Re: HAM help in West Valley sought

2024-05-28 Thread Rusty Carruth via PLUG-discuss
If nobody steps up, I'm a ham in the east valley, but might be able to find some west-valley folks (think local VHF/UHF repeaters ;-), also the ham clubs (oh - and the 'candy store' - Ham Radio Outlet - might know of someone). That really makes me wish I had the web site at elmers.org up and

Re: will windows fit?

2024-05-28 Thread Rusty Carruth via PLUG-discuss
8GB RAM?  No, IMHO 16GB is absolute minimum, especially for Windows.  Assuming you want to actually DO something on the thing! ;-) On 5/28/24 13:13, Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss wrote: I asked Google "how much disk space is needed for windows 11", and it told me: --- 64 GB Storage: 64 GB or la

HAM help in West Valley sought

2024-05-28 Thread der.hans via PLUG-discuss
moin moin, boosted by a friend on the far coast Darrell Hilliker, NU7I My non-blindness physical disabilities are worsening and I have realized after an antenna incident over the weekend that I can no longer maintain my #AmateurRadio station all by myself. If anyone out here is a #HamRadio

Re: I thought i saved the resource to get cheap Windows licenses

2024-05-28 Thread Michael via PLUG-discuss
gkeys24 On Tue, May 28, 2024 at 6:26 PM Michael wrote: > found it! it is keys . > > On Tue, May 28, 2024 at 1:40 PM Michael wrote: > >> Could someone let me know where to go to get it? >> >> -- >> :-)~MIKE~(-: >> > > > -- > :-)~MIKE~(-: > -- :-)~MIKE~(-:

Re: I thought i saved the resource to get cheap Windows licenses

2024-05-28 Thread Michael via PLUG-discuss
found it! it is keys . On Tue, May 28, 2024 at 1:40 PM Michael wrote: > Could someone let me know where to go to get it? > > -- > :-)~MIKE~(-: > -- :-)~MIKE~(-: --- PLUG-discuss mailing list: PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubsc

Re: will windows fit?

2024-05-28 Thread Michael via PLUG-discuss
Thanks for the tip! On Tue, May 28, 2024 at 4:13 PM wrote: > I asked Google "how much disk space is needed for windows 11", > and it told me: > > --- > 64 GB > Storage: 64 GB or larger storage device. If your PC does not have a > large enough storage drive, there are sometimes options for upgrad

Re: will windows fit?

2024-05-28 Thread Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss
I asked Google "how much disk space is needed for windows 11", and it told me: --- 64 GB Storage: 64 GB or larger storage device. If your PC does not have a large enough storage drive, there are sometimes options for upgrading the drive. --- ChatGPT said : --- The disk space required for Win

Re: will windows fit?

2024-05-28 Thread Michael via PLUG-discuss
as I expected On Tue, May 28, 2024 at 2:28 PM rusty via PLUG-discuss < plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > hmm. I thought he was asking about WINDOWs fitting. But while we're on > the topic of Linux fitting, here's my Linux DF for / and /home: > > /dev/sda237G 26G 9.6G 73% / >

Re: will windows fit?

2024-05-28 Thread rusty via PLUG-discuss
hmm. I thought he was asking about WINDOWs fitting. But while we're on the topic of Linux fitting, here's my Linux DF for / and /home: /dev/sda237G 26G 9.6G 73% / /dev/sdb2 1.8T 1.7T 18G 99% /home So, ignoring home, my laptop Linux Mint fits fine in 30G. And I've got L

Re: is there any way to fix this drive?

2024-05-28 Thread rusty via PLUG-discuss
Does the drive have S.M.A.R.T.? If so, get the smart attributes (use smartctl -a /dev/sdc) and post the result. On Tue, May 28, 2024 at 12:57, Michael via PLUG-discuss wrote: -- :-)~MIKE~(-: --- PLUG-discuss mailing list: PLUG-discuss@lists.

Re: will windows fit?

2024-05-28 Thread trent shipley via PLUG-discuss
I've got a Surface Pro 7 with 8Gbyte RAM and 128 GB SSD with Windows 11 beta. You can browse the web, fill out forms. listen to music. You can't fit *365 on it. Even if a modern Windows version fit, it would be very constrained. On Tue, May 28, 2024 at 10:48 AM z via PLUG-discuss < plug-disc

Re: will windows fit?

2024-05-28 Thread z via PLUG-discuss
likely no May 28, 2024 12:42:39 Michael via PLUG-discuss : > I got a 30 GB drive. Will windows fit on such a drive? > > > -- > :-)~MIKE~(-: --- PLUG-discuss mailing list: PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change yo

will windows fit?

2024-05-28 Thread Michael via PLUG-discuss
I got a 30 GB drive. Will windows fit on such a drive? -- :-)~MIKE~(-: --- PLUG-discuss mailing list: PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discu

I thought i saved the resource to get cheap Windows licenses

2024-05-28 Thread Michael via PLUG-discuss
Could someone let me know where to go to get it? -- :-)~MIKE~(-: --- PLUG-discuss mailing list: PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss

is there any way to fix this drive?

2024-05-28 Thread Michael via PLUG-discuss
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