Re: [PLUG] [PLUG-ANNOUNCE] TONIGHT! UnPLUG 2021, The Year That Will Be!

2021-01-09 Thread Russell Senior
You are all hereby duly notified that we'll do something similar on the first Thursday of February, or have a proper speaker/presentation at 7pm. On Sat, Jan 9, 2021 at 9:51 PM John Jason Jordan wrote: > > On Sat, 9 Jan 2021 15:44:50 -0800 > wes dijo: > > >well it was sent only 2 hours before

Re: [PLUG] [PLUG-ANNOUNCE] TONIGHT! UnPLUG 2021, The Year That Will Be!

2021-01-09 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Sat, 9 Jan 2021 15:44:50 -0800 wes dijo: >well it was sent only 2 hours before the meeting, so that's not quite >so extraordinary. And the point to be made here is that two hours before the meeting is hardly an appropriate time to post the meeting announcement. A couple of days should be a

Re: [PLUG] GUI app to access files on another Linux computer SOLVED

2021-01-09 Thread TomasK
Good to hear that it is working for you - that is different experience then I had when setting this up for others maybe year/two-is ago. I will have to try and see how that actually works. Thanks for the feedback, Tomas On Sat, 2021-01-09 at 14:49 -0800, John Jason Jordan wrote: > On Sat, 9 Jan

Re: [PLUG] GUI app to access files on another Linux computer SOLVED

2021-01-09 Thread Dick Steffens
On 1/9/21 10:47 AM, John Jason Jordan wrote: On Sat, 9 Jan 2021 09:06:25 -0800 Dick Steffens dijo: I'm pretty sure Gigolo came preinstalled with Xubuntu 18. It's there in Xubuntu 20, also. You still need to have SSH client and SSH server installed. There are one or two configuration things,

Re: [PLUG] Sending notifications from remote equipment

2021-01-09 Thread wes
On Sat, Jan 9, 2021 at 9:53 AM Michael Barnes wrote: > There is a local network with Internet available. > ... > I do not have access to an SMTP server that can send external email. > > These two statements seem paradoxical to me. In the worst case, you should be able to submit an email directly

Re: [PLUG] [PLUG-ANNOUNCE] TONIGHT! UnPLUG 2021, The Year That Will Be!

2021-01-09 Thread wes
well it was sent only 2 hours before the meeting, so that's not quite so extraordinary. -wes On Sat, Jan 9, 2021 at 3:13 AM J. Hart wrote: > Mine arrived about an hour and a half before the meeting. > I missed it as a result. > > On 01/09/2021 05:58 PM, Tomas Kuchta wrote: > > Strange, I just

Re: [PLUG] GUI app to access files on another Linux computer SOLVED

2021-01-09 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Sat, 9 Jan 2021 15:49:01 -0500 Tomas Kuchta dijo: >Before you finish you victory lap here - try to open some larg-ish >file in the file manager. > >You will notice: >a) the file is first downloaded to some temporary file then opened as >local. If you edit and save the edits - it will be in

Re: [PLUG] GUI app to access files on another Linux computer SOLVED

2021-01-09 Thread Tomas Kuchta
On Sat, Jan 9, 2021, 13:47 John Jason Jordan wrote: > On Sat, 9 Jan 2021 09:06:25 -0800 > Dick Steffens dijo: > > >I'm pretty sure Gigolo came preinstalled with Xubuntu 18. It's there > >in Xubuntu 20, also. You still need to have SSH client and SSH server > >installed. There are one or two

Re: [PLUG] Strange folders suddenly appearing

2021-01-09 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Sat, 9 Jan 2021 09:49:22 -0800 John Jason Jordan dijo: >I can't figure out why I suddenly have new folders on my laptop in >/media/jjj/disk, media/jjj/disk1, and /media/jjj/disk2. The first two >appear to have all the folders of /, that is, bin, boot, dev, etc, >home, lib, lib64, media, meta,

Re: [PLUG] Sending notifications from remote equipment

2021-01-09 Thread John Sechrest
There was a guy that I ran across who was doing an IOT sensor that was essentially a little tiny cell phone (no keyboard/display), which had a prepurchased agreement for a certain number of SMS messages. It was an interesting solution for this type of thing. The name of the company he was

Re: [PLUG] GUI app to access files on another Linux computer SOLVED

2021-01-09 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Sat, 9 Jan 2021 09:06:25 -0800 Dick Steffens dijo: >I'm pretty sure Gigolo came preinstalled with Xubuntu 18. It's there >in Xubuntu 20, also. You still need to have SSH client and SSH server >installed. There are one or two configuration things, but once they >are done, Gigolo works pretty

Re: [PLUG] Sending notifications from remote equipment

2021-01-09 Thread Bill Barry
On Sat, Jan 9, 2021 at 11:53 AM Michael Barnes wrote: > > Here's an interesting challenge. Another no-budget project. I have some > remote equipment that I need to occasionally receive an alarm alert from. > The equipment provides a contact closure in an alarm condition. In the past > for this

[PLUG] Sending notifications from remote equipment

2021-01-09 Thread Michael Barnes
Here's an interesting challenge. Another no-budget project. I have some remote equipment that I need to occasionally receive an alarm alert from. The equipment provides a contact closure in an alarm condition. In the past for this type of thing, I used an old autodialer that simply picked up a

[PLUG] Strange folders suddenly appearing

2021-01-09 Thread John Jason Jordan
I can't figure out why I suddenly have new folders on my laptop in /media/jjj/disk, media/jjj/disk1, and /media/jjj/disk2. The first two appear to have all the folders of /, that is, bin, boot, dev, etc, home, lib, lib64, media, meta, mnt, opt, proc, root, run, sbin, snap, srv, sys, tmp, usr, var,

Re: [PLUG] GUI app to access files on another Linux computer

2021-01-09 Thread Dick Steffens
I'm pretty sure Gigolo came preinstalled with Xubuntu 18. It's there in Xubuntu 20, also. You still need to have SSH client and SSH server installed. There are one or two configuration things, but once they are done, Gigolo works pretty much out of the box. The Help > About for the version I

Re: [PLUG] GUI app to access files on another Linux computer

2021-01-09 Thread Tom
On Fri, 8 Jan 2021 22:54:58 -0800 John Jason Jordan wrote: > Right now the other computer (my desktop) basically does that - it > accesses the files via the Synology. It works fine, but sometimes I > want to view a file with the desktop and the file is new and hasn't > been backed up yet. So I

Re: [PLUG] GUI app to access files on another Linux computer

2021-01-09 Thread Tom
On Fri, 8 Jan 2021 21:50:44 -0800 John Jason Jordan wrote: > On Fri, 8 Jan 2021 21:23:17 -0800 > Tom dijo: > > >On Fri, 8 Jan 2021 21:04:56 -0800 > >John Jason Jordan wrote: > > > >> Yeah, yeah, NFS. Bah. I've tried to get it to work several times > >> over the years, and I've always

Re: [PLUG] [PLUG-ANNOUNCE] TONIGHT! UnPLUG 2021, The Year That Will Be!

2021-01-09 Thread Tom
On Sat, 09 Jan 2021 20:13:41 +0900 "J. Hart" wrote: > Mine arrived about an hour and a half before the meeting. > I missed it as a result. > > On 01/09/2021 05:58 PM, Tomas Kuchta wrote: > > Strange, I just received the meeting announcement - 1.5 day late. > > > > Judging by the responses, I am

Re: [PLUG] Recommend a cheap-when-stopped VM provider?

2021-01-09 Thread Brian Stanaland
Linode has object storage. This may or may not be something you're looking for. " Linode Object Storage costs a flat rate of $5 a month, and includes 250 gigabytes of storage." Whatever cloud platform you use, watch for transfer limits and charges. FYI - I have a small Linode instance (1 CPU

Re: [PLUG] Recommend a cheap-when-stopped VM provider?

2021-01-09 Thread Mark Allyn
Tomas: I agree with using the image. However, you need to be careful with flipping from biggie instance to tiny instance. The tiny instance will have smaller disk space. I think the safest thing to do is to start with a tiny instance. then flip to biggie but don't increase the disk space usage.

Re: [PLUG] [PLUG-ANNOUNCE] TONIGHT! UnPLUG 2021, The Year That Will Be!

2021-01-09 Thread J. Hart
Mine arrived about an hour and a half before the meeting. I missed it as a result. On 01/09/2021 05:58 PM, Tomas Kuchta wrote: Strange, I just received the meeting announcement - 1.5 day late. Judging by the responses, I am probably unique. Anybody else got this late, so that we can compare

Re: [PLUG] GUI app to access files on another Linux computer

2021-01-09 Thread Tom
On Fri, 8 Jan 2021 21:04:56 -0800 John Jason Jordan wrote: > Yeah, yeah, NFS. Bah. I've tried to get it to work several times over > the years, and I've always failed. > > What would be really cool would be a GUI application that would do > this for me. No list of half a dozen scripts that

Re: [PLUG] GUI app to access files on another Linux computer

2021-01-09 Thread David Bridges
As long as you have ssh access between the computers a decent file manager should work nicely for this task. I know that NFS was mentioned in the original post but I like simple solutions. In the file manage on Gnome I can set a location I want to access using a syntax along the lines of

Re: [PLUG] [PLUG-ANNOUNCE] TONIGHT! UnPLUG 2021, The Year That Will Be!

2021-01-09 Thread Tomas Kuchta
Strange, I just received the meeting announcement - 1.5 day late. Judging by the responses, I am probably unique. Anybody else got this late, so that we can compare notes? Thanks, Tomas On Thu, Jan 7, 2021, 19:40 Michael Dexter wrote: > Portland Linux/Unix Group General Meeting Announcement >