On Wed, Sep 18, 2024 at 6:42 AM Peter Humphrey
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> Greetings,
>
> I maintain an ~amd64 system remotely over SSH (from downstairs), and that
> includes rebooting it with, say, a new kernel. Sometimes the system is
running
> a KDE/Plasma GUI, and I want to log out gracefully from it before
re
On Fri, Sep 6, 2024 at 2:42 PM Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
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> Am Fri, Sep 06, 2024 at 01:21:20PM +0100 schrieb Michael:
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> > > > find path-to-directory/ -type f | xargs md5sum > digest.log
> > > >
> > > > then to compare with a backup of the same directory you could run:
> > > >
> > > > md5sum -c
On Thu, Sep 5, 2024 at 12:00 PM Peter Humphrey
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> On Thursday 5 September 2024 15:43:00 BST Iwrote:
> > On Thursday 5 September 2024 13:47:29 BST I wrote:
> > > ... Perhaps I should start recompiling things...
> >
> > After an emerge -e1 kwayland plasma-workspace and a reboot,
kwin_wayland
On Tue, Aug 27, 2024 at 3:07 PM Dale wrote:
> Is there some other place I should look to see if it is set correctly?
> I miss something?
>
I _think_ what you are looking for is tight click an app's banner, choose
More Actions -> Configure Special Application Settings
and set the window size and
On Mon, Aug 12, 2024 at 8:07 AM Peter Humphrey
wrote:
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> Greetings,
>
> I'm building a new ~amd64 system on a box with a Radeon Pro W5500, which
has a
> Navi 14 chipset.
>
> Portage's instructions for fetching the AMD code want Radeon 20.40, but
the
> AMD site has nothing older than 22.x, as far
On Mon, Jul 29, 2024 at 6:42 AM Peter Humphrey
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> On Monday, 29 July 2024 14:32:24 BST Michael wrote:
> > On Monday, 29 July 2024 14:27:03 BST Matt Connell wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2024-07-29 at 14:17 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > > > Is there a way to pass a shutdown command to KDE over SS
On Mon, Jul 8, 2024 at 5:27 AM Dale wrote:
> I don't know about cell phones but if using the youtube app, I'd think
> it would know what you are using and the resolution too. To me, it
> looks like it would be best for everyone to only download what is needed
> and no more. It saves bandwidth o
On Sun, Jul 7, 2024 at 1:54 PM Dale wrote:
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> Mark Knecht wrote:
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> On Wed, Jun 19, 2024 at 12:30 PM Dale wrote:
> Well, I wouldn't mind finding the file that has the temps. I have a
little simple script that uses cat, grep etc to get temps and fan info.
nv
On Sun, Jul 7, 2024 at 1:09 PM Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
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> Am Sat, Jul 06, 2024 at 07:32:49PM -0500 schrieb Dale:
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> Well don’t mix up frame rate and scaling. 75 Hz vs. 60 is quite subtle,
you
> might not even notice 90 Hz. But changing DPI from 80 to 70 will mean an
> increase in fonts by 14
On Wed, Jun 19, 2024 at 12:30 PM Dale wrote:
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> Howdy,
>
> I got the new Nvidia Quadro P1000 video card in the other day. I got it
> installed.
>
> Any ideas? Thanks.
>
> Dale
it's not much but nvidia-smi does show a list of GPUs and has one
temperature reading per GPU on my system
nvtop show
On Wed, Jul 3, 2024 at 6:33 AM Dale wrote:
> Actually, it does. Thing is, it doesn't show the HDMI as a option in
> the list. I bet the reason it doesn't show up under applications like
> it did before is because it only sees the main speakers as a option. No
> need showing options when there
On Tue, Jul 2, 2024 at 12:44 PM Dale wrote:
> I tried it with those options and without. Neither changed anything. I
> originally tried it with no xorg.conf at all. I was hoping maybe the
> Nvidia GUI thing would adjust things. I may try that again. No
> xorg.conf and use the GUI thing. Tha
On Tue, Jul 2, 2024 at 5:47 AM Dale wrote:
> Does anyone know where those controls went or if there is some new way
> to control that that I've missed? I really liked having those options.
> It made things a lot easier. USE flag info.
Everything I need is either in the speaker icon on the bot
On Sat, Jun 29, 2024 at 3:15 PM Michael wrote:
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> On Saturday, 29 June 2024 21:30:59 BST Dale wrote:
> > I booted the rig up and decided to try something. Once it was booted, I
> > logged in from my main rig via ssh. I then typed in the command to
> > start DM. It started and looked OK. Then
On Fri, Jun 28, 2024 at 2:41 PM Dale wrote:
> Doing that was actually not much trouble. I booted, changed something
just in case it rebooted and went back for some reason but would change
something on the screen. Usually, I change the page on the KDE welcome
screen to like page 4 or something.
On Thu, Jun 27, 2024 at 10:18 PM Dale wrote:
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> Mark Knecht wrote:
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> On Thu, Jun 27, 2024 at 4:01 PM Dale wrote:
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> >
> > I think the rig and video card are fine. I did try a different card
and version of nvidia drivers once tho. Same thing. At f
On Thu, Jun 27, 2024 at 4:01 PM Dale wrote:
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> I think the rig and video card are fine. I did try a different card and
version of nvidia drivers once tho. Same thing. At first, I tried the
nouveau drivers. All the bootable media uses that driver. When I tried it
on my install, it was very s
On Thu, Jun 27, 2024 at 2:13 PM Dale wrote:
> I've tried to use nvidia-settings but the man page is like Greek. The
one thing I did figure out, -q all. On my main rig, it spits out TONS of
info. On the new rig, it just says something like no display found or
something. It's like two lines, ma
On Thu, Jun 27, 2024 at 12:03 AM Dale wrote:
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> Update. I played around a bit. I figured I didn't have a lot to lose
> here. It either works, or it doesn't. After playing around a bit, I
> got it to work. I have not restarted it to see if it will work again,
> yet. I wanted to grab some log
Dale,
Sorry for top posting but I'm travelling and responding on my phone.
I don't think this is you hardware and probably not KDE. It's possibly
some Gentoo-ish issue.
To test and get a KDE config I would boot a Kubuntu flash drive and
choose the 'Try it's option which installs nothing.
On Sun, Jun 16, 2024 at 5:59 AM Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
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> Am Sat, Jun 15, 2024 at 04:07:28PM -0700 schrieb Mark Knecht:
>
> >Now, the fun part. I wrote you a little Python program which on
> > my system is called Dales_Loop.py. This program has 3
> > parameters
> I still don't understand the efi thing. I'm booted up tho. I'm happy.
> Now to get temp sensors and stuff to work. I want to keep a eye on
> temps for a bit. I think the boot media was reporting the wrong info.
> Even the ambient temp was to high for this cool room. It showed like
> 100F or
On Sat, Jun 1, 2024 at 10:38 PM Dale wrote:
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> Howdy, again,
>
Hi Dale,
As part of a little AI project I'm working on I ran across a relatively
inexpensive ideo you might want to look into. The basic idea is to
use a PXIx -> M.2 E Key card and on that card load an M2. E Key
to SATA adapter.
On Tue, Jun 4, 2024 at 3:12 PM Dale wrote:
> Holy crap. That is amazing. As you say, just one out of all of them and
it is a bad chip, whether it is buggy or just plain dead. I was expecting
more like close to or into the billions. I was not expecting that. Can
you imagine if a chip had to b
On Tue, Jun 4, 2024 at 2:24 PM Mark Knecht wrote:
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> On Tue, Jun 4, 2024 at 2:04 PM Dale wrote:
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> > Well, there is a lot to be said about moving what used to be external
to internal. It does result in faster moves for pretty much everything.
Moving data from
On Tue, Jun 4, 2024 at 2:04 PM Dale wrote:
> Well, there is a lot to be said about moving what used to be external to
internal. It does result in faster moves for pretty much everything.
Moving data from one side of a chip to another is faster than moving data
out of a chip and then back in agai
On Tue, Jun 4, 2024 at 1:27 PM Dale wrote:
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> Mark Knecht wrote:
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> On Tue, Jun 4, 2024 at 11:35 AM Dale wrote:
Is the new way taking out what used to be called a northbridge or
southbridge chip or both chips?
Not exactly taking out but rather repartitioning. Much of
On Tue, Jun 4, 2024 at 11:35 AM Dale wrote:
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> I'm thinking one good HBA will handle the current set of drives and give
> decent speed at that in the Fractal case when the new mobo ends up
> there. The Fractal can handle 20 that I can count easily. There's 4 in
> the bottom, 11 in a tall stack
On Tue, Jun 4, 2024 at 9:14 AM Rich Freeman wrote:
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> On Tue, Jun 4, 2024 at 11:40 AM Joost Roeleveld
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> > Those steps do not just work.
> > The news item actually specifically states that portage will "just do
> > the update" if you have not set any python_targets stuff.
> > I have th
On Sat, Jun 1, 2024 at 1:16 PM Wol wrote:
> I've got news for you, there are quite a few weirdos on the list, but it
> adds spice!
>
Ah! I feel so at home!
Thanks Wol!
On Sat, May 25, 2024 at 3:14 PM Grant Edwards
wrote:
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> On 2024-05-24, Mark Knecht wrote:
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> > The unit showed up today and was a breeze to set up and get running
> > at a basic level. The device requires an app on my phone.
>
> That sets of an alarm for me.
>
On Fri, May 24, 2024 at 1:25 PM Tsukasa Mcp_Reznor
wrote:
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> For what it's worth I've been using gerbera for years, it'll pass-through
supported videos/codecs or you can set it up to transcode. Highly
recommend it. On my roku TV's I just use the roku media player, it'll see
UPnP servers just f
On Fri, May 24, 2024 at 8:26 AM Grant Edwards
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> On 2024-05-24, Mark Knecht wrote:
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> > I'm a Plex user for video and have also ripped my CD
> > collection. Plex plays audio fine to TVs that have a Plex app but
> > apparently sometimes doesn't wo
Hi,
Please excuse my off topic question. Does anyone here use a UPnP server
for audio files that they recommend as being particularly good?
I'm a Plex user for video and have also ripped my CD collection. Plex
plays audio fine to TVs that have a Plex app but apparently sometimes
doesn't work
> You could be right. I did find one interesting post in my google search,
one person updated their BIOS and fixed the issue. Pretty sure mine is up
to date. Given the age of the mobo, I doubt they even think of releasing a
new BIOS for that old thing.
>
> Anyway, I found a card with a Marvel ch
On Mon, May 20, 2024 at 12:09 PM Dale wrote:
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> First, I thought cards were backward compatible? You could stick a 3.0
> into a 2.0 slot and it would just run as a 2.0 and vice versa. I know
> the mobo is 2.0. It does recognize the drive but seems to nuke the
> ethernet somehow. I looked, th
On Wed, May 15, 2024 at 4:38 PM Walter Dnes wrote:
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> > Have you checked that the directory where you are attempting to do
> > this is one that your account owns? I generally have to su - to root,
> > create a directory at the top level, change it so that I own it and
> > have rwx permissions, an
On Wed, May 15, 2024 at 2:29 PM Walter Dnes wrote:
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> What I *CAN* do... upload/download/create/delete *FILES* on SD card
>
> What I *CANNOT* do... create new *DIRECTORIES* on SD card
>
> [x8940][waltdnes][~/tablet/sdcard1] mkdir data
> mkdir: cannot create directory ‘data’: Input/output erro
On Thu, May 9, 2024 at 6:35 PM Mark Knecht wrote:
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> >
> >
> > I've looked for a adapter. I couldn't find one. That's why I
connected to a old rig that had a set of molex cables I could use. Luckily
I had a molex to sata adapter. Do you know what t
>
>
> I've looked for a adapter. I couldn't find one. That's why I connected
to a old rig that had a set of molex cables I could use. Luckily I had a
molex to sata adapter. Do you know what they are called so I know what to
search for? I'd buy a dozen or so just to have extras laying around.
On Thu, May 9, 2024 at 4:31 PM Dale wrote:
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> Dale wrote:
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> Mark Knecht wrote:
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>
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> On Thu, May 9, 2024 at 2:12 PM Dale wrote:
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> > Can someone tell me how to know when a drive has PWDIS and when it
> > doesn't? Is there some term for it th
On Thu, May 9, 2024 at 2:12 PM Dale wrote:
> Can someone tell me how to know when a drive has PWDIS and when it
> doesn't? Is there some term for it that shows in the specs and I'm
> missing it? Or is there no way to really know?
I believe PWDIS is part of the SATA 3.3 spec so first filter wou
On Sat, Apr 27, 2024 at 9:53 AM Dale wrote:
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> Howdy,
>
> I'm installing Gentoo on another old box. To be consistent I like to
> use cgdisk, GPT I think it is called, to partition all my drives,
> regardless of size. Thing is, Grub works differently with GPT than it
> does with the old DOS or w
On Wed, Mar 27, 2024 at 11:59 AM J. Roeleveld wrote:
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> Hi all,
>
> I am looking for a way to synchronise a filesystem between 2 servers.
Changes
> can occur on both sides which means I need to have it synchronise in both
> directions.
>
> Does anyone have any thoughts on this?
>
> Also, both ser
On Wed, Feb 28, 2024 at 6:25 PM Adam Carter wrote:
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>> The other thing is, look up the definition (such as there is) of CSVs.
>> Special characters (such as commas) can be quoted. Standard practice as
>> far as I can tell, is that any cell containing a comma will be
>> double-quoted, and the quo
On Wed, Feb 28, 2024 at 3:24 PM Dale wrote:
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> Paul B. Henson wrote:
> > On Sat, Feb 24, 2024 at 08:53:37PM -0800, Daniel Frey wrote:
> >> After cursing KDE for a while with three monitors, does anyone have any
> >> idea why KDE is so bad at managing multiple monitors?
> > . I ended up adding thi
On Mon, Feb 26, 2024 at 4:45 PM Grant Edwards
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> On 2024-02-26, Wol wrote:
> > On 26/02/2024 20:51, Grant Edwards wrote:
> >
> >> The simple answer is to quit wasting time trying to multi-boot like
> >> that and just buy a dozen USB flash drives.
> >>
> > And then, if USB isn't the defaul
On Sun, Feb 25, 2024 at 10:35 AM Daniel Frey wrote:
> I probably should have added more details... I do have an nvidia card -
> RTX 3070Ti. Monitors use 2x DP ports and 1x HDMI port.
>
> KDE behaves very strangely. Like, it crashes often when using multiple
> monitors and I've never been able to
On Fri, Feb 23, 2024 at 12:52 PM Grant Edwards
wrote:
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> On 2024-02-23, Mark Knecht wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 23, 2024 at 11:59 AM Grant Edwards <
grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> The simple solution is to give up on multi-booting a dozen d
On Fri, Feb 23, 2024 at 11:59 AM Grant Edwards
wrote:
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>
> The simple solution is to give up on multi-booting a dozen different
> distros on a single disk and buy a pocketful of USB 3 thumb drives.
>
Given performance does drop a bit and there can be issues with allocating
hardware, why not use
On Fri, Feb 2, 2024 at 4:39 PM Grant Edwards
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> I googled for ZFS backup applications, but didn't find anything that
> seemed to be widespread and "supported" the way that rsnapshot is.
I'm not exactly sure I'm following your thoughts above but
have you investigated True-NAS? It is Open
On Sun, Jan 28, 2024 at 9:49 AM Peter Humphrey
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> On Sunday, 28 January 2024 16:39:56 GMT I wrote:
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> > Hits on the web suggest downgrading linux-firmware, which I've now done
and
> > will await results. The latest upgrade was to version 20240115-r1, four
days
> > ago.
>
> s/Hits/Hints/
>
On Wed, Jan 24, 2024 at 9:01 AM Thelma wrote:
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> Is anybody using extension: net-misc/chrome-remote-desktop in Gentoo?
>
> The package installed OK, but Google I think only supports Windows and
Mac.
OK, I hesitate to delve into this too much but I did use it a 5-6 years ago
on Gentoo, but mostly
On Wed, Jan 17, 2024 at 9:58 AM wrote:
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> On 1/10/24 15:14, Mark Knecht wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Jan 10, 2024 at 2:38 PM > wrote:
>
> Thank you, yes that work perfectly
>
> "efibootmgr -n " is one time entry for one reboot; to set it perma
On Wed, Jan 10, 2024 at 2:38 PM wrote:
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> On 1/9/24 19:22, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> > On 10/01/2024 02:18, the...@sys-concept.com wrote:
> >> I have a box that is two HD's and both are bootable; using "refind"
instead of grub.
> >> So the selection I choose at boot which drive to boot will be t
On Tue, Jan 9, 2024 at 2:58 PM Dale wrote:
> One reason I was asking, if no one else was seeing this, I was going to
reset my KDE config and get a fresh start. I haven't done that in a long
time
It's worth a try but it didn't help the one problem I've had with KDE for
maybe the last year or so
On Mon, Jan 8, 2024 at 6:39 PM Dale wrote:
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> Howdy,
>
> When I remount, whether it is a encrypted drive
> or not, the main window updates when I click on c directory but the
> folders panel never shows the little arrow or expands as it normally
> does. Even if I navigate in the main window all
On Wed, Dec 20, 2023 at 4:38 PM Paul Colquhoun
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> On Thursday, December 21, 2023 8:53:05 A.M. AEDT Mark Knecht wrote:
> > Hi,
> >I have a couple of older, by today's standards not very powerful,
> > laptops and I was considering setting up some sort of
Hi,
I have a couple of older, by today's standards not very powerful,
laptops and I was considering setting up some sort of network monitoring
aimed mostly at watching for intrusion events but also just network traffic
and resource issues. I'm wondering what you all might be using for that
sort
On Sun, Oct 29, 2023 at 7:28 AM Dale wrote:
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>
> The enclosure that doesn't work right is a StarTech SAT3510BU2E. The
> ones that work fine, they are Rosewill RX304APU335B. Both of those
> models have fans. They have both eSATA and USB but I've never used the
> USB ports.
>
> All the external
> This wasn't the kernel. It was doing something else. I googled for it
and others had the same issue but I never found where there was a fix. Odd
thing is, it didn't do it every time. Just most of the time. When I was
having network problems, it added a few more wait times. Once it took
abou
On Tue, Oct 17, 2023 at 11:07 AM Dale wrote:
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> Mark Knecht wrote:
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>
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> On Tue, Oct 17, 2023 at 9:41 AM Dale wrote:
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> >
> > Well, the 770T now has Gentoo on it. As usual, my fresh built kernel
> > booted the very first time without error and every
On Tue, Oct 17, 2023 at 9:41 AM Dale wrote:
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> Well, the 770T now has Gentoo on it. As usual, my fresh built kernel
> booted the very first time without error and every thing worked.
> Sometimes, things go right. ROFL I have to say tho, I wish they would
> split the install docs into two part
On Mon, Oct 16, 2023 at 9:56 AM Dale wrote:
> Mark, the command nmcli you listed isn't installed on this machine as it
> uses netplan. It seems netplan is new so maybe it is a little buggy
> right now. I read that if I have netplan, I shouldn't install other
> network managers, tools like ifcon
On Mon, Oct 16, 2023 at 12:52 AM Dale wrote:
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> Howdy,
>
> I finally got through with my backup restore. I had shutdown the NAS
> box with Ubuntu on it since I was done with it. I wanted to do some
> updates and check some other stuff, still learning how Ubuntu works, so
> I rebooted it. I did
> I'm planning on my new rig having the Ryzen 5900X. Is the 5950 better?
While I've kinda picked that one, I'm open to ideas if it is faster and I
can afford it. As it is, I'm looking at between $300 and $350 for the
5900. My last CPU cost a little over $100.
>
I'm not going to say one is bette
On Fri, Oct 13, 2023 at 10:02 AM Dale wrote:
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> Michael wrote:
>
> On Friday, 13 October 2023 02:35:21 BST Dale wrote:
>
> root@fireball / # cryptsetup benchmark
> # Tests are approximate using memory only (no storage IO).
> PBKDF2-sha1 878204 iterations per second for 256-bit key
> PBKDF2-
On Sun, Oct 8, 2023 at 10:56 AM Dale wrote:
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> Howdy,
>
> I use Konsole a lot, that thing within KDE that acts like a console.
> Anyway, I'm running a offline file system check on a rather large file
> system. For some reason, Konsole decided to crash. I can see the file
> system is still runni
On Sat, Oct 7, 2023 at 9:18 AM Dale wrote:
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> My first kernel, emerge prechecks warned that it wasn't and might or
might not work. So, I went back to a version that it claims is supported.
I have to say tho, the nvidia site wasn't very helpful. The messages when
emerging nvidia-drivers was a l
On Sat, Oct 7, 2023 at 9:01 AM Dale wrote:
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> Peter Böhm wrote:
> > Am Samstag, 7. Oktober 2023, 14:42:48 CEST schrieb Nuno Silva:
> >
> >> I'm not sure it's fair to say it'll be easier in the webforum. [...]
> > I think everything has its advantages and disadvantages. I suggested
the forum
> > b
On Sat, Sep 30, 2023 at 12:59 PM Dale wrote:
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> Howdy,
>
> I've googled for this several times when I got a few minutes. So far, I
> don't see a way to do this. As some know, I'm on the path to building a
> new rig. Some of you are about to see why that is. I have 18 virtual
> desktop thingys
On Sat, Sep 23, 2023 at 9:22 AM Rich Freeman wrote:
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> On Sat, Sep 23, 2023 at 8:04 AM Dale wrote:
> >
> > I'm expecting more of a consistent throughput instead of all the
> > idle time. The final throughput is only around 29.32MB/s according to
> > info from rsync. If it was not stopping all
>
> Oh. My pepper sauce was getting loud and my eyes were watery. Now that
I got that done, I can see better after opening the doors a few minutes.
This is what I get now. My NAS box, running it first:
>
> root@nas:~# iperf -s
>
> Ser
On Sat, Sep 23, 2023 at 6:41 AM Dale wrote:
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> Mark Knecht wrote:
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>
>
> On Sat, Sep 23, 2023 at 5:05 AM Dale wrote:
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> > If you need more info, let me know. If you know the command, that might
> > help too. Just in case it is a command I'm not famil
On Sat, Sep 23, 2023 at 5:05 AM Dale wrote:
> If you need more info, let me know. If you know the command, that might
> help too. Just in case it is a command I'm not familiar with.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Dale
>
> :-) :-)
You can use the iperf command to do simple raw speed testing.
For instance, o
On Sun, Sep 17, 2023 at 12:04 PM Wols Lists
wrote:
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> On 17/09/2023 19:35, Peter Böhm wrote:
> > Am Sonntag, 17. September 2023, 19:46:05 CEST schrieb Wols Lists:
> >
> >> It always annoys me, but baloo seems to be being an absolute nightmare
> >> at the moment.
> >
> >> I tried to kill it and it
On Sun, Sep 17, 2023 at 10:46 AM Wols Lists
wrote:
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> It always annoys me, but baloo seems to be being an absolute nightmare
> at the moment.
>
> Iirc, it's "the file indexer for KDE" - in other words it knackers your
> response time reading all the files, wastes disk space building an
> index, a
On Tue, Sep 12, 2023 at 8:55 AM Peter Humphrey
wrote:
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> On Tuesday, 12 September 2023 16:45:21 BST Dale wrote:
>
> > I currently have Ubuntu installed. I would have been done with it
> > sooner but I had a typo in exports and it wouldn't allow me to mount the
> > thing. Wrong IP for my main sy
On Wed, Sep 6, 2023 at 12:33 PM Dale wrote:
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> Mark Knecht wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > I have two drives and it sees them as one larger drive. No RAID or
> > > anything. At least not that I know of anyway. To be honest, I know
> > > very little a
>
> I have two drives and it sees them as one larger drive. No RAID or
> anything. At least not that I know of anyway. To be honest, I know
> very little about RAID. Read threads on it but never used it.
>
> Basically, I took two drives, I think they are 8 and a 10TB but may be
> something else
>
>
> Is there a how to, since it is a GUI, pictures would be nice, that shows
how to add a drive? If I can add a drive, that'll work. My duckduckgo
searches turned up results that says I can't do that. I found dozens of
them. I can't find a single one that shows how to do it tho. I'd like to
On Wed, Sep 6, 2023 at 7:34 AM Dale wrote:
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> Howdy,
>
> I took a old hand me down puter and put TrueNAS and some hard drives in
> it a good while back. Well, the drives are filling up. I wanted to add
> another drive to the pool but it appears you can't do that. With LVM,
> it is easily doabl
On Mon, Sep 4, 2023 at 12:38 PM Alan McKinnon
wrote:
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>
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> On Mon, Sep 4, 2023 at 8:26 PM Neil Bothwick wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, 4 Sep 2023 19:49:56 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
>>
>> > Quick n dirty solution:
>> >
>> > put all distfiles on a central server
>> > FS mount that remote dir to /var/cach
On Thu, Aug 31, 2023 at 11:15 AM Alan McKinnon
wrote:
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> Hello Gentoo'ers
>
> After some years away, I'm back to Gentoo. Arch was nice and I got
fuzzies but something was always missing. Was on Mint for a while but
eventually got fed up with how it does Bluetooth. So Gentoo is now on the
new lapt
On Sat, Jul 1, 2023 at 6:44 AM Peter Humphrey wrote:
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> On Saturday, 1 July 2023 14:06:05 BST Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > Hello list,
> >
> > Plasma and friends were upgraded this week, and since then my sessions
are
> > not being saved. Even KMail's internal settings aren't saved unless I
stop
> >
On Fri, Jun 30, 2023 at 1:44 PM wrote:
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> On 6/30/23 14:13, Mark Knecht wrote:
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> > On Fri, Jun 30, 2023 at 1:01 PM > wrote:
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> > On 6/30/23 13:03, the...@sys-concept.com wrote:
> > > I have a motherboar
On Fri, Jun 30, 2023 at 1:01 PM wrote:
> On 6/30/23 13:03, the...@sys-concept.com wrote:
> > I have a motherboard that I think is using incorrect network driver.
> >
> > lspci -knn |grep net -A 4
> > 04:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Intel Corporation I211 Gigabit
> Network Connection [8086:153
On Mon, Jun 5, 2023 at 10:31 AM Mark Knecht wrote:
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> On Mon, Jun 5, 2023 at 9:43 AM Matt Connell wrote:
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> > On Mon, 2023-06-05 at 08:54 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
> > > There's a terminal font called 'hack' that doesn't have anything
On Mon, Jun 5, 2023 at 9:43 AM Matt Connell wrote:
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> On Mon, 2023-06-05 at 08:54 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
> > There's a terminal font called 'hack' that doesn't have anything
> > inside the zero.
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> Is this the right one?
>
> https://github.co
On Mon, Jun 5, 2023 at 8:36 AM Peter Humphrey wrote:
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> Hello list,
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> I'm still trying to find a terminal font (not an X font) to suit my
> deteriorating sight. Every terminal font I've found includes either a dot
in
> the centre of the /zero/ character or a diagonal bar across it. Either of
>
On Fri, May 12, 2023 at 10:42 AM Peter Humphrey
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> On Friday, 12 May 2023 17:58:46 BST Jack wrote:
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> > Again, --load-average tells emerge whether it can start a new
> > job/package, but has no control over how high the load will get based
> > on the already started jobs. If emerge start
On Fri, May 12, 2023 at 9:59 AM Jack
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> On 2023.05.12 12:23, Mark Knecht wrote:
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> >One interesting point is that the first Gentoo page I found to
> > look at the emerge man page shows LOAD as the value provided
> > to the --load-average
On Fri, May 12, 2023 at 9:08 AM Jack
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> > -j 1
> > -j1 --load-average=40
> > -j1 --load-aveeage=40.0
> > -j1 --load-average=4.0
> > -j1 --load-average=0.4
> > -j10 --load-average=0.4
> >
> > etc., and see what happens?
> --load-average controls whether or not emerge starts another
> job/pa
On Fri, May 12, 2023 at 7:27 AM Peter Humphrey
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> On Friday, 12 May 2023 15:13:08 BST Mark Knecht wrote:
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> > My opinion: load-average probably works, but we are misunderstanding
> > the documentation.
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> That's what bothers me the most - that
On Fri, May 12, 2023 at 6:46 AM Peter Humphrey
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> On Friday, 12 May 2023 00:08:03 BST Mark Knecht wrote:
> > On Thu, May 11, 2023 at 3:07 PM Peter Humphrey
> >
> > wrote:
> > > On Thursday, 11 May 2023 17:18:17 BST Mark Knecht wrote:
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> >
On Thu, May 11, 2023 at 3:07 PM Peter Humphrey
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> On Thursday, 11 May 2023 17:18:17 BST Mark Knecht wrote:
> > The ''problem' is this can easily hit 100% of the cores you have in the
> > machine if not sensibly set. (You choose what's 'sensibl
On Thu, May 11, 2023 at 9:03 AM Peter Humphrey
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> On Thursday, 11 May 2023 15:58:20 BST Mark Knecht wrote:
> > Going further, this page states:
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> > "The load average value is the same as displayed by top or uptime, and
for
> > an N-core system, a
"
So, how many cores does your system have? For a 16 core system, if you want
40% load, you only want to spawn 16 * 0.4 jobs so you'd set that value to
6.4
On Thu, May 11, 2023 at 6:45 AM Mark Knecht wrote:
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> On Thu, May 11, 2023 at 6:34 AM Peter Humphrey
wrote:
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On Thu, May 11, 2023 at 6:34 AM Peter Humphrey
wrote:
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> On Monday, 8 May 2023 11:20:45 BST Neil Bothwick wrote:
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> > Maybe you should take this to bgo where it can be flagged for the
portage
> > devs to look at, just keep us posted on the outcome.
>
> So far, I've just been asked whether I expe
On Mon, Apr 24, 2023 at 2:31 PM wrote:
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> On 4/24/23 14:39, Mark Knecht wrote:
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> > On Sat, Apr 22, 2023 at 11:56 AM > wrote:
> # Append parameters to the linux kernel command line for non-recovery
entries
> #GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=""
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