Re: H1B Visa

2016-12-10 Thread Stephen M
Since I am a millennium I thought I should chip in at least once. Although this thread started has H1B which actually hurts both the foreign worker and the American work that's my stance there. The American worker is losing their job to someone that will take a lot less but do the same work. The

Re: H1B Visa

2016-12-10 Thread Steve Litt
On Sat, 10 Dec 2016 09:51:44 -0700 Keith Smith wrote: > I had dinner with a couple guys from a programming agency last > night. The senior owner is about 55 and the junior owner is about > 35. I'm guessing they make exceptionally good money. What was the > mix that made them successful? Skills

Re: USB Booting Woes

2016-12-10 Thread Michael Butash
Your situation sounds a bit like mine with a disk a few years ago. I had a 2tb usb drive a few years ago, a WD usb disk that worked for about a week in my system without issue.  One day I had to reboot, and found the system just simply wouldn't even post bios

Re: USB Booting Woes

2016-12-10 Thread Mark Phillips
Matt, I think there has been a miscommunication. fdisk shows /dev/sdb1 as type Linux (0x83) - the Disklabel type is dos. (my error to say it was formatted as dos). This drive is causing the issues with booting. df shows it is ext4. root@orca:/home/mark# fdisk -l /dev/sdb Disk /dev/sdb: 2.7 TiB,

Re: USB Booting Woes

2016-12-10 Thread Matt Graham
On 2016-12-10 11:18, Mark Phillips wrote: On Sat, Dec 10, 2016 at 9:27 AM, Anon Anon wrote: Disk label type DoS and NTFS? I bet if you could reformat those sdb is formatted as ext4. Not sure why fdisk shows [NTFS]. /dev/sdb1  ext4 2884121824 1265247048 1472346776  47% /media/backup Als

Re: USB Booting Woes

2016-12-10 Thread Mark Phillips
Eric, It has been an issue for a long time (years). I have been ignoring it, and it finally bubbled up to the top of the issue list. ;) Mark On Sat, Dec 10, 2016 at 9:56 AM, Eric Oyen wrote: > has this always been an issue, or did it start relatively recently. if the > latter, you might have s

Re: USB Booting Woes

2016-12-10 Thread Mark Phillips
On Sat, Dec 10, 2016 at 9:27 AM, Anon Anon wrote: > Disk label type DoS and NTFS? I bet if you could reformat those two drives > to ext4 or something more Linux friendly your problem would evaporate. I > bet there is a hidden file in the NTFS that the computer is choking on. > sdb is formatted a

Re: H1B Visa

2016-12-10 Thread Keith Smith
I had dinner with a couple guys from a programming agency last night. The senior owner is about 55 and the junior owner is about 35. I'm guessing they make exceptionally good money. What was the mix that made them successful? Skills, personality, an hard work. They both attended college,

Re: USB Booting Woes

2016-12-10 Thread Eric Oyen
has this always been an issue, or did it start relatively recently. if the latter, you might have something on board going bad on you. -eric Home office of the Technomage guild. On Dec 10, 2016, at 8:57 AM, Mark Phillips wrote: > There are three disks in the system. sda = internal hard drive, s

Re: USB Booting Woes

2016-12-10 Thread Anon Anon
Disk label type DoS and NTFS? I bet if you could reformat those two drives to ext4 or something more Linux friendly your problem would evaporate. I bet there is a hidden file in the NTFS that the computer is choking on. https://superuser.com/questions/37512/how-to-read-ext4-partitions-on-windows

Re: USB Booting Woes

2016-12-10 Thread Mark Phillips
There are three disks in the system. sda = internal hard drive, sdb = backup USB, sdc = plex USB. The hard drive is the only one that is marked as bootable. It hangs on the backup USB and not the plex USB. It still hangs if I disable all but the hard drive for booting. root@orca:/home/mark# fdis

Re: USB Booting Woes

2016-12-10 Thread Anon Anon
What does the partition structure look like on the USB drives? Are any of the partitions marked as bootable mistakenly? I'd probably check the drives first. Then I'd remove drives and get into the bios and see about disabling all external boot options... This may also be a good time to investigate

USB Booting Woes

2016-12-10 Thread Mark Phillips
I have an old laptop running Linux version 4.8.0-1-amd64 (Debian 5.4.1-3) that I use as a "headless" server for backups and Plex. It has two USB drives attached to it for the backups and the media files. I have issues whenever I reboot the laptop. It appears to be trying to boot off the backup USB