Re: wsl

Thats... unusual... VM's you can grant access to an optical drive directly. On Tue, May 21, 2024 at 11:12 PM Michael via PLUG-discuss < plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > wsl won't work. I need to have access to an optical drive. So I need to > wait until I can get a dedicATED LINUX BOX.

Re: wsl

Wsl has some advantages over a vm in that you have direct filesystem access if needed. There are other elements of running things side by side. On Tue, May 21, 2024, 10:22 PM Eric Oyen via PLUG-discuss < plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > Um, > > Given you are on a windows box, wouldn’t

Re: Linux distro options ...

KDE Neon is Ubuntu with them making it 100% KDE compliant :-) There is also Kubuntu wich is Ubuntu dialing a KDE experience. but are options and are quite stable. On Tue, May 21, 2024 at 11:17 AM z via PLUG-discuss < plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > It's been years since I used it, but

Re: Need help updating linux mint (or) ...

To follow up on Alexander said here, It might be worth it to set up an Rsync to a single system so that all of the others will sync to that system. or some of the other roaming profile options. I personally went with KDE on Garuda Linux, but for your needs arch would be a good idea over garuda

Re: Fediverse for May topic

So the idea is to be able to join your own or your buddy's social media site, and then it syncs to others. all the content and activity is still on that main server, but people from other servers can still subscribe to you from wherever they are logged in. and then this subscription is handed back

Re: Show and Tell at GoLUG, 5/1/2024

That was an interesting set of tools demonstrated. Do you have any links for the CSS you were demonstrating? On Wed, May 1, 2024, 4:20 AM Steve Litt via PLUG-discuss < plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > Hi all, > > The Wednesday, 5/1/2024 GoLUG meeting commences at 7pm Eastern Daylight >

Re: catching the hand that is spying on me

Good you found the culprit, and glad it turned out to be a trustworthy actor. Best of healing and welcome back. On Fri, Apr 12, 2024, 8:08 AM Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss < plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > Good to hear no one is spying on you. Hope your recovery is speedy and > full!!

Re: Catch the hand that is spying on me

Amazon sidewalk is what it was called. https://www.consumerreports.org/electronics/wireless-networking/pros-and-cons-of-amazon-sidewalk-network-plus-how-to-opt-out-a9048278100/ On Wed, Apr 10, 2024 at 6:42 PM Stephen Partington wrote: > Note Amazon is building up a low power network across

Re: Catch the hand that is spying on me

Note Amazon is building up a low power network across all their devices. That one creeps me out. On Tue, Apr 9, 2024, 3:48 AM Rusty Carruth via PLUG-discuss < plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > However, if you make it obvious that you are looking at the thing, the > perpetrator might

Re: Motherboard vs. CPU RAM address ability

Dell and how both will cut corners in bios or mainboard to save money and while a cpu can support something the board will not. At this point I will build my own and my next laptop will be a framework unless someone gives me a stupidly good deal. On Wed, Apr 10, 2024, 6:33 PM Matthew Crews via

Re: Catch the hand that is spying on me

Welcome back! Sorry to hear about the injury. The tools to do this are not cheap (based on my personal knowledge) but if it is attached to your wifi then Wireshark is where I would go with it. If it has some level of camera etc then I would look at the device and see what kind of model it is and

Re: internal drive shows up as removable. Removable usb stick doesn't show at all

t; On 4/3/24 12:50, Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss wrote: > > Check bios, some have a removable hardware flag that you can set to allow > them to be hot swap. Sata, SAS and U.2 NVME drives support this at a > hardware level natively so the bio may just need to have a setting updat

Re: internal drive shows up as removable. Removable usb stick doesn't show at all

Check bios, some have a removable hardware flag that you can set to allow them to be hot swap. Sata, SAS and U.2 NVME drives support this at a hardware level natively so the bio may just need to have a setting updated. On Tue, Apr 2, 2024 at 7:28 PM Jim via PLUG-discuss <

Re: Wayland on Kubuntu 22.04

o compare the cards showed the age of the > cards. The 710 was first sold in 2015 and 2017 for the 580. I can't see > myself spending several hundred for the latest and greatest. > On 4/2/24 09:53, Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss wrote: > > the 710 is almost a decade old even though i

Re: Nextcloud providers

I run Nextcloud in the shared hosting that is part of DreamHost unlimited shared hosting. Its Apache but it works. I have nextcloud running on Nginx at work and it's very happy. Just have to not use the htaccess files. If you want a hand, let me know. On Wed, Apr 3, 2024 at 3:33 PM z via

Re: Wayland on Kubuntu 22.04

x.org> wrote: > >> The card I have now is a GeForce GT 710. What Radeon card would be >> equivalent to that? I don't want to buy something that turns out to be >> slower. >> On 3/26/24 10:04, Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss wrote: >> >> Also amd flagsh

Re: Handbrake won't use nvenc

saw where it said nvdec isn't there, but > I'm trying to use nvenc? Will it refuse to work if nvdec is missing? > On 3/30/24 14:49, Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss wrote: > > nvdec: is not compiled into this build > > That seems to be the issue. > > On Sat, Mar 30, 2

Re: Handbrake won't use nvenc

nvdec: is not compiled into this build That seems to be the issue. On Sat, Mar 30, 2024, 5:03 PM Jim via PLUG-discuss < plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > Here's a recap of my last post. I had Ubuntu 22.04 installed on this > machine. I had Handbrake using the Nvenc option. Recently I

Re: Handbrake won't use nvenc

What drivers are you running. Should be the nvidia proprietary drivers to use nvenc On Thu, Mar 28, 2024, 9:11 PM Jim via PLUG-discuss < plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > Recently I had to reinstall Kubuntu on this machine. I didn't have a > problem until I tried to use Handbrake. It

Re: Wayland on Kubuntu 22.04

; equivalent to that? I don't want to buy something that turns out to be > slower. > On 3/26/24 10:04, Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss wrote: > > Also amd flagship cards are getting tremendous performance gains under > vulkan. > > On Tue, Mar 26, 2024, 8:52 AM Steve Litt

Re: Wayland on Kubuntu 22.04

Also amd flagship cards are getting tremendous performance gains under vulkan. On Tue, Mar 26, 2024, 8:52 AM Steve Litt via PLUG-discuss < plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > Jim via PLUG-discuss said on Sun, 24 Mar 2024 12:58:34 -0700 > > >I have an Nvidia card. The computer has an Intel

Re: Wayland on Kubuntu 22.04

I am running Wayland on an arch derivative called Garuda Linux. It runs really well but I have a desktop with dedicated amd graphics. Previously on a Intel/Nvidia laptop with Optimus it worked fine until I tried to flip flop graphics for gaming and ended up having to shut off the Intel gpu and

Re: Upgrade attempt from Kubuntu 22.04 to 23.10

look at your PPA's and see if there is an update repo for them. you can look at your ppa config to check them. Anything that is not from canonical might need updated repo information. On Wed, Mar 13, 2024 at 6:41 PM Jim via PLUG-discuss < plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > Today I tried

Re: new computer

On my current system I am running without swap, but I do have 32gb ram. If you pick an ssd with a ram cache on it you don't have to worry about swap as much there. And you can extend ssd life with underprovisioning if it still is a concern. But in reality a good quality ssd Wil last for years

Re: Looking for opinions on email providers

Proton is pretty cool. and honestly, Gmail is pretty solid on its own. The real trick is how you prefer to handle your email, if all you want is imap/smtp then you are good to go with just about anyone. You can look into providers such as Dreamhost, or even AWS free tier and see if you can get

Linux friendly audio/video devices

I finally have made the full jump to Linux on my home system. I built a new Desktop and am running Garuda Linux (Arch variant) quite happily. I now need to replace some things that are built into Laptops. A couple of things I am curious about are Linux-friendly HD audio and Webcam

Re: Why put Data Centers in HOT Phoenix?

Water tower evaporative cooling is super efficient in PHX due to the low humidity (if not the best for the water table) and because of the location and crazy reliable power grid (cheap too) and minimal weather/geological events. On Sun, Dec 31, 2023 at 11:14 AM Snyder, Alexander J via

Re: Linux Basics

I loved Gentoo, It was an amazing learning experience and taught me a ton about how Linux worked and was put together. It also taught me what Linux really was and what a distro was. and the difference. I would not use it as a server or for my laptop/desktop. But I appreciated what it did for me.

Re: trouble with Debian install

Check your bootloader and make sure there is no errant argument being sent during boot? On Wed, Jul 26, 2023, 4:20 PM greg zegan via PLUG-discuss < plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > Hello, > My recent Debian install on a HP 840 EliteBook G1 is booting up upside > down. Anyone know how

Re: PXE boot server

A full desktop environment might be good for general giggles. On Thu, Jul 27, 2023, 2:11 PM Steve B via PLUG-discuss < plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > Recently acquired a HP 800 mini that I have setup and am using as a PXE > boot server. At present I have Clonezilla and Parted Magic

Re: RAM Upgrade is this the correct RAM?

Dell is Very good at ram specs so you would need to check those. Lookup by service tag will get you the needed info. On Thu, Jul 27, 2023, 2:20 PM Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss < plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > Hi, > > I have a 3 year old Dell that needs more memory. The tag on the

Re: Server CPU

VCPU is the other half of hyperthreading/smt Rhe route I have gone is a used cpu board combination there are tons of them on ebay and they are a single epyc but combined less than 300. And the core density is amazing. The again. NEW AMD Epyc 7551 32-Core 64-Thread 2.0GHz CPU Retail Box NO

Re: Server CPU

the downside for these processors is their mainboards are still very pricy to buy. much more than the CPU itself. you are almost better off looking for and buying a refurbished server which you can get for almost ludicrously inexpensive prices. On Thu, Jul 20, 2023 at 1:56 PM Ryan Petris via

Re: kernel panic on a debian machine...

Spin Right is a good option to raw read data and reconstruct it someplace https://www.grc.com/sr/spinrite.htm On Mon, Jul 10, 2023 at 1:01 PM James Mcphee via PLUG-discuss < plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > boot to livecd, either fix or transfer data. that's how i do it when >

Re: I'm looking for a good shared hosting web host

I have been loving Dreamhost. If you are interested I do have a discount code I can send your way. On Mon, Jul 3, 2023 at 4:48 PM David Schwartz via PLUG-discuss < plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > The vast majority of shared hosting providers will not give you access to > a command-line

Re: r u familiar with Docker?

Docker is not a true VM. And to Mike's point it has a very tight network layer to keep the containers from pooping on each other. If you want a visual, portainer was a Handy tool for this. There is some really solid docker documentation out there and walk throughs. On Tue, Jun 13, 2023, 8:33

Re: https://simple-help.com/guides

never heard of it, their pricing is insane. On Tue, May 30, 2023 at 4:37 PM greg zegan via PLUG-discuss < plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > https://simple-help.com/guides > > Hello, > Has anyone heard of this system and if so what do you think of it? > thanks, > Greg >

Re: Need Some Help Configuring OpenVPN

https://openvpn.net/community-resources/how-to/ seems to think that the client files are up to user discretion, the only part that requires /etc/openvpn access is the config files, and that client files are called when you spin up the OpenVPN client. On Fri, May 19, 2023 at 11:47 AM Mark Phillips

Re: computer recomendations

i absolutely +1 refurbished machines, amazon has a great selection of them as well. On Wed, Apr 26, 2023 at 10:48 AM Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss < plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > Look at this : https://deals.dell.com/en-us/productdetail/gd1e > > It is a monster!! 16 Cores, 24

Re: Docker

I have used RHEL, Ubuntu (Preferred), and Amazon Linux (RHEL/Cent related) Docker doesn't care too much, choose the Distro you trust and go from there. On Mon, Apr 3, 2023 at 3:34 PM Steve B via PLUG-discuss < plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > I"m looking to dip my toes into Docker for

Re: suggestions to add REST API to MySQL / MariaDB tables

Are you talking about windows user authentication or just it all happens to live there? Take a look at nextcloud and some of its modules the nature of it being open source might help with code ideas. And it is php. On Fri, Feb 24, 2023, 12:03 PM T Zack Crawford via PLUG-discuss <

Re: round down to the nearest penny

Google found this. https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Calc_Functions/ROUNDDOWN On Fri, Feb 17, 2023 at 8:11 AM Michael via PLUG-discuss < plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > how do I get libre calc to round down to the nearest penny? all my > googling has shown is rounding

Re:

Kali should have the ability to install to a USB device and run as a portable installation (Much like the live installer with persistence) without the limit of running from Readonly media. On Wed, Feb 1, 2023 at 9:52 PM Snyder, Alexander J via PLUG-discuss < plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org>

Re: I'm in the market for a modem router

In my experience the nighthawks are great, but they tend to get weird when you push them to GB internet speeds I have had two with this issue. On Tue, Jan 31, 2023 at 8:17 AM Snyder, Alexander J via PLUG-discuss < plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > Probably a Netgear Nighthawk. I've had

Re: The Precisionists Inc

The real change was when we started gearing our education system for factory work, that's when ADD started to be a societal detriment. On Wed, Jan 25, 2023 at 10:57 PM Steve Litt via PLUG-discuss < plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > trent shipley via PLUG-discuss said on Wed, 25 Jan 2023

Re: make live disk with a larger root partition

My google Fu shows me this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QK-CbuxlQho And this seems handy and relevant. https://null-byte.wonderhowto.com/how-to/install-kali-live-usb-drive-with-persistence-optional-0162253/ On Tue, Jan 24, 2023 at 9:11 PM Michael via PLUG-discuss <

Re: TDD w/ Python, ch 9

Dreamhost might work for you. they have some advanced python options and their dream compute option may be viable for you. On Wed, Jan 25, 2023 at 9:53 AM trent shipley via PLUG-discuss < plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > I'm on the bench with my employer asd studying test driven

Re: What's the deal? cookies think my language isn't English

I would suspect less gmail hacked and someone dinking with cookies or a plugin getting out out of sorts. On Tue, Jan 24, 2023 at 12:19 PM Michael via PLUG-discuss < plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > twice this has happened to me (that I can remember) where I start gmail > and it asks me

Supermicro IPMI BIOS update

This may make some Supermicro folks happy. From https://peterkleissner.com/2018/05/27/reverse-engineering-supermicro-ipmi/ echo -n 'MAc-Addr-here' | xxd -r -p | openssl dgst -sha1 -mac HMAC -macopt hexkey:8544E3B47ECA58F9583043F8 | awk '{print $2}' | cut -c 1-24 -- A mouse trap, placed on top

Re: usb marked as read-only

I know some USB devices when they reach a critical fault level will go read-only when there are no longer any write cycles that can be safely applied. like SSD's But I haven ever run into it to verify. On Mon, Jan 16, 2023 at 2:23 PM Michael via PLUG-discuss < plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org>

Re: cidr notation

This is my fav tool for when I am too smoothbrained to do the CDIR in my head. https://www.subnet-calculator.com/cidr.php On Sun, Jan 15, 2023 at 3:14 PM Rusty Carruth via PLUG-discuss < plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > Hmm. I was momentarily confused. > > 10.* is class A, which means

Re: Software Portfolio

gt; If someone at a prospective employer has time to waste going through my > github code looking to be impressed, I don’t want to work there because > their priorities are messed-up. I can get what I need just talking with > you. > > -David Schwartz > > > > > On Dec 1, 202

Re: Software Portfolio

roduct, > even if I were to get an entry level position in the field which satisfied > me for a while. (It looks like I might get something soon as a Python web > developer ... which would be a step up from writing automated UI tests in > VBScript.) > > > Trent > > On Thu,

Re: Software Portfolio

I will be brutally honest. When I review what someone has done the resume is less impressive than the work done when it comes to software. Anything you can opensource and share with the public do so. make a website that is based on the same domain as the same email you submit resume's on. link

Re: What is a full-stack PHP developer

This buzzword has a definition. https://www.w3schools.com/whatis/whatis_fullstack.asp Full Stack Web Developer A full stack web developer is a person who can develop both client and server software. In addition to mastering HTML and CSS, he/she also knows how to: Program a browser (like using

Re: Unable to access Proxmox via browser

I always had to use 8006 for the proxmox webgui. On Sat, Nov 19, 2022, 9:00 AM Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss < plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > > Hi Steve, > > I watched a video that used the ip plus port 8086 and the docs show that > as well. > > I did not dinging and reading and

Re: Consumer Cloud Storage for InterOp

>>> like FUSE or son-of-FUSE?) Some nice things about Google Drive and >>> OneDrive is they are unlikely to abruptly go out of business taking my data >>> with them and they are likely to keep my data more reliably and securely >>> than I could

Re: Consumer Cloud Storage for InterOp

use it for big data research, targeted marketing, and > State can get access to it with just a subpoena, not a search warrant.) > > Trent > > On Thu, Nov 17, 2022 at 12:14 PM Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss < > plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > >> +1

Re: Proxmox

I have been loving proxmox for years. Ran it my lab at work with semi production workloads and at home. The big suggestion I have is read up on lxc. Proxmox uses kvm/qemu and you can do a great deal with this even if you don't uses containers. The biggest value I can add is use 2 drives if you

Re: Anyone use Google Fi ??

I have friends that use it and the 3 of them I know use it say it is great. On Thu, Nov 17, 2022, 2:21 PM joe--- via PLUG-discuss < plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > Does anyone here use Google Fi ?? > > How good or how bad is it? > > --- >

Re: Consumer Cloud Storage for InterOp

+1 for nextcloud. I run a nextcloud instance at work and it is immensely powerful and remarkably straightforward to run. Nginx for me has been easier that apache (nextcloud has pushed me to learn and implement Nginx because of this) but it runs very well this way. If you decide to go this route

Re: Installing and configuring VirtualBox on Kubuntu 22.04

For virtualbox i tend to start here https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads but .deb is a native debian, and therefore ubuntu package type. and you can usually just doublecliock on your (hopefully trustworthy) deb package. On Wed, Nov 9, 2022 at 8:09 PM Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss <

Re: software to edit dvds

Step 2 = LoL Step 5: there are tools that will allow you to make your own. On Mon, Nov 7, 2022 at 7:48 AM Snyder, Alexander J via PLUG-discuss < plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > Step 1: Rip DVD (MakeMKV, or others) > > Step 2: Have deep philosophical discussion on the ethics of your

Re: Cheap Laptop

i would run Chrome OS Flex or Linux on that. Win 11 is kind of iffy in my book, and The S version is half an OS. On Wed, Oct 12, 2022 at 12:09 AM Harold Hartley via PLUG-discuss < plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > I have a friend that has 5 laptops for sale right now. He removes all

Re: Proxmox Hypervisor, vCPU, RAM... etc

pping on > Proxmox's internal processes. > > If you want a machine that you can login to to do otherwise random things, > just create a VM or container and connect to that. Otherwise treat Proxmox > as an appliance, like you would a VMware Hypervisor host, and you'll have a > much better t

Re: Proxmox Hypervisor, vCPU, RAM... etc

So. Proxmox under the hood is Debian. Virtualization only allow you to stack workloads proxmox has an extra layer of being set up to run containers as well as vms. That can run lean and share resources better. Bet part of this is you can install it on anything you can install Debian on. They even

Re: Proxmox Hypervisor, vCPU, RAM... etc

or 4 simultaneously active VMs I would need 8vCPUs (8 threads) and > >> 4GB > >> of RAM each or 16GB of RAM. Add to that 2 Cores/4 threads and 4GB > >> of > >> RAM for Proxmox and I would need 12 threads or 6 cores and 20GB of > >> RAM. > >> &g

Re: Proxmox Hypervisor, vCPU, RAM... etc

https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Dynamic_Memory_Management On Sun, Oct 9, 2022, 6:44 AM Stephen Partington wrote: > That mini had only one nic. And I ran about 4 containers and 2 vms just > fine. > > On Sun, Oct 9, 2022, 6:43 AM Stephen Partington > wrote: > >> I have ru

Re: Proxmox Hypervisor, vCPU, RAM... etc

That mini had only one nic. And I ran about 4 containers and 2 vms just fine. On Sun, Oct 9, 2022, 6:43 AM Stephen Partington wrote: > I have run proxmox on Mac minis 4 cores/8 threads and originally 8gm ram. > I upgraded ram heavily and stuffed in an ssd to run as a lvm cache to the >

Re: Proxmox Hypervisor, vCPU, RAM... etc

for Proxmox and I would need 12 threads or 6 cores and 20GB of RAM. > > I'm thinking a 500GB SSD would be enough and if I like I could add a > redundant NIC and a redundant power supply. > > Pretty much a consumer grade box? > > Your thoughts? > > > > > > >

Re: Proxmox Hypervisor, vCPU, RAM... etc

Hit reply too soon. You can share or overprovision ram but you have to enable some features and load a couple of os level drivers to make it work. On Fri, Oct 7, 2022, 9:22 PM Stephen Partington wrote: > And you can share ram across containers not vms. > > On Fri, Oct 7, 2022, 9:21 P

Re: Proxmox Hypervisor, vCPU, RAM... etc

And you can share ram across containers not vms. On Fri, Oct 7, 2022, 9:21 PM Stephen Partington wrote: > i love proxmox.have used it fir years > > The vcou is socket x cores x2 if you have hyperv/smt > > So a 4 core ht cpu would be 8vcpu. > > On Fri, Oct 7, 2022, 7:35 PM

Re: Proxmox Hypervisor, vCPU, RAM... etc

i love proxmox.have used it fir years The vcou is socket x cores x2 if you have hyperv/smt So a 4 core ht cpu would be 8vcpu. On Fri, Oct 7, 2022, 7:35 PM Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss < plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > > Hi, > > I just watched a video that covered the Proxmox

Re: hows the weather over in PHX?

Nice brisk 57 with a high of 73 today. But I am in Bloomington now. On Sun, Oct 2, 2022, 7:01 PM Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss < plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > > Dry 95 degrees at 4pm. Overnight is projected to get down to 73. We > had probably what I would call a little less than

Re: Plasma bug - can't download new stuff

If I recall there is a browser extension that KDE uses to grab downloads. Or is that gnome... On Tue, Sep 27, 2022 at 1:02 AM Jim via PLUG-discuss < plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > I've got Kubuntu 22.04 and I've found a bug. In system settings I > clicked appearance and tries to

Re: Gimp

https://www.lifewire.com/make-hdr-photo-exposure-blend-plugin-1701676 This might do for you. On Thu, Sep 22, 2022, 1:28 PM Joseph Sinclair via PLUG-discuss < plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > Mike, > It looks like what you are trying to do is merge three photos with > different

Re: ssd/hdd question

Hdd has the advantage in $ per GB. SSD has the advantage in speed per GB and physical space. M.2 is even more in this. On Fri, Sep 16, 2022 at 3:20 PM T Zack Crawford via PLUG-discuss < plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > SSD is more expensive but faster. M.2 SSDs even moreso. SSDs can

Re: are these two modules interchangeable?

some expense to > avoid all that with matched sticks. > > -mb > > > > On Thu, Sep 15, 2022 at 11:08 AM Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss < > plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > >> Some laptops and NUC's are single channel or will default to that if they

Re: are these two modules interchangeable?

-mb >> >> >> >> On Wed, Sep 14, 2022 at 2:34 PM Michael via PLUG-discuss < >> plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: >> >>> Thanks for the tip! >>> >>> On Wed, Sep 14, 2022 at 4:34 PM Stephen Partington >>> wrote: >>&g

Re: are these two modules interchangeable?

eed? > > On Wed, Sep 14, 2022 at 3:31 PM Stephen Partington > wrote: > >> technically yes. but one is faster than the other. >> >> On Wed, Sep 14, 2022 at 1:57 PM Michael via PLUG-discuss < >> plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: >> >>> https://ww

Re: are these two modules interchangeable?

technically yes. but one is faster than the other. On Wed, Sep 14, 2022 at 1:57 PM Michael via PLUG-discuss < plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > https://www.ebay.com/itm/324592214962 > >

Re: https://invest.nanovms.com/?utm_source=zh_medium=web_campaign=zh-deep-tech

Interesting concept. but they are doing the whole we are a special flower and not sharing how it really works or any sort of test scenario. On Wed, Sep 14, 2022 at 2:12 AM greg zegan via PLUG-discuss < plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > Invest in NanoVMs >

Re: computer for children

Several ways. Look up Linus tech tips two users one computer it's a good overview. On Mon, Sep 12, 2022, 11:45 AM Michael via PLUG-discuss < plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > the keyboards/mice will be wireless. > > On Mon, Sep 12, 2022 at 11:43 AM Michael wrote: > >> I have two kids.

Re: Photoshop

Lutris may shed some light on your options. On Tue, Aug 30, 2022 at 11:41 AM Michael via PLUG-discuss < plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > Do I need a certain photoshop or what? > > On Tue, Aug 30, 2022 at 11:38 AM Michael wrote: > >> Well, I'm going to the darkside. How do I install

Re: Shred

I was just about to link some similar information. https://www.thomas-krenn.com/en/wiki/Perform_a_SSD_Secure_Erase https://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=16716 On Mon, Aug 29, 2022 at 8:15 PM Michael Butash via PLUG-discuss < plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > SSD/NVME usually have

Re: Recommended affordable hardware for 4k video playback?

one on ebay even. > I've still got an OG pro from like 5 years ago, and it's always been on > point playing any media including super pimp 60gbyte 4k/60 dolby atmos BR > rips on it, even over cifs to my filer. > > It should just work. > > -mb > > > On Sun, Aug 28, 2

Re: Recommended affordable hardware for 4k video playback?

Not sure how far down the rabbit hole you have gone, but this is some interesting information via google. https://forum.manjaro.org/t/why-youtube-4k-playback-sucks-on-linux/71028 https://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/54392-4k-hevc-10-bit-playbacktrasncoding-help/

Re: OT: Linux Laptops

These guys are using clevo shells. You can technically get them yourself and put linix on them. Clevo has made some really interesting machines in the past. Including desktop cpus in laptops. On Wed, Aug 24, 2022, 9:17 PM Harold Hartley via PLUG-discuss < plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:

Re: smart tv

so how do you mean one works and the other does not? performance. error code? or just stops? On Mon, Aug 15, 2022 at 9:00 PM Michael via PLUG-discuss < plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > I thought we could have 250ish devices. We we had 2 tv, 2 game consoles, > and 2 phones > > On Mon,

Re: face book keeps crashing it's tab

FB does some pretty heavy JS and anything that fiddles with that could easily cause issues. you have anything running that might impact FB? On Fri, Aug 12, 2022 at 2:53 AM Steve Litt via PLUG-discuss < plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > I suspect that mb has given an inaccurate answer. >

Re: https://www.crucial.com/ssd/x8/ct1000x8ssd9

An ssd on usb 2 still has an advantage in random seek operation and power consumption vs spinning rust. On top of being vibration and movement resilient in comparison. And it will also provide a touch of future-proofing. On Thu, Aug 4, 2022, 5:33 PM Steve Litt via PLUG-discuss <

Re: Dock Replacement under Wayland

You try this one yet? https://glx-dock.org/mr_article.php?b=5=73 On Sat, Jul 16, 2022, 12:44 AM Michael Butash via PLUG-discuss < plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > I've used cairo-dock forever, sort of an unforgiving bastard, but the best > dock out there imho for linux still. I've

Re: Is 40% of the Internet custom PHP?

I think the 80% is wishful thinking. It misses out on NodeJS and Java. and in reality, most sites I have seen are using a combination of things. On Sun, Jun 19, 2022 at 8:45 PM Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss < plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > I have read that 80% of the Internet is

Re: Core speed constant / Number of cores increasing

Many applications are good for 2-4 threads. The extra cores allow you to run multiple applications under high load concurrently. However, for gaming, most games still want 2 or so really high clocked cores vs many others. They just haven't been written to take advantage of the extra cores really.

Re: Anyone interested in this...http://www.hercules-390.eu/

OK. I just nerded all over the place. On Sun, May 8, 2022 at 3:52 PM greg zegan via PLUG-discuss < plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > The Hercules System/370, ESA/390, and z/Architecture Emulator > > > The Hercules System/370, ESA/390, and z/Architecture

Re: Knowing Linux as a developer: followup

There are two sides of this. 1) code written to a "platform" AKA PHP/JS specialist. 2) Code written with a deep platform integration. This is where you should know Nginx, Apache, IIS, and related OS information. Both have a place in general software development. I prefer working with the Latter

Re: newer wide screen monitor

I loved mine, before i killed it. But it worked flawlessly with Linux, OSX, and windows. On Mon, Apr 11, 2022 at 3:25 PM Harold Hartley via PLUG-discuss < plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > I am wondering if anyone has tried those new very wide screen monitors > with Linux. > I am

Re: Best place to buy used Thinkpads in Arizona

I find Amazon has a great refurbished market. On Sat, Apr 9, 2022 at 7:09 PM joe--- via PLUG-discuss < plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > Other than Ebay, where is the best local place > to buy a used or refurbished Thinkpad in Arizona? > > How does a Lenovo G500 compare to a T460? > >

Re: Is there such a niche?

Bash +Perl, and a side of python will cover pretty much all of the above. and a number of PHP applications are commonly managed this way. popular because of its communication with MySQL On Wed, Apr 6, 2022 at 12:26 AM Phil Waclawski via PLUG-discuss < plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: >

Re: How to refresh the list of updates?

The part about apt is that is all https/http urls so you can open it up and see wth is going on. Both those urls end up with 404s On Fri, Apr 1, 2022, 1:03 AM Brian Cluff via PLUG-discuss < plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > Those 2 repositories are from get-deb and are probably not

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