Re: [mhvlug] Future of MHVLUG mailing list

2016-11-11 Thread Chris Knadle
enter where mailing lists are hosted by DadaMail with Exim as the MTA on the back-end. Setup includes antispam + antivirus and limiting posts to subscribees. - All the mailing lists from LUGs and other organizations have seen a general decrease in posts over time, so it is not a b

Re: [mhvlug] IPv6

2016-07-27 Thread Chris Knadle
ot;A" records -- so the addresses to connect to for services are often different from IPv6 vs IPv4. I don't have much expertise in this area, as I haven't (yet) tried using IPv6 for my own LAN or Internet connection so far. -- Chris -- Chris Knadle chris.kna...@coredump.us ___

Re: [mhvlug] debian 8 not detecting external monitor at boot

2016-05-09 Thread Chris Knadle
of the two are different.) What kind of laptop? - If it works with Ubuntu, Fedora, Arch -- which versions of those? If it works there, can you have a look at the Xorg and report how the external monitor got detected and what driver got used? -- Chris -- Chris Knadle chris.kna...@coredump.us _

Re: [mhvlug] New laptop linux distro

2016-04-03 Thread Chris Knadle
to bugs. There is a service doing daily snapshots of updated packages on Arch, which allows rolling back the installed package set to a particular date, setting a list of packages to hold back, and then upgrading everything else. [I have a friend that had to do this.] -- Chris

Re: [mhvlug] force-mounting write-protected USB

2016-03-29 Thread Chris Knadle
t's what I've found I needed to do in practice. -- Chris -- Chris Knadle chris.kna...@coredump.us ___ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org https://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcomin

Re: [mhvlug] force-mounting write-protected USB

2016-03-24 Thread Chris Knadle
mple to set up, but that's what I'd use on Flash if I could figure out how to get it to work. The IPFire firewall distribution is one example that has unjournaled ext4 as one of its filesystem options. -- Chris -- Chris Knadle chris.kna...@coredump.us

Re: [mhvlug] MHVLUG Meeting -- bug in the announcement

2016-02-25 Thread Chris Knadle
> on Wednesday, March 2nd at 6 pm. Interesting location. ;-) -- Chris -- Chris Knadle chris.kna...@coredump.us ___ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org https://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhv

Re: [mhvlug] We all morn the passing of Ian Murdock

2016-01-03 Thread Chris Knadle
in NYC back in 2010. I don't recall ever meeting him. The Reddit thread also has a link to Ian's GPG key and I don't see any signatures past 2004. If anyone recalls meeting him I'd like to know what their impression of him as a person was. -- Chris -- Chris Knadle chris.kna...

Re: [mhvlug] FCC Amateur Radio Technician class license

2015-11-09 Thread Chris Knadle
oes up exponentially as they are sunk deeper -- so if they're only sunk halfway because the installer is lazy, they're nowhere near as strong as they should be. But again putting up a tower is quite optional -- there's a lot you can do with Ham Radio without one. -- Chris -- Chris Knadle chr

Re: [mhvlug] FIOS vs Quantum FIOS

2015-11-09 Thread Chris Knadle
ong with sending over the box's MAC address; the "dumber" routers don't do this and so the IP address received will change on any outage. Not sure releasing the DHCP lease will help but it's worth a try. -- Chris -- Chris Knadle chris.kna...@coredump.us __

Re: [mhvlug] Spontaneous shutdowns

2015-09-11 Thread Chris Knadle
t might be a temperature failure, so I expect I'd need to run > some thermal monitoring. That's also quite possible; for obvious reasons you'll eventually want to figure out how to throttle the system rather than have it hit the temperature limit and cause a shutdown. --

Re: [mhvlug] Spontaneous shutdowns

2015-09-11 Thread Chris Knadle
differently. https://wiki.freedesktop.org/www/Software/systemd/Debugging/ https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Working_with_the_serial_console > because you may not be booted enough for logging. > > It's also possible you may be able to use some platform-specific > diagnostic tools to pull previous

Re: [mhvlug] Pro tip from Joe on RHEL 7.x

2015-07-06 Thread Chris Knadle
this via their new FedUP utility, but I haven't actually tried that to see how it works; wondering if you've tried it perhaps, Allen. -- Chris -- Chris Knadle chris.kna...@coredump.us ___ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http

Re: [mhvlug] Pro tip from Joe on RHEL 7.x

2015-07-06 Thread Chris Knadle
find a way to trigger a re-import of the old data. (I was with KMail2, but it didn't seem to help.) -- Chris -- Chris Knadle chris.kna...@coredump.us ___ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org https://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin

Re: [mhvlug] Mini-android

2015-03-30 Thread Chris Knadle
and not have to worry about your GPS location being automatically recorded in your account. sounds to me like a worthwhile experiment. I'll be interested to see what you find. -- Chris -- Chris Knadle chris.kna...@coredump.us ___ Mid-Hudson Valley

Re: [mhvlug] Backup/Restore questions with Deja-Dup and Ubuntu

2015-02-04 Thread Chris Knadle
take off and nuke the entre site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure. -- Ripley :-) -- -- Chris -- Chris Knadle chris.kna...@coredump.us ___ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org https://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin

Re: [mhvlug] Backup/Restore questions with Deja-Dup and Ubuntu

2015-02-04 Thread Chris Knadle
back in after the new load comes up... Sigh. Dont get old. It beats the alternative! :) -- Chris -- Chris Knadle chris.kna...@coredump.us ___ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org https://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman

Re: [mhvlug] AESCrypt

2014-12-11 Thread Chris Knadle
at Cold Spring Harbor Labs. [CSHL has several campuses -- this one is just off of the highway on Sunnyside Blvd, .] It looks to be about a 40 minute trip to either LUG from Valley Stream. -- Chris Knadle chris.kna...@coredump.us ___ Mid-Hudson Valley

[mhvlug] DebConf14 in progress in Portland, OR

2014-08-26 Thread Chris Knadle
to the installation guide for various platforms. http://gobby.0x539.de/trac/wiki/Download As this list is mainly for New York, I'll just mention that Portland time is three hours earlier compared to NY. Enjoy. -- Chris -- Chris Knadle chris.kna...@coredump.us

Re: [mhvlug] Recording webcast videos

2014-08-21 Thread Chris Knadle
there are 4 updates that are causing BSOD's that should be avoided and uninstalled if they get installed: KB2982791 KB2970228 KB2975719 KB2975331 More details: http://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=14/08/21/002237 -- Chris -- Chris Knadle chris.kna...@coredump.us

Re: [mhvlug] Recording webcast videos

2014-07-28 Thread Chris Knadle
various services - Python 2 python3-livestreamer - library to extract video streams from various services - Python 3 youtube-dl - downloader of videos from YouTube and other sites -- Chris -- Chris Knadle chris.kna...@coredump.us

Re: [mhvlug] Spam Detection

2014-07-17 Thread Chris Knadle
On Thursday, July 17, 2014 03:23:26 Aram J. Agajanian wrote: I'm sending this message with Geary but I have changed the configuration. On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 11:37 AM, Chris Knadle chris.kna...@coredump.us wrote: On Wednesday, July 16, 2014 10:56:06 Aram J. Agajanian wrote: I sent

Re: [mhvlug] Remote desktops for old HW

2014-07-16 Thread Chris Knadle
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Re: [mhvlug] Keystore

2014-07-07 Thread Chris Knadle
On Monday, July 07, 2014 15:38:31 Gary Mort wrote: On 07/06/2014 01:38 PM, Chris Knadle wrote: On Saturday, July 05, 2014 23:11:08 Gary Mort wrote: [...] Mozilla Firefox uses 1) Files stored in /etc/ssl/certs directory plus some hardcoded ones 2) $HOME/.mozilla/firefox/{profilename}/certX.db

Re: [mhvlug] Keystore

2014-07-06 Thread Chris Knadle
does. -- Chris -- Chris Knadle chris.kna...@coredump.us ___ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org https://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) Vassar

Re: [mhvlug] Archlinux

2014-05-12 Thread Chris Knadle
plan to look into that as well as how to do package building on Arch when I get a chance. -- Chris -- Chris Knadle chris.kna...@coredump.us ___ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org https://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman

Re: [mhvlug] What's your Linux desktop environment look like?

2014-04-26 Thread Chris Knadle
a manual operations to move mail via IMAP. -- Chris -- Chris Knadle chris.kna...@coredump.us ___ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org https://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm

Re: [mhvlug] GPG key-signing (issues)

2014-03-10 Thread Chris Knadle
On Monday, March 10, 2014 09:07:04 Michael Muller wrote: Chris Knadle wrote: On Sunday, March 09, 2014 23:59:35 Jack Chastain wrote: Yep - the issue was conceptual I think. It appears (to Joe and me) that the instructions for the sub-key was under the assumption that your laptop

Re: [mhvlug] GPG key-signing (issues)

2014-03-10 Thread Chris Knadle
, and thus those should be replaceable. ... and I'd like to have a GPG talk topic at MHVLUG one of these days. -- Chris -- Chris Knadle chris.kna...@coredump.us ___ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org https://mhvlug.org

Re: [mhvlug] GPG key-signing (issues)

2014-03-10 Thread Chris Knadle
On Monday, March 10, 2014 11:59:48 Michael Muller wrote: Chris Knadle wrote: On Monday, March 10, 2014 10:31:08 Joseph Apuzzo wrote: Any ideas now to recover from my double failure ( I created 2 backups, then removed one by accident and then when trying to access the thumb drive

Re: [mhvlug] PGP Etiquette (and tooling)

2014-03-09 Thread Chris Knadle
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Re: [mhvlug] GPG key-signing (issues)

2014-03-09 Thread Chris Knadle
amount of 'cruft' data in them which cannot ever be removed. -- Chris -- Chris Knadle chris.kna...@coredump.us ___ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org https://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming

Re: [mhvlug] GPG Best Practices

2014-03-03 Thread Chris Knadle
/ subkey(s) listed are installed locally. Yuck. -- Chris -- Chris Knadle chris.kna...@coredump.us ___ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org https://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm

Re: [mhvlug] key signing sign up form

2014-03-02 Thread Chris Knadle
. -- Chris -- Chris Knadle chris.kna...@coredump.us ___ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org https://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) Vassar College Mar 5 - 11th

Re: [mhvlug] Considering a VPN service

2014-02-27 Thread Chris Knadle
recommendation but I didn't realize you could end up getting a bandwidth /speedup/ from using one. -- Chris -- Chris Knadle chris.kna...@coredump.us ___ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org https://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman

Re: [mhvlug] Anyone Using StartOS?

2014-02-18 Thread Chris Knadle
files from MS and thus may fail because of the great wall) That's the best I think you can do, it's not a magic bullet, some assembly required -- Chris -- Chris Knadle chris.kna...@coredump.us ___ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group

Re: [mhvlug] MHVLUG Snow Night

2014-02-06 Thread Chris Knadle
. [First time for both and the events managed to coincide -- go figure!] -- Chris -- Chris Knadle chris.kna...@coredump.us ___ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org https://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug

Re: [mhvlug] Install issue - Any suggestions?

2014-01-30 Thread Chris Knadle
On Thursday, January 30, 2014 10:12:38 Jack Chastain wrote: OK - Back on this today... On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 4:09 PM, Chris Knadle chris.kna...@coredump.uswrote: On Wednesday, January 29, 2014 15:53:56 dragorn wrote: On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 03:19:25PM -0500, Jack Chastain wrote

Re: [mhvlug] Install issue - Any suggestions?

2014-01-30 Thread Chris Knadle
On Thursday, January 30, 2014 12:07:23 Jack Chastain wrote: On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 11:19 AM, Chris Knadle [...] jack@jack-SVE1713CCXB:~/Downloads/DraftSight$ dpkg --print-architecture amd64 Ah. That's for the /native/ architecture. To see the list of foreign architectures: $ dpkg

Re: [mhvlug] Install issue - Any suggestions?

2014-01-29 Thread Chris Knadle
Earth is a 32-bit only package -- Google seems to be in the habit of releasing these things as 32-bit only for whatever reason. Wine typically needs 32-bit libs too, although I think a 64 bit package is coming soon (or exists already, hopefully?) -- Chris -- Chris Knadle chris.kna

Re: [mhvlug] Install issue - Any suggestions?

2014-01-29 Thread Chris Knadle
with FreeCAD. -- Chris -- Chris Knadle chris.kna...@coredump.us ___ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) Vassar College

Re: [mhvlug] What ever happened to : SuSE Linux?

2014-01-14 Thread Chris Knadle
particular quirk with OpenSuSE is having to use (or work around) the YaST configuration tool. -- Chris -- Chris Knadle chris.kna...@coredump.us ___ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman

Re: [mhvlug] Solid State Hybrid Drives

2013-10-23 Thread Chris Knadle
are reversed when an R/C plane is flying towards you, and it's easy to get disoriented. [Happened to someone I was with, so I'm also spending free time fixing a cracked fuselage.] -- Chris -- Chris Knadle chris.kna...@coredump.us ___ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux

Re: [mhvlug] Solid State Hybrid Drives

2013-10-23 Thread Chris Knadle
On Wednesday, October 23, 2013 17:51:27 dragorn wrote: On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 02:18:50PM -0400, Chris Knadle wrote: On Wednesday, October 23, 2013 12:04:17 John Mort wrote: Thanks Matthias. From the lack of response I'm guessing no one has experience with SSHD yet. I might look

Re: [mhvlug] Using cairo-perf-trace

2013-10-14 Thread Chris Knadle
driver in the configuration. Using multiple configs will help if these are tests you want to repeat, rather than this only being a one-time thing. -- Chris -- Chris Knadle chris.kna...@coredump.us ___ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group

Re: [mhvlug] Request help with homebuilt PC nightmare

2013-10-11 Thread Chris Knadle
On Friday, October 11, 2013 15:03:35 Allen wrote: On Wednesday, October 09, 2013 7:03:46 PM Chris Knadle wrote: *sigh* I'm familiar with this motherboard because it was a candidate I had looked into for a box I recently built; if you read the comments on Newegg, you'll find out

Re: [mhvlug] Request help with homebuilt PC nightmare

2013-10-11 Thread Chris Knadle
On Friday, October 11, 2013 16:00:48 Allen wrote: On Friday, October 11, 2013 3:43:21 PM Chris Knadle wrote: ASUS M5A99FX PRO R2.0 AM3+ AMD 990FX SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard with UEFI BIOS http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131851 I regularly

Re: [mhvlug] Request help with homebuilt PC nightmare

2013-10-09 Thread Chris Knadle
to the point where the board under it overheats and darkens. Now again I assumed you did that, but if you have not, it would explain what is happening. This sounds logical. -- Chris -- Chris Knadle chris.kna...@coredump.us ___ Mid-Hudson Valley

Re: [mhvlug] Request help with homebuilt PC nightmare

2013-10-08 Thread Chris Knadle
happen is a crossover of grounds like a misconnection between signal ground and power ground on RF boards, and that can occasionally cause some interesting problems (RF on the power, switching DC power noice on the RF, etc). -- Chris -- Chris Knadle chris.kna...@coredump.us signature.asc

Re: [mhvlug] Request help with homebuilt PC nightmare

2013-10-08 Thread Chris Knadle
working for an OEM, removing the MB from the case was added to the standard troubleshooting procedures. Interesting. Okay. -- Chris -- Chris Knadle chris.kna...@coredump.us signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Mid

Re: [mhvlug] Request help with homebuilt PC nightmare

2013-10-08 Thread Chris Knadle
-- occasionally motherboard BIOS versions are specific for supporing certain CPUs such that the motherboard has to be flashed with a new version of the BIOS before a newer CPU will work. It's highly doubtful that this is the case here, but won't hurt to check just in case. -- Chris -- Chris

Re: [mhvlug] RFC: bitmessage

2013-08-23 Thread Chris Knadle
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Re: [mhvlug] RFC: bitmessage

2013-08-19 Thread Chris Knadle
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Re: [mhvlug] RFC: bitmessage

2013-08-19 Thread Chris Knadle
. If you know ahead of time that each system your email is going to pass through supports ESMTPS then you can at least have an idea that the email isn't going to be _easily_ snooped. -- Chris -- Chris Knadle chris.kna...@coredump.us ___ Mid-Hudson

Re: [mhvlug] PC-PS testing and next weeks meeting

2013-07-30 Thread Chris Knadle
On Monday, July 29, 2013 20:29:54 Chris Knadle wrote: ... I've been meaning to study a common computer switching power supply to try to figure out the underlying topology. They're likely buck converter type, but I haven't verified that. I found a few links about computer switching power

Re: [mhvlug] PC-PS testing and next weeks meeting

2013-07-29 Thread Chris Knadle
likely, because the other options (boost, buck-boost) have conditions of operation that have to be avoided. (Underload or mid-range load.) -- Chris -- Chris Knadle chris.kna...@coredump.us ___ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http

Re: [mhvlug] Microtik?

2013-07-17 Thread Chris Knadle
do simple QoS rules such as bandwidth limiting. Not sure about logging and tracking, but IIRC I think it's possible to have dd-wrt log to an external syslog server for things like this. -- Chris -- Chris Knadle chris.kna...@coredump.us ___ Mid

Re: [mhvlug] Microtik?

2013-07-17 Thread Chris Knadle
-- this is the first I've heard of it. -- Chris -- Chris Knadle chris.kna...@coredump.us ___ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm

Re: [mhvlug] Microtik?

2013-07-17 Thread Chris Knadle
of support after a while, or iptables gets new functionality that the GUI doesn't know how to handle. I started off using a GUI for making iptables firewall rules, but now I'm doing iptables rules by hand. -- Chris -- Chris Knadle chris.kna...@coredump.us

Re: [mhvlug] Web photo album creator

2013-07-08 Thread Chris Knadle
to help with the get the -- Chris -- Chris Knadle chris.kna...@coredump.us ___ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm

Re: [mhvlug] Linux USB 3 PCI-E Express Card Drivers?

2013-06-28 Thread Chris Knadle
) for that device. 3) Buy one and find out firsthand whether it works. I often do this for devices that are cheap (like these are), but I won't do this for a device that's expensive. -- Chris -- Chris Knadle chris.kna...@coredump.us ___ Mid-Hudson

Re: [mhvlug] Linux USB 3 PCI-E Express Card Drivers?

2013-06-28 Thread Chris Knadle
On Friday, June 28, 2013 18:40:18, dragorn wrote: On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 11:46:32AM -0400, Chris Knadle wrote: http://www.amazon.com/s/?ie=UTF8keywords=usb3+cardstag=googhydr-20in dex= electronicshvadid=24976131991hvpos=1t2hvexid=hvnetw=ghvrand=93163 68952 88950566hvpone=hvptwo=hvqmt

Re: [mhvlug] Thanks Chris, Knoppix vs Lubuntu for Windows Linux Repairs?

2013-06-25 Thread Chris Knadle
DVD and CD versions, and I don't use the Adrienne and bootonly versions. -- Chris -- Chris Knadle chris.kna...@coredump.us ___ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug

Re: [mhvlug] (no subject)

2013-06-24 Thread Chris Knadle
that this is specifically what happened here. -- Chris -- Chris Knadle chris.kna...@coredump.us ___ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm

Re: [mhvlug] Recommended Distros for Windows Linux Repairs?

2013-06-24 Thread Chris Knadle
for this as well. -- Chris -- Chris Knadle chris.kna...@coredump.us ___ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) Vassar

Re: [mhvlug] Recommended Distros for Windows Linux Repairs?

2013-06-24 Thread Chris Knadle
with a touchscreen would equally be a nightmare. I also haven't been using Windows 8 thusfar, so I don't know what dealing with it is like either. What I *do* know is that installing Debian onto a laptop that comes with Windows 8 is non-trivial. -- Chris -- Chris Knadle chris.kna...@coredump.us

Re: [mhvlug] I'm using Linux.....(click)

2013-06-17 Thread Chris Knadle
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Re: [mhvlug] International Space Station switches from Windows to Linux, for improved reliability

2013-05-11 Thread Chris Knadle
record. -- Chris -- Chris Knadle chris.kna...@coredump.us ___ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) Vassar College

Re: [mhvlug] LP154W02-TL06 LCD NVIDIA resolution problem

2013-04-05 Thread Chris Knadle
On Friday, April 05, 2013 06:53:14, Sean Dague wrote: On 04/04/2013 07:38 PM, Chris Knadle wrote: Briefly spoke with Sean about this last night. I've got this maddening NVIDIA driver problem; the IBM LCD screen for this 15.4 Phillips LP154W02-TL06 has an EDID that is SNAFU

Re: [mhvlug] how do I disable ksnapshot

2013-04-04 Thread Chris Knadle
Manual in the Custom Shortcuts section, the subsection of Modifying Shortcuts. Good luck actually doing this though. Christ. For me the Custom Shortcuts item is within the Control Center Modules, but placed right under Fonts. Um, yeah... logical. Rght. -- Chris -- Chris Knadle chris.kna

[mhvlug] LP154W02-TL06 LCD NVIDIA resolution problem

2013-04-04 Thread Chris Knadle
I'm down to making a custom EDID file by hand based on known Modelines, and it's a rediculous job. Thanks. ;) -- Chris -- Chris Knadle chris.kna...@coredump.us ___ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http

Re: [mhvlug] New laptop, now what?

2013-04-03 Thread Chris Knadle
that it takes research beforehand. -- Chris -- Chris Knadle chris.kna...@coredump.us ___ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm

Re: [mhvlug] ssh:// rdp:// protocols in firefox/linux

2013-03-27 Thread Chris Knadle
be made to work with chrome, too. Most of the KDE4 applications support URL schemes; I just ran some tests and Konquer supports ssh, sftp, and looks like it might support rdp as well -- entering in an rdp:// link brings up KDRC, the KDE Remote Destkop Client. -- Chris -- Chris Knadle chris.kna

Re: [mhvlug] New laptop, now what?

2013-03-18 Thread Chris Knadle
For Jack and Matthias: combined replies. On Monday, March 18, 2013 09:52:41, Jack Chastain wrote: On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 11:28 PM, Chris Knadle chris.kna...@coredump.us wrote: [...] That's right. You might now something about Windows Genuine Advantage When I first heard this term years

Re: [mhvlug] New laptop, now what?

2013-03-18 Thread Chris Knadle
. Other than that possible caveat it sounds like the right idea though. ;-) -- Chris -- Chris Knadle chris.kna...@coredump.us ___ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug

Re: [mhvlug] New laptop, now what?

2013-03-18 Thread Chris Knadle
about optical - though maybe I should have been. I would have used DVDs for this, too. Because what you really want is a /permanent/ archive on cheap media -- and DVDs are (supposed to be) good for that. A hard disk might be okay temporarily for this, but not permanently. -- Chris -- Chris

Re: [mhvlug] New laptop, now what?

2013-03-17 Thread Chris Knadle
the SDD in and try that out. Not going to do it for some time though. I don't want to go and screw myself right off ;-) That's safe to try. -- Chris -- Chris Knadle chris.kna...@coredump.us ___ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group

Re: [mhvlug] New laptop, now what?

2013-03-16 Thread Chris Knadle
of headaches trying to figure out what drivers or firmware you're going to need. -- Chris -- Chris Knadle chris.kna...@coredump.us ___ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug

Re: [mhvlug] Graphics card change - need advise on driver change.

2013-03-13 Thread Chris Knadle
On Wednesday, March 13, 2013 07:51:30, Jack Chastain wrote: On Mar 12, 2013 5:09 PM, Chris Knadle chris.kna...@coredump.us wrote: On Tuesday, March 12, 2013 10:31:10, Jack Chastain wrote: On Mar 12, 2013 12:25 AM, Chris Knadle chris.kna...@coredump.us [...] The vesa driver is the best

Re: [mhvlug] Graphics card change - need advise on driver change.

2013-03-12 Thread Chris Knadle
On Tuesday, March 12, 2013 10:31:10, Jack Chastain wrote: On Mar 12, 2013 12:25 AM, Chris Knadle chris.kna...@coredump.us wrote: [...] Mainly what you need to do is modify the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file to point to the correct Xorg driver for the new card. [...] That's what I was looking

Re: [mhvlug] Graphics card change - need advise on driver change.

2013-03-11 Thread Chris Knadle
with that device, then modify the xorg.conf file. -- Chris -- Chris Knadle chris.kna...@coredump.us ___ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm

Re: [mhvlug] Obtaining package source code

2013-03-08 Thread Chris Knadle
database would be the most convenient way for an end-user (non- maintainer) to view (without intent to modify) Fedora package source code if it worked the way I'm assuming it should. If it's anything like /Debian/ packaing with Git, not much will work like you expect it to. -- Chris -- Chris Knadle

Re: [mhvlug] Libreoffice Remote

2013-03-07 Thread Chris Knadle
on the edge, CM10 in the nightly builds. I don't see bluetooth mentioned so I don't know if installing CM7 or CM10 would enable it. http://wiki.cyanogenmod.org/w/Encore_Info -- Chris -- Chris Knadle chris.kna...@coredump.us ___ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux

Re: [mhvlug] Sd card class for raspberrypi

2013-03-07 Thread Chris Knadle
using Linux). -- Chris -- Chris Knadle chris.kna...@coredump.us ___ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) Vassar

Re: [mhvlug] Possible ride request for Wednesday - Newburgh area

2013-03-05 Thread Chris Knadle
been wondering about their reliability. -- Chris -- Chris Knadle chris.kna...@coredump.us ___ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm

Re: [mhvlug] Two LibreOffice questions

2013-02-19 Thread Chris Knadle
am testing LibreOffice with Office formats set as default save. That's a setup that may seem logical but it's known to be problematic. http://mirror.linux.org.au/linux.conf.au/2013/mp4/Two_years_of_LibreOffice.mp4 -- Chris -- Chris Knadle chris.kna...@coredump.us

Re: [mhvlug] Multicore Processing

2013-02-19 Thread Chris Knadle
On Tuesday, February 19, 2013 08:01:30, Adam wrote: Chris Knadle wrote: On Saturday, February 16, 2013 14:56:33, Adam wrote: In the case you mention for BAL (S/360/370/390 assembly), I'm guessing that there was no CPU instruction available for PUSH and POP Yep, at least none I

Re: [mhvlug] Two LibreOffice questions

2013-02-18 Thread Chris Knadle
On Monday, February 18, 2013 21:24:19, James E. LaBarre wrote: On 02/18/2013 07:38 PM, Chris Knadle wrote: What's nice about the OpenDocument formats is that they are a fully documented format_and_ implemented how they're documented. If you do just a bit of research into the OpenDocument

Re: [mhvlug] Multicore Processing

2013-02-16 Thread Chris Knadle
On Saturday, February 16, 2013 14:56:33, Adam wrote: Chris Knadle wrote: On Tuesday, February 12, 2013 10:16:08, Adam wrote: or it's easier to write reentrant code in C than in some other languages.) I don't know what languages are easier or harder to write reentrant code

Re: [mhvlug] Booting a Cloned Drive and booting with both drives plugged in.

2013-02-14 Thread Chris Knadle
two options as to how to fix this. A) assign different UUIDs to the clone drive's filesystems ('blkid -U uuid') B) boot by hard-coded device names rather than via UUIDs. Doing this will require modification of both grub2 configuration and /etc/fstab. -- Chris -- Chris Knadle chris.kna

Re: [mhvlug] TRIM on LVM with LUKs

2013-02-14 Thread Chris Knadle
to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux#RHEL6 and: https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/articles/3078 However Red Hat are famous for doing a lot of backporting work, so it's not clear if their kernel supports discard / TRIM or not. -- Chris -- Chris Knadle chris.kna

Re: [mhvlug] TRIM on LVM with LUKs

2013-02-14 Thread Chris Knadle
. The -I option for hdparm gets information directly from the drive rather than from kernel drivers. http://linux.die.net/man/8/hdparm -- Chris Chris Knadle chris.kna...@coredump.us ___ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http

Re: [mhvlug] TRIM on LVM with LUKs

2013-02-13 Thread Chris Knadle
-to-activate-trim-on-luks- encrypted.html -- Chris -- Chris Knadle chris.kna...@coredump.us ___ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm

Re: [mhvlug] TRIM on LVM with LUKs

2013-02-13 Thread Chris Knadle
. According to Wikipedia only certain filesystems support TRIM. Ext4 and XFS do, but Ext3 supposedly only supports offline TRIMming via a system call. Out of curiosity what error are you getting? -- Chris -- Chris Knadle chris.kna...@coredump.us

Re: [mhvlug] Multicore Processing

2013-02-12 Thread Chris Knadle
On Tuesday, February 12, 2013 10:16:08, Adam wrote: Chris Knadle wrote: On Monday, February 04, 2013 22:21:11, Adam wrote: I thought anything in C was reentrant, because of C's passing parameters on the stack (and other features designed into the compiler). No, C is not automatically

[mhvlug] Git talk at Linux.conf.au

2013-02-05 Thread Chris Knadle
in the hope that it helps. http://mirror.linux.org.au/linux.conf.au/2013/mp4/Git_For_Ages_4_And_Up.mp4 -- Chris -- Chris Knadle chris.kna...@coredump.us ___ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi

Re: [mhvlug] Multicore Processing

2013-02-04 Thread Chris Knadle
On Monday, February 04, 2013 22:21:11, Adam wrote: ... Chris Knadle wrote: Does this have anything to do with how GIMP is coded or compiled? If the designer wants a program to have the ability to use more than one core, the program needs to be designed to allow it. Specifically

Re: [mhvlug] Multicore Processing

2013-02-03 Thread Chris Knadle
-linux-gnu/libgthread-2.0.so.0 (0x7ffb02ae7000) libpthread.so.0 = /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 (0x7ffb023ca000) ... that looks like a program designed to be multi-threaded. -- Chris -- Chris Knadle chris.kna...@coredump.us

Re: [mhvlug] Multicore Processing

2013-02-03 Thread Chris Knadle
On Sunday, February 03, 2013 11:45:06, Sean Dague wrote: On 02/03/2013 09:00 AM, Chris Knadle wrote: ... The next logical question you're likely to have is How can I tell if a program has been designed to be multi-threaded? Thankfully I think there's an answer for that. On Linux systems

Re: [mhvlug] Canon printer and Ubuntu printing

2013-01-30 Thread Chris Knadle
just faced with booting back into M$ when I want to print anything I need to keep? I consider print services to be sysadmin hell. It seems like it should be simple, but when it doesn't work correctly I find it's quite difficult to debug. -- Chris -- Chris Knadle chris.kna...@coredump.us

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