Re: [PLUG] package update w/o sudo?

2013-03-14 Thread Denis Heidtmann
On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 4:15 PM, Bruce Kilpatrick wrote: > ... > Looks like /var/log/apt/history.log. > > Good hunting!! > > Bruce > I found it in /var/log/apt/term.log dated 2012-03-14 Here is a collection of the warning/error messages. Do any of them matter? If so, how so? If not, how do

Re: [PLUG] Dumb disk formatting question

2013-03-14 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Thu, 14 Mar 2013 20:26:05 -0700 Larry Brigman dijo: >On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 8:11 PM, John Jason Jordan > wrote: >> My replacement 3 TB Go Flex Desk USB drive arrived today from >> Seagate. I don't know how it is formatted (probably FAT32 or NTFS), >> but I want to reformat it EXT4. Looking at

Re: [PLUG] Dumb disk formatting question

2013-03-14 Thread Larry Brigman
On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 8:11 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote: > My replacement 3 TB Go Flex Desk USB drive arrived today from Seagate. > I don't know how it is formatted (probably FAT32 or NTFS), but I want > to reformat it EXT4. Looking at it in Palimpsest there are options to > format the drive, but

[PLUG] Dumb disk formatting question

2013-03-14 Thread John Jason Jordan
My replacement 3 TB Go Flex Desk USB drive arrived today from Seagate. I don't know how it is formatted (probably FAT32 or NTFS), but I want to reformat it EXT4. Looking at it in Palimpsest there are options to format the drive, but none seem to actually format the drive. Sometimes I am asked if I

Re: [PLUG] How to undo an update?

2013-03-14 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Thu, 14 Mar 2013 14:26:08 -0700 "Richard C. Steffens" dijo: >files crashed. LibreOffice is a Java program, and I have a crash >report related to that crash. LibreOffice was written in Java? I think a few of the functions require Java, but I don't think the whole program was written in Java.

Re: [PLUG] package update w/o sudo?

2013-03-14 Thread Bruce Kilpatrick
On 03/14/2013 11:56 AM, Denis Heidtmann wrote: > Thanks for the info and the link. Strange that I just noticed it. I > suspect that it has not been consistent--it seems to me I have entered a PW > recently. > > Anybody have info on the log of the messages generated? > > -Denis > > > On Thu, Mar 1

[PLUG] How to undo an update?

2013-03-14 Thread Richard C. Steffens
Yesterday, or maybe the day before, Ubuntu 10.04 did one of it's updates. It included updating LibreOffice to version 4.0.1.2. I was typing along yesterday, minding my own business, and LibreOffice disappeared from the screen. I was able to reopen it and recover both the .doc I was typing, and

Re: [PLUG] Norvac replacement?

2013-03-14 Thread Neal
>> Thanks. And what is URS? I was going to say United Radio Supply but apparently that's long obsolete. Kind of like the tube transmitter and receiver I bought from them in the '70s when I was into ham radio. http://ursele.com/#/history/ NealS ___ PLU

Re: [PLUG] Norvac replacement?

2013-03-14 Thread Denis Heidtmann
On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 1:35 PM, Aaron Burt wrote: > On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 10:58:01AM -0700, Denis Heidtmann wrote: > > What is the name of the Norvac replacement on Nimbus Ave? Are they still > > there? > > Oregon Electronics, kitty-corner across Nimbus from the old place. > http://www.oregon

Re: [PLUG] Norvac replacement?

2013-03-14 Thread Aaron Burt
On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 10:58:01AM -0700, Denis Heidtmann wrote: > What is the name of the Norvac replacement on Nimbus Ave? Are they still > there? Oregon Electronics, kitty-corner across Nimbus from the old place. http://www.oregon-electronics.com/ And of course there's always Surplus Gizmos (

Re: [PLUG] package update w/o sudo?

2013-03-14 Thread Denis Heidtmann
Thanks for the info and the link. Strange that I just noticed it. I suspect that it has not been consistent--it seems to me I have entered a PW recently. Anybody have info on the log of the messages generated? -Denis On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 11:36 AM, Joe Niski wrote: > this came up recently

Re: [PLUG] package update w/o sudo?

2013-03-14 Thread Joe Niski
this came up recently on this very list - it's a change in behavior from 11.10 onward. Interestingly, it's positioned as a security improvement (i.e. to make users more likely to actually install security updates). http://askubuntu.com/questions/86773/update-manager-doesnt-ask-for-a-passwo rd

[PLUG] package update w/o sudo?

2013-03-14 Thread Denis Heidtmann
Today I ran the update manager (a GUI). It indicated 44 updates. I clicked on install. It proceeded without requesting the admin PW, which is unusual. The Applying Changes dialog took a long time, and the details showed many warnings, the details of which I could not read as they went by too fa

[PLUG] Norvac replacement?

2013-03-14 Thread Denis Heidtmann
What is the name of the Norvac replacement on Nimbus Ave? Are they still there? -Denis ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug