June 2015 - nmglug - lists.coactcloud.com

Hardware,
by Ted Pomeroy 05 Aug '15

05 Aug '15

NMGLugers, Sorry about a blank message just sent in error. Hope the reviewer tossed it. I have an external power brick and pata/sata to usb set up that is not working. I think it is the power brick. I wonder if someone could bring a meter to test the 5v and 12v output. the harness is set up for the older 4-pin connectors with adapters for the sata drives. I was hoping to use this to salvage a dvd r/w from a desktop unit to use as an external drive with no housing. Several years ago this equipment worked with a pata/ide drive, but I no longer have those. Thank you, Ted P.

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Speaking of userspace...
by Sam Noble 29 Jun '15

29 Jun '15

Sheesh, I hope there are somewhere some hackers that care about freedom and privacy that are working on Chromium. Non-free extremely invasive code making it's way into a popular free project is teh lose. http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jun/23/google-eavesdropping-tool… -- Sent from my $DEVICE with $SOFTWARE. Please excuse my brevity.

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Linux on a USB stick
by Geoff Chesshire 29 Jun '15

29 Jun '15

Finally, someone has gotten around to marketing something that I have been providing to friends for years: Linux on a USB stick. http://www.xtra-pc.com/ ... cool! There's one missing piece in their product, though, which I always offer. That's encryption, for peace of mind in case you lose the stick.

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java prob.
by a 26 Jun '15

26 Jun '15

Hi; I installed java in my home folder.java was needed to process an email attachment. The extracted file sits in my home folder. the Java detection site does not find java installed. and the attachment will not process. any thoughts re: this issue? a

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Hardware issue,
by Ted Pomeroy 23 Jun '15

23 Jun '15

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considering ubuntu alternative: suggestions?
by a 21 Jun '15

21 Jun '15

Hi all,you all: Anyway,I believe the time has come to seek an ubuntu alternative,have a live disk of mint,electronically teleport your thoughts. a

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ubuntu thunderbird mail accounts and settings disappear after reboot.
by a 21 Jun '15

21 Jun '15

Persons of Glug; Do any glug readers understand and who are willing to share a solution to the disappearing accounts and settings, thunderbird email, after reboot? best,a

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soccer fans in nmglug?
by Mark Galassi 11 Jun '15

11 Jun '15

Anyone a soccer fan? If so, might I suggest dinner+beer (for those who drink it) at Junction after glug? The US is playing Sweden, and if we leave just before 8pm we could get to Junction on time to catch the second half (if I've understood the Winnipeg-Santa Fe time shift).

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bios mount gabroken.
by a 08 Jun '15

08 Jun '15

Anyway bios and F12 gabroke,been trying command line: a@a-laptop:~$ lsblk NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT sda 8:0 0 149.1G 0 disk ├─sda1 8:1 0 135.3G 0 part / ├─sda2 8:2 0 1K 0 part ├─sda3 8:3 0 9.8G 0 part /home └─sda5 8:5 0 4G 0 part [SWAP] sr0 11:0 1 1024M 0 rom a@a-laptop:~$ mount|grep ^'/dev' /dev/sda1 on / type ext4 (rw,errors=remount-ro) /dev/sda3 on /home type ext4 (rw,nosuid,nodev) a@a-laptop:~$ df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/sda1 139506636 16942716 115454292 13% / none 4 0 4 0% /sys/fs/cgroup udev 2053588 4 2053584 1% /dev tmpfs 412640 1340 411300 1% /run none 5120 0 5120 0% /run/lock none 2063196 80 2063116 1% /run/shm none 102400 64 102336 1% /run/user /dev/sda3 9948012 6445028 2974600 69% /home a@a-laptop:~$ df a@a-laptop:~$ wodim --devices wodim: No such file or directory. Cannot open SCSI driver! For possible targets try 'wodim --devices' or 'wodim -scanbus'. For possible transport specifiers try 'wodim dev=help'. For IDE/ATAPI devices configuration, see the file README.ATAPI.setup from the wodim documentation. a@a-laptop:~ ANY IDEAS AT ALL,YOU ALL,BEST a

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hardware discussion: desktops, high performance, possibly fanless
by Mark Galassi 06 Jun '15

06 Jun '15

Dear nmglugers, I occasionally have to purchase a computer and find myself hampered by my lack of passion for keeping up to date on hardware details and what they mean. Until now I always had my employer buy the computers I used for massive software development (emacs, gcc, tons of VMs for highly parallel execution and release-engineering/testing -- huge memory/cpu requirement). I would only keep a modest computer for personal use, since software development is almost all that I do. I now need to get a desktop computer for some on-the-side software development I will be doing and I have to purchase it mself, so I need to be more careful about cost but I still want to get work done. I also care about things like noise. I have seen the Shuttle fanless computers, and the Intel NUC, and they seem very cute. But can they be beefed up to 8 cores and 32gig of RAM? Should I just go with the appropriate Dell? And talking about specs, what does a core mean anyway these days? In the days of hyperthreading it appears that /proc/cpuinfo can give twice as many cores as the hardware specs, but with half the gigahertz. I'm not asking anyone to actually explain it -- what I'm asking is if there is a small set of numbers labeled on h/w which will give me an idea of single-taks performance and parallel performance. As a lesser plus can one get something with free firmware without going down a rabbit hole of time spent sorting it out or way too much cost? So, does anyone have suggestions on what h/w to seek on Amazon?

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