Re: A baby-step in the right direction...

2010-02-17 Thread Stu
Thanks! Phase II of my plan is to show it to my co-workers, and get them to request it on their computers as well... Today, the intranet... tomorrow, the WORLD! ...Muwhahahaha! On Tue, 2010-02-16 at 15:37 -0700, AZ RUNE wrote: That is awesome and good work On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at

Paid Internship

2010-02-17 Thread Mike Ballon
Hi Everyone, I tried to email the site's contact about getting a job posted, but no luck... so here it is: I'm looking someone to fill a paid Linux Internship for the company I work for in Scottsdale. I need someone that has knowledge in Red Hat based distros with a nice to have in LAMP type

Re: turning off wifi

2010-02-17 Thread Stephen
I ironically this is my preferred behavior. Use wired until it goes away then switch over to wireless (to pre-configured networks) Windows will prefer wireless and only go wired if its not found.. On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 9:27 PM, Robert Holtzman hol...@cox.net wrote: On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at

Re: A baby-step in the right direction...

2010-02-17 Thread Stephen
After that step is Linux desktop installations :-D On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 4:21 AM, Stu wie...@cox.net wrote: Thanks! Phase II of my plan is to show it to my co-workers, and get them to request it on their computers as well... Today, the intranet... tomorrow, the WORLD!        ...Muwhahahaha!

Re: A baby-step in the right direction...

2010-02-17 Thread Brian Cluff
Make sure to do your home work on whatever software you are proposing at the time. For instance, if you want to propose the GIMP, make sure that you have teaching materials, tutorials and other support sites at hand so that whoever takes a look at your recommendation will immediately see that

Re: A baby-step in the right direction...

2010-02-17 Thread Stephen
I love the idea of FOSS for students in general. the reasons are plentiful! On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 8:30 AM, Brian Cluff br...@snaptek.com wrote: Make sure to do your home work on whatever software you are proposing at the time. For instance, if you want to propose the GIMP, make sure that you

Re: free long (approx 30ft) ethernet cables

2010-02-17 Thread Steven A. DuChene
I will look at the cables closer to see what the exact rating is on them. They are pre-made cables rather than self assembled. -Original Message- From: Eric Shubert e...@shubes.net Sent: Feb 14, 2010 2:13 PM To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us Subject: Re: free long (approx 30ft)

Re: A baby-step in the right direction...

2010-02-17 Thread Stu
Our students computer use is pretty much limited to online research, video tutorials, and manuals, etc. One of my first Linux converts, an instructor who is actually much more knowledgeable about computers than I am, tells me that there is *nothing* we use in the classroom that can't be replaced

How to unlock a locked hard disk?

2010-02-17 Thread joe
. There are two identical 300-gig hard disks on my computer; but only one is accessible. When I do 'df' I see only this: FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sdb5 7.7G 3.5G 3.9G 48% / /dev/sdb7 138G 9.5G 129G 7% /home Hardware detection shows

Re: A baby-step in the right direction...

2010-02-17 Thread Stu
Our main IT guy once told me he would *love* to see Ubuntu on the company desktops, unfortunately it's not his decision. On Wed, 2010-02-17 at 08:15 -0700, Stephen wrote: After that step is Linux desktop installations :-D On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 4:21 AM, Stu wie...@cox.net wrote: Thanks!

Re: How to unlock a locked hard disk?

2010-02-17 Thread Kevin Fries
I'm confused, are you trying to keep whats on the Windows partition or not. 'df' only shows mounted partitions, not all partitions available to your system. For example, some more secure systems will place /boot on its own partition, then rail to mount it. This makes the disk image of the Linux

Re: How to unlock a locked hard disk?

2010-02-17 Thread Steve Phariss
I was not having this particular problem, but I had two 300Gb drives that i was using as a raid 1 mirror setup. I decommissioned that computer and tried to repurpose the disks. it seemed they still had some affinity for the raid setup, and I was getting a lot of strange errors. I can't find my

Re: A baby-step in the right direction...

2010-02-17 Thread Brian Cluff
We never did have a single IT person that worked at my school that didn't fall in love with Linux... Even the Windows fanboys eventually enjoyed not having to deal with viruses and such Windows annoyances. The attitude that I HATE to see is when an IT type specifically says that he only

Re: A baby-step in the right direction...

2010-02-17 Thread Joshua Zeidner
On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 12:22 PM, Brian Cluff br...@snaptek.com wrote: We never did have a single IT person that worked at my school that didn't fall in love with Linux...  Even the Windows fanboys eventually enjoyed not having to deal with viruses and such Windows annoyances. The attitude

Re: Starling Wireless

2010-02-17 Thread Jim March
What wifi device is in there? What do lsusb and lspci show? Jim On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 11:45 AM, Kevin Fries kfri...@gmail.com wrote: I just purchased a System76 Starling, and really like it, but have been noticing only one bug... wireless. I can only connect to unprotected networks.

Re: Starling Wireless

2010-02-17 Thread Stephen
Nope I have no issues with wpa or wep On 2/17/10, Kevin Fries kfri...@gmail.com wrote: I just purchased a System76 Starling, and really like it, but have been noticing only one bug... wireless. I can only connect to unprotected networks. Back in the ifup/down days, this would mean that

Re: How to unlock a locked hard disk?

2010-02-17 Thread Mike Ballon
Not sure what you are running, but here is a coupe things to try: Does this display anything? mdadm --detail --scan Does this display any raid fs? fdisk /dev/sdb p On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 1:28 PM, j...@actionline.com wrote: . There are two identical 300-gig hard disks on my computer; but

Re: How to unlock a locked hard disk?

2010-02-17 Thread Stephen
I would get the Maxtor tools and do a quick erase their tools will clear any possible raid/mbr related data including any possible Partition layout locks. On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 11:28 AM, j...@actionline.com wrote: . There are two identical 300-gig hard disks on my computer; but only one is

OT: funny

2010-02-17 Thread Mark Jarvis
(Copied from the Puns of the Day mail list) Maybe not new, but I liked it . . . Kimberly-Clark, makers of the popular Scott brand of bathroom tissue, today announced its new "HTTP//" brand of bathroom tissue targeted directly to the "digerati" market. Scott Tissue is the world's oldest and

Re: Starling Wireless

2010-02-17 Thread Kevin Fries
Jim March wrote: What wifi device is in there? What do lsusb and lspci show? The device does connect, just not to protected networks. kfr...@system76-netbook:~$ lsusb Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub

Re: Starling Wireless

2010-02-17 Thread Kevin Fries
Just so everyone can see what I am seeing, and hopefully what I am not seeing... I start a tail -f on syslog-messages, and record any new messages while I try to connect to our internal WAP54: Feb 17 14:42:55 system76-netbook kernel: [20736.047238] rtl8187B: ISLeave(): Turn on RF. Feb 17

Re: OT: funny

2010-02-17 Thread Technomage
Mark Jarvis wrote: (Copied from the Puns of the Day mail list) Maybe not new, but I liked it . . . Kimberly-Clark, makers of the popular Scott brand of bathroom tissue, today announced its new HTTP// brand of bathroom tissue targeted directly to the digerati market. Scott Tissue is the

Re: Starling Wireless

2010-02-17 Thread Jim March
Huh. OK, we're dealing with a Realtek RTL8187B chipset. So the next step is to see if anybody is having issues with it, googling: ubuntu karmic 8187B Sure enough: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1194838 http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=765671

Moving VM hosts with ubuntu install

2010-02-17 Thread Stephen
What is the best suggestion for moving an Ubuntu installation? I'm guessing a form of Backup and restore, but this oddly enough is not something i have done before in Linux. anyone have some place i should start? -- A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from rolling

Re: Starling Wireless

2010-02-17 Thread Kevin Fries
The problem with that is this: I am not see any of the problems in those threads. They are basically complaining about the driver causing three different problems. My wireless shows up (problem 1), my wireless will connect (problem 2), and finally, as long as encryption is not turned on, it will

Re: Starling Wireless

2010-02-17 Thread Stephen
i would post on system76 boards, they are really on top of this sort of thing, and have you tried WPA? On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 4:13 PM, Kevin Fries kfri...@gmail.com wrote: The problem with that is this: I am not see any of the problems in those threads.  They are basically complaining about

Re: OT: funny

2010-02-17 Thread Tuna
Nobody wants ActiveX controls in their toilet paper. BTW, HTML mail is fail mail. Plz2textonly kthx. --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:

RE: Moving VM hosts with ubuntu install

2010-02-17 Thread Kevin Fries
Tricky question not because it is hard, but because there are multiple answers depending on what you are trying to achieve. Option 1 - backup the installed packages, etc, var, home then have Ubuntu simply install all your packages again (google for get-selections). This lets you move and

Re: Moving VM hosts with ubuntu install

2010-02-17 Thread kitepi...@kitepilot.com
Option 3 will not work if the machine is running, add I think dd is a can of worms... I have done this some 921752163 times, so here is my cookbook: 1.- Boot both puters with a CD, Ubuntu install will work, but you'll have to apt-get install ssh in at least one of them, and set a password for

Re: Moving VM hosts with ubuntu install

2010-02-17 Thread Lisa Kachold
User boxen only? Development system or server? Each includes a little variation, but KitePilot wins the award on this one. Clear as mud? On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 5:51 PM, kitepi...@kitepilot.com kitepi...@kitepilot.com wrote: Option 3 will not work if the machine is running, add I think dd

W. Side meeting -- anything new? (Feb. 17, 2010)

2010-02-17 Thread Mike Schwartz
Based upon a message at http://www.facebook.com/group.php?v=feedstory_fbid=312635375339gid=35772265339 , I thought there was a meeting PLUG W. Side meeting tonight, at DeVry -- in room 203. But no one (even at student central) at DeVry seems to know where it is; and I went [back] to room 203, and

Re: W. Side meeting -- anything new? (Feb. 17, 2010)

2010-02-17 Thread Mike Schwartz
On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 7:52 PM, Mike Schwartz schwa...@acm.org wrote: Based upon a message at http://www.facebook.com/group.php?v=feedstory_fbid=312635375339gid=35772265339 , I thought there was a meeting PLUG W. Side meeting tonight, at DeVry -- in room 203. But no one (even at student

Re: W. Side meeting -- anything new? (Feb. 17, 2010 -- ooops, Feb. 24 !)

2010-02-17 Thread Mike Schwartz
On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 7:56 PM, Mike Schwartz schwa...@acm.org wrote: On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 7:52 PM, Mike Schwartz schwa...@acm.org wrote: Based upon a message at http://www.facebook.com/group.php?v=feedstory_fbid=312635375339gid=35772265339 , I thought there was a meeting PLUG W. Side

Re: W. Side meeting -- anything new? (Feb. 17, 2010 -- ooops, Feb. 24 !)

2010-02-17 Thread Lyle Tuttle
1. The next West Side PLUG Meeting will be held the evening of Wednesday, Feb 24, 2010 2. The meeting starts at 7 PM 3. The location is DeVry University, 2149 west Dunlap Avenue, Phoenix, AZ 85021-2995, and it will be in room 203 (unless it changes...GGG) 4. We are looking for presentations and

Grub 2 issues

2010-02-17 Thread Steve Phariss
I have installed Ubuntu 9.10 which loads grub 2 by default. My system is basically running fine with Windows 7, XP, and Ubuntu 9.10 (with several kernel updates) all showing in the grub boot menu. The problem is with Centos 5.4 which is the last OS I loaded. It does not show up in the grub boot

Re: Starling Wireless

2010-02-17 Thread Dazed_75
Definitely you want to try WPA/WPA2. There are varying implementations of WEP that are not compatible. I once had a client where there were two people in the house with two laptops and they had two wireless routers. Using WEP I could get one laptop to work with each router and the other laptop