From iznogoud at nobelware.com Mon May 1 10:51:53 2017 From: iznogoud at nobelware.com (Iznogoud) Date: Mon, 1 May 2017 15:51:53 +0000 Subject: [tclug-list] General Inquiry/Recommendation for Enclosures In-Reply-To: <95EB4E91-9F92-49C0-9ED7-D531D65DBF28@cwis.biz> References: <20170403170148.GA5162@nobelware.com> <20170426145456.GA17735@nobelware.com> <95EB4E91-9F92-49C0-9ED7-D531D65DBF28@cwis.biz> Message-ID: <20170501155153.GB30866@nobelware.com> Sounds like your demands were pretty easy to satisfy, much more so than I had initially thought. But thanks for triggering the discussion. rhayman's 4U storage servers (which appear to be for sale) are at about $4k new without drives; a very different scale of things. From ryan.coleman at cwis.biz Mon May 1 17:17:05 2017 From: ryan.coleman at cwis.biz (Ryan Coleman) Date: Mon, 1 May 2017 17:17:05 -0500 Subject: [tclug-list] General Inquiry/Recommendation for Enclosures In-Reply-To: <20170501155153.GB30866@nobelware.com> References: <20170403170148.GA5162@nobelware.com> <20170426145456.GA17735@nobelware.com> <95EB4E91-9F92-49C0-9ED7-D531D65DBF28@cwis.biz> <20170501155153.GB30866@nobelware.com> Message-ID: I do like RM solutions? I have a Norco case that drives the d3photo empire? beyond that? not so needy. Yet. I have a new life that starts on Wednesday with the great minnesota get-together that might change my mind on things. ? Ryan > On May 1, 2017, at 10:51 AM, Iznogoud wrote: > > Sounds like your demands were pretty easy to satisfy, much more so than I had > initially thought. But thanks for triggering the discussion. > > rhayman's 4U storage servers (which appear to be for sale) are at about $4k > new without drives; a very different scale of things. > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list From woodbrian77 at gmail.com Tue May 2 14:29:42 2017 From: woodbrian77 at gmail.com (Brian Wood) Date: Tue, 2 May 2017 14:29:42 -0500 Subject: [tclug-list] C++ meetings Message-ID: >> I emailed Dominique, the guy who is organizing the meetings, and >> he said that maybe in the future they would like to have me talk. So >> if you would like to hear about the C++ Middleware Writer, please >> tell him. >> > > Keep us posted as to when you will be on their schedule. It looks there are a lot of people interested in the topic, but they haven't had a meeting yet. They lack a place to meet possibly. https://www.meetup.com/TwinCities-C-Meetup/ >Also, it would be > nice if you could stimulate interest by posting a link or two with what this > is about. If this is going to be a professional venture for you, you want to > actively go out and seek customers, and customers may be in placed that are > unlikely. But it is of paramount importance to make the _ideas+_ accessible. > What I have in mind is management and middle-managemnt of companies, the > people > who call the shots and tend to be technically detached. They, however, can > provide their employees with pointers on where to look for specific solutions. > If management is briefed well and engaged with developers, they are likely to > go out and seek solutions like what you are providing. So, in short, you will > need to advertize to those people by making the capabilities of your product > aware. > A Github with examples always helps the geekiest among us. https://github.com/Ebenezer-group/onwards There's an example subdirectory there. Brian Ebenezer Enterprises - "You are the light of the world. A city on a hill cannot be hidden." Matthew 5:14 http://webEbenezer.net From sraun at fireopal.org Sat May 13 21:53:50 2017 From: sraun at fireopal.org (Scott Raun) Date: Sat, 13 May 2017 21:53:50 -0500 Subject: [tclug-list] Anyone have a working Zip drive? Message-ID: <20170514025350.GC4967@fireopal.org> I have just found some paper documents that I wish I could find the electronic source for. My last hope is on a Zip 100 disk. Anyone have one they could either check my disk in, or loan to me? FWIW, the drive is labelled "Formatted for IBM-compatibles". -- Scott Raun sraun at fireopal.org From rhayman at pureice.com Sun May 14 21:12:37 2017 From: rhayman at pureice.com (r hayman) Date: Sun, 14 May 2017 21:12:37 -0500 Subject: [tclug-list] Anyone have a working Zip drive? In-Reply-To: <20170514025350.GC4967@fireopal.org> References: <20170514025350.GC4967@fireopal.org> Message-ID: <1494814357.3562.21.camel@pureice.com> I believe I have both (iomega) zip and jaz drive hardware here.? It worked last time I used it but that was some time ago. I'll verify what I've got and respond back to this mailing list.? In the mean time, let me know what you prefer - loan to you or meetup to collaborate on extracting your data. Thanks On Sat, 2017-05-13 at 21:53 -0500, Scott Raun wrote: > I have just found some paper documents that I wish I could find the > electronic source for. > > My last hope is on a Zip 100 disk.??Anyone have one they could either > check my disk in, or loan to me???FWIW, the drive is labelled > "Formatted for IBM-compatibles". > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rhayman at pureice.com Sun May 14 21:34:53 2017 From: rhayman at pureice.com (r hayman) Date: Sun, 14 May 2017 21:34:53 -0500 Subject: [tclug-list] Anyone have a working Zip drive? In-Reply-To: <1494814357.3562.21.camel@pureice.com> References: <20170514025350.GC4967@fireopal.org> <1494814357.3562.21.camel@pureice.com> Message-ID: <1494815693.3554.1.camel@pureice.com> OMG, I found a rack of 18 zIp disks in a box... Now to find the reader/writer unit... On Sun, 2017-05-14 at 21:12 -0500, r hayman wrote: > I believe I have both (iomega) zip and jaz drive hardware here.? > It worked last time I used it but that was some time ago. > I'll verify what I've got and respond back to this mailing list.? > In the mean time, let me know what you prefer - loan to you or meetup > to collaborate on extracting your data. > > Thanks > > On Sat, 2017-05-13 at 21:53 -0500, Scott Raun wrote: > > I have just found some paper documents that I wish I could find the > > electronic source for. > > > > My last hope is on a Zip 100 disk.??Anyone have one they could > > either > > check my disk in, or loan to me???FWIW, the drive is labelled > > "Formatted for IBM-compatibles". > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From mr.chew.baka at gmail.com Mon May 15 08:16:57 2017 From: mr.chew.baka at gmail.com (B-o-B De Mars) Date: Mon, 15 May 2017 08:16:57 -0500 Subject: [tclug-list] Anyone have a working Zip drive? In-Reply-To: <20170514025350.GC4967@fireopal.org> References: <20170514025350.GC4967@fireopal.org> Message-ID: I have an iomega REV 70 Gig unit. Not sure if this will work for you or not. If so, let me know. I have it installed in a PC (not hooked up anymore), but it worked last time I used it. On 5/13/2017 9:53 PM, Scott Raun wrote: > I have just found some paper documents that I wish I could find the > electronic source for. > > My last hope is on a Zip 100 disk. Anyone have one they could either > check my disk in, or loan to me? FWIW, the drive is labelled > "Formatted for IBM-compatibles". > From tclug1 at whitleymott.net Tue May 16 09:16:47 2017 From: tclug1 at whitleymott.net (gregrwm) Date: Tue, 16 May 2017 09:16:47 -0500 Subject: [tclug-list] bash function survives it's window Message-ID: i was shocked to discover that killing a window (in tmux) does not kill the bash procedure running in it. how would you recommend that a bash function check whether it's output is visible anywhere anymore? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ryan.coleman at cwis.biz Tue May 16 10:20:24 2017 From: ryan.coleman at cwis.biz (Ryan Coleman) Date: Tue, 16 May 2017 10:20:24 -0500 Subject: [tclug-list] Configuring VNC for remote viewing Message-ID: <02E79713-4675-4411-9658-086D3D0F70EB@cwis.biz> I?m seriously struggling getting VNC to work on Ubuntu 16.04LTS? What do I need to do to get it showing the native desktop as opposed to showing me a default X shell? ? Ryan From carl.soderstrom at real-time.com Tue May 16 11:24:50 2017 From: carl.soderstrom at real-time.com (Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom) Date: Tue, 16 May 2017 12:24:50 -0400 Subject: [tclug-list] Configuring VNC for remote viewing In-Reply-To: <02E79713-4675-4411-9658-086D3D0F70EB@cwis.biz> References: <02E79713-4675-4411-9658-086D3D0F70EB@cwis.biz> Message-ID: <20170516162450.GA17649@real-time.com> On 05/16 10:20 , Ryan Coleman wrote: > I?m seriously struggling getting VNC to work on Ubuntu 16.04LTS? What do I need to do to get it showing the native desktop as opposed to showing me a default X shell? The last time I did this, it was on a SuSE box, but the proceedure I doco'ed at the time is: Install the x11vnc package. The basic usage of x11vnc is to run this command on the machine you want to serve up the display from: x11vnc -display :0 This will 'screen scrape' the desktop and allow anyone to connect to the virtual display provided by VNC and thereby control the desktop. However, there's no password on this. To set up a password, run this command (as the user who owns the desktop, of course): x11vnc -storepasswd This will create a ~/.vnc/passwd file which contains a hash of the password you entered. To use that password to require authentication to the VNC session, use this command when starting x11vnc: x11vnc -usepw -display :0 It should be noted that while this at least requires a password for authentication, it does *not* encrypt the connection. To get that we would use the -ssl option, like so: x11vnc -usepw -ssl -display :0 Or else wrap the connection in an SSH tunnel. The advantage of an SSH tunnel is that it can apply some compression to the stream, which may be desireable over slow links. An SSH tunnel would be set up with a command similar to this: ssh -L 5900:localhost:5900 user at host.example.tld "x11vnc -usepw -ssl -display :0" This would log into the 'user' account on host.example.tld, set up a tunnel from port 5900 on host.example.tld to port 5900 on the host originating this command (i.e. your desktop). In order to use this, you would point your VNC client to localhost:5900 or localhost:0 It is possible to script the above, and probably launch a VNC viewer at the same time to connect to that host. This will require a little more time to hash out the details of, but an example script is to be found here: http://www.karlrunge.com/x11vnc/#tunneling HTH -- Carl Soderstrom Systems Administrator Real-Time Enterprises www.real-time.com From iznogoud at nobelware.com Tue May 16 12:03:35 2017 From: iznogoud at nobelware.com (Iznogoud) Date: Tue, 16 May 2017 17:03:35 +0000 Subject: [tclug-list] Configuring VNC for remote viewing In-Reply-To: <20170516162450.GA17649@real-time.com> References: <02E79713-4675-4411-9658-086D3D0F70EB@cwis.biz> <20170516162450.GA17649@real-time.com> Message-ID: <20170516170335.GA21965@nobelware.com> (Responding to Carl but not quoting his message for brevity.) Regarding SuSE, I am sitting at a SuSE box with a pretty late build: Linux _____ 3.16.7-35-default #1 SMP Sun Feb 7 17:32:21 UTC 2016 (832c776) x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux It does have (Tiger)Vnc, but not the x11vnc package. I did not know that x11vnc does a "screen scrape" to the X server without having hooks into privileged user space (which it may well have). Up to a few years ago, the VNC that was shipped for use with the Xserver had to have an X server module loaded in the X11R6 or Xorg conf file (called "vnc") that allowed for this functionality. In the same box I looked and found this: /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-libvnc.conf It has the vnx module as a loadable option; looks like this: #Section "Module" # Load "vnc" #EndSection What I am suggesting to Mr Coleman is to see if there is a vnc module in his Ubuntu X server installation. Use that first if you can. This does not involve Xvnc, etc, which is what you are probably using (you did not provide details). A user can scrape the screen if they own the display, and I wrote a code that does exactly that (I call it "Xleach"). If you want it, email me. My Slackware systems use a different setup: /usr/lib64/libvncclient.so.0.0.0 /usr/lib64/libvncserver.so.0.0.0 /usr/lib64/libvncclient.so.0 /usr/lib64/libvncclient.la /usr/lib64/libvncclient.so /usr/lib64/libvncserver.so /usr/lib64/pkgconfig/libvncclient.pc /usr/lib64/pkgconfig/libvncserver.pc /usr/lib64/libvncserver.so.0 /usr/lib64/libvncserver.la /usr/doc/libvncserver-0.9.9 /usr/doc/libvncserver-0.9.9/ChangeLog /usr/doc/libvncserver-0.9.9/README /usr/doc/libvncserver-0.9.9/TODO /usr/doc/libvncserver-0.9.9/COPYING /usr/doc/libvncserver-0.9.9/INSTALL /usr/doc/libvncserver-0.9.9/NEWS /usr/doc/libvncserver-0.9.9/AUTHORS /usr/bin/linuxvnc /usr/bin/SDLvncviewer /usr/bin/libvncserver-config /var/log/packages/libvncserver-0.9.9-x86_64-2 If you are an Ubuntu user, you probably do not want to go there. I have not played with Runge's x11vnc that Carl suggested, but it looks like a simple a solid solution of the bare-bones type that I like. http://www.karlrunge.com/x11vnc/ I hope all this stuff is helpful to you. From iznogoud at nobelware.com Tue May 16 12:13:38 2017 From: iznogoud at nobelware.com (Iznogoud) Date: Tue, 16 May 2017 17:13:38 +0000 Subject: [tclug-list] bash function survives it's window In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20170516171338.GB21965@nobelware.com> > > i was shocked to discover that killing a window (in tmux) does not kill the > bash procedure running in it. how would you recommend that a bash function > check whether it's output is visible anywhere anymore? I never have used tmux, but for what it is worth you may want to look into their mailing list or FAQ. See if tmux starts process with "NOHUP" states or something like that. From carl.soderstrom at real-time.com Tue May 16 13:01:20 2017 From: carl.soderstrom at real-time.com (Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom) Date: Tue, 16 May 2017 14:01:20 -0400 Subject: [tclug-list] Configuring VNC for remote viewing In-Reply-To: <20170516170335.GA21965@nobelware.com> References: <02E79713-4675-4411-9658-086D3D0F70EB@cwis.biz> <20170516162450.GA17649@real-time.com> <20170516170335.GA21965@nobelware.com> Message-ID: <20170516180120.GB17649@real-time.com> On 05/16 05:03 , Iznogoud wrote: > (Responding to Carl but not quoting his message for brevity.) > > Regarding SuSE, I am sitting at a SuSE box with a pretty late build: > Linux _____ 3.16.7-35-default #1 SMP Sun Feb 7 17:32:21 UTC 2016 (832c776) x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux > > It does have (Tiger)Vnc, but not the x11vnc package. The one I worked on (I'm pretty sure): $ cat /etc/issue Welcome to openSUSE 12.3 "Dartmouth" - Kernel \r (\l). $ rpm -qa|grep x11vnc x11vnc-0.9.13-4.1.2.x86_64 -- Carl Soderstrom Systems Administrator Real-Time Enterprises www.real-time.com From iznogoud at nobelware.com Tue May 16 13:21:27 2017 From: iznogoud at nobelware.com (Iznogoud) Date: Tue, 16 May 2017 18:21:27 +0000 Subject: [tclug-list] Configuring VNC for remote viewing In-Reply-To: <20170516180120.GB17649@real-time.com> References: <02E79713-4675-4411-9658-086D3D0F70EB@cwis.biz> <20170516162450.GA17649@real-time.com> <20170516170335.GA21965@nobelware.com> <20170516180120.GB17649@real-time.com> Message-ID: <20170516182127.GA25332@nobelware.com> > > The one I worked on (I'm pretty sure): > > $ cat /etc/issue > Welcome to openSUSE 12.3 "Dartmouth" - Kernel \r (\l). > > $ rpm -qa|grep x11vnc > x11vnc-0.9.13-4.1.2.x86_64 > Welcome to openSUSE 13.2 "Harlequin" - Kernel \r (\l). That package is not there on my workstation. No superuser access here... Cannot diagnose further. From tclug1 at whitleymott.net Wed May 17 09:50:12 2017 From: tclug1 at whitleymott.net (gregrwm) Date: Wed, 17 May 2017 09:50:12 -0500 Subject: [tclug-list] bash function survives it's window In-Reply-To: <20170516171338.GB21965@nobelware.com> References: <20170516171338.GB21965@nobelware.com> Message-ID: > > i was shocked to discover that killing a window (in tmux) does not kill > the bash procedure running in it. how would you recommend that a bash > function check whether it's output is visible anywhere anymore? > i've had a chance to poke at it a bit now, all the simplified test functions i try all *do* exit with their parent window, even tho i include many of the structural elements of the full function. the full function however does not exit with the window. dunno why, tho it doesn't really matter.. to answer my own question: [ -t 1 ] nicely tests if the parent terminal still exists, or, since the function invokes "less", i can simply use the abnormal exit from less as an indication the terminal is gone. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From cdf123 at cdf123.net Wed May 17 10:41:20 2017 From: cdf123 at cdf123.net (Chris Frederick) Date: Wed, 17 May 2017 10:41:20 -0500 Subject: [tclug-list] bash function survives it's window In-Reply-To: References: <20170516171338.GB21965@nobelware.com> Message-ID: <666b7572-07c7-7d3d-cc7a-599c95e00c81@cdf123.net> On 05/17/2017 09:50 AM, gregrwm wrote: >> >> i was shocked to discover that killing a window (in tmux) does not kill >> the bash procedure running in it. how would you recommend that a bash >> function check whether it's output is visible anywhere anymore? >> > > i've had a chance to poke at it a bit now, all the simplified test > functions i try all *do* exit with their parent window, even tho i include > many of the structural elements of the full function. the full function > however does not exit with the window. dunno why, tho it doesn't really > matter.. to answer my own question: > > [ -t 1 ] > > nicely tests if the parent terminal still exists, or, since the function > invokes "less", i can simply use the abnormal exit from less as an > indication the terminal is gone. FYI As a general rule, closing a terminal window will send a SIGTERM signal to the shell, and close resources controled by the window. e.g. stdin, stdout, stderr, /dev/pts/... etc... So your child process will usually either catch the SIGTERM, or detect that it's /proc/self/fd/* references have been closed and terminate itself. But there are some cases where the child process ignores signals and doesn't check the status on it's resources. So it closed stdin itself and no longer listens for input, or only accesses stdout/stderr if needed. In those cases the child process could run until it attempts to access those resources and terminates with an error accessing them in the future. An example of this that I use is a backgrounded ssh port forward: "ssh -L 1234:target.host:22 -N pivot.host &" I've had these last though complete logouts, which I like, until I really want it to terminate and need to run netstat -lnp to find it again. Hope that clears things up a little. From iznogoud at nobelware.com Wed May 17 14:13:24 2017 From: iznogoud at nobelware.com (Iznogoud) Date: Wed, 17 May 2017 19:13:24 +0000 Subject: [tclug-list] bash function survives it's window In-Reply-To: <666b7572-07c7-7d3d-cc7a-599c95e00c81@cdf123.net> References: <20170516171338.GB21965@nobelware.com> <666b7572-07c7-7d3d-cc7a-599c95e00c81@cdf123.net> Message-ID: <20170517191324.GB13463@nobelware.com> Thanks for this info. you are saying processes will terminate if trying to write to stdout, but would otherwise stay alive if signals were set to be ignored, correct? > > An example of this that I use is a backgrounded ssh port forward: "ssh -L > 1234:target.host:22 -N pivot.host &" > I've had these last though complete logouts, which I like, until I really > want it to terminate and need to run netstat -lnp to find it again. > The last part, about finding them and terminating them, you are looking for the PID that is attached to the socket. I think for your purpose this would work best: 'ps axu | grep ssh | grep 1234' But I see your point. As a side note, I have not had much luck with non-executing ssh tunnels (-N) staying alive in most cases. I should also say, I am mostly using reverse tunnels (-R). From sraun at fireopal.org Wed May 17 16:52:38 2017 From: sraun at fireopal.org (Scott Raun) Date: Wed, 17 May 2017 16:52:38 -0500 Subject: [tclug-list] Anyone have a working Zip drive? In-Reply-To: <20170514025350.GC4967@fireopal.org> References: <20170514025350.GC4967@fireopal.org> Message-ID: <20170517215238.GD21321@fireopal.org> On Sat, May 13, 2017 at 09:53:50PM -0500, Scott Raun wrote: > I have just found some paper documents that I wish I could find the > electronic source for. > > My last hope is on a Zip 100 disk. Anyone have one they could either > check my disk in, or loan to me? FWIW, the drive is labelled > "Formatted for IBM-compatibles". Many thanks to all who replied. David S. Cargo had a USB Zip drive that allowed me to read my disks. -- Scott Raun sraun at fireopal.org From bgilbertson at rrt.net Wed May 17 20:15:19 2017 From: bgilbertson at rrt.net (Robert Gilbertson) Date: Wed, 17 May 2017 20:15:19 -0500 Subject: [tclug-list] bash function survives it's window Message-ID: <591cf5a7.2272.55fcb700.774d6ce9@rrt.net> I have used autossh to monitor an ssh tunnel and restart it if necessary. On Wednesday 17/05/2017 at 2:13 pm, Iznogoud wrote: > Thanks for this info. you are saying processes will terminate if > trying to > write to stdout, but would otherwise stay alive if signals were set to > be > ignored, correct? > > >> >> >> An example of this that I use is a backgrounded ssh port forward: >> "ssh -L >> 1234:target.host:22 -N pivot.host &" >> I've had these last though complete logouts, which I like, until I >> really >> want it to terminate and need to run netstat -lnp to find it again. >> > > The last part, about finding them and terminating them, you are > looking for the > PID that is attached to the socket. I think for your purpose this > would work > best: 'ps axu | grep ssh | grep 1234' > > But I see your point. > > As a side note, I have not had much luck with non-executing ssh > tunnels (-N) > staying alive in most cases. I should also say, I am mostly using > reverse > tunnels (-R). > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jsturgeleski at trecksolutions.com Thu May 18 12:20:48 2017 From: jsturgeleski at trecksolutions.com (john sturgeleski) Date: Thu, 18 May 2017 12:20:48 -0500 Subject: [tclug-list] DevOps w/ Chef. Linux/Java environment, FTE, West Metro/remote Message-ID: <060b01d2cffb$183e1b30$48ba5190$@trecksolutions.com> Hello, I hope this is the appropriate place to post this? Looking for a DevOps Engineer(heavier on the Ops side) w/ Chef exp. Java/Linux environment, FTE, West Metro/work Remote option. There are 4-5 developers that basically work for the managed services group doing remote monitoring for their customers. It's a blend of Dev Ops. More Ops than Dev. Must have Chef experience - configuration and automation tool, writing and maintaining recipes, cookbooks. would like to have someone that has at least 1 year experience with Chef and monitoring experience Next would be to find someone that has monitoring experience - he's looking for someone that can figure out what issues might be, not just seeing if something is up or down Most of their stuff is Java on Linux (this is a nice to have) They use OSGI to deploy Java - if someone has Spring experience they can figure it out pretty easily They use Maven for PM Redhat If someone had virtualization with KVM - nice to have If interested, or know anyone, please send a Word resume and lets chat. Thank you! 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Any recommendations on distros to consider instead of just going straight to Peppermint 7? -- Scott Raun sraun at fireopal.org From sfertch at gmail.com Fri May 19 14:10:50 2017 From: sfertch at gmail.com (Shawn Fertch) Date: Fri, 19 May 2017 14:10:50 -0500 Subject: [tclug-list] Linux for Laptop recommendation In-Reply-To: <20170519175455.GC11580@fireopal.org> References: <20170519175455.GC11580@fireopal.org> Message-ID: As usual, all depends on what you are comfortable with. I have been running Fedora on my ASUS laptop for a while now without issues. On May 19, 2017 12:55, "Scott Raun" wrote: > We're going to be getting new laptop computers in the near future. My > wife has been happily running Peppermint 3.0 for a couple of years, > and wants to continue running Linux. > > We installed Peppermint because it would load and run on the old Dell > Latitude we inherited. (Thanks, Josh! It's been a workhorse - it just > can't keep up with what she wants to do on the web nowadays.) The new > laptop will be significantly more powerful. Any recommendations on > distros to consider instead of just going straight to Peppermint 7? > > -- > Scott Raun > sraun at fireopal.org > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From kellywilliams81 at gmail.com Fri May 19 14:20:34 2017 From: kellywilliams81 at gmail.com (Kelly Williams) Date: Fri, 19 May 2017 14:20:34 -0500 Subject: [tclug-list] Linux for Laptop recommendation In-Reply-To: <20170519175455.GC11580@fireopal.org> References: <20170519175455.GC11580@fireopal.org> Message-ID: I been using a Dell latitude 5430 with ubuntu mate it works sweet. On May 19, 2017 12:55 PM, "Scott Raun" wrote: > We're going to be getting new laptop computers in the near future. My > wife has been happily running Peppermint 3.0 for a couple of years, > and wants to continue running Linux. > > We installed Peppermint because it would load and run on the old Dell > Latitude we inherited. (Thanks, Josh! It's been a workhorse - it just > can't keep up with what she wants to do on the web nowadays.) The new > laptop will be significantly more powerful. Any recommendations on > distros to consider instead of just going straight to Peppermint 7? > > -- > Scott Raun > sraun at fireopal.org > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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From rhayman at pureice.com Sat May 20 12:47:13 2017 From: rhayman at pureice.com (r hayman) Date: Sat, 20 May 2017 12:47:13 -0500 Subject: [tclug-list] Linux for Laptop recommendation In-Reply-To: <20170519175455.GC11580@fireopal.org> References: <20170519175455.GC11580@fireopal.org> Message-ID: <1495302433.3495.35.camel@pureice.com> On Fri, 2017-05-19 at 12:54 -0500, Scott Raun wrote: > We're going to be getting new laptop computers in the near > future.??My > wife has been happily running Peppermint 3.0 for a couple of years, > and wants to continue running Linux. > > We installed Peppermint because it would load and run on the old Dell > Latitude we inherited.??(Thanks, Josh! It's been a workhorse - it > just > can't keep up with what she wants to do on the web nowadays.)??The > new > laptop will be significantly more powerful.??Any recommendations on > distros to consider instead of just going straight to Peppermint 7? > Do the research. Choose the distro then the laptop that has compatibility or choose the laptop and research which distro has all the right drivers to make it all work on install. Gone are the days of picking a laptop and dropping your preferred distro on it and everything just works. For example Qualcomm atheros (AKA Killer) wifi cards have more issues than Intel cards - actually connecting and staying connected to lower throughput speed. What graphics card/architecture (AMD/NVidia/Intel)? Onboard Intel graphics has better battery life.? Internal/External monitor resolution to be used? FHD?, 3K?, 4K? You may or may not need the power of separate graphics card. Laptop slots? some models have more traditional connectors (USB-2, HDMI 1.2, SD card, 3.5mm headphone) and some don't? Docking station? Some smart docking stations do not play well with Linux. Sometimes your choice to use a LTS version is hampered by not being able to support your new hardware, sometimes your choice to not use a LTS version breaks your ability to keep using certain hardware e.g. AMD?dropping support for proprietary AMD driver in favor of encouraging users to use the open-source AMDGPU/Radeon drivers so your distro upgrade removes working drivers. Unfortunately the open-source drivers do not support all functionality that the proprietary drivers did. I first installed Linux (RedHat 2.1 CD, kernel 1.2) on a new Compaq laptop and have used Dells, Macbook Pros, and Thinkpad hardware with one distro or another ever since. I'm currently running Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS on a 4K UHD Dell XPS-15 9560 (2017) and the Dell USB-3C/TB dock will power the laptop but the ethernet port doesn't work, nor do many of the other ports. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: From matt at omega.org Tue May 23 18:11:10 2017 From: matt at omega.org (Matthew Johnson) Date: Tue, 23 May 2017 18:11:10 -0500 Subject: [tclug-list] Linux for Laptop recommendation In-Reply-To: <20170519175455.GC11580@fireopal.org> References: <20170519175455.GC11580@fireopal.org> Message-ID: <1495581070.1420572.986483968.3F7158D5@webmail.messagingengine.com> In the past Thinkpads have been known to run Linux well. I've used them for many years. Now it seems Lenovo is moving on to other products so I don't know if they have kept up with Linux stuff. I agree with rhayman, do your research. This wiki could be useful info on Thinkpad options: http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/ThinkWiki Quote on front page: "This is ThinkWiki, the Wiki Web for IBM/Lenovo ThinkPad users. Here you find anything you need to install your favourite Linux distribution on your ThinkPad." -Matt From rsinland at gvtel.com Tue May 23 18:34:57 2017 From: rsinland at gvtel.com (Robert Sinland) Date: Tue, 23 May 2017 18:34:57 -0500 Subject: [tclug-list] Linux for Laptop recommendation In-Reply-To: <1495581070.1420572.986483968.3F7158D5@webmail.messagingengine.com> References: <20170519175455.GC11580@fireopal.org> <1495581070.1420572.986483968.3F7158D5@webmail.messagingengine.com> Message-ID: <3bc66456-fcd9-037d-da17-ebdf1a3d520c@gvtel.com> On 05/23/2017 06:11 PM, Matthew Johnson wrote: > In the past Thinkpads have been known to run Linux well. I've used them for many years. Now it seems Lenovo is moving on to other products so I don't know if they have kept up with Linux stuff. > > I agree with rhayman, do your research. > > This wiki could be useful info on Thinkpad options: > http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/ThinkWiki > > Quote on front page: "This is ThinkWiki, the Wiki Web for IBM/Lenovo ThinkPad users. Here you find anything you need to install your favourite Linux distribution on your ThinkPad." > > -Matt > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list For whats it's worth I have had good luck buying used Sony Vaio's and putting mint on them. No problems that I ever became aware of to date. > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: