Re: Is your kids' school forcing Zoom on them too?

2020-08-09 Thread jonhall80
Jitsi also is "no installation required" md > On 08/09/2020 9:42 AM Curt Howland wrote: > > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > > On Sunday 09 August 2020, Lloyd Kvam was heard to say: > > I have attempted to join some meetings and discovered that the app > > was

Re: [GNHLUG] [dlslug-announce] virtual meeting at 7 PM on November 5, 2020

2020-11-05 Thread jonhall80
Hi Lloyd, I would like to join you all, but I am tied up with the Ohio Linux Fest that is kicking off tonight and will be going on virtually from 1130 EST on Friday and Saturday. You can find out everything about it at ohiolinux.org if you would like to follow any of the talks. md > On

Re: Old PC 486/P1/P2 ISA slot motherboard/PC?

2021-03-12 Thread jonhall80
Hi Warren, Assuming that no pack rat answers you with a free motherboard, there are some on Ebay in the 25-40 dollar range, tested and guaranteed to work. You mentioned "upgrading" him to a P1 or P2. I might suggest you stick with exactly what he had before and let him stay with W95 unless

Re: Kind of puzzled about timestamps

2021-03-10 Thread jonhall80
I think that "time" is a bit like "taxes". Everyone agrees life would be better if it was simpler, but people can not agree on how to do that, so we waste a lot of effort dealing with it. md On 03/10/2021 4:28 PM Ray Cote wrote: > > > No conversation about time is complete

Re: Have suggestions for a "roll your own file server"?

2021-03-10 Thread jonhall80
OK: s/RPi4/some-other-cheap-computer-with-USB-3.x>/g Unless you build multiple Ethernet or WiFi or LTE modem connections your networking will still be the slowest thing. You do not need huge amounts of CPU power, or huge amounts of RAM. My basic point is that if you stick with simple RAID

Re: Old PC 486/P1/P2 ISA slot motherboard/PC?

2021-03-13 Thread jonhall80
Warren, So the *drive* is toast, or the motherboard and CPU? It was a little hard to figure that out from what you wrote. It sounded like the drive was failing, but the CPU and motherboard were still working. But maybe I am reading it wrong. If it is just the drive you might be able to

Re: rsync question

2021-03-09 Thread jonhall80
Yes, cp -a is a more efficient method of copying a complete file system to another file system that is empty. But if the mirrored file system is only being updated then rsync is much more efficient, both for the reasons that Ken stated and because if the files are the same (as determined by

Re: Kind of puzzled about timestamps

2021-03-06 Thread jonhall80
And of course if it is an old enough date, it may be at one of those magic "timestamps" that never existed. "It is turtles all the way down." > On 03/06/2021 7:46 PM Ben Scott wrote: > > > On Thu, Mar 4, 2021 at 9:57 PM Joshua Judson Rosen > wrote: > > And as a general word of advice

Re: Kind of puzzled about timestamps

2021-03-06 Thread jonhall80
Especially when you go far enough north and it is never light when you wake up for a decent part of the year. DST is evil. Timezones are evil. UTC is the only way. And turtles.all the way down. md > On 03/06/2021 9:17 PM Curt Howland wrote: > > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >

Re: Kind of puzzled about timestamps

2021-03-08 Thread jonhall80
I paid off my 30 year mortgage on November 29th, 2020 (two years early) thinking that it would be better not to carry any of it over to the next year. Then I waited for all of the associated paperwork (escrow payment refunds for property tax, deed, etc.) At the end of January I called the

Re: Kind of puzzled about timestamps

2021-03-08 Thread jonhall80
Bruce, Yes, you are probably right. I know enough how banks bundle up mortgages, to agree that might be part of the problem. Yet you might think that since many, many people pay off mortgages or pay off mortgages on sales of property every single year that they might have it down to a

Re: Have suggestions for a "roll your own file server"?

2021-03-08 Thread jonhall80
I will suggest something and let people rip it apart: Get two RPis that have at least USB 2.0 Attach two large capacity disks to each one in a RAID-1 configuration (also known as "mirroring") to keep it simple. If one disk fails the other will still keep working (but you should replace it as

Re: Have suggestions for a "roll your own file server"?

2021-03-08 Thread jonhall80
I forgot one thing: Set up a shell script to do a simple diagnostic on both systems to detect a failed or failing system. Run two or three times a day. md > On 03/08/2021 9:56 PM jonhal...@comcast.net wrote: > > > I will suggest something and let people rip it apart: > >

Re: Kind of puzzled about timestamps

2021-03-08 Thread jonhall80
It was 1974 and the IBM 360 had an unsigned 64 bit clock that updated (I believe) every ten milliseconds. The operator booted the online transactional system and mistakenly typed in the next day's date. They IMMEDIATELY realized the error, shut the machine down and brought it up again typing