Re: complaints about systemd

2014-10-09 Thread Robert Goley
What I find most frustrating of all is that there are LOTS of valid concerns for the use of systemd but that it is coming out at the point of implementation. I am sure I am a bit out of the loop with with daily tasks etc but this kinda seems like it came out of nowhere destined for integration

Re: Would like a ports mailing list for x32

2013-08-18 Thread Robert Goley
I would recommend the Lubuntu distribution. It is light on resources, the gui works in a similar manner to windows and does not have too many easy to mess up settings. On Aug 18, 2013 10:51 PM, Aeon gaeaesse...@gmail.com wrote: What is the best and most Recommended Distro for someone that has

Re: shell wrapper to set ioctls before after a command execution?

2013-06-06 Thread Robert Goley
That sounds like a good idea but you would need to blacklist the PIDs of the commands called from your backup script as well. Most likely, they are the processes opening all of the files to start with. You might want to look at using a python script for your backup script so you can more easily

Re: shell wrapper to set ioctls before after a command execution?

2013-06-06 Thread Robert Goley
Wasn't sure it had been thought out. Thought you were doing a single backup script expecting blacklisting the single PID to work. The method you have should work great. On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 12:55 PM, Giacomo Mulas gmu...@oa-cagliari.inaf.itwrote: On Thu, 6 Jun 2013, Robert Goley wrote

Re: a few dumb questions about wine

2011-12-29 Thread Robert Goley
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Re: What groups does a desktop power-user need to belong to?

2011-08-08 Thread Robert Goley
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Re: dumb question about dual booting debian and Windows 7 on separate drives.....

2010-12-08 Thread Robert Goley
a failsafe to allow booting into Linux from Windows in the event Windows overwrites the bootloader on the MBR. -- Robert Goley FOSS Implementation Specialist Toll Free: (800) 338-4984 Local: (770) 479-7933 Fax: (770

Re: Google Gears

2010-07-05 Thread Robert Goley
This may not provide all the same features as Google gears but what about Thunderbird with offline caching turn on? Similar to Outlook but cross platform. Allows for accessing all IMAP folders or just the select ones you want while offline. Works great with apps at our office... On Jul 5, 2010

Odd issue with mkfs.xfs under Lenny/amd64

2009-12-28 Thread Robert Goley
I have not used xfs in a couple years but want to for a new server. I have followed all the xfs documentation I could find. I believe my commands are correct but am not seeing the results I expected from the documentation. The issues occur with the sunit and swidth values. I have a