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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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status of re-install?
by Ted Pomeroy 01 Jun '15

01 Jun '15

A., Has the reinstall worked? Any progress on restoration of mail and is browser working? It would be good to hear the outcome of this whether or not it has been resolved and what you think helped, what might have been the source of the original problem? Just wondering. Ted P

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I'm here now
by Tim Judd 28 May '15

28 May '15

All, My last attendance on May 14th might be my last attendance in person; I'm not going to be able to swing the hour travel each direction, the time to gather and get my beauty sleep as needed when my shift change at work takes hold. I thought it was good to at least meet all y'all once, but I'm here now on the mailing list. --Tim If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door. "I can" is a way of life. More and Bigger is not always Better. The road to success is always uphill. Life isn't about finding yourself, it's about creating yourself.

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