Re: [lopsa-tech] Looking for help with xubuntu

2013-08-15 Thread John Broome
On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 2:57 PM, john boris wrote: > I am setting up an acer aspire with xubuntu and xfce. All is well but I am > looking for the tips to get the screen correct out the HDMI connection to > my Flat Panel HiDef LCD. It is there but the panel is off the screen and no > matter what I

Re: [lopsa-tech] Syncing iPhone5, Google Calendar and Outlook 2010 Calendar

2013-05-31 Thread John Broome
I had this working fine at my old job. I added work as one exchange server, and gmail as it's own account. each source was a different color and showed up on the same calendar. If you don't want work mail on your phone, you can turn off mail/contact syncing and only have the calendar. On Fri,

Re: [lopsa-tech] iPhone 4s vs iPhone 5s

2013-04-03 Thread John Broome
On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 1:56 PM, john boris wrote: > Okay here at $WORK they are going to iPhones. The default is to get the > iPhone 4s 16gb. a 5s option is available but they are pushing the 4s > because it is cheaper. For all the iPhone users on the list what are the > big reason to push to get

Re: [lopsa-tech] Question on a Ubuntu ssh Copy and Case Sensitivty

2013-02-27 Thread John Broome
On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 6:33 PM, unix_fan wrote: > My additional $0.02 on rsync use: > 1. Use the -n flag first > If you are an rsync neophyte, I strongly recommend using the -n flag first, > to see what it would do without actually doing it. As in, > rsync -nav SOURCE DESTINATION > > when you are

Re: [lopsa-tech] mailx command line arguments, RHEL upstream source switch?

2012-12-04 Thread John Broome
On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 4:22 PM, Aaron McCaleb wrote: > On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 7:13 PM, John Broome wrote: >> >> I ran that command and it barfed, but no where near the way yours did: >> >> echo "foo bar baz" | mail jbro...@gmail.com -s "foo bar baz tes

Re: [lopsa-tech] mailx command line arguments, RHEL upstream source switch?

2012-12-03 Thread John Broome
On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 5:49 PM, Aaron McCaleb wrote: > Has anyone else encountered the following compatibility change in mailx-12.4 > (in RHEL 6.2), versus mailx-8.1.1 from the RHEL 5 distributions? > > In particular, the following command encounters an error: > > s

Re: [lopsa-tech] Understanding a system's workload

2011-04-22 Thread John Broome
On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 18:47, Phil Pennock wrote: > On 2011-04-21 at 18:11 -0700, Steven Kurylo wrote: >> I'm using dstat more and more, for example: >> dstat --disk-util --top-io -r -c -y >> >> And as Nick says iotop. > > You're both just trying to make me cry, aren't you? > > # dstat --version

Re: [lopsa-tech] Linux, multipathing, scsi timeouts and veritas [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2011-02-22 Thread John Broome
On Feb 22, 2011, at 18:46, "Robinson, Greg" wrote: >As such, the users are revolting. I have nothing constructive to add, this really resonated with me. :) ___ Tech mailing list Tech@lists.lopsa.org https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tec

Re: [lopsa-tech] Has fedora moved to Desktop only?

2010-12-16 Thread John Broome
On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 11:32, Matt Simmons wrote: > I'm against Fedora servers for a bunch of reasons, but the most > pressing is that their stability of package selection is not what I'd > call spectacular. > > It's much better, in my opinion, to go with something like CentOS (or > Scientific Li

Re: [lopsa-tech] whole system backup for OSX

2010-12-12 Thread John Broome
On Dec 12, 2010, at 10:01, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: What are people recommending for whole system backups for macs? Must be able to do the whole system, with exclusions, silently in the background, with low enough priority that users don't complain about resource hogging. Must be able to save ba