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
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
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
On Mon, Feb 26, 2024 at 4:45 PM Grant Edwards
wrote:
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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
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 doz
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
wrote:
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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
wrote:
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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
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:
>
> 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
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
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
wrote:
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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 netw
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
On Tue, Oct 17, 2023 at 11:07 AM Dale wrote:
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> Mark Knecht wrote:
>
>
>
> 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
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
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
> 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
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
>
On Sun, Oct 8, 2023 at 10:56 AM Dale wrote:
>
> 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
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
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
> >
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
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
>
>
On Sat, Sep 23, 2023 at 6:41 AM Dale wrote:
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> Mark Knecht wrote:
>
>
>
> 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 w
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,
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
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,
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
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 littl
>
> 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
>
>
> 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
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
On Mon, Sep 4, 2023 at 12:38 PM Alan McKinnon
wrote:
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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
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
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:
>
> On 6/30/23 14:13, Mark Knecht wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Jun 30, 2023 at 1:01 PM > wrote:
> >
> > 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
On Mon, Jun 5, 2023 at 10:31 AM Mark Knecht wrote:
>
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 5, 2023 at 9:43 AM Matt Connell wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, 2023-06-05 at 08:54 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
> > > There's a terminal font called 'hack' that doesn't have anything
> > > insi
On Mon, Jun 5, 2023 at 9:43 AM Matt Connell wrote:
>
> 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.
>
> Is this the right one?
>
> https://github.com/source-foundry/Hac
On Mon, Jun 5, 2023 at 8:36 AM Peter Humphrey wrote:
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> Hello list,
>
> 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
wrote:
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> On Friday, 12 May 2023 17:58:46 BST Jack wrote:
>
> > 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
On Fri, May 12, 2023 at 9:59 AM Jack
wrote:
>
> On 2023.05.12 12:23, Mark Knecht wrote:
> [snip .]
> >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-avera
On Fri, May 12, 2023 at 9:08 AM Jack
wrote:
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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
>
On Fri, May 12, 2023 at 7:27 AM Peter Humphrey
wrote:
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> On Friday, 12 May 2023 15:13:08 BST Mark Knecht wrote:
>
> > My opinion: load-average probably works, but we are misunderstanding
> > the documentation.
>
> That's what bothers me the most - that I ha
On Fri, May 12, 2023 at 6:46 AM Peter Humphrey
wrote:
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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:
> >
> >
On Thu, May 11, 2023 at 3:07 PM Peter Humphrey
wrote:
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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 'sensible')
>
> Once again,
On Thu, May 11, 2023 at 9:03 AM Peter Humphrey
wrote:
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> On Thursday, 11 May 2023 15:58:20 BST Mark Knecht wrote:
> > Going further, this page states:
> >
> > "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:
>
>
>
> On Thu, May 11, 2023 at 6:34 AM Peter Humphrey
wrote:
> >
On Thu, May 11, 2023 at 6:34 AM Peter Humphrey
wrote:
>
> On Monday, 8 May 2023 11:20:45 BST Neil Bothwick wrote:
>
> > 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
On Mon, Apr 24, 2023 at 2:31 PM wrote:
>
> On 4/24/23 14:39, Mark Knecht wrote:
> >
> >
> > 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=""
On Sat, Apr 22, 2023 at 11:56 AM wrote:
>
> I upgraded to kernel 6.1.19 and nvidia-525.105.17
>
> But during boot text is not showing up/scrolling
>
> --
> Thelma
Is this possibly a grub setting? Check /etc/default/grub or whatever
it might be on your system and look at
On Thu, Apr 20, 2023 at 3:36 PM Dale wrote:
> * patch -p1 failed with
>
/var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-470.182.03/files/nvidia-drivers-470.141.03-clang15.patch
You know I don't run Gentoo, right?
That looks weird to me - building 470.182.03 but patching it with
470.141.03.
> I wonder. Is there a way to find out the smallest size file in a
directory or sub directory, largest files, then maybe a average file
size??? I thought about du but given the number of files I have here, it
would be a really HUGE list of files. Could take hours or more too. This
is what KDE
On Wed, Apr 19, 2023 at 12:39 PM Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
>
> On 19/04/2023 22:26, Dale wrote:
> > So for future reference, let it format with the default? I'm also
> > curious if when it creates the file system it will notice this and
> > adjust automatically. It might. Maybe?
>
> AFAIK, SSDs
On Wed, Apr 19, 2023 at 10:59 AM Dale wrote:
>
> Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > On Wednesday, 19 April 2023 09:00:33 BST Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> >
> >> With my HDD:
> >>
> >># smartctl -x /dev/sda | grep -i 'sector size'
> >>Sector Sizes: 512 bytes logical, 4096 bytes physical
> > Or,
On Wed, Apr 19, 2023 at 3:35 AM Peter Humphrey
wrote:
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> On Wednesday, 19 April 2023 09:00:33 BST Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
>
> > With my HDD:
> >
> ># smartctl -x /dev/sda | grep -i 'sector size'
> >Sector Sizes: 512 bytes logical, 4096 bytes physical
>
> Or, with an NVMe drive:
>
>
On Tue, Apr 18, 2023 at 2:15 PM Dale wrote:
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> Mark Knecht wrote:
>
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 18, 2023 at 1:02 PM Dale wrote:
>
> >
> > Someone mentioned 16K block size.
>
>
> I mentioned it but I'm NOT suggesting it.
>
> It would be the -b opt
On Tue, Apr 18, 2023 at 1:02 PM Dale wrote:
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> Someone mentioned 16K block size.
I mentioned it but I'm NOT suggesting it.
It would be the -b option if you were to do it for ext4.
I'm using the default block size (4k) on all my SSDs and M.2's and
as I've said a couple of time, I'm going to
On Tue, Apr 18, 2023 at 7:53 AM Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
>
> On 16/04/2023 01:47, Dale wrote:
> > Anything else that makes these special? Any tips or tricks?
>
> Only three things.
>
> 1. Make sure the fstrim service is active (should run every week by
> default, at least with systemd,
On Mon, Apr 17, 2023 at 2:08 PM Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
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> Am Mon, Apr 17, 2023 at 12:28:01PM -0700 schrieb Mark Knecht:
>
> > In my experience with all distros I go outside the distro for this
> > sort of issue. Put a copy somewhere, white a little script that
> &g
On Mon, Apr 17, 2023 at 12:40 PM Lee wrote:
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> Really, etc update has a facility for skipping whatever files you want.
>
> Lee
>> In my experience with all distros I go outside the distro for this
>> sort of issue. Put a copy somewhere, white a little script that
>> does a diff on the files you
On Mon, Apr 17, 2023 at 11:26 AM Walter Dnes wrote:
>
> Now that the (no)multilib problem in my latest update has been solved,
> I have a somewhat minor complaint. Can I get etc-update to skip certain
> files? My latest emerge world wanted to "update"...
>
> 1) /etc/hosts (1)
> 2)
On Mon, Apr 17, 2023 at 2:41 AM Wols Lists wrote:
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> On 17/04/2023 02:14, Dale wrote:
> > My current install is over a decade old. My /boot partition is about
> > 375MBs. I should have made it larger but at the time, I booted CD/DVD
> > media when needed. I didn't have USB sticks at the time.
On Mon, Apr 17, 2023 at 10:11 AM Michael wrote:
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> On Monday, 17 April 2023 17:52:25 BST Mark Knecht wrote:
>
> > One thing I haven't decoded is why Windows is and Kubuntu is 0003.
>
> See below ...
>
>
> > I now better understand Mitch D.'s point that the
On Mon, Apr 17, 2023 at 8:18 AM Michael wrote:
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> On Monday, 17 April 2023 14:31:08 BST Mark Knecht wrote:
> > 2) The more complicated view with GUIDs and such:
> >
> > mark@science2:~$ efibootmgr -v
> > BootCurrent: 0003
> > Timeout: 1 seconds
> >
On Mon, Apr 17, 2023 at 4:57 AM Michael wrote:
>
> On Monday, 17 April 2023 00:29:49 BST Arsen Arsenović wrote:
> > Wol writes:
> > > On 16/04/2023 22:30, Mitch D. wrote:
> > >> Wol, can you elaborate on why you think Grub is deprecated on EFI
> > >> systems?
> > >
> > > Because EFI is a boot
On Sun, Apr 16, 2023 at 3:18 PM Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
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> Am Sun, Apr 16, 2023 at 01:22:32PM -0700 schrieb Mark Knecht:
> > Frank,
> >Thank you for the in-depth explanation.
> >
> >I need to do some study before commenting further other than to say
&g
:
> Am Sun, Apr 16, 2023 at 08:08:59AM -0700 schrieb Mark Knecht:
>
> > If you have an SSD or nvme drive installed then fstrim should be
> > installed and run on a regular basis. However it's not 'required'.
> >
> > Your system will still work, but after all blocks o
On Sun, Apr 16, 2023 at 11:54 AM Dale wrote:
>
> Mark Knecht wrote:
> > <<< SNIP >>>
> > I guess I don't understand why you would put Knoppix in the boot
> > partition vs somewhere else. Is this for some sort of recovery
> > process you're co
On Sun, Apr 16, 2023 at 9:55 AM Dale wrote:
>
> I think what I read is that it is done automatically. They could have
> meant a cron job. I don't think they said how, just that it is already
> set up to do it. Firmware was mentioned in the thread somewhere so I
> thought maybe that was it.
>
>
> Oh, please, don't go anywhere.We already lost the long term
Alan. BTW, I checked on him a while back. He's still OK. It's been a
while tho.
>
Dale - I touched - truly. I'm happy to stick around but I no longer
run Gentoo and don't want to cause problems or piss off the
folks who
On Sun, Apr 16, 2023 at 1:44 AM William Kenworthy
wrote:
>
>
> On 16/4/23 15:18, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > On Sunday, 16 April 2023 02:47:00 BST William Kenworthy wrote:
> >
> >> look into mount options for SSD's (discard option) and "fstrim" for
> >> maintenance. (read up on trimmimg - doing a
On Sat, Apr 15, 2023 at 3:47 PM Dale wrote:
>
> Howdy,
>
> I finally broke down and bought a SSD. It's a Samsung V-Nand 870 EVO
> 500GB. My current OS sits on a 160GB drive so should be plenty. I plan
> to even add a boot image for the Gentoo LiveGUI thingy, maybe Knoppix or
> something plus
On Sat, Apr 1, 2023 at 10:28 PM wrote:
>
>
> At time to time my XFCE4 freezes. The screen is responding to the
keyboard, mouse pointer is moving on the screen but nothing is responding.
> I just lookup some solutions and found this one:
>
> - press: CTRL+Alt+T (to get to terminal)
> - pidof
On Mon, Mar 20, 2023 at 5:52 PM wrote:
>
> Has anybody use ChatGPT for programming? I think it would very very
handy (less bugs) and less questions on the mailing-list
>
I've used it very early on to write some python code to read some text
files and place them in numpy arrays, etc.
It worked,
On Mon, Mar 13, 2023 at 7:35 AM Dale wrote:
> Another question. My rig is getting a bit aged. I have a AMD FX-8350 8
> core CPU running at 4GHz. I also have 32GBs of memory. I've read that
> Intel currently has the best bang for buck on CPUs nowadays. I'm open
> to the idea of switching.
On Fri, Feb 17, 2023 at 12:03 PM John Covici wrote:
> Well, some progress, but no joy. I found actual messages from
> netconsole and it seems no matter what device I put for the source,
> netconsole says it doesn't exist. I tried my eno1, and also eth0 and
> eth1. In my normal boot sequence,
address=192.168.0.1
netmask=24
broadcast=192.168.0.255
So, before I run this, I don't think the card has any ip address, does
it?
>From what you hope the receiving machine
arp -a
?
HTH,
Mark
On Sun, Feb 12, 2023 at 1:37 PM Dale wrote:
> I did a re-emerge of coreutils, then some of its
> friends. It still doesn't work.
I saw some clickbait news that coreutils is being rewritten in Rust
but I don't think it's been released to the general public. However
if you run non-stable
On Sat, Jan 28, 2023 at 9:10 AM Jack
wrote:
>
> On 1/28/23 05:35, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > On Saturday, 28 January 2023 09:17:35 GMT Michael wrote:
> >
> >> Since my coding ability is even worse than Dale's I join him in kindly
> >> asking for a maintainer/dev to take it on and keep it running.
On Fri, Dec 30, 2022 at 1:12 PM Urs Schütz wrote:
>
> Any chance you need to shield the scanner from light sources outside the
scan head?
> Throw a dark jacket over it for testing.
Or if it's that the light is for some reason too bright and the inside of
the lid is reflecting
it then try a piece
On Fri, Dec 30, 2022 at 6:42 AM Dale wrote:
> Well, bummer. I was afraid it was going bad.
;-)
If it's still moving then it isn't necessarily bad.
Possibly you need a new goal for your old equipment?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Hfj_SuVm_0
Good luck,
Mark
On Tue, Dec 20, 2022 at 11:52 PM Dale wrote:
> This is why at some point, I'd like to have two sets of backups. RAID
> or not.
Amazon Snowball? :-) ;-)
MArk
Hi Rich
On Mon, Dec 19, 2022 at 6:30 AM Rich Freeman wrote:
> My current solution is:
> 1. Moosefs for storage: amd64 container for the master, and ARM SBCs
> for the chunkservers which host all the USB3 hard drives.
I'm trying to understand the form factor of what you are mentioning above.
sysctl hw
SNIP>
sudo dmidecode -t processor -t cache
On Sun, Dec 18, 2022 at 1:07 PM Rich Freeman wrote:
>
> On Sun, Dec 18, 2022 at 2:30 PM Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
> >
> > Am Sun, Dec 18, 2022 at 01:07:43PM -0600 schrieb Dale:
> >
> > > Mostly, I need a better CPU. If I encrypt anyway.
> >
> > Did you ever tell us the exact CPU you have in
On Sun, Dec 18, 2022 at 12:20 PM Dale wrote:
> root@truenas[~]# iperf -s
>
> Server listening on TCP port 5001
> TCP window size: 64.0 KByte (default)
>
>
>
> And nothing.
On Sun, Dec 18, 2022 at 12:08 PM Dale wrote:
> I just might find a simple distro that I can install on that thing.
Honestly, I don't really care what is on it as long as it does what I want
and I can figure out how to make it work easily enough.
Consider Ubuntu Server. It's text only and will
On Sun, Dec 18, 2022 at 11:39 AM Dale wrote:
>
>
> I suspect it has something to do with this being a older system. I
> wouldn't be surprised if the SATA was a older and slower version. I
> guess I could google it.
>
You need to study your specs. Even the first version of SATA, SATA 1,
was
> I can't figure out why it is so slow tho. The NAS rig is a 4 core CPU
and 8GBs of memory. It should have enough horsepower under the hood.
Maybe it is something I'm not aware of. It is a older rig so maybe it
isn't SATA's fastest version, maybe even the original or something. I
can't find
On Sun, Dec 18, 2022 at 8:49 AM Jack
wrote:
>
> On 12/18/22 10:38, Mark Knecht wrote:
> > Wipe the machine and start over with Gentoo from scratch...
> > Wipe the machine and start over with Gentoo from scratch...
> > Humm, I think you should...
> > Wipe the mach
On Sun, Dec 18, 2022 at 8:29 AM Mark Knecht wrote:
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>
>
> On Sun, Dec 18, 2022 at 8:13 AM Dale wrote:
> >
> > Well, I finally got it so I could do a backup. I didn't need a hammer
but the thought crossed my mind. lol Even tho I now have a 1GB network
card, it's stil
On Sun, Dec 18, 2022 at 8:13 AM Dale wrote:
>
> Well, I finally got it so I could do a backup. I didn't need a hammer
but the thought crossed my mind. lol Even tho I now have a 1GB network
card, it's still really slow. It shows up as a 1GB connection on both my
Gentoo machine and the NAS
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