Recent content by Jayce

Hi friends. Been a while since I posted here. Running into a confusing situation that I'm trying to make sense of. Here's the run-down: HP 15-R033DS model laptop. Purchased February 2015. Went into warranty repair center May 2015 to receive a new motherboard. Since then, laptop worked fine...

Re: What You've just eaten thread.... far. too. many. tater. tots.

I tried, but the Pi seems to go into hard lock mode now and then, almost as frequently as twice a day without warning. Some users online suggested this is almost always the result of an underpowered power adapter, so I moved from 700mA to 2a, but even with trying three different 2a bricks, same...

Hello friends. I'm on the hunt for a solution utilizing hardware I already have to pair with OpenMediaVault, a Linux based NAS operating system. Specifically this will be for my in-laws. I want it to be as low powered as possible. I thought I had a few options, but I feel like I'm getting a...

Hello friends. Been a while since I posted, but figured I'd do a little brain dump of some recent tinkering I've done. In the past, I've ran Ubuntu Server on my home server. The job of this home server is to do many things. It's a centralized storage point for all of our data, namely pictures...

If I recall, you won't even see stars to indicate the number of characters in your password. You just have to be a good typist and nail it. Assuming that you've tried and failed to enter all passwords you would have possibly entered when setting up the system, the next step is to simply reset...

ChromeOS is based on Linux, much like Android is largely based on Linux. That's the benefit of Linux, as you can take that "engine" and strap an operating system on top to interface with it. Linux has played a central part of my life, both at home and at work, for a number of years now. We're...

I've only had luck using ISOs with DD that were largely Linux based. I tried to create Windows 7 and Windows 8 USB installers on Ubuntu via DD but failed. I assume it's because the Windows ISOs aren't configured in a way to allow for this, but I'm not positive. To create my USB installers for 7...

Re: Today I have... Yeah, I gotcha. I never really uploaded a bunch of files from the web side of it, so I'm not too sure. A few times I had some random oddball project come up, such as when my grandpa passed, the whole extended family of about 100 people sent me pictures to my ownCloud server...

Re: Today I have... OwnCloud is pretty darn snazzy. They have some way to go yet with all of these advanced features they're adding, but their development speed has been pretty admirable. They just added Google Doc style peer editing for open document formats, which works pretty well. We use...

Re: Today I have... Today, I stopped being lazy and upgraded my ownCloud server from SQLite to MySQL. Now the sucker flies. I set up my phone and my wife's phone to sync videos/pictures over wifi to my server. So now, we have a full on working cloud service with nearly 1 TB of space that sits...

I used to run openELEC. It is fabulous and runs on barebones hardware. That said, all it is... is XBMC. If you want a more feature full setup, perhaps you can consider doing what I did. I set up Ubuntu on a HTPC system. I then installed XBMC. I set Ubuntu to auto login and XBMC to auto start...

You'll have some cases where that's true. In fact I've seen that happen first hand myself. What I've also seen first hand are some users going only one version bump, say 2007 to 2010, or 2010 to 2013, and still had a multitude of questions in regard to doing abc and xyz tasks. It's impossible to...

There really wasn't any concern with training, but this also wasn't our first rodeo. In 2011 we pushed 600 Linux laptops out. In 2012, we pushed another 1,000 out. These laptops were meant to replace an aging fleet of student Macbook systems. We've had a few random labs spawn that are Linux...

While the presence of Microsoft Office cannot be denied, it by no means is the "end all" office suite that comes with a 'must have, no questions' seal. I'm not sure of your age offhand, but think back to when you were in school. Did you use Microsoft Office? Or did you use something else...