Re: Anyone use System 76's Pop!_OS? Opinions?

I briefly tried it but I was installing it on my primary machine that I use for gaming in Windows and it doesn't support dual boot out of the box with GRUB, you have to use an EFI selector if you want to do that or manually set up GRUB. I haven't had time to follow up on it yet, but it looks

Re: Strategy for moving off big tech

I switched to Google Domains. - Chris On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 5:00 PM Ray Cote wrote: > Since we're talking migrations, where did people go after Oracle purchased > Dyn? > I'm looking to migrate off Oracle DNS this year. > --Ray > > On Fri, Jan 15, 2021 at 11:54 AM jsf wrote: > >> >>

Re: CentOS vs Unbuntu desktop

Out of curiosity, why did you disable syslog? - Chris On Fri, Sep 9, 2016 at 9:05 PM, Susan Cragin wrote: > > I run Debian LXDE which is fast. And I have eliminated syslog and > pulseaudio. > FWIW. > > > -Original Message- > From: Tom Buskey > Sent: Sep

Re: CentOS vs Unbuntu desktop

One of the other options is to start with ubuntu server ( http://www.ubuntu.com/download/server). It will give you a very clean starting point and you can just install what you actually need. I don't use Unity, so I never start with that. I tend to lean towards XFCE or i3. If you're more

Re: What Language for a kid

AI and Emacs plugins... and there may be some overlap there. - Chris On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 11:03 AM, Alan Johnson wrote: > On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 10:40 AM, Bill Freeman wrote: > >> I can't resist. There is always lisp. No indentation. No

Re: Virtual machine host provider recommendations

I'll throw in another vote for Linode. Their service has been excellent in the couple of years I've been using them. I used ChicagoVPS before that and while they are cheap, they are a very small operation and I had a bunch of accounting issues with them. DigitalOcean looks promising as well... if

Re: Web-based photo/video album?

I cycled through Gallery 1, ZenPhoto, Gallery 2 and a few others until I got tired of supporting it myself. I just use Google+ now, especially since most of my photos and videos are captured with my Nexus 5 and it's setup to automatically backup all of my photos and videos to Google+. They even do

Re: time for the annual Internet Speed Quest

On Sun, Jul 6, 2014 at 1:14 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com wrote: I think FairPoint does have some service in NH that's analogous to FiOS, but I don't see any way to find out from their website how much it costs or whether it's even available in a given area. Their phone robot

Re: time for the annual Internet Speed Quest

As I understand it, third-party ISPs have to rent the lines they want to provide service on from the owners of the lines. They must not have a deal with FairPoint for your area. :( I'm in Amherst and use Comcast. I love to hate Comcast, but to be honest, I have had very few problems with them and

Re: time for the annual Internet Speed Quest

No problems at all. I'm all Linux and OS X at home. No special software required. They definitely don't block port 22 for ssh. I'm pretty sure they block 25 and maybe 80. - Chris On Fri, Jul 4, 2014 at 8:53 PM, David Rysdam da...@rysdam.org wrote: Chris Linstid clins...@gmail.com writes

Re: SSH authentication bypass?

On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 4:09 PM, Tom Buskey t...@buskey.name wrote: This is the article: http://www.linuxjournal.com/node/8051/print I used the same lightly loaded AMD Athlon XP 1700+ CPU with 1GB of RAM and version 2.4.27-1-k7 of the Linux kernel for all tests. I'd love to see an update

Re: Files - Samsung Galaxy S4

I've used this ftp server in the past: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=lutey.FTPServer I've also used AirDroid as others have suggested and it works pretty well. Now, I just upload all of my music to Google Play Music and I stream most of it. The albums that I tend to listen to

Re: Fifo buffer question

I have a background process running from which I would like, from time to time, to check the console output. I do not want to dedicate a console window to it, and since I start it from a script the console output is usually just lost to the akashic ethers. I've not played with fifo buffers,

Re: Fifo buffer question

On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 2:57 PM, Thomas Charron twaf...@gmail.com wrote: Use the right tool for the job. multilog is a utility which you pipe your stdout/err to, and it maintains logs, including log rotation, etc.. So it can be spewing out all the time, but you can have say, 3 logs based on

Re: Fifo buffer question

On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 3:48 PM, Kevin D. Clark kevin_d_cl...@comcast.netwrote: Sometimes I leave long-running compute jobs running under screen. Start them in one physical location. Later, in some other location, I re-attach and look at my output. I've done the same at my last few jobs

Re: SSH timeout on password challenge.

Oops, forgot to reply to all. - Chris On Jan 27, 2014 10:44 AM, Chris Linstid clins...@gmail.com wrote: If I'm understanding this correctly, it sounds like you just want the ssh command to fail if you're presented with a password challenge? If that's the case, then you can just add -o

Re: What are you doing for home NAS?

I've been doing something similar to Tom for almost as long (around 10 years). I started with a Linux server (Debian) with a pile of drives running ext2/3. I distributed my files by category across the drives (picture, movies, docs, source code, etc.). However, I got really tired of that a few

Re: Crowdfunding an Ubuntu smartphone (right now)

I really wanted to be interested and excited about it, but a phone with its UI coming from the folks who gave us Unity and it's $800? Uh, no thanks. - Chris On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 7:33 AM, David Rysdam da...@rysdam.org wrote: Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com writes: Just in

Re: Simple but decent web composition software

On Sat, Jun 8, 2013 at 12:46 PM, Chris Linstid clins...@gmail.com wrote: At work I've been generating HTML reference documents for an API and the references use CSS and JavaScript. I just take the whole pile of HTML, js, and css files and copy them to Sharepoint (it's the only cross-site

Re: Mother of all xterms?

I've hopped around from terminal to terminal on Linux for years and I honestly haven't found one as feature-filled as iterm2 on OS X. My thoughts so far: *(u)xterm*: Fast, settings are both a blessing and curse since they're all in .Xdefaults/.Xresources, so I can save them in a git repo

Re: Failed ubuntu do-release-upgrade work around?

On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 12:01 PM, Bruce Labitt bdlab...@gmail.com wrote: Since I have the file in question, where can I stuff this file, so that the installer sees it, and doesn't have to go to the slow repo to get it again. I think the dist-upgrade saves stuff in /var/log/dist-upgrade In

Re: grub issue

On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 12:07 PM, Ben Scott dragonh...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 10:54 AM, Kevin D. Clark kevin_d_cl...@comcast.net wrote: 4: what happens when you type telinit 5? FYI, Debian and (IIRC) Ubuntu don't use runlevel 5 normally. They normally boot to runlevel

Re: mosh

I know that one of the major differences is that it provides buffered I/O with local echo so it can greatly improve a remote terminal experience over a high latency connection. - Chris On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 2:24 PM, Ralph Mack ralphm...@comcast.net wrote: Chip Marshall

Re: Tablet recommendations?

Keeping notes, reading e-mail, typing, some video - easier to carry than my laptop. What else is a good question, as I haven't had a tablet in the past. Currently use my phone for e-mail, music, and some editing, as well as carrying documents to read in meetings, vice printing out. I

Re: Vendor independent certifications?

On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 3:32 AM, Mike mik...@colossus.bilow.com wrote: A friend of mine is looking for a career change and asks what sort of vendor independent certifications (that is, not another college degree) would help them get in the door in programming, web design, or system

Re: SCP from STDIN: -t option undocumented?

Sorry for dragging up a month old thread, but I was looking into this for something at work and found this blog post that documents how to use the scp protocol pretty nicely: http://blogs.oracle.com/janp/entry/how_the_scp_protocol_works - Chris On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 4:25 PM, John Abreau

Re: GNOME 3 (was: mint)

On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 1:53 PM, Kevin D. Clark kevin_d_cl...@comcast.netwrote: I'll say one really nice thing about LXDE: if you want to change the format of the displayed time in the date/time applet, the docs say use the format described in strftime(). Wow, that's minimal, and that's

Re: mint

My solution was to flip gnome 3 the bird and switch to XFCE. I've been much happier since. It may be missing some of the graphical bells and whistles you get with gnome 2 plus compositing, but at least I have all of the functionality that I'm used to from gnome 2. - Chris On Wed, Jan 4,

Re: Do one thing well... (Flash)

On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 1:13 PM, Jerry Feldman g...@blu.org wrote: The issue with Flash is that the 32-bit flash library will work fine on a 64-bit system with Firefox 64-bit through a wrapper (nsplugin). Or you can run the 32-bit Firefox. AFAIK, you can only download 32-but Firefox directly

Re: broke package management (warning long)

I'm pretty sure that this was broken before you issued your first listed apt-get install command. It looks like you have a kernel package registered as installed, but one of the directories it installed, /lib/modules/2.6.30.7-libre-fshoppe1, is now gone. You should be able to track down the

Re: Computer hardware for sale, cheap

I pretty heavily use Netflix instant watch and my higher months barely break 200GB, but I think most of that is downloading media from alternative sources rather than Netflix itself because the ligher months where I'm not doing much alternative downloading (but my Netflix watching is about the

Re: Representative Seth Cohn

I knew I recognized that name from somewhere! Congratulations Seth! :) - Chris On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 4:44 PM, Seth Cohn sethc...@gnuhampshire.org wrote: Thanks Bill! And that bill will come back this year, as I reintroduce it myself (after 2 tries, neither passing, having others

Re: iPhone/Smartphone stuff

I have a 3G 8GB iPhone and it's been great but I pretty much only use it as a personal phone. I do have an exchange email account setup for work, but I have most of the features disabled because if you sync an exchange calendar, it disables syncing with your own personal calendars and I don't

Re: New GNHLUG SIG

Hmm... non-PC... like a Mac? I'll shut up now. :) - Chris On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 4:39 PM, Tom Buskey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 3:41 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Cole Tuininga [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:56:17 -0400 On Fri, 2008-08-01 at

Re: C complex number usage

The problem it's complaining about is that mymean and mystdev are variables of type double and gaussrand() returns a double... and you're trying to assign the result to g[ii] which is type double _Complex. You could try casting the result to double _Complex like this: g[ii] = (double _Complex)

Re: IRC (was: threadjacked a lot)

I also use irssi. I had been using ircii and then BitchX, but irssi fixes a lot of the issues I have with BitchX. I used to use XChat for a while, but now I just run my irc client in screen on my Linux server at home and I can reconnect to it from wherever I am. - Chris On 7/10/07, Matt

Re: Xeon 64-bit?

As I understand it, Intel was all about ditching the x86 ISA with the Itanium and IA64 ISA. However, AMD's 64-bit extension to x86 spoiled their plans and forced them to take that path. Basically, potential customers saw two paths: 1. Entirely new ISA that none of our products are ready for. 2.

Re: VMWare player under Linux

On 5/7/07, Jerry Feldman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have some questions specific to VMWare player that I have not been able to get answered to my satisfaction yet. 1. Can VMWare player under Linux run Windows XP as a guest. Yes, but you need a VM for it (which must be created using either

Re: is Vista falling flat?

Even discontinuing support for a version of Windows is not sufficient to kill it. 90% of the desktops at my company are still running Windows 2000. We're slowly migrating over to Windows XP at the moment, but only with new systems. We haven't been bothering with upgrading existing systems to

Re: Anyone good with dpkg/apt

If you have the package, you can do dpkg -c package.deb. If you don't have the package, you can do apt-get -d install package to get the package (I would imagine that would grab the dependencies as well). And then you can do dpkg -c package.deb. Debian packages end up in

Re: SSH to one address, different ports, different hosts

On Mar 11, 2007, at 9:59 AM, Ben Scott wrote: For now, I've written two stanzas in my $HOME/.ssh/config file, one for each box, and used the UserKnownHosts directive to assign different known_hosts files to each. So ssh homegw uses $HOME/.ssh/homegw.known_hosts and ssh blackfire uses

Re: x86 emulator for PPC Mac OS X?

VirtualPC is definitely your best bet then. I've never tried running a BSD on it, but I did run Linux on it (also on a Powerbook G4). It's not exactly fast, but it's usable. The key is to give it as much memory as you can. What are the specs on your Powerbook? - Chris On Mar

Re: x86 emulator for PPC Mac OS X?

Actually, QEMU might be a better choice. Check out Q which is a GUI front-end for it for OS X: http://www.kju-app.org/kju/ - Chris On Mar 10, 2007, at 11:18 AM, Ben Scott wrote: On 3/9/07, Paul Lussier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... VMWare seems to only support the newer Intel Macs

Re: x86 emulator for PPC Mac OS X?

: Chris Linstid [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Actually, QEMU might be a better choice. Check out Q which is a GUI front-end for it for OS X: Yeah, I've got QEMU from Darwin Ports installed, but there's a claim in the docs that the BSDs all crash at boot, which is exactly what happens to me

Re: ARTICLE - ESR gives up on Fedora

Isn't this the same guy that made such a huge deal a few years ago about getting a phone interview offer from Microsoft? He wrote some offensive letter back to the recruiter saying he was an idiot for trying to recruit such an important big cheese of the Linux community. - Chris On 2/22/07,

Re: Evolution sucks??

I've used evolution on and off a few times in the past, but I always found it to be more trouble than it's worth. This is especially true if the exchange back-end isn't setup correctly to deal with it. I generally just use Thunderbird for regular email usage (which is 99.99% of my usage) and

Fwd: Motherboard Recommendations, and a hello...

Oops, meant to send this to the whole group. :) -- Forwarded message -- If you just want to go pick up some parts (yay for instant gratification!) and you're nearby, you can check out Showtime Computers in Hudson, NH: http://www.showtimepc.com/showtimepc/home9.asp Their prices

Re: Reliable wireless APs?

I've tried both DD-WRT and HyperWRT (also the thibor version) and one thing you absolutely have to do is clear the NVRAM after you flash the ROM. Otherwise, you end up with strange default settings like Undefined 1 showing up plus other random oddities. - Chris On Jan 10, 2007,

Re: SPARC Live CD?

Can't you just install GNU versions of the utilities? http://sunfreeware.mirrors.tds.net/indexsparc7.html They have pretty much everything there that you could possibly need as far as CLI utils go. I'd hit up fileutils-4.1 and tar-1.16 for starters. I believe they all install in

Re: Forcing Linux to recognize NICS in BIOS order

Isn't the order they come up in determined by the order in which the driver modules are loaded? So, say you have an on-board intel NIC and a PCI 3com in one system and an on-board intel NIC and a PCI tulip-based card in another, if the module load order is 3com, intel, tulip they are of

Re: Forcing Linux to recognize NICS in BIOS order

Hmm... on second thought, if the driver module for the on-board network and the PCI NIC are the same, I'm not sure how you would control the order for that. - Chris On Aug 15, 2006, at 9:11 AM, Chris Linstid wrote: Isn't the order they come up in determined by the order in which

Re: Which CPU are we waiting for to get VM hypervisors in hw?

Some introductory material on VT... http://www.intel.com/cd/ids/developer/asmo-na/eng/dc/enterprise/ technologies/221962.htm - Chris On Jul 30, 2006, at 8:38 PM, Chris Linstid wrote: The regular Core Duo does have the first phase of VT (Virtualization Technology), but it's nothing

Re: 3KID, is this a new operating system?

Ok, I give up, what's the answer for 14? :) - Chris On Jul 12, 2006, at 4:10 PM, Mark E. Mallett wrote: On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 03:16:55PM -0400, Brian Chabot wrote: Gregory Smith wrote: OK, I got it, y'all are close, but it's a different phrase, not very well known (to me)

Re: From a NY Times Bestseller

Apple's computers haven't really been proprietary for quite a while now. Even though they used PPC processors, almost everything else was third-party off-the-shelf standard parts. I think they do generally choose higher quality parts (for the most part) than most regular PC

Re: From a NY Times Bestseller

On Jul 11, 2006, at 6:33 PM, Ben Scott wrote: On 7/11/06, Chris Linstid [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Apple's computers haven't really been proprietary for quite a while now. ... it's a combination of the controlled set of hardware and software ... That's the very definition of proprietary

Re: SATA cards? RAID/Non RAID

I heard that Broadcom's excuse for their reluctance to release any specifications for the wireless chipset is that the chips are used for both commercial and military functions and the military functions include software radio. So, I guess they don't want the general public to be able to

Re: Linux on old laptop - still trying...

With Ubuntu, you used to be able to do a server install, which I believe was a more minimal install than the regular Ubuntu install. However, I've only just started playing with the new Ubuntu LiveCD/installation hybrid, so I'm not sure how you would go about it. Perhaps it is still be an option

Re: remove linux, and then install Windows XP

I think you're right... and I also think that just past the MBR is the partition table, so if you do 2048, you'll blow away the partition table too. - Chris On Apr 26, 2006, at 9:28 AM, Jerry Feldman wrote: On Wednesday 26 April 2006 9:10 am, Tom Buskey wrote: 3) I think on the

Re: remove linux, and then install Windows XP

I could be wrong, but I think he already got Windows reinstalled, but he still has grub installed in the MBR and grub is looking for his / boot partition (which he already blew away)... thus the grub error. - Chris On Apr 26, 2006, at 10:34 AM, Neil Schelly wrote: It seems you're

Re: CLARIFICATION: Re: remove linux, and then install Windows XP

Oops. :) - Chris On Apr 26, 2006, at 11:13 AM, Zhao Peng wrote: BTW, Chris, I've NOT yet got Windows installed. Chris Linstid wrote: I could be wrong, but I think he already got Windows reinstalled, but he still has grub installed in the MBR and grub is looking for his /boot

Re: DVI monitor won't wake up?

Oops, guess I missed that somewhere. :) - ChrisOn 4/7/06, Cole Tuininga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Chris - I appreciate the input, but I'm actually already running the proprietary drivers.You're right in that they do tend to work a lotbetter than the open source nv driver, so long as one doesn't