Re: I thought i saved the resource to get cheap Windows licenses

2024-06-09 Thread Michael via PLUG-discuss
We found it! On Sun, Jun 9, 2024 at 7:38 PM Arun Khan wrote: > > > On Tue, May 28, 2024 at 4:11 PM Michael via PLUG-discuss < > plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > >> gkeys24 >> >> >> On Tue, May 28, 2024 at 6:26 PM Michael wrote: >> >>> found it! it is keys . >>> >>> On Tue, May 28,

Re: will windows fit?

2024-06-09 Thread Arun Khan via PLUG-discuss
On Thu, May 30, 2024 at 6:22 PM Eric Oyen via PLUG-discuss < plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > Heh, windows (AKA Win Blows) has always been bloatware without any real > dedicated app organization. At least with apple, the bloatware factor as > some sense to it (every app

Re: I thought i saved the resource to get cheap Windows licenses

2024-06-09 Thread Arun Khan via PLUG-discuss
On Tue, May 28, 2024 at 4:11 PM Michael via PLUG-discuss < plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > gkeys24 > > > On Tue, May 28, 2024 at 6:26 PM Michael wrote: > >> found it! it is keys . >> >> On Tue, May 28, 2024 at 1:40 PM Michael wrote: >> >>> Could someone let me know where to go to get

Re: will windows fit?

2024-05-30 Thread Eric Oyen via PLUG-discuss
Heh, windows (AKA Win Blows) has always been bloatware without any real dedicated app organization. At least with apple, the bloatware factor as some sense to it (every app contains a copy of it’s own libs and other data files). Windows doesn’t even do this right. Linux managed to have most

Re: will windows fit?

2024-05-30 Thread Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss
% / > /dev/sdb1 1.9T 1.5T 277G 85% /home/ > > I've been referring to windows as Bill's bugware. I guess I should start > calling it Bill's bloatware. > On 5/28/24 12:28, Michael via PLUG-discuss wrote: > > as I expected > > On Tue, May 28, 2024 at 2:28 

Re: will windows fit?

2024-05-30 Thread Jim via PLUG-discuss
I have Kubuntu 22.04 installed.  It takes 33GB for the OS and the software I installed.  Here's what df -h returns /dev/sda1 916G   33G  837G   4% / /dev/sdb1 1.9T  1.5T  277G  85% /home/ I've been referring to windows as Bill's bugware.  I guess I should start

Re: will windows fit?

2024-05-30 Thread Jim via PLUG-discuss
space is needed for windows 11", and it told me: --- 64 GB Storage: 64 GB or larger storage device. If your PC does not have a large enough storage drive, there are sometimes options for upgrading the drive. --- ChatGPT said : --- The disk space required f

Re: will windows fit?

2024-05-29 Thread Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss
This will depend on the version of windows. XP or 7 likely, 10 is pushing it, 11 will not On Tue, May 28, 2024 at 1:42 PM Michael via PLUG-discuss < plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > I got a 30 GB drive. Will windows fit on such a drive? > >

Re: will windows fit?

2024-05-28 Thread Rusty Carruth via PLUG-discuss
8GB RAM?  No, IMHO 16GB is absolute minimum, especially for Windows.  Assuming you want to actually DO something on the thing! ;-) On 5/28/24 13:13, Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss wrote: I asked Google "how much disk space is needed for windows 11", and it told me: --- 64 GB Stor

Re: I thought i saved the resource to get cheap Windows licenses

2024-05-28 Thread Michael via PLUG-discuss
gkeys24 On Tue, May 28, 2024 at 6:26 PM Michael wrote: > found it! it is keys . > > On Tue, May 28, 2024 at 1:40 PM Michael wrote: > >> Could someone let me know where to go to get it? >> >> -- >> :-)~MIKE~(-: >> > > > -- > :-)~MIKE~(-: > -- :-)~MIKE~(-:

Re: I thought i saved the resource to get cheap Windows licenses

2024-05-28 Thread Michael via PLUG-discuss
found it! it is keys . On Tue, May 28, 2024 at 1:40 PM Michael wrote: > Could someone let me know where to go to get it? > > -- > :-)~MIKE~(-: > -- :-)~MIKE~(-: --- PLUG-discuss mailing list: PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe,

Re: will windows fit?

2024-05-28 Thread Michael via PLUG-discuss
Thanks for the tip! On Tue, May 28, 2024 at 4:13 PM wrote: > I asked Google "how much disk space is needed for windows 11", > and it told me: > > --- > 64 GB > Storage: 64 GB or larger storage device. If your PC does not have a > large enough storage dri

Re: will windows fit?

2024-05-28 Thread Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss
I asked Google "how much disk space is needed for windows 11", and it told me: --- 64 GB Storage: 64 GB or larger storage device. If your PC does not have a large enough storage drive, there are sometimes options for upgrading the drive. --- ChatGPT said : --- The disk spac

Re: will windows fit?

2024-05-28 Thread Michael via PLUG-discuss
as I expected On Tue, May 28, 2024 at 2:28 PM rusty via PLUG-discuss < plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > hmm. I thought he was asking about WINDOWs fitting. But while we're on > the topic of Linux fitting, here's my Linux DF for / and /home: > > /dev/sda23

Re: will windows fit?

2024-05-28 Thread rusty via PLUG-discuss
hmm. I thought he was asking about WINDOWs fitting. But while we're on the topic of Linux fitting, here's my Linux DF for / and /home: /dev/sda237G 26G 9.6G 73% / /dev/sdb2 1.8T 1.7T 18G 99% /home So, ignoring home, my laptop Linux Mint fits fine in 30G. And I've got

Re: will windows fit?

2024-05-28 Thread trent shipley via PLUG-discuss
I've got a Surface Pro 7 with 8Gbyte RAM and 128 GB SSD with Windows 11 beta. You can browse the web, fill out forms. listen to music. You can't fit *365 on it. Even if a modern Windows version fit, it would be very constrained. On Tue, May 28, 2024 at 10:48 AM z via PLUG-discuss < p

Re: will windows fit?

2024-05-28 Thread z via PLUG-discuss
likely no May 28, 2024 12:42:39 Michael via PLUG-discuss : > I got a 30 GB drive. Will windows fit on such a drive? > > > -- > :-)~MIKE~(-: --- PLUG-discuss mailing list: PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscrib

will windows fit?

2024-05-28 Thread Michael via PLUG-discuss
I got a 30 GB drive. Will windows fit on such a drive? -- :-)~MIKE~(-: --- PLUG-discuss mailing list: PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

I thought i saved the resource to get cheap Windows licenses

2024-05-28 Thread Michael via PLUG-discuss
Could someone let me know where to go to get it? -- :-)~MIKE~(-: --- PLUG-discuss mailing list: PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss

windows keys

2023-09-13 Thread Michael via PLUG-discuss
thanks for turning me on to supp...@gkeys24.com I made a mistake though. I didn't bookmark the page. Would someone provide me with the home page to the windows keys? -- :-)~MIKE~(-: --- PLUG-discuss mailing list: PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org

Re: windows

2023-09-05 Thread Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss
My wife's computer went from 10 Pro to 11 Pro for free. I'm thinking free as in no license fee. I did not spend much time on it however my take is somethings are rearranged and it is still Win 10 with a facelift. I did not find anything significant. Maybe Google will say otherwise. On

windows

2023-09-05 Thread Michael via PLUG-discuss
how cool. microsoft decided to upgrade my computer from windows10 home to windows11 pro. whatever that means. so what benefits will I see on my laptop? -- :-)~MIKE~(-: --- PLUG-discuss mailing list: PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe,

Re: O/T : Windows WIFI not connecting

2023-08-31 Thread Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss
not "connect" to the Internet. It showed in my router's access control so it seems the router was seeing it. At the same time the power buttons were showing that windows wanted to update the O/S. Since I was unable access the Internet I moved the box into my office and

Re: O/T : Windows WIFI not connecting

2023-08-28 Thread greg zegan via PLUG-discuss
33 PM Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> Need some help.  My wife's computer again.  All was well until >> she >>>> tried >>>> to surf the Internet this morning.  This computer has been &g

Re: O/T : Windows WIFI not connecting

2023-08-28 Thread greg zegan via PLUG-discuss
rnet >> cable or >>> is it only wifi? >>> >>> On Mon, Aug 28, 2023 at 3:33 PM Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> Need some help.  My wife's computer again.  All was well until >> s

Re: O/T : Windows WIFI not connecting

2023-08-28 Thread JD Austin via PLUG-discuss
23 at 3:33 PM Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss > >>> wrote: > >>> > >>>> Hi, > >>>> > >>>> Need some help. My wife's computer again. All was well until > >> she > >>>> tried > >>>&g

Re: O/T : Windows WIFI not connecting

2023-08-28 Thread Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss
tried the windows troubleshooter and it said it was resetting the driver. - Checked my router and the computer shows up in the access control list. - Changed the WIFI password and it says it authenticates and then says there is no connection. - I have a Windows laptop that is configured to use WIFI

Re: O/T : Windows WIFI not connecting

2023-08-28 Thread Donald Cha. via PLUG-discuss
ver 3 years. >> >> It is a Win 10 Pro box. >> >> - I tried the windows troubleshooter and it said it was resetting >> the >> driver. >> - Checked my router and the computer shows up in the access control >> list. >> - Changed the W

Re: O/T : Windows WIFI not connecting

2023-08-28 Thread Andrew McRobb via PLUG-discuss
Ok, let me know. That will at least give some context if it IS a driver issue or something else is wrong with Windows that it cant connect to the internet. I know this is a Linux group so hopefully someone here with a Windows background can chime in and give some better advice. Could also go

Re: O/T : Windows WIFI not connecting

2023-08-28 Thread Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss
. It is a Win 10 Pro box. - I tried the windows troubleshooter and it said it was resetting the driver. - Checked my router and the computer shows up in the access control list. - Changed the WIFI password and it says it authenticates and then says there is no connection. - I have a Windows laptop

Re: O/T : Windows WIFI not connecting

2023-08-28 Thread Andrew McRobb via PLUG-discuss
surf the Internet this morning. This computer has been configured on > my network for over 3 years. > > It is a Win 10 Pro box. > > - I tried the windows troubleshooter and it said it was resetting the > driver. > - Checked my router and the computer shows up in the acce

O/T : Windows WIFI not connecting

2023-08-28 Thread Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss
Hi, Need some help. My wife's computer again. All was well until she tried to surf the Internet this morning. This computer has been configured on my network for over 3 years. It is a Win 10 Pro box. - I tried the windows troubleshooter and it said it was resetting the driver. - Checked

Re: Slow Windows Box

2023-08-02 Thread Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss
fox and worse chrome when I'm busy with multiple customers and browser profiles using 30-40gb of said ram. I use a lot of windows/tabs, I run for weeks or months between session restarts, and various research professional or otherwise, I'll open dozens of tabs on each easily. To hear people use 4-

Re: Slow Windows Box

2023-07-16 Thread Eric Oyen via PLUG-discuss
that I didn’t have to depend on the stupid Windows CE version that was already on there. I was just trying to figure out how to do it. oh well, such as life.– EricFrom the central offices of the Technomage guild, equipment, reclamation, and research department. Sent from my iPhoneOn Jul 16, 2023, at 4:04

Re: Slow Windows Box

2023-07-16 Thread Michael via PLUG-discuss
you don’t install a basic linux bistro on your > wife’s box, and then install VMware and have that run windows. About all > you would need would be a lightweight DM for linux, a minimal installation > with some dev tools and the VMWare package itself. > > Some caveats if you do g

Re: Slow Windows Box

2023-07-15 Thread Eric Oyen via PLUG-discuss
internet files folders, etc. Not sure if MS kept them when they moved on Fromm Win7. I am rather surprised you don’t install a basic linux bistro on your wife’s box, and then install VMware and have that run windows. About all you would need would be a lightweight DM for linux, a minimal

Re: Slow Windows Box

2023-07-13 Thread Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss
les using 30-40gb of said ram. I use a lot of windows/tabs, I run for weeks or months between session restarts, and various research professional or otherwise, I'll open dozens of tabs on each easily. To hear people use 4-8gb seems crazy to me. My system lets me know, and used to with *only* 6

Re: Slow Windows Box

2023-07-13 Thread Michael Butash via PLUG-discuss
as little as you have, and aren't shy about having their way with pagefiles if not. I say this as with 128gb of ram, under linux (any) it's not uncommon to see firefox and worse chrome when I'm busy with multiple customers and browser profiles using 30-40gb of said ram. I use a lot of windows/ta

Re: Slow Windows Box

2023-07-13 Thread Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss
replied. I spent over an hour on trying to figure this out. I opened the Event Viewer and discovered the system was using 94% of memory and 100% of the disk in idle mode. This computer is running Windows 10 pro with 4GB of ram and and 4 cores and 4 threads. Is has a rust spinner. This is my

Re: Slow Windows Box

2023-07-13 Thread Michael Butash via PLUG-discuss
gt; Thank you to all who replied. > > I spent over an hour on trying to figure this out. > > I opened the Event Viewer and discovered the system was using 94% of > memory and 100% of the disk in idle mode. > > This computer is running Windows 10 pro with 4GB of ram and and 4

Re: Slow Windows Box

2023-07-13 Thread Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss
Thank you to all who replied. I spent over an hour on trying to figure this out. I opened the Event Viewer and discovered the system was using 94% of memory and 100% of the disk in idle mode. This computer is running Windows 10 pro with 4GB of ram and and 4 cores and 4 threads. Is has

Re: Slow Windows Box

2023-07-07 Thread Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss
... I want to say pro as well. Here is where I need help. My wife's dell is very slow and has trouble with loading Firefox and it takes a while to load YouTube videos. Even windows takes a while to load which make me think it is a local problem (the Dell box). I am reaching out because I do not know

Re: Slow Windows Box

2023-07-07 Thread Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss
Win 10 ... I want to say pro as well. Here is where I need help. My wife's dell is very slow and has trouble with loading Firefox and it takes a while to load YouTube videos. Even windows takes a while to load which make me think it is a local problem (the Dell box). I am reaching out because

Re: Slow Windows Box

2023-07-07 Thread Michael Butash via PLUG-discuss
I need help. My wife's dell is very slow and has trouble > with loading Firefox and it takes a while to load YouTube videos. Even > windows takes a while to load which make me think it is a local problem > (the Dell box). > > I am reaching out because I do not know

Re: Slow Windows Box

2023-07-07 Thread greg zegan via PLUG-discuss
help. My wife's dell is very slow and has trouble with loading Firefox and it takes a while to load YouTube videos.  Even windows takes a while to load which make me think it is a local problem (the Dell box). I am reaching out because I do not know how to troubleshoot this issue. Any help much

Slow Windows Box

2023-07-07 Thread Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss
HP - nothing fancy and it works. My wife's office in another spare bedroom and she has a Dell mini-tower Win 10 ... I want to say pro as well. Here is where I need help. My wife's dell is very slow and has trouble with loading Firefox and it takes a while to load YouTube videos. Even windows

Re: windows in a virtual machine

2023-07-06 Thread Michael Butash via PLUG-discuss
11:07 AM Michael Butash via PLUG-discuss < > plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > >> Agreed, use Virtualbox, get the windows 10/11 iso from microsoft's own >> site, install windows in a VM just like you would another PC. I've been >> doing this for ~20 year

Re: windows in a virtual machine

2023-07-06 Thread Michael via PLUG-discuss
.phxlinux.org> wrote: > Agreed, use Virtualbox, get the windows 10/11 iso from microsoft's own > site, install windows in a VM just like you would another PC. I've been > doing this for ~20 years, as long as I've used linux as a full-time system, > and the only way to run

Re: windows in a virtual machine

2023-07-06 Thread David Schwartz via PLUG-discuss
uss > wrote: > > I used the Search function for “windows 10” I found a bunch of Windows and > Office stuff. Not $7, but around $50. > > Is there a separate price list with lower prices? > > -David Schwartz > > > > >> On Jul 6, 2023, at 2:40 AM, Mic

Re: windows in a virtual machine

2023-07-06 Thread David Schwartz via PLUG-discuss
I used the Search function for “windows 10” I found a bunch of Windows and Office stuff. Not $7, but around $50. Is there a separate price list with lower prices? -David Schwartz > On Jul 6, 2023, at 2:40 AM, Michael via PLUG-discuss > wrote: > > yes please, se

Re: windows in a virtual machine

2023-07-06 Thread Michael via PLUG-discuss
yes please, send me the ad. On Tue, Jul 4, 2023 at 11:07 AM Michael Butash via PLUG-discuss < plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > Agreed, use Virtualbox, get the windows 10/11 iso from microsoft's own > site, install windows in a VM just like you would another PC. I've

Re: windows in a virtual machine

2023-07-05 Thread Michael Butash via PLUG-discuss
Of course, Microsoft wants you to go out and pay $200 a seat licenses as "perceived value", but if you're broke (or just cheap or know better), they'll take a few bucks too. They're not choosy as they're printing money for themselves anyways. If you're the kind of person that likes overspending

Re: windows in a virtual machine

2023-07-05 Thread Michael via PLUG-discuss
Thanks. 10 is only $7. And I thought it was so much more. On Tue, Jul 4, 2023 at 10:13 PM Michael Butash via PLUG-discuss < plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > > Why not Qemu? > > Just a simple option for a desktop user really (consider the source > asking), much easier to learn and manage

Re: windows in a virtual machine

2023-07-04 Thread Michael Butash via PLUG-discuss
> Why not Qemu? Just a simple option for a desktop user really (consider the source asking), much easier to learn and manage than qemu with virtmanager. Virtualbox *is* Oracle though, and about the only thing more evil is (maybe) Microsoft and Fakebook (Satan is down on the evil list these days).

Re: windows in a virtual machine

2023-07-04 Thread Steve Litt via PLUG-discuss
Michael Butash via PLUG-discuss said on Tue, 4 Jul 2023 08:07:17 -0700 >Agreed, use Virtualbox, Why not Qemu? SteveT Steve Litt Autumn 2022 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times http://www.troubleshooters.com/bookstore/thrive.htm ---

Re: windows in a virtual machine

2023-07-04 Thread Michael Butash via PLUG-discuss
Agreed, use Virtualbox, get the windows 10/11 iso from microsoft's own site, install windows in a VM just like you would another PC. I've been doing this for ~20 years, as long as I've used linux as a full-time system, and the only way to run windoze. This also comes with the advantage of being

Re: windows in a virtual machine

2023-07-04 Thread Snyder, Alexander J via PLUG-discuss
Michael -- Yes, you can install Linux and then additionally install VirtualBox. From there you can download the Windows 10 ISO https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10ISO and then install it. Obviously, you'll need a valid license key to install. There was a thread here

windows in a virtual machine

2023-07-04 Thread Michael via PLUG-discuss
My father is interested in Linux but he needs Windows. I HEARD that you can d/l the windows ISO to usb and that it will install to the computer if it originally came with windows. If that is true my question is: what about if I were to install linux and then put windows into a virtual machine

Change color in plasma message windows

2022-10-04 Thread Jim via PLUG-discuss
I have Kubuntu 22.04 installed.   I have one problem with the appearance of the text in the message windows that pop up.  The background is black.  The text is almost as black.  Here is an example.  Look below Copying and to the left of Home/desktop. There's some   very dark text that you

Help reinstall Fedora 35 bootloader after Windows decided to remove it

2021-12-04 Thread Adam Mercer via PLUG-discuss
Hi I dual boot Windows on my system with Fedora 35 and just did a Windows update and it completely broke my bootloader, upon selecting Fedora in the UEFI I just set the grub prompt filing the entire screen, i.e. grub> grub> etc. I booted in the Fedora Live CD, chrooted into my

windows font zero day

2020-03-23 Thread der.hans
moin moin, yup, they implemented the Good Times virus (again). Anyway, some of us have likely had to allow foreign windows systems unbidden onto our network in the last couple weeks. If so, the remote execution in a windows client environment might have negative impact for the rest of your

Re: Windows Subsystem for Linux && Visual Studio Code

2019-12-31 Thread techlists
the internet looking for what was wrong. Nothing worked until I happened upon an article that said .dev is a legitimate TLD owned my Microsoft. The article suggested using site.localhost and by doing so the Windows host file does not need to be updated. It worked. I assume this naming

Re: Windows Subsystem for Linux && Visual Studio Code

2019-12-30 Thread James Dugger
Have you tried going to the site using chrome incognito? This will not use cached settings in chrome. If that works should just be clearing cache. You can flush windows dns cache settings like this: go to command shell in Windows and try ipconfig /release ipconfig /all ipconfig /flushdns

Re: Windows Subsystem for Linux && Visual Studio Code

2019-12-30 Thread Stephen Partington
Chrome has its own DNS. That is meant to supplement the systems DNS. On Mon, Dec 30, 2019, 8:05 PM wrote: > > Ok, > > I failed to edit the Windows hosts file. I edited the Linux hosts file. > So I finally realized I needed to edit the Windows hosts file that is > done

Re: Windows Subsystem for Linux && Visual Studio Code

2019-12-30 Thread techlists
Ok, I failed to edit the Windows hosts file. I edited the Linux hosts file. So I finally realized I needed to edit the Windows hosts file that is done. Still unable to pull up the site. Then I recalled the issue I had sometime ago Chrome does not like this configuration for some

Re: Windows Subsystem for Linux && Visual Studio Code

2019-12-30 Thread James Dugger
did not fix the problem. >> >> >> >> On 2019-12-30 15:50, James Dugger wrote: >> >> Try setting chown -R www-data:www-data on the document root >> >> On Mon, Dec 30, 2019, 12:48 PM Stephen Partington >> wrote: >> >>> This might h

Re: Windows Subsystem for Linux && Visual Studio Code

2019-12-30 Thread James Dugger
Dec 30, 2019, 12:48 PM Stephen Partington > wrote: > >> This might help. >> >> https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/wsl2-install >> >> On Mon, Dec 30, 2019, 3:41 PM wrote: >> >>> >>> I've been trying to locate a command that w

Re: Windows Subsystem for Linux && Visual Studio Code

2019-12-30 Thread techlists
chown -R www-data:www-data did not fix the problem. On 2019-12-30 15:50, James Dugger wrote: > Try setting chown -R www-data:www-data on the document root > > On Mon, Dec 30, 2019, 12:48 PM Stephen Partington > wrote: > This might help. > > https://docs.microsoft.

Re: Windows Subsystem for Linux && Visual Studio Code

2019-12-30 Thread techlists
Ok, looks like I'm not running WSL2. On 2019-12-30 15:48, Stephen Partington wrote: > This might help. > > https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/wsl2-install > > On Mon, Dec 30, 2019, 3:41 PM wrote: > > I've been trying to locate a command that will

Re: Windows Subsystem for Linux && Visual Studio Code

2019-12-30 Thread James Dugger
Try setting chown -R www-data:www-data on the document root On Mon, Dec 30, 2019, 12:48 PM Stephen Partington wrote: > This might help. > > https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/wsl2-install > > On Mon, Dec 30, 2019, 3:41 PM wrote: > >> >> I've b

Re: Windows Subsystem for Linux && Visual Studio Code

2019-12-30 Thread Stephen Partington
This might help. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/wsl2-install On Mon, Dec 30, 2019, 3:41 PM wrote: > > I've been trying to locate a command that will tell me which version of > the WSL I am running. The best answer I read was the WSL is tied to the > Windows updates

Re: Windows Subsystem for Linux && Visual Studio Code

2019-12-30 Thread techlists
I've been trying to locate a command that will tell me which version of the WSL I am running. The best answer I read was the WSL is tied to the Windows updates which I get regularly. I have a vhost in /etc/apache2/sites-available/myframework.dev.conf with the following excerpt

Re: Windows Subsystem for Linux && Visual Studio Code

2019-12-19 Thread James Dugger
Are you on the latest version of Windows 10 with WSL2? If not there are huge differences. Prior to WSL2 and the latest Windows 10 developer mode, the WSL sent linux system calls to an emulator that the Windows NT kernel could understand. However with the advent of the latest Windows 10 updates

Windows Subsystem for Linux && Visual Studio Code

2019-12-16 Thread techlists
Hi, AZ Pete mentioned the Windows Powershell and the Visual Studio Code editor. I thought I would branch off of that. I'm not a Python developer. I'm a PHP developer. In the past I have always used an external LAMP server for development. Currently I have an old i3 laptop

Re: ot notifications and windows

2019-05-29 Thread Michael
no problem. I reset them. Let's see if it worked On Wed, May 29, 2019 at 7:53 PM Stephen Partington wrote: > there are 2 places to review and clean up cookies. I would have to go > hunting to verify where. > > On Wed, May 29, 2019 at 4:20 PM Michael Butash wrote: > >> Check out Vanilla Cookie

Re: ot notifications and windows

2019-05-29 Thread Stephen Partington
there are 2 places to review and clean up cookies. I would have to go hunting to verify where. On Wed, May 29, 2019 at 4:20 PM Michael Butash wrote: > Check out Vanilla Cookie Manager extension for chrome, it regularly dumps > cookies you don't whitelist, which I like. > > -mb > > On Wed, May

Re: ot notifications and windows

2019-05-29 Thread Michael Butash
Check out Vanilla Cookie Manager extension for chrome, it regularly dumps cookies you don't whitelist, which I like. -mb On Wed, May 29, 2019 at 4:13 PM Harold Hartley wrote: > I’m not sure where they are kept now as I haven’t bothered with the newer > chrome browser. They use to be under

Re: ot notifications and windows

2019-05-29 Thread Harold Hartley
I’m not sure where they are kept now as I haven’t bothered with the newer chrome browser. They use to be under privacy or security. I don’t remember. All I know is when I got rid of the ad cookies on other browsers recently, the pop up went away. The ad cookies are as good as tracking you from

Re: ot notifications and windows

2019-05-29 Thread Michael
On Wed, May 29, 2019 at 6:36 PM Harold Hartley wrote: > Have you tried deleting the ad cookies. > no is there a special place for them? > --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change

Re: ot notifications and windows

2019-05-29 Thread Stephen Partington
If there are no popups showing when the browser is 100% closed but they show when it is active then it is something related to your browser. On Wed, May 29, 2019 at 2:53 PM Michael wrote: > I don't think so > > > On Wed, May 29, 2019 at 5:05 PM Stephen Partington > wrote: > >> And none of

Re: ot notifications and windows

2019-05-29 Thread Harold Hartley
Have you tried deleting the ad cookies. On Wed, May 29, 2019, at 14:53, Michael wrote: > I don't think so > > > On Wed, May 29, 2019 at 5:05 PM Stephen Partington > wrote: > > And none of those sites are related to your advertizing popups? > > > > > > On Wed, May 29, 2019 at 1:23 PM Michael

Re: ot notifications and windows

2019-05-29 Thread Michael
I don't think so On Wed, May 29, 2019 at 5:05 PM Stephen Partington wrote: > And none of those sites are related to your advertizing popups? > > > On Wed, May 29, 2019 at 1:23 PM Michael wrote: > >> yes I did. Here is what that page says. >> AllowAdd >> http://docs.google.com/* >> embedded on

Re: ot notifications and windows

2019-05-29 Thread Stephen Partington
And none of those sites are related to your advertizing popups? On Wed, May 29, 2019 at 1:23 PM Michael wrote: > yes I did. Here is what that page says. > AllowAdd > http://docs.google.com/* > embedded on http://docs.google.com/* > http://drive.google.com/* > embedded on

Re: ot notifications and windows

2019-05-29 Thread Michael
yes I did. Here is what that page says. AllowAdd http://docs.google.com/* embedded on http://docs.google.com/* http://drive.google.com/* embedded on http://drive.google.com/* https://docs.google.com/* embedded on https://docs.google.com/* https://drive.google.com/* embedded on

Re: ot notifications and windows

2019-05-29 Thread Stephen Partington
There should not be any certificate related options in chrome://settings/content/notifications did you copy and paste that as is into the chrome/chromium browser? On Wed, May 29, 2019 at 11:35 AM Michael wrote: > well that didn't help any but there is a place for, 'certificates'. how do > I

Re: ot notifications and windows

2019-05-29 Thread Michael
well that didn't help any but there is a place for, 'certificates'. how do I delete those? On Wed, May 29, 2019 at 12:31 PM NA NA wrote: > Helpfully this is something that came up recently with a coworker, here's > how you can both check to see who Chrome is allowing to sent alerts and how > to

Re: ot notifications and windows

2019-05-29 Thread NA NA
Helpfully this is something that came up recently with a coworker, here's how you can both check to see who Chrome is allowing to sent alerts and how to remove that permission: - In the address bar put in "chrome://settings" to go directly to the settings page (you can also click the menu

Re: ot notifications and windows

2019-05-29 Thread Stephen Partington
This may be of interest then chrome://settings/content/notifications this is the settings area in chrome where your site content and notifications settings are managed. On Wed, May 29, 2019 at 8:14 AM Michael wrote: > it does have to do with the browser > > On Wed, May 29, 2019 at 10:56 AM

Re: ot notifications and windows

2019-05-29 Thread Michael
it does have to do with the browser On Wed, May 29, 2019 at 10:56 AM Stephen Partington wrote: > Try closing chrome and waiting. in win 10 notifications can be sent to > system notification. > > > On Wed, May 29, 2019 at 7:52 AM Michael wrote: > >> I don't know. I always have chrome open but

Re: ot notifications and windows

2019-05-29 Thread Stephen Partington
Try closing chrome and waiting. in win 10 notifications can be sent to system notification. On Wed, May 29, 2019 at 7:52 AM Michael wrote: > I don't know. I always have chrome open but the notifications don't seem > to have anything to do qwith chrome > > On Wed, May 29, 2019 at 10:28 AM

Re: ot notifications and windows

2019-05-29 Thread Michael
I don't know. I always have chrome open but the notifications don't seem to have anything to do qwith chrome On Wed, May 29, 2019 at 10:28 AM Stephen Partington wrote: > This sounds like something was given notification access. Does it happen > when your browser is up and running? or anytime

Re: ot notifications and windows

2019-05-29 Thread Stephen Partington
This sounds like something was given notification access. Does it happen when your browser is up and running? or anytime regardless of the browser? On Wed, May 29, 2019 at 5:49 AM Michael wrote: > How do I turn off notifications? It is very annoying every 5 minutes the > computer dings and

ot notifications and windows

2019-05-29 Thread Michael
How do I turn off notifications? It is very annoying every 5 minutes the computer dings and then some pointless ad appears. -- :-)~MIKE~(-: --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your

Re: replacing Windows w/ Linux

2019-05-02 Thread Eric Oyen
t; system admin needs a substantial amount of improvement Believe me, this is > important because the last time I tried to get hired on at a place like Ebay, > I was told that due to technical difficulties, some of my job accommodations > could not be accomplished. Now, if it were windows with

Re: replacing Windows w/ Linux

2019-05-01 Thread Stephen Partington
n at a place like > Ebay, I was told that due to technical difficulties, some of my job > accommodations could not be accomplished. Now, if it were windows with jaws > (installed on both windows sessions), then there wouldn’t be much of a > problem. However, using anything else with a Re

Re: replacing Windows w/ Linux

2019-05-01 Thread Eric Oyen
or even a blind system admin needs a substantial amount of improvement Believe me, this is important because the last time I tried to get hired on at a place like Ebay, I was told that due to technical difficulties, some of my job accommodations could not be accomplished. Now, if it were windows

Re: replacing Windows w/ Linux

2019-05-01 Thread kitepilot
. The lion's share of the time is moving gigabytes from here to there, everything else is rather trivial and quick. ET David Schwartz writes: I have an odd question … suppose I wanted to take a fairly vanilla Windows computer with Win 7 ... 10 on it, like your typical Dell or Lenovo or Asus laptop

Re: replacing Windows w/ Linux

2019-04-30 Thread Stephen Partington
kScape, and > Gimp) to be actually better than most paid options in Windows (sure some of > the expensive graphical tools will exceed the Linux tools, but the > mid-range and low cost ones are often better in Linux). > > However there are some tools that really have no replacement. Visio

Re: replacing Windows w/ Linux

2019-04-30 Thread Kevin Fries
One thing every Linux user knows is that not all software is created equal.  While I find some of the standard tools we use (like InkScape, and Gimp) to be actually better than most paid options in Windows (sure some of the expensive graphical tools will exceed the Linux tools, but the mid

Re: replacing Windows w/ Linux

2019-04-30 Thread Todd Cole
I have converted several windows 7 and windows 2012 servers to proxmox kvm by using clonezilla (helps to add the kvm driver first) For virtualbox I have used a vmware converter with success but I hear that Disksvhd is better. I added a youtube video that shows the basic process. https

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