Re: [Discuss] Firefox vs. Chrome

2011-07-26 Thread Scott Ehrlich
On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 12:15 AM, Rich Braun ri...@pioneer.ci.net wrote: Not too long ago, I bought a Core i5 with 8GB of RAM, thinking that this amount of horsepower thrown at the Firefox problem would make it go away. Wrong, I was still seeing sluggish 2000ms+ response time to such simple

[Discuss] Test email.

2011-07-26 Thread David Kramer
We're having server problems again. Testing sending to the list. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

[Discuss] screen configuration in emacs

2011-07-26 Thread Glenn Hoffman
I've just installed emacs on a linode virtual machine running Centos. When I run emacs, the screen seems wrongly configured in that the insertion point seems to be one line below where it should be. In addition, the black bar across the bottom of the wraps to a second line, even when I make the

Re: [Discuss] Test email.

2011-07-26 Thread Adam Russell
Digest mode seems to have been switched off for me. I am now receiving individual messages. Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2011 01:04:41 -0400 From: da...@thekramers.net To: discuss@blu.org Subject: [Discuss] Test email. We're having server problems again. Testing sending to the list.

Re: [Discuss] unRAID

2011-07-26 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
From: discuss-boun...@blu.org [mailto:discuss-boun...@blu.org] On Behalf Of Tom Metro (ZFS pools are perhaps the closest approximation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZFS#Storage_pools but I don't think you can pull an arbitrary drive from a pool and replace it with a higher capacity one and

Re: [Discuss] Firefox vs. Chrome

2011-07-26 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
From: discuss-boun...@blu.org [mailto:discuss-boun...@blu.org] On Behalf Of Ian Stokes-Rees FF5 can be a huge memory hog. I stick with it because I make heavy use of the extensions, however I am constantly experimenting to find out which extensions may be causing the extreme memory

Re: [Discuss] unRAID

2011-07-26 Thread Bill Bogstad
On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 2:39 PM, Tom Metro tmetro-...@vl.com wrote: While researching to buy/build an HTPC (likely to run XBMC) I ran across: This is a good illustration of why we'd be better off getting unRAID-like functionality added to a solid, widely used OS, like Linux or FreeBSD.

Re: [Discuss] unRAID

2011-07-26 Thread Rich Braun
[resending, my first was blocked in moderator queue] Edward Net Harvey opined: But even losing 5% of your files is usually considered fatal, so that's why people usually adopt the strategy of never losing more than their redundancy level, and make sure you have backups. Indeed; the unRAID

Re: [Discuss] unRAID

2011-07-26 Thread Tom Metro
Bill Bogstad wrote: It also says that the individual data drives are formatted with ReiserFS. That doesn't bode well. Not exactly a popular choice these days, having been mostly abandoned for ext3. A quick google search implies that the source code to their changes are available, but its

Re: [Discuss] unRAID

2011-07-26 Thread Bill Bogstad
On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 2:28 PM, Tom Metro tmetro-...@vl.com wrote: Bill Bogstad wrote: It also says that the individual data drives are formatted with ReiserFS. That doesn't bode well. Not exactly a popular choice these days, having been mostly abandoned for ext3. Thanks for your

[Discuss] FF plugins

2011-07-26 Thread Gary Johnson
Firebug is a Firefox plugin/extension and a fairly extensive debugger. I use it, but I browse with it disabled. If you are not actively using a plugin its not a bad idea to keep it disabled . It's not that I mind your dishonesty so much, it's that you think I'm stupid -Charlie Brown

Re: [Discuss] Firefox vs. Chrome

2011-07-26 Thread Tom Metro
MBR wrote: What have they warned you about Firebug? In my experience, several years ago when I was using a more resource constrained machine, it caused FF to hit the point of unusability much sooner than without it. Does it affect performance if Firebug's installed even if you're not using

Re: [Discuss] unRAID

2011-07-26 Thread Tom Metro
[Forwarding on behalf of Rich Braun, whose list subscription needs adjustment, and apparently the list management UI isn't working yet. -Tom] Original Message Subject: Re: unRAID Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 15:04:43 + From: Rich Braun ri...@pioneer.ci.net Edward Net Harvey

Re: [Discuss] Firefox vs. Chrome

2011-07-26 Thread Ian Stokes-Rees
On 7/21/11 12:57 PM, Tom Metro wrote: Rich Braun wrote: I can make it go away for that short amount of time by killing and restarting the browser, but a day later Firefox is /always/ painfully slow -- thrashing through memory (not disk) in some inefficient piece of core code. This

[Discuss] Problems with mailing lists on the BLU server

2011-07-26 Thread John Abreau
The BLU server locked up on Thursday evening, and when I went to the ISP on Saturday to reboot, it wouldn't come up again. I brought a loaner machine to the ISP on Monday and restored the backups onto it, but the lists were not included in the backups. Jerry Feldman had a cron job on another

Re: [Discuss] Problems with mailing lists on the BLU server

2011-07-26 Thread John Abreau
One consequence of the current issues with the lists are that subscriber passwords were randomly regenerated, so the old list passwords no longer work. To recover your new password, you can visit the listinfo page at http://blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss and down at the bottom of the