[nmglug] Meeting this week;

Wed May 23 07:06:52 PDT 2018

could i get a ride to and from a meeting some time
have conflict this time
maybe next time


On Tue, May 22, 2018 10:07 am, Satsangat Khalsa wrote:
> I can give you a lift to Early, but I usually confuse that with Late;)
>
> On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 9:23 AM, Brian O'Keefe <okeefe at cybermesa.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I look forward to mtg. too Ted. Getting there at 5:30 is no problem but
>> I
>> wouldn't get picked up until 7:40 or so, so I'm not sure that will work.
>> If
>> it's nice I can wait outside. My wife's thing is on Early street if
>> someone
>> could give me a lift there that would be most welcome.
>>
>> Don't worry about engaging in my fiasco but I have learned a lesson,
>> though I don't know how I'll resolve it and getting back to a simpler OS
>> set-up as you describe and still have at least the most important apps
>> that
>> I use thru Wine or otherwise. And what's this about backups? We don't
>> need
>> no stinking backups! (Hah). I know that the rsync was supposed to create
>> a
>> snapshot of my system and all in it. I know that you're not dealing with
>> this sort of thing but it's good info none the less. It seems that the
>> update not only deleted folders it resurrected some back into my OS and
>> they pop up in my file browser after I had deleted them! I wonder what
>> went
>> on with that update. what a scramble.
>>
>> Anyway, if I can make it perhaps someone can at least be amused!
>>
>> I'll try to make it, we'll see.
>>
>> Brian
>>
>>
>>
>> On 05/22/2018 08:16 AM, Ted Pomeroy wrote:
>>
>>> Brian, I look forward to meeting you. I arrive at the Baking Co. at
>>> about 5pm, meeting officially starts at 5:30. It runs till 7pm when
>>> the cafe closes.  Several members adjourn to the Second St. brewery on
>>> 2nd St., I usually pass on that and go home. I will not comment on the
>>> listing you have of things to reveal and repair.  I choose to make my
>>> computing simpler and move on to making things work adequately; then
>>> carefully save my own files, yielding to progress the OS and
>>> applications. The higher level administrators at our meeting will
>>> likely be able to comment and assist you.
>>> See you Thursday.
>>> Thank you, Ted P.
>>>
>>> On Mon, May 21, 2018 at 10:48 PM, Brian O'Keefe <okeefe at cybermesa.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Thanks Ted. What time at Baking Co.? I may try to get there if I can
>>>> get
>>>> a
>>>> lift from my wife who has a similar time slot when she's out, 6-7:30.
>>>> I'm
>>>> still dealing with my OS breakdown and have done a few things.
>>>> Briefly, I
>>>> cloned my SSD to a new SSD and then analysed it with TestDisk (comes
>>>> with
>>>> Parted Magic and is a bootable CD). Found a ton of deleted folders
>>>> that
>>>> disappeared when I did the update as per the urging of Update Manager
>>>> and
>>>> toasted my 1.04 OS. TestDisk shows all the file structure in a
>>>> partition, my
>>>> Linux primary, both existing and the deleted folders that it can find.
>>>> I
>>>> had
>>>> lost a major folder I named "Miscellany" (lots of important files over
>>>> the
>>>> years) and it shows up but has no files. My Music folder also shows up
>>>> as
>>>> not deleted but has no content either. There are hundreds of deleted
>>>> files,
>>>> of course as they haven't yet been overwritten (or they wouldn't show
>>>> up).
>>>> So I've lost at least the content of 2 major folders or the folder
>>>> itself
>>>> and apparently many others since I can't run Ubuntu Desktop. Which are
>>>> what
>>>> I can't begin to know and trying to restore them all so that Ubuntu
>>>> 16.04
>>>> works again would be difficult beyond measure! TestDisk is a pretty
>>>> amazing
>>>> tool and I could show it off. It gives one the chance to recover those
>>>> deleted folders and copy and then restore them. I have so many deleted
>>>> files
>>>> that I have no idea how I would ever determine which are ones I
>>>> want/need to
>>>> add to a new 18.04 install. I also want to migrate all of my browser,
>>>> email,
>>>> etc. from my hacked firefox and thunderbird (had to to get them to
>>>> work
>>>> with
>>>> my address books, bookmarks, etc. that the newest versions don't see
>>>> for
>>>> some reason). If I can make it I can bring the Parted Magic disk, my
>>>> new
>>>> USB
>>>> 1TB drive that has my cloned SSD on it. The rsync that you helped me
>>>> with
>>>> Mark, is not bootable nor readable with test disk except with Parted
>>>> Magic
>>>> file browser (no deleted folders or files though as only TestDisk does
>>>> that)
>>>> and not from my current ldxe desktop file browser. It shows up as a
>>>> bootable
>>>> image but I get a grub error and a rescue prompt, with which I know
>>>> not
>>>> what
>>>> to do. So a long story and I'm not even sure i can manage the meeting
>>>> but
>>>> I'd like to try.
>>>>
>>>> Brian
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 05/21/2018 06:02 PM, Ted Pomeroy wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> NMGLugers, We meet again this week and if we see the same group we
>>>>> can
>>>>> follow up on several in-process repairs to software and installation.
>>>>> There might be a chance to "tweak" a new install to get the most
>>>>> appropriate software for a new user. We can look at upgrade issues
>>>>> for
>>>>> Ubuntu, and I have an 18.04 Live/Install usb to show off.  I did some
>>>>> reading and at one place it said the Upgrade of older systems is
>>>>> applied at the xx.04.1 level, that is in the first numbered release
>>>>> after the initial release. July 1st is the time these have appeared
>>>>> in
>>>>> the past, give or take some leeway.
>>>>> Anybody can write to the list and add comments or issues to address
>>>>> at
>>>>> the meeting on Thursday.
>>>>> Thank you, Ted P.
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