A key to avoid the nudging of the printers: they advertise themselves by multicast messages. Since you are bugged by those, I suspect you don't have any firewall installed. It's extremely advisable to install gufw (which is the GUI of ufw, it'll install ufw). Very easily configurable. That will reject any incoming TCP connections, including multicast messages. As a side effect probably you'll shield yourself from many potential attacks of bits and part of your system which expose themselves on certain ports. Linux is not secure enough by default. Just saying...
Your last thing: which dialog is that? Sounds like some stupid UI paradigm resulting from following OSX UI sheepishly. On Mon, Aug 20, 2018 at 8:05 AM Shawn Garbett <[email protected]> wrote: > My experience so far has been a bit more painful. First of all the Spectre > and Meltdown patches left my box crashing at random on a mouse driver (go > figure). Several updates to 18.04 later it stabilized. Then some new > printer discovery daemon was added. It proceeded to go into discovery mode > everytime I clicked print--and Vanderbilt's internal network has more than > a few printers. So there was this huge grind of cpu and network as it tried > to fill my print box with every possible option. I eventually figured out > which daemon was added and ripped that thing out. Seriously, who's idea was > it that turning on discover all printers on network is something everyone > would want. > > Post those two things I find it irritating that the "save" or "okay" box > is now top right. 30 years of being trained to click on the bottom is now a > daily irritation. > > On Thursday, August 16, 2018 at 6:50:07 AM UTC-5, Howard wrote: >> >> 18.04 came out in late April. Only now are my 16.04 desktop systems >> getting the "hey, there is 18.04 now, wanna upgrade" message. Thought >> I'd do my 4 monitor using the NVIDIA specific video driver system which >> has always been just a little twitchy. Upgrade went off without any >> drama and the video works fine after. >> >> Even better, with 16.04 when one changes the multi-display layout, that >> config goes away with every reboot (or at least it does for me). With >> 18.04 - it sticks! I don't have to go into display settings and move >> the monitors around to where they really live! >> >> Life's little pleasures... YMMV >> >> Howard >> > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
