Re: Recent Laptop experiences sought

2019-09-14 Thread Peter Petrakis
gt; of a real keyboard. > > I have a chromebook that can run Linux. It's a bit slower, has only 4GB > RAM (upper limit for cheap chromebooks), lower resolution and that horrible > keyboard. The battery life is fantastic though. > > On Sat, Sep 14, 2019 at 2:13 PM Peter

Re: Recent Laptop experiences sought

2019-09-14 Thread Peter Petrakis
You can pickup Thinkpad x220 cheap on ebay with 2/4 core i7 processor and max 16G DRAM + SSD for under $250. Just picked one up for the wife for $179. After that I wouldn't bother with anything less than a P50. They can be had for under $1K and are absolute beasts. Tons of ram capacity, multiple h

Re: 16.04 SSD Re: Upstart issues with Ubuntu 14.04.

2016-09-10 Thread Peter Petrakis
On Sat, Sep 10, 2016 at 12:40 AM, Bill Ricker wrote: > On Sep 9, 2016 23:05, "Joshua Judson Rosen" > wrote: > > > > On 09/09/2016 12:06 PM, Richard Kolb II wrote: > > > Not exactly related, but I just switched from windows 7 on my primary > > > machine to Ubuntu 16.x LTS. I found it horribly slo

Re: Home server hardware for Ubuntu 14.04?

2014-10-07 Thread Peter Petrakis
You can deploy openstack to a single machine in a number of ways. I think this one actually makes an LXC for each instance, I just found this http://astokes.org/ubuntu-openstack-installer/ Marco's way on the other hand uses --deploy-to N to direct juju to install the charm to a specific machine.

Re: Home server hardware for Ubuntu 14.04?

2014-10-04 Thread Peter Petrakis
Henry, I remember the HP uS were used to create personal openstack clusters so I know that works. Unless you have some esoteric RAID card you're interested in anything you buy should "just work" out of the box. It's really desktops that benefit the most from certification because the BIOS gets ha

Re: [GNHLUG] MerriLUG: April 2nd 2013 - Bitcoin

2013-04-04 Thread Peter Petrakis
On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 11:48 AM, Ben Scott wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 10:42 AM, Peter Petrakis > wrote: > > If you can buy puts against this then it's easy money. Why don't they > > suspend trading during a DoS or an institute an uptick rule? > >

Re: [GNHLUG] MerriLUG: April 2nd 2013 - Bitcoin

2013-04-04 Thread Peter Petrakis
http://www.foxbusiness.com/technology/2013/04/04/bitcoin-exchange-bombarded-by-another-massive-cyber-attack/ "The value of red-hot Bitcoins tumbled more than 20% overnight after one of the virtual currency’s key exchanges grappled with the most powerful cyber attack it has ever seen and the second

Re: new member - introductions

2013-04-03 Thread Peter Petrakis
Thank you all for the warm welcome! Peter On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 12:27 PM, Richard Kolb II wrote: > I had a Monte Carlo once, it was a decent car > > > On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 11:44 AM, David Rysdam wrote: > >> On Wed, 3 Apr 2013 11:27:49 -0400, "Greg Rundlett (freephile)" < >> g...@freephile.co

new member - introductions

2013-04-03 Thread Peter Petrakis
Hello, My name is Peter Petrakis, I'm local in Nashua, NH, and have been active in opensource since 1999; instead of buying my first car, I built an LX164 Alpha instead :). I was the president of the UMASSLUG in Amherst, MA for a while and I'm the custodian of alphalinux.org (yes it