Re: [gentoo-user] CPU speed scaling quirk (Intel; Dell i660)

2020-03-04 Thread madscientistatlarge
To reduce problems with emitted Radio Frequency Interference, most processors now use a clock that varies in speed over time. This doesn't really reduce the emitted energy, but because it is always changing frequency interference with other devices tends to be intermittent, and Ideally

Re: [gentoo-user] Libreoffice and pasting HTML from web pages.

2020-03-02 Thread madscientistatlarge
Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email. ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Monday, March 2, 2020 5:35 PM, Dale wrote: > Michael wrote: > > > On Monday, 2 March 2020 23:07:03 GMT Dale wrote: > > > > > Howdy, > > > I don't use LOo a whole lot but several months ago, I noticed a > > > problem.

Re: [gentoo-user] External hard drive and idle activity

2020-01-02 Thread madscientistatlarge
‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Thursday, January 2, 2020 12:12 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Thu, Jan 2, 2020 at 1:41 PM Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: > > > Rich Freeman wrote: > > > > > Out of curiosity, what model drive is it? Is it by chance an SMR / > > > archive drive? > > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] /proc/meminfo vs lshw -c memory

2020-04-17 Thread madscientistatlarge
If the bios sees it, an lshw sees it it's not the ram, I seriously doubt new ram would help. I've seen a failing power supply make ram look flaky before, possibly the drive activity during booting is loading down the power supply enough to confuse your' system. In any case, you should run

Re: [gentoo-user] no ebuilds for telegram

2020-05-14 Thread madscientistatlarge
Just talked to doc. If you are willing to risk it come on over and lets shop! Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email. ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Thursday, May 14, 2020 3:08 PM, n952162 wrote: > On 05/14/20 23:03, Matt Connell (Gmail) wrote: > > > On 2020-05-14 15:29, n952162 wrote: > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] a day of PAIN.

2020-05-14 Thread madscientistatlarge
I'm using a nearly 10 year old server, bought specifically so I can compile faster. None of my machines is newer than that. None of my machines support UEFI other than an older imac. The server, which was inexpensive ($500) only has 48 cores, 64 as soon as I update the processors (2

Re: [gentoo-user] SDD strategies...

2020-03-17 Thread madscientistatlarge
Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email. ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Tuesday, March 17, 2020 5:18 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > Hm. My NVMe boot drive doesn't show a lifetime attribute, but my two 1TB SSDs > do, and they both show 100%, which makes me

Re: [gentoo-user] How to fix license error during install?

2020-03-20 Thread madscientistatlarge
Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email. ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Friday, March 20, 2020 8:18 PM, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > On Fri, Mar 20, 2020 at 10:16 PM John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: > > > On Fri, 20 Mar 2020 21:16:10 -0400, > > Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > > > > Hi Everyone, > >

Re: [gentoo-user] repair uefi vfat /boot?

2020-03-22 Thread madscientistatlarge
Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email. ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Sunday, March 22, 2020 5:54 PM, Wols Lists wrote: > On 22/03/20 22:40, Caveman Al Toraboran wrote: > > > any idea why 1 partition (uefi vfat) is suffering errors, but the other > > ext4 isn't? > > Simple. If the surface is

Re: [gentoo-user] Testing a used hard drive to make SURE it is good.

2020-06-15 Thread madscientistatlarge
I just tested a couple of 4TB drives, the hgst 7k400 series (7200 rpm), it takes about a day to fill one of those, copying from another one of those. I prefer to use "real" data, rather than a test pattern. My procedure is to first run the short SMART test, format the drive (which also takes

Re: [gentoo-user] new genkernel problem

2020-06-11 Thread madscientistatlarge
hey, when you come over bring your' sam's club card, so I can get a pallet of coke. Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email. ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Thursday, June 11, 2020 8:18 AM, antlists wrote: > On 06/06/2020 23:11, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > > You don't boot from an encrypted drive

Re: [gentoo-user] new genkernel problem

2020-06-11 Thread madscientistatlarge
Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email. ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Thursday, June 11, 2020 8:18 AM, antlists wrote: > On 06/06/2020 23:11, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > > You don't boot from an encrypted drive (yet) or use unusual hardware, > > that's what I meant by a plain system. Dracut