Recent content by Rob

Is this a laptop?

Also, just get in and mess around with it. Sometimes that's the best way to learn.

I didn't do it this week lol.. I was going to, but the turnout was so low last week I couldn't muster it for tonight :) I should have... maybe every other week to start.. and i'll promote next week's a little better lol.

I'll check em out and see how their reviews are. I like to keep it mostly "stock" for security reasons (plus, in case the dev stops updating). Thanks man! Rob

In the chat one was from my work.. another was from my cooking youtube channel lol. No one else talked in the chat :)

Hey Dstar, welcome to Linux.org! Yep, you can use open office as Wiz said, or you can give LibreOffice a shot since it's a fork and (maybe) better. It'd be similar and have all of the tools you're used to in Open Office. As far as a good distribution to start with, Kali would not be it...

I saw JUST as I hit end broadcast lol.. otherwise I would have kept it open. It only had 2-3 people the whole time haha :)

haha i know :) Yep, it'll be recorded. We're just going to talk about whatever the chat brings up though, so if no one shows up, i'll probably not keep it up :)

lol - well, you gotta fix that :)

Hey guys, I'm thinking of starting a weekly live hangout type thing on YouTube where I can hopefully answer some questions or just talk about whatever anyone in the chat wants to talk about. I have a YouTube channel where i've been uploading some tutorials and i'd use that for this live. I'll...

Yep - I agree with khedger. Test your remote connection first with ssh. Then cd into the directory where you want to copy things and run a pwd to see the directory path. Then use that path in your macbook when you're using scp as the remote directory.

Hey there - we only use google adsense on here.. no pop-ups, etc.. They show ads relevant to what's on the page you're reading. If you're reading a post about dragons, they'll advertise dragons to you. If it's about BBQ they'll show you grills. Also, this site keeps running from the...

Hey there @Alone in the Dark - have you tried what some of the people have been suggesting? :)

Or are you running windows and looking to install virtualbox there so that you can run linux on there?

@SabSchap rsync is a great tool to get files from here to there (or there to here!). I'll usually run it with these flags: Copying a directory, here to there: rsync -avz --progress /path/to/directory/ [email protected]:/path/to/place/it/ Copying a directory, there to here: rsync -avz --progress...