection?

2011-10-19 Thread Alex Mandel
On 10/19/2011 12:07 PM, Brian Lavender wrote: > It seems taht spammers have gotten keen to the Bag O Words Bayes analysis and > now pump out some unrelated paragraph before they put in their spam. > > Is someone working on a meaningful spam analysis detection that I can use? > > brian I don't have

Re: [vox-tech] [Solution] Gnome Classic on Ubuntu 11.10

2011-10-17 Thread Alex Mandel
On 10/17/2011 09:31 AM, Cam Ellison wrote: > On 11-10-17 09:10 AM, Darth Borehd wrote: >> Yep, this is why I am still on 10.10. >> >> What were thinking?� Is Jono really OK with this? >> > This is one of the reasons I stick with Kubuntu. No sign of Unity there > - not that is obvious, in any case.

[vox-tech] [Solution] Gnome Classic on Ubuntu 11.10

2011-10-15 Thread Alex Mandel
Since this one is likely to bite a few people very quickly. http://www.webupd8.org/2011/08/installing-using-classic-gnome-desktop.html While I applaud Ubuntu for making a simple interface for the non-techy crowd(lots of potential in emerging markets and home use), making it more difficult for the

Re: [vox-tech] bibtex: get rid of ISSN, URL, DOI, etc from references

2011-10-12 Thread Alex Mandel
On 10/12/2011 03:12 PM, Thomas Johnston wrote: > I am having the same problem as described here (i.e., I get unwanted > URL's, DOI's, etc. in my references): > > http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/23117/biblatex-get-rid-of-issn-urls-and-dois-in-references > > I am fairly new to LaTeX and I don'

Re: [vox-tech] Printer problem

2011-10-01 Thread Alex Mandel
On 10/01/2011 07:28 AM, Bruce Wolk wrote: > I am going crazy trying to solve a printing problem. I am running > Ubuntu 11.04 with GNOME using CUPS with an hp LaserJet 1300. Printing > works fine from Thunderbird, LibreOffice, and several other programs. > Unfortunately, printing fails from Fir

Re: [vox-tech] menu for ubuntu 11.04

2011-09-26 Thread Alex Mandel
>From my 5 minutes of using it I believe the ubuntu logo in the upper right minimizes windows. Can't recall though I have a keyboard shortcut for it. FYI, I also recommend the compiz-settings-manager. So you can tweak things like not maximizing if you happen to move a window to the top of the scre

[vox-tech] [California OSGeo] Survey for 2011 Annual Meeting

2011-09-07 Thread Alex Mandel
erested in attending. This meeting will be in Northern/Central California this time, and Davis is one of the 3 possibilities. http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/HBLF525 Let me know if there are any questions and please feel free to forward this email to other interested parties. Thanks, Ale

Re: [vox-tech] Tablet-laptop recommendations.

2011-08-07 Thread Alex Mandel
On 08/07/2011 01:32 PM, Edwin Groot wrote: > Hello Alexandra, > You are looking for a convertible TabletPC. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_tablet_PCs#Convertible > > I have only seen ones that run Windows XP Tablet PC Edition. I liked > the Lenovo X61. The other one I tried, a Dell L

Re: [vox-tech] Boot 3 TB GPT grub2

2011-08-05 Thread Alex Mandel
On 08/05/2011 10:17 AM, Braden Pellett wrote: > > On Aug 4, 2011, at 4:57 PM, Alex Mandel wrote: > >> Anyone know what tricks are required to get a GPT based 3TB drive to >> boot with grub2 on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS? > > I may be wading in here over my head, but when I

[vox-tech] Boot 3 TB GPT grub2

2011-08-04 Thread Alex Mandel
Anyone know what tricks are required to get a GPT based 3TB drive to boot with grub2 on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS? Thanks, Alex ___ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech

Re: [vox-tech] Alternative to PHP Scripting

2011-07-11 Thread Alex Mandel
On 07/11/2011 03:57 PM, Michael Robert Seydel wrote: > On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 2:08 PM, Richard S. Crawford > wrote: >> I've been trying to use PHP to create a backup script that would read >> filenames from a directory, then copy those filenames into a .zip file, then >> delete the original files

Re: [vox-tech] CalDAV

2011-07-01 Thread Alex Mandel
On 07/01/2011 11:52 AM, Peter Salzman wrote: > > I can't figure out why calDAV isn't more utilized. Interoperability > of things like business card and contact sharing has really taken off, > but for any business or organization that has scheduled events (i.e. > nearly all of them) it seems ... w

Re: [vox-tech] Can't reach a specific subnet

2011-06-18 Thread Alex Mandel
he IP addresses to what dig returns. If there's a > mismatch, you'll need to contact IT about sorting it out. > > On Mon, 13 Jun 2011, Alex Mandel wrote: > >> Last night while I was in the middle of working remotely, I couldn't >> make any new connections to any

[vox-tech] ZFS on Linux (Nexenta)

2011-06-18 Thread Alex Mandel
Since it came up in conversation at the Installfest here's a way I've heard to get ZFS on a Linux distro. http://www.nexenta.org/ Never tried it but looks interesting. Enjoy, Alex ___ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org

Re: [vox-tech] Speaking of no boot.......

2011-06-14 Thread Alex Mandel
Reinstall Grub from the rescue disk. There's lots of how to do this on the Ubuntu help website. Alex On 06/14/2011 08:04 AM, jimbo wrote: > Oops, sorry about the mispelling of you name Dr Scronek. Didn't mean no > disrespect. > > > - Original Message - > From: "jimbo" > To: "lugod's

[vox-tech] Can't reach a specific subnet

2011-06-13 Thread Alex Mandel
Last night while I was in the middle of working remotely, I couldn't make any new connections to any of my 3 servers. The rest of the world seems to be able to and it didn't drop my existing connection that I had open in a terminal. The servers in question can be checked by pulling up ice.ucdavis.

Re: [vox-tech] Caught in an infinite login loop

2011-06-01 Thread Alex Mandel
On 06/01/2011 06:07 AM, Dr. Denny Scronek wrote: > This is my second shot at this. Posting, that is. My laptop is caught in an > infinite login loop ...won't except my password. Not a wrong > password/CAPSLOCK problem that I can see. Any takers? Running xubuntu. Is it both at the GUI login and o

Re: [vox-tech] how to modify .htaccess to prevent wget or the likes from downing my site?

2011-05-25 Thread Alex Mandel
On 05/25/2011 12:10 PM, Chanoch (Ken) Bloom wrote: > On Wed, 2011-05-25 at 14:50 -0400, Hai Yi wrote: >> Hello all: >> >> I first asked this question to the support of my web host, and they >> redirected me to this link: >> http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=437549 >> >> and the snippet

Re: [vox-tech] Bad blocks on my hard drive

2011-05-24 Thread Alex Mandel
On 05/24/2011 05:30 PM, Chanoch (Ken) Bloom wrote: > I discovered bad blocks on my laptop hard drive today -- the laptop is > nearly 6 years old. I ran e2fsck -c the drive to mark the bad blocks as > bad, and everything seems to be working now. > > How long do I have before I need to replace the h

Re: [vox-tech] saving Flash streaming video

2011-05-06 Thread Alex Mandel
Specifically with flash their is usually a cache folder somewhere ( might be inside your firefox profile folder - .mozilla/firefox/userprofile/cache). I had to hunt it down a few times to manually clear when hulu misbehaves... Enjoy, Alex On 05/06/2011 05:15 PM, Jeff Newmiller wrote: > Look in /

Re: [vox-tech] Do Apt GUI's Clean?

2011-03-24 Thread Alex Mandel
On 03/24/2011 09:33 PM, Bob Scofield wrote: > There have been GUI's for apt such as Adept, Synaptic, and now there > are "update managers." I haven't used them very much. I use aptitude. > Aptitude and Apt-Get have the "clean" and "autoclean" commands. > > While I have not seen autoclean do m

Re: [vox-tech] Looking for a Win-95 system or disc

2011-03-07 Thread Alex Mandel
On 03/07/2011 05:22 PM, Tony Cratz wrote: > I came across a person today is has a program which only works > on Win-95 and he would like to get the data from the program. > > So the question is, does anyone have a Win-95 disc or working > system? > >

Re: [vox-tech] Netflix

2011-03-06 Thread Alex Mandel
Some Android... http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/android_owners_netflix_has_good_news_and_bad_news.php It's all about the DRM http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/opensource/the-netflix-linux-conjecture-how-netflix-snubs-the-linux-community/1745 You may also consider Hulu Plus or Amazon Prime whi

Re: [vox-tech] rsync for Windows?

2011-03-01 Thread Alex Mandel
Funny, that's what I used too for all sorts of scheduled and unscheduled local and remote copying. As far as rsync I believe cygwin is the only way to get it on windows. Enjoy, Alex On 03/01/2011 12:05 AM, Thomas Johnston wrote: > When I was mainly using Windows, I used a program called "SyncBac

Re: [vox-tech] Laptop for linux

2011-02-21 Thread Alex Mandel
The key to long battery life in a laptop: get the i5 not the i7 - it does not lack processing ability get an ssd drive get the extra capacity battery stick to a 13-15" screen Not sure if linux supports the graphics card switching on the fly yet, but if it does something with a mixed mode on board

Re: [vox-tech] Ubuntu 10.10 S-video out on Dell Inspiron 1525 ???

2011-02-09 Thread Alex Mandel
On 02/09/2011 04:28 PM, Brian Lavender wrote: > On Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 03:33:57PM -0800, Bill Kendrick wrote: >> >> That was before trying to use S-Video. I also admittedly have not yet >> tried other S-Video cables to ensure that it's not a cable issue. >> (If that turns out to be the case, I'll

Re: [vox-tech] Ubuntu 10.10 S-video out on Dell Inspiron 1525 ???

2011-02-03 Thread Alex Mandel
On 02/03/2011 09:20 PM, Alex Mandel wrote: > On 02/03/2011 08:52 PM, Bill Kendrick wrote: >> >> ... Uh... WTF? How does one get S-Video out to work on an Inspiron nowadays? >> >> It looks like xorg.conf has been split up into a .d directory. >> Any clues? Any

Re: [vox-tech] Ubuntu 10.10 S-video out on Dell Inspiron 1525 ???

2011-02-03 Thread Alex Mandel
On 02/03/2011 08:52 PM, Bill Kendrick wrote: > > ... Uh... WTF? How does one get S-Video out to work on an Inspiron nowadays? > > It looks like xorg.conf has been split up into a .d directory. > Any clues? Anyone done this? THis is seriously pissing me off. > (Google doesn't help by giving me

Re: [vox-tech] Backup User Permissions

2011-01-25 Thread Alex Mandel
On 01/24/2011 02:43 PM, Kyle Ambroff wrote: > On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 1:27 PM, Alex Mandel > wrote: >> So I'm trying to setup automated remote backup of some files from >> machine1 to machine2 using something simple like rsync. What I'm having >> trouble figu

[vox-tech] Backup User Permissions

2011-01-24 Thread Alex Mandel
So I'm trying to setup automated remote backup of some files from machine1 to machine2 using something simple like rsync. What I'm having trouble figuring out is what user to run it as and how to get that user the correct permissions. In the example use case I want to copy my Apache logs over to a

Re: [vox-tech] Ubuntu 10.04 LTS upgrade woes

2011-01-16 Thread Alex Mandel
On 01/16/2011 10:40 PM, Bill Kendrick wrote: > > Long story shoty. I have a Kubuntu 9.04 install. Finally told it to upgrade, > and it brought itself up to 9.10, and then I initiated an upgrade to 10.04. > It started reporting errors, with the only options being "Report Bug" (which > did nothing)

Re: [vox-tech] Formatting a disk for Macintosh using Linux

2011-01-08 Thread Alex Mandel
On 01/08/2011 09:53 PM, Nick Schmalenberger wrote: > On Sat, Jan 08, 2011 at 09:42:52PM -0600, Chanoch (Ken) Bloom wrote: >> I've been asked to move data from an old external hard drive to a new >> one, and to make the new one compatible with the Macintosh. (The old >> drive's USB connection has di

Re: [vox-tech] Search Warrant Question re: GUID

2011-01-07 Thread Alex Mandel
Sounds to me like you should think about a GUID as a unique ID. In this case it sounds like Gnutella assigns GUIDs to user accounts so it knows who's who (mildly anonymously). My guess is that it's based on the user account when they log in to Gnutella or it's assigned by the Gnutella service to th

Re: [vox-tech] Search Warrant Question re: IP Address Leases

2011-01-07 Thread Alex Mandel
Back in the day when people connected by modem this made a little more sense. An ISP could expect that there would be some turn over rate and each time a new person connected a IP would be assigned from the pool of available numbers. With high speed Internet, most people's modems are connected to

Re: [vox-tech] Linux 10.4 update problems

2010-11-23 Thread Alex Mandel
On 11/23/2010 12:32 AM, Jason Snyder wrote: > I just upgraded to linux 10.4 from linux 9.10 and am having problems with > running programs and looking at directories in the terminal. > > For instance the command ls should give me all the contents of the directory > that I am in. However, this is

Re: [vox-tech] lib2gc installation problems

2010-11-21 Thread Alex Mandel
On 11/21/2010 07:27 PM, Jason Snyder wrote: > I am running a file that needs the lib2gc installed. Hence the error > message below: > > gfortran -I. -fcray-pointer -fconvert=big-endian -frecord-marker=4 -o rip > addorfill.o adjellip.o angle.o barb.o bes.o bogs.o brnshr.o bshear.o > bvfricalc.o ca

Re: [vox-tech] Which distro for file/print/web server

2010-11-15 Thread Alex Mandel
On 11/10/2010 11:05 PM, Bill Broadley wrote: > On 11/08/2010 07:33 PM, Rick Moen wrote: >> Quoting Alex Mandel (tech_...@wildintellect.com): >> >>> Good Call, I did look a little at finding a drive case that was both >>> eSata and usb. The drive case was the c

Re: [vox-tech] Adding a 2nd HDD

2010-11-12 Thread Alex Mandel
On 11/12/2010 09:50 AM, Thomas Johnston wrote: > My wife has a Dell Studio 1535 that is currently running only Windows > Vista. I just picked up a new and larger HDD for it and was going to > make a dual boot window-kubuntu machine to try and ease her into the > world of linux. However, It has a an

Re: [vox-tech] Which distro for file/print/web server

2010-11-08 Thread Alex Mandel
On 11/08/2010 07:33 PM, Rick Moen wrote: > Quoting Alex Mandel (tech_...@wildintellect.com): > >> Good Call, I did look a little at finding a drive case that was both >> eSata and usb. The drive case was the cheapest part by far but esata/usb >> isn't so common.

Re: [vox-tech] Which distro for file/print/web server

2010-11-08 Thread Alex Mandel
On 11/08/2010 05:18 PM, Rick Moen wrote: > Quoting Alex Mandel (tech_...@wildintellect.com): > >> The big downside I realized today, you can't get any HD stats on an >> external USB drive(smartmontools). So I've got no health monitoring of >> the disk. > >

Re: [vox-tech] Which distro for file/print/web server

2010-11-08 Thread Alex Mandel
On 09/26/2010 12:51 PM, Alex Mandel wrote: > I finally have a small low power contraption on the way to begin my > foray into a low power network server. Looking around at my options I'm > not sure what distro to try on it first. > > Here are the requirements: > SSH/S

Re: [vox-tech] Seeking Router Advice

2010-10-29 Thread Alex Mandel
On 10/29/2010 11:01 AM, Bob Scofield wrote: > I am asking the following questions in regard to a wireless router I use in > my > home. > > I recently attended a class where I was told that one should use WPA2 if it > is > available. I have an old D-Link (DI 614) which is not longer supported

Re: [vox-tech] Far from free. OpenOffice margins way off

2010-10-18 Thread Alex Mandel
On 10/17/2010 11:28 PM, Brian Lavender wrote: > I am using OpenOffice and I put the page margins at > > Left - 1.5 in > Right - 1.0 in > Top - 1.5 in > Bottom - 1.0 in > > But, when I print the document, the top is well over 2 in and the bottom is > 0.75 in. > > This is really agravating. I am

[vox-tech] Which distro for file/print/web server

2010-09-26 Thread Alex Mandel
I finally have a small low power contraption on the way to begin my foray into a low power network server. Looking around at my options I'm not sure what distro to try on it first. Here are the requirements: SSH/SFTP/SCP Samba Print Server for Multi-OS (CUPS via Samba probably) Apache + mod_wsgi (

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