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ASUS Laptop with Ubuntu preloaded from Amazon for $300

Michael Rasmussen — 2013-05-25T21:14:22

Includes 11.5" screen
1.1GHz Celeron 847
4 GB DDR3
320GB 5400 RPM HD
802.11bgn wifi
3 USB Ports - one USB 3
Full sized HDMI 
Multi-card reader
Ethernet
3 pounds

No 1 or 2 star reviews, couple of reviewers state hibernation support doesn't work. 

Most helpful review takes ASUS to task for WiFi being painful in the out of box confix. 
Remidied by upgrading the OS.

Another reviewer observed 
    There is also remarkably little space on the drive, given it's
    capacity (320 G). That can be traced to an empty, extended 105 G
    NTFS partition. I suppose you can mount it and put stuff there
    (like Windows?), or you can use GParted to resize it and the
    other partitions, or possibly delete it and resize the other
    partitions. It's a strange disk arrangement.

Well, check the reviews for yourself.  
Don't miss "Love the laptop; learning to love UBUNTU OS, By AKA, mom of 2"

Re: Strangely frozen desktop

John Jason Jordan — 2013-05-24T14:21:28

On Mon, 20 May 2013 07:11:13 -0700
John Jason Jordan <johnxj< at >comcast.net> dijo:


It seemed to be happening more and more frequently, so that made me
worry that it might really be hardware failing. So I burned Mint 14
Xfce and booted to it. I have been running it just from the live CD
without installing it for several days now, and no problems with X. If
it continues without problems for another week or so I'll go ahead and
install it. Then all I'll have to do is figure out how to get rid of
the Mint logo, which offends my artistic sensibilities.

Re: Need access to an sFTP server

Kirk Goins — 2013-05-23T01:10:48

No I really do mean sFTP not FTPs. I miss used the term certificate. Should
have said key-pair. How ever I have confirmed via other means that I must
have shared an rsa ( or other ) key for this to work on this platform...

Thanks


On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 6:04 PM, wes <plug< at >the-wes.com> wrote:

Re: Need access to an sFTP server

wes — 2013-05-23T01:04:37

sounds like you're actually trying to use ftps, which is different from
sftp, and much less likely to just be floating around out there.

-wes


On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 5:25 PM, Kirk Goins <kirkgoins< at >gmail.com> wrote:

Re: Need access to an sFTP server

Kirk Goins — 2013-05-23T00:25:51

Great idea.  I have a server that I want to see how the sFTP client on it
works, I think it is going to force me to have pre-installed certificates
and not allow just plain old ID/Password authentication.
Test will take less than 5min.

I figured someone here would have it setup, I have a Ubuntu 10.x desktop
running with an older proFTPd that doesn't support sFTP. I made a feable
attempt upgrade it but it still shows it is running the same version as
when I started. So I thought I would try this avenue.




On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 2:52 PM, Steven Susbauer <steven< at >too1337.com> wrote:

Re: Need access to an sFTP server

Steven Susbauer — 2013-05-22T21:52:12

Kirk,

If you don't hear anything, you can set up an Amazon EC2 instance for
free and test for quite a while.

Need access to an sFTP server

Kirk Goins — 2013-05-22T18:33:41

I need access to a server that can support sFTP, This is just for a short
test. Would anyone be willing provide me with access?

Pair of glasses found at Free Geek

Michael Dexter — 2013-05-22T05:50:11

Thank you for coming to Tuesday's meeting.

Did anyone lose a pair of glasses?

If so, they are in the meeting room with a note. You can inquire about 
them at the Free Geek front desk.

Michael

TONIGHT: May PLUG Advanced Topics: The KURB Kernel/UseRspace Bridge for Linux

Michael Dexter — 2013-05-21T19:26:06

Portland Linux/Unix Group Advanced Topics Meeting Announcement

Who: Jacob Riddle
What: The KURB Kernel/UseRspace Bridge for Linux
Where: Free Geek, 1731 SE 10th Avenue, Portland (Left Entrance)
When: Tuesday, May 21st, 2013 at 7pm
Why: The pursuit of technology freedom

Jacob Riddle will discuss the KURB (Kernel/UseRspace Bridge) project.
The goal of KURB is a kernel independent driver subsystem for Linux. The
talk will include the architecture of KURB, the reasons for KURB, and
how to get involved.

Jacob Riddle is in the Game Development program at Lane Community
College. Prior to that he was a Nuclear Machinist Mate in the Navy. He
as a passion for all things Computer Science with a particular focus on
Artificial Intelligence and kernel operations.

Many will head to the Lucky Lab on Hawthorne after the meeting.

Calagator Page: http://calagator.org/events/1250463770

PLUG Page with information about all PLUG events: http://pdxlinux.org/
Follow PLUG on Twitter: http://twitter.com/pdxlinux

See you there!

Re: mailx question

Rich Shepard — 2013-05-20T23:20:39


   Thanks, Paul. I'll read the m4 man page. And I see that mail is the same
as mailx. Interesting.

Much appreciated,

Rich

Re: mailx question

Paul Heinlein — 2013-05-20T22:21:36


I've never used -S, so I'm not sure what setting internal variables in 
mailx does. The tool I'd normally reach for in this situation is m4. 
If, for instance, you were able to loop through a list of subscribers 
and assign $NAME and $ADDRESS, then

   m4 -D GREETING="$NAME" newsletter.m4 | mail -s "Subject" $ADDRESS

The newletter.m4 would contain the GREETING token which would get 
replaced with $NAME.

mailx question

Rich Shepard — 2013-05-20T22:02:46

   I use mailx to distribute newsletters to individuals in named lists. That
list is then passed to mailx on the command line, along with the message and
a subject line in double quotation marks. I want to learn if I can also add
an individual greeting (specifically, the recipient's name) to the body of
the mail.

   The man page seems to suggest that a mailx guru could use the -S option to
assign these names to a variable but I don't know how this would be done.

   Has anyone here used mailx like this and can offer me suggestions. Or, are
there other resources that might have examples of what I want to do?

TIA,

Rich

Re: "Gave up waiting for root device."

David Bridges — 2013-05-20T17:10:00


Sounds like the same bug I ran into.  I bet the rootdelay option will
help you get going since this worked.  From what I have read it seems
that most people running into this are running software raid or using
logical volumes but it sounds like it is not limited to those
configurations.  FWIW the message you originally posted is included in
the upgrade document for Debian at
http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html#boot-timing


My computer is old and used but not used up so I for sure understand.  I
have not had any new problems once I added the rootdelay=2 option
to /etc/grub/default and then ran update-grub so that the grub
configuration files got updated.

My computer runs Debian and what is really strange is that it had work
for years without running into this problem until Wheezy was released
and the 3.8.x kernel made it into sid.  I can still boot the old 3.2.x
kernel but the 3.8 series requires the delay in order for it to work.


Hopefully it will work for you.

Re: "Gave up waiting for root device."

Richard C. Steffens — 2013-05-20T16:41:50

Yes. This is what happened at the clinic.


It's one of the things we suspected, but we pretty much figured the real 
problem was the PCI card that runs the SATA hard drive. I don't have the 
model number handy right now, but Keith Googled it yesterday and found 
people were having problems with it about 10 years ago, which is the 
rough age of the machine.

When I get some free time this week I'll try your recommendation and see 
what I get.

Thanks for the tip.

Re: "Gave up waiting for root device."

David Bridges — 2013-05-20T16:15:10

Not sure if you got this fixed at the clinic or not but thought I would
reply anyway.

At the shell if you type exit will the server go ahead and boot
correctly?

There is a problem I ran into (known but with the tools which create the
initrd IIRC) in my case I am using LVM but it might be worth it for you
to give the following a try especially if the computer booted properly
after typing exit at that shell prompt you mentioned.

When the grub screen is displayed edit the configuration and add
rootdelay=30 to the end of the kernel line.

If the root delay works and allows you computer to boot
edit /etc/default/grub and add/modify it so that you have a line like
the one below.

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="rootdelay=30"

In my case rootdelay=2 actually works.  I just suggested 30 to give it a
bit longer for you.

This may not help you, but if not maybe it will help others.

--
David

Re: Strangely frozen desktop

John Jason Jordan — 2013-05-20T14:11:13

On Fri, 17 May 2013 20:25:53 -0700
John Jason Jordan <johnxj< at >comcast.net> dijo:


It happened again last night. As before, no warning, nothing in
messages or logs. And the sound continued; just X was stuck. 

After rebooting on Friday I applied all the Xubuntu 12.04 updates, some
of which related to X. I was hoping that might fix the problem, but
apparently it did not.

This computer ran straight Ubuntu 10.04 without a problem from the time
it was released until just a couple months ago when I finally did a
fresh install of Xubuntu 12.04. The freezes started after installing
12.04. It is always possible that it is hardware related, but if so the
hardware problem would have to have begun coincidentally right after
installing 12.04. 

I think I'm just going to shop for a distro that I can get with just
Xfce and multimedia codecs, and long term support, really, really long
term support. It's annoying always having to futz with things.

Re: Strangely frozen desktop

Ergin Altıntaş — 2013-05-19T22:41:47

If you don't need advanced graphics, using plain vesa mode by configuring
xorg manually [1] may also be preferrable option.

[1] http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=807212

Re: Strangely frozen desktop

David Fleck — 2013-05-19T22:22:19

Can the computer function as needed without an X server at all, just 
console mode?  Then you could bypass all graphics-related issues.

--
David Fleck
david.fleck< at >mchsi.com

REMINDER: May PLUG Advanced Topics: The KURB Kernel/UseRspace Bridge for Linux

Michael Dexter — 2013-05-19T15:00:55

Portland Linux/Unix Group Advanced Topics Meeting Announcement

(Sorry that I had the subject wrong last time! Copy/Paste fail!)

Who: Jacob Riddle
What: The KURB Kernel/UseRspace Bridge for Linux
Where: Free Geek, 1731 SE 10th Avenue, Portland (Left Entrance)
When: Tuesday, May 21st, 2013 at 7pm
Why: The pursuit of technology freedom

Jacob Riddle will discuss the KURB (Kernel/UseRspace Bridge) project.
The goal of KURB is a kernel independent driver subsystem for Linux. The
talk will include the architecture of KURB, the reasons for KURB, and
how to get involved.

Jacob Riddle is in the Game Development program at Lane Community
College. Prior to that he was a Nuclear Machinist Mate in the Navy. He
as a passion for all things Computer Science with a particular focus on
Artificial Intelligence and kernel operations.

Many will head to the Lucky Lab on Hawthorne after the meeting.

Calagator Page: http://calagator.org/events/1250463770

PLUG Page with information about all PLUG events: http://pdxlinux.org/
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Re: "Gave up waiting for root device."

Richard C. Steffens — 2013-05-19T14:09:31

The clinic it is, then. Thanks for the reply.

Re: "Gave up waiting for root device."

Richard C. Steffens — 2013-05-19T14:08:55

<...>

Fresh install over Winders.

<...>


I'm packing it up this morning and planning on going to the clinic.

Thanks for the response.