Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Ubuntu for Students - to rouse people interest.

2012-05-22 Thread Alex Mandel
John, Your project is quite exciting and ambitious. I think the hardest group to get interested is the students but they aren't the hardest group to sell on the idea (apathy can be useful sometimes). Maybe you can pitch it to students...almost everything they know and use daily is actually built o

Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Ubuntu for students... Canonical sponsorship.

2012-05-25 Thread Alex Mandel
On 05/25/2012 03:07 PM, Christian Einfeldt wrote: > hi John, > On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 2:21 PM, John Kim wrote: > >> Do you think its possible to have Canonical sponsor this project? Our >> school obviously has limited resources, from laptops to computers. >> > > Where are you located John? >

Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Looking for a Good Solution (data syncing)

2012-06-08 Thread Alex Mandel
On 06/08/2012 08:57 AM, Dave <3 Ubuntu wrote: > Hi all. I am looking for a good solution for my brother. But first, the > story... > > The latest round of viruses on his wifes computer has prepped him to try > something different. He spent all night recently trying to clean her > system and get it

Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Is this a good place to ask a Ubuntu "Command line" question... ?

2012-07-30 Thread Alex Mandel
Ubuntu (and I believe Debian) all use the sudo concept. To elevate privaleges to equivalent of root you need to use sudo. sudo su gets you what you probably expected (su to user root). However best practices says you should just use sudo to do what you want Look for the ubuntuguide and the ubun

Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Install fests

2013-08-11 Thread Alex Mandel
Google Hangout would likely work similarly to that method on 64bit... I'm sure there are some other ways too. Enjoy, Alex On 08/11/2013 04:37 PM, Robert Lewis wrote: > If the install is going to be on a 32-bit machine (not a 64-bit machine) > you can use Teamviewer remotely to talk her through it

Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Sonoma County activity?

2014-05-16 Thread Alex Mandel
http://www.nblug.org/ North Bay Lug seems to be primarily Sonoma and Marin, don't forget to cross post and talk with them. Enjoy, Alex On 05/16/2014 10:11 AM, Grant Bowman wrote: > I would recommend holding some Ubuntu Hours (mini, informal user groups) to > spread the word and gather interest in

Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Failing/failed hard disk advice

2014-06-17 Thread Alex Mandel
On 06/17/2014 10:37 AM, brendanperrine wrote: > On Tue, 17 Jun 2014 02:25:03 -0700 > "Michael Paoli" wrote: > >> or wiped, even if not operational? > I think the gnome-disks tools may be able to get smart data of usb drives it > works for my seagate expansion drives which could tell if drive

Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Least painful way to upgrade 12.10?

2014-06-17 Thread Alex Mandel
On 06/17/2014 11:29 AM, Josh Berkus wrote: > All, > > So I have a Zenbook Prime running 12.10, which is EOL. I understand I'm > going to have to step it through upgrades to 13.04 and 13.10 to get it > to 14.04. > > Questions: > > a) is there a "least painful" way to do this? > > b) is there a

Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Failing/failed hard disk advice

2014-06-19 Thread Alex Mandel
I actually find it's often the enclosure. I have one external 2.5" that beeps and fails to mount on all but 1 usb port on my laptop. Absolutely a power issue - even though I have tried some of those dual power usb cables. It's actually why I'm partial to buying the drive and enclosure separate. Th

Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] No California Ubuntu Mirror?

2010-04-22 Thread Alex Mandel
On 04/22/2010 03:30 PM, Jono Bacon wrote: > On Thu, 2010-04-22 at 15:28 -0700, giovanni_re wrote: >> Must be time for California to pack it up & go home. >> >> http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/downloadmirrors >> >> No technology going on in this state. > > Not entirely sure that just because there

[Ubuntu-US-CA] Fwd: Linux Installfest workshop in Davis - Saturday, June 12th

2010-06-01 Thread Alex Mandel
Another local Installfest (Northern Ca/Central Valley)... While not focused on Ubuntu that is the majority of what we install and we will have 10.04 on hand in various flavors. Volunteers and spectators are welcome. A few official disks would be nice if anyone is planning to head this way. Thanks,

Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Software Freedom Day

2010-08-18 Thread Alex Mandel
On 08/18/2010 06:51 AM, Mark Weisler wrote: > Ilan Rabinovitch wrote: >> Hello, > >> Do we have any plans for the upcoming software freedom day? It would be >> great to setup a table at a local library, farmers market, or similar >> non-tech venue and spread the word about FL/OSS. Specificall

Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Statistically speaking: server line makes desktop line more likely to be "Linux Friendly"?

2010-11-18 Thread Alex Mandel
On 11/17/2010 09:53 PM, kdemarest wrote: > Just wanted to do a brief survey against a hypothesis to see if I'm crazy or > not. Given mainstream computer manufacturers, is the probability that their > desktop and notebook systems will be "Linux friendly" positively correlated > to whether or not th

Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] launchpad and documentation

2011-03-09 Thread Alex Mandel
Sounds to me like Seidos is looking for a component to host/write documentation to go along with application development hosted on launchpad. Along with that would be a standard link at the top of each project to it's "documentation" section. I haven't seen this on Launchpad and am unaware of plan