[PLUG] Favorite Linux Netbook specific distro?

2011-04-27 Thread Mike Connors
I'm going to purchase my first Netbook this week. What's your fav Linux Netbook specific OS and why? I plan to check out Jolicloud, gOS, OpenGeeeU, CrunchEee, and maybe Meego. I currently rung Debian Squeeze (KDE4) on my Lenovo T60 so I'm kind of keen on the full-fledge desktop experience even

Re: [PLUG] MaxMySpeed

2011-04-27 Thread Matt McKenzie
Yes most likely the fact that you were trying to run it in WINE instead of an actual Windoze environment saved you some headaches from cleaning out malware/nagware/etc. IMHO stuff that is As Seen On TV! (tm) as far as computer programs go, is next to worthless (unless you are watching an actual

Re: [PLUG] Favorite Linux Netbook specific distro?

2011-04-27 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Mike Connors wrote: I'm going to purchase my first Netbook this week. What's your fav Linux Netbook specific OS and why? I plan to check out Jolicloud, gOS, OpenGeeeU, CrunchEee, and maybe Meego. I currently rung Debian Squeeze (KDE4) on my Lenovo T60 so I'm kind of keen on the full-fledge

Re: [PLUG] Monitoring with nagios, and current front ends.

2011-04-27 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Tue, 26 Apr 2011, Ronald Chmara wrote: http://www.ubuntugeek.com/nagios-configuration-tools-web-frontends-or-gui.html seems to have *bunches* of possibilities for config tools (and people who have tried to manage nagios via CLI know why), so I'm wondering if anybody's recently taken a

Re: [PLUG] Favorite Linux Netbook specific distro?

2011-04-27 Thread chris (fool) mccraw
On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 06:27, Roderick A. Anderson raand...@cyber-office.net wrote: Mike Connors wrote: I'm going to purchase my first Netbook this week. What's your fav Linux Netbook specific OS and why? i don't need a netbook specific OS for my netbook (i use stock xubuntu, and pare down

[PLUG] Alternative to using split / cat for FTPing large file to remote location?

2011-04-27 Thread Tom Sharples
Hello, We're building a wireless 3G IP camera system that will FTP a large (2.5Mbyte) 10 megapixel jpeg image every 30 minutes to a remote server, for use in a time-lapse image application. Using a cron job, we pull the image from the attached IP cam via curl http://local cam IP

Re: [PLUG] Favorite Linux Netbook specific distro?

2011-04-27 Thread Russell Senior
Mike == Mike Connors mconno...@gmail.com writes: Mike I'm going to purchase my first Netbook this week. What's your Mike fav Linux Netbook specific OS and why? Mike I plan to check out Jolicloud, gOS, OpenGeeeU, CrunchEee, and Mike maybe Meego. I currently rung Debian Squeeze (KDE4) on my

Re: [PLUG] Alternative to using split / cat for FTPing large file to remote location?

2011-04-27 Thread Pete Lancashire
Give rsync a try. If you don't want the overhead of SSL I believe you can still have rsync use the r commands for the transfer. Can't remember been a long time. Rsync options can also take care of the file's deletion when successfully transfered. As a success check may want to look at the option

Re: [PLUG] Alternative to using split / cat for FTPing large file to remote location?

2011-04-27 Thread Russell Senior
Tom == Tom Sharples tsharp...@qorvus.com writes: Tom Hello, We're building a wireless 3G IP camera system that will Tom FTP a large (2.5Mbyte) 10 megapixel jpeg image every 30 minutes Tom to a remote server, for use in a time-lapse image Tom application. Using a cron job, we pull the image from

Re: [PLUG] 3G Data Transfers, WAS: Alternative to using split / cat for FTPing large file to remote location?

2011-04-27 Thread Michael R
Tom Sharples wrote: Hello, We're building a wireless 3G IP camera system that will FTP a large (2.5Mbyte) 10 megapixel jpeg image every 30 minutes to a remote server, for use in a time-lapse image application. Using a cron job, we pull the image from the attached IP cam via curl

Re: [PLUG] Favorite Linux Netbook specific distro?

2011-04-27 Thread Jason Barnett
I use the 64bit version of Kubuntu on my netbook. It has the option of the Netbook or Desktop interface and you can change back and forth as you please. I usually stick with the standard desktop and have no issues. I only make a few tweaks to reduce the amount of disk writing it does and it

Re: [PLUG] 3G Data Transfers, WAS: Alternative to using split / cat for FTPing large file to remote location?

2011-04-27 Thread Tom Sharples
I believe this is a problem with all carriers altho we use Verizon. Basic issue is competition with cellphones and that's a big problem esp. during rush hour. Throughout the day, we've measured upload speeds as high as 450kbs and as low as 8kbs. We do have a number of these systems out there

Re: [PLUG] Alternative to using split / cat for FTPing large file to remote location?

2011-04-27 Thread Tom Sharples
Have not tried rsync. Scp at first suceeds in sending about 15% of the file, then stalls and eventually times out the same way as FTP. Not sure why but it may be that during times of poor bandwidth verizon limits the amount of data you can send in one session (?) Tom S. - Original Message

[PLUG] rsync

2011-04-27 Thread Bruce Kilpatrick
All, I have been playing around with rsync getting ready to upgrade to Natty. I have an encrypted /home and some reading suggests that occasional failures happen to the home partition during installation. I put together a script sometime back and the external hard drive is now full. Have

Re: [PLUG] Alternative to using split / cat for FTPing large file to remote location?

2011-04-27 Thread Daniel Pittman
If you do, get the options right: include '--partial' or rsync will *delete* the incomplete file, not retain or resume it. Daniel On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 10:16, Pete Lancashire p...@petelancashire.com wrote: Give rsync a try. If you don't want the overhead of SSL I believe you can still have

Re: [PLUG] Favorite Linux Netbook specific distro?

2011-04-27 Thread Mike Connors
On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 10:59 AM, Jason Barnett jason.barnet...@gmail.com wrote: I use the 64bit version of Kubuntu on my netbook.  It has the option of the Netbook or Desktop interface and you can change back and forth as you please.  I usually stick with the standard desktop and have no

Re: [PLUG] Favorite Linux Netbook specific distro?

2011-04-27 Thread Matt McKenzie
On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 6:27 AM, Roderick A. Anderson raand...@cyber-office.net wrote: Mike Connors wrote: I'm going to purchase my first Netbook this week. What's your fav Linux Netbook specific OS and why? I plan to check out Jolicloud, gOS, OpenGeeeU, CrunchEee, and maybe Meego. I

Re: [PLUG] rsync

2011-04-27 Thread chris (fool) mccraw
On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 12:00, Bruce Kilpatrick kd7...@gmail.com wrote: The question is which of the dot files are really necessary to keep, and will it save much room if they are not copied? browser (and acrobat reader) cache are typically my biggest hidden files. here's how you can tell

Re: [PLUG] MaxMySpeed

2011-04-27 Thread alan
On Tue, 26 Apr 2011, John pdx wrote: You could watch logging in realtime and see where the proggie tries to reachout? Run wireshark and see what packets go across the net. Sounds pretty bogus. On Apr 26, 2011 10:30 PM, Robert Kopp iconoklas...@yahoo.com wrote: I didn't expect it to work,

Re: [PLUG] rsync

2011-04-27 Thread Bruce Kilpatrick
On 04/27/2011 02:22 PM, chris (fool) mccraw wrote: On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 12:00, Bruce Kilpatrickkd7...@gmail.com wrote: The question is which of the dot files are really necessary to keep, and will it save much room if they are not copied? browser (and acrobat reader) cache are typically

Re: [PLUG] rsync

2011-04-27 Thread Keith Lofstrom
On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 12:00:47PM -0700, Bruce Kilpatrick wrote: All, I have been playing around with rsync getting ready to upgrade to Natty. I have an encrypted /home and some reading suggests that occasional failures happen to the home partition during installation. I put together

Re: [PLUG] Ubuntu Oregon Loco - Natty Release Party

2011-04-27 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Wed, 27 Apr 2011 16:23:22 -0700 Nathan W nat...@nathanewilliams.com dijo: there's gonna be a shindig on Saturday at Backspace in downtown PDX for the Natty release. more info at: http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/team/924/detail/ as a heads up if you can make it, they may be trying to charge

Re: [PLUG] rsync

2011-04-27 Thread Bruce Kilpatrick
On 04/27/2011 04:30 PM, Keith Lofstrom wrote: On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 12:00:47PM -0700, Bruce Kilpatrick wrote: All, I have been playing around with rsync getting ready to upgrade to Natty. I have an encrypted /home and some reading suggests that occasional failures happen to the home

Re: [PLUG] Ubuntu Oregon Loco - Natty Release Party

2011-04-27 Thread Nathan W
On Wed, 27 Apr 2011 17:01:46 -0700 John Jason Jordan joh...@comcast.net wrote On Wed, 27 Apr 2011 16:23:22 -0700 Nathan W nat...@nathanewilliams.com dijo: there's gonna be a shindig on Saturday at Backspace in downtown PDX for the Natty release. more info at:

Re: [PLUG] Favorite Linux Netbook specific distro?

2011-04-27 Thread Sean Ellefson
Hey! New to the mailing list, but figured I would submit another data point for your consideration. I've been switching back and forth between Ubuntu 10.04 and Archlinux on a Dell Mini for the past year, with one of the early Atoms and 1GB of RAM. This thing has soldiered on like a champ, and

Re: [PLUG] Favorite Linux Netbook specific distro?

2011-04-27 Thread Mike Connors
I've been switching back and forth between Ubuntu 10.04 and Archlinux on a Dell Mini for the past year, with one of the early Atoms and 1GB of RAM.  This thing has soldiered on like a champ, and really haven't noticed any slowdown running the full GNOME environment.  In fact, I briefly played

Re: [PLUG] Favorite Linux Netbook specific distro?

2011-04-27 Thread Darren Couch
as an aside, ive been running arch solid for a while now - the current installs and documentation are top notch (although i am not much of a netbook guy yet) On Apr 27, 2011, at 19:13, Mike Connors mconno...@gmail.com wrote: I've been switching back and forth between Ubuntu 10.04 and Archlinux

Re: [PLUG] Favorite Linux Netbook specific distro?

2011-04-27 Thread Ken Stephens
Darren Couch wrote: as an aside, ive been running arch solid for a while now - the current installs and documentation are top notch (although i am not much of a netbook guy yet) On Apr 27, 2011, at 19:13, Mike Connorsmconno...@gmail.com wrote: I've been switching back and forth