Linux Friendly Scanner

Hi All, I'm in the process of finally being able to leave Windows for good and move entirely to Linux. One of the remaining "sticking" points is that my single feed page scanner is not recognized in Linux at all. It's an old Plustek MobileOffice S400 single page scanner (color). I don't need a

DNS Records

All, I currently have my own domain and am using Proton mail as my mail provider using this domain. As such, my DNS MX records point to their mail servers, as well as several TXT records for domain validation (i.e. spf, dmarc, etc). I currently have a single page static website for the domain h

Re: Linux Basics

Thanks for the tip. I've also found these two channels very good for learning: Learn Linux TV (he also has curated playlists on specific topics): https://www.youtube.com/@LearnLinuxTV/videos The Urban Penguin (he also has several very good Pluralsight courses) https://www.youtube.com/c/theurbanp

Re: Windoze licenses, "Bring us your Poor" edition

Just to chime in here as a long time Windows user (SQL Server DBA), you technically don't even need a key to run Windows. I run several Windows VMs in "unactivated" mode and have never run into any issues (I don't really like "wasting" keys on VMs). Granted that there a few restrictions, such as

To Firewall or Not To Firewall

Hi All, I am finally making the full transition from Windows to Linux. I have currently replaced my Windows laptops with Linux. So far, all my applications and dev tools work great; I am able to do everything on Linux that I am able to on Windows. I have to go on a trip next week and will be brin

Re: Linux and Intel RST

h a pair of 980pro nvme samsungs doing above. -mb On Tue, Feb 7, 2023 at 4:04 PM AZ Pete via PLUG-discuss wrote: Hi All, Ok, I'm finally very close to being able to go to a full Linux environment and leave the Microsoft ecosystem. I'm semi-retired and still do some Microsoft Data Plat

Linux and Intel RST

Hi All, Ok, I'm finally very close to being able to go to a full Linux environment and leave the Microsoft ecosystem. I'm semi-retired and still do some Microsoft Data Platform work (which was my career). I recently got a Dell Latitude and put Kubtunu 22.04 on it and managed to get all my appl

Re: Anyone use Google Fi ??

My Family and I have been using Fi for several years. It's reliable, quite reasonably priced and when I have had issues the customer service is very helpful (and polite). I especially like that any unused data at the end of the money is rebated to you ($10/Gb/Mo) I should note that we have alwa

Raspberry Pi DHCP & Pihole

All, I ran into an interesting bug that I thought I'd share here. I set up one of my Raspberry Pi computers as a Pi-hole and also configured it to act as my DHCP server. After the Pi was acting as a my DHCP router I noticed hundreds of log entries in the pihole.log file. The Pi was being floode

Re: GNOME or KDE?

All, I have been using Ubuntu as one of my desktops for a while, but have always been irritated by how difficult it is to do customize things. I was thinking of trying KDE, but do I have to re-install a new Kubuntu O/S to have KDE or is there a way to install the KDE desktop on my Ubuntu 20.04

Re: I am signing up for an online, in person, training course.....

I use OBS (https://obsproject.com/) for the very use case you need. It works best on a 2 monitor set up where I put the webinar on one screen and set OBS to record that screen. But there are many other ways to use OBS. Peter On 2/18/2022 11:35 AM, Michael via PLUG-discuss wrote: what do I

Re: Raspberry pi stop disk spin down

Hi, I have had the same problem with USB connected drives on my Pis, but I needed the reverse. Namely, I wanted them to spin down after some time. The bottom line is that since the hard drive is connected via USB, the USB hardware itself may prevent the drive from spinning down (or always shut

Re: System Monitoring

ensure that they are not overheating, especially in summer (I already have them in custom cooled cases). thanks! Peter On 10/30/2021 6:18 PM, Matt Graham via PLUG-discuss wrote: On 2021-10-29 17:57, AZ Pete via PLUG-discuss wrote: 3 Raspberry Pis, 1 Ubuntu, 1 Linux Mint, and am looking

System Monitoring

Hi All, I have a growing network of Linux servers in my home network (3 Raspberry Pis, 1 Ubuntu, 1 Linux Mint) and am looking for a way that I can monitor them remotely. Specifically, I'm looking to have a unified dashboard that would list for each server: * CPU utilization history * Drive

Re: OT: How launch Linux (WSL) in Win10 ?

As mentioned by another reply, WSL2 is best to use. Note that you have to have Windows 10 ver. 2004 for a WSL2 installation. Here are a couple links I found helpful. Microsoft's documentation is very good. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fntjriRe48 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/a

Re: Wifi Adapter Not Recognized

PLUG-discuss wrote: On 2021-04-22 12:44, AZ Pete via PLUG-discuss wrote: On 4/21/2021 5:37 PM, Matt Graham via PLUG-discuss wrote: On 2021-04-21 16:44, AZ Pete via PLUG-discuss wrote: I'm having a bear of a time getting my wireless card to work in a Linux Mint 20.1 machine. (lshw outpu

Re: Wifi Adapter Not Recognized

1/2021 5:37 PM, Matt Graham via PLUG-discuss wrote: On 2021-04-21 16:44, AZ Pete via PLUG-discuss wrote: I'm having a bear of a time getting my wireless card to work in a Linux Mint 20.1 machine. [...] all hardware works fine in Windows. When I boot Linux it looks to me like it's n

Wifi Adapter Not Recognized

Hi All, I'm having a bear of a time getting my wireless card to work in a Linux Mint 20.1 machine. The machine is my old dev box that I want to re-purpose and requires wireless connectivity to my network (it's in an area were hard line isn't available). This machine dual boots to Windows 10 an

Goodbye Fry's

Looks like Fry's Electronics finally bit the dust. :( https://news.yahoo.com/frys-electronics-closes-nationwide-055027690.html Peter --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail

Re: OT: Off topic ... Hi from an old timer ... plus, a Question

I would think hard about upgrading to a "faster" plan. The Wall St. Journal did  a study that basically said you gain no advantage for streaming media by upgrading to a faster plan. The WSJ article is behind a pay wall, but this article summarizes the results. https://medium.com/gowander/quick-ta

Re: PLUG Virtual Meeting on Oct 8th

Hans, Will this presentation be recorded? I'm very interested in learning how to set up ssh, but may not be able to make the time slot. Thanks, Peter On 10/7/2020 1:28 PM, PLUG Announcements via PLUG-discuss wrote: PLUG Meeting for Oct 8^th *Attend by going to: https://lufthans.bigbluem

Re: Raspberry Pi uses on a home network

I'm also in the process of setting up a PiHole server. In the reading I've done so far (and as I understand things), the Pihole server would block any DNS requests to the ad server itself. So, the ad would never be retrieved onto your network in the first place. Websites can detect if you have

Re: Raspberry Pi uses on a home network

Some interesting projects here: https://pimylifeup.com/raspberry-pi-index/ https://raspberrytips.com/raspberry-pi-projects-for-home/ OTOH, if you don't want your 3B+ I'll take it! :) Peter On 9/9/2020 3:22 PM, Steve B via PLUG-discuss wrote: I've been offered a Raspberry P 3B+ with a POE hat,

Re: Auto Mounting External USB drives

of lsblk & grep?? Thanks Peter On 9/9/2020 3:52 PM, Matt Graham via PLUG-discuss wrote: AZ Pete via PLUG-discuss wrote: However, currently I have to manually mount each of the external drives. This isn't a terribly big issue since the drives are rotated to offsite storage only once p

Auto Mounting External USB drives

Hi all, I was finally able to do away with an aging Windows machine and replace it with a Raspberry Pi 4 running Buster.  The only purpose for this server is to backup selected folders and files from other servers onto two external USB drives for offsite storage. I've automated the backup proc

Linux Learning Resources

Hi All, After about a 10 year hiatus away from Linux I'm getting back into it for daily use. I've been playing around with Ubuntu (and Zorrin). When I was using Linux all those years ago it was mainly as command line against a remote server (no desktop). But, now I want to learn more about usi

Public DNS Servers

Hi All, I was curious if anyone has any recommendations for free public DNS servers that they've used. I've been using OpenNic for a while, but in the last two days I'm experiencing a lot of trouble with domains not resolving. I'm using Google's (8.8.8.8) right now and things are much better.