Double Info entries SOLVED
Aidan Gauland wrote: I recently installed Emacs23 from source, and there are two (duplicate) entries for some items in the top Info node. It seems to only be for things that come with Emacs. The second entries take me to the appropriate node, but selecting an of the first entries generated the error message, Info-find-file: Info file emacs-22/[node] does not exist. I simply had to remove the emacs-22 entries from /usr/local/share/info/dir. I'm still not sure how they got there in the first place, but they're gone now, so that annoyance is gone. --Aidan signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Tip O'The Day : pigz and pbzip2
Multicores are becoming more and more common. Compression is still something I need to do regularly. So some new tools that combine multi-core speed up with compression. pigz is a drop in replacement for gzip pbzip2 is a drop in replacement for bzip2 John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait ElectronicsFax : (64)(3) 359 4632 PO Box 1645 ChristchurchEmail : john.car...@tait.co.nz New Zealand
Re: Tip O'The Day : pigz and pbzip2
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 11:10 AM, John Carter john.car...@tait.co.nz wrote: pigz is a drop in replacement for gzip pbzip2 is a drop in replacement for bzip2 Nice, thanks!
Re: Tip O'The Day : pigz and pbzip2
Yep - I've not used pigz, but be advised that pbzip2 does not produce the same file as bzip2 with the same options. Functionally they're the same and can be treated as such, but a parallel bzipped file is a few bytes larger and has multiple index/lookup tables of one per core/thread. (probably have the name wrong there but you get the idea) So, md5 will be different. John Carter wrote, On 09/02/10 11:11: Multicores are becoming more and more common. Compression is still something I need to do regularly. So some new tools that combine multi-core speed up with compression. pigz is a drop in replacement for gzip pbzip2 is a drop in replacement for bzip2 John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait ElectronicsFax : (64)(3) 359 4632 PO Box 1645 ChristchurchEmail : john.car...@tait.co.nz New Zealand -- Craig Falconer
Tip'O'The Day late extra : star, a faster tar
There is a faster tar. It's called star. It's written by the same guy who did cdrecord, so it is, umm, how to phrase this? Ahh. er... It has opinions. John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait ElectronicsFax : (64)(3) 359 4632 PO Box 1645 ChristchurchEmail : john.car...@tait.co.nz New Zealand http://www.ics.uci.edu/~franz/Site/pubs-pdf/BC03.pdf Wirth used the compiler’s self-compilation speed as a measure of the compiler’s quality. Considering that Wirth’s compilers were written in the languages they compiled, and that compilers are substantial and non-trivial pieces of software in their own right, this introduced a highly practical benchmark that directly contested a compiler's complexity against its performance. Under the self- compilation speed benchmark, only those optimizations were allowed to be incorporated into a compiler that accelerated it by so much that the intrinsic cost of the new code addition was fully compensated6
Joke of the day
OK we had tip of the day, now joke of the day: Ubuntu is an ancient African word, meaning can't configure Debian
Revamping my storage
OK I have been collecting media files for ages and have: 2 compaq small form factor boxes, one freebsd and one linux, each with a 300G hard drive for videos. (PATA) 2 external usb hard drives with 300 SATA and 250G PATA respectively. (each has a brick power supply) 1 mythtv backend box in a tower with a 1TB SATA drive (for tv) and a 750G SATA drive (for videos and music) These plus a cable modem and router under the stairs contribute significantly to global warming and power consumption. I'd like to rationalise this, particularly the 2 compaq boxes and the external drives. The mythtv box I will pretty well leave alone, its working and the one mantra about mythtv is that if it ain't broke, don't fix it! I am wondering about turnkey NAS systems, maybe something to hold everything that's not in the myth backend box. Ignoring the operating systems that's about (300+300+300+250 = 1.15T) - so to allow headroom and avoid the same problem again later I figure something with 2-4TB would be needed. But that'll cost quite a bit I imagine, and then I'll have all those drives left over and nothing in particular to do with them unless I foolishly start down the same track again... OTOH I could resurrect a tower from the garage with an IDE motherboard, get a PCI SATA card and shove all those drives in one box, and maybe a couple more besides. Anyone got any suggestions to restore sanity to all this?
Re: Revamping my storage
On Tue, February 9, 2010 12:27, Nick Rout wrote: OK I have been collecting media files for ages and have: snip Anyone got any suggestions to restore sanity to all this? You need a SheevaPlug. Or not. A
Re: Revamping my storage
You need to rate your data's importance too. Server 1 - file/etc 2x200 GB drives in a RAID1 for my important stuff 1TB for exported myth recordings (long term storage) 200 GB system drive Server 2 - mythtv and backups 500 GB for myth live recordings (expires over time) 250GB for backups 40GB system drive So while I'd like to raid everything, I can't afford that. Only the important stuff is on a raid, then backed up to another disk, which is then off-sited on a USB drive. How much important data do you have? We have been toying with freenas and openfiler lately, using iSCSI and NFS and cifs to access disks over the network. Works nicely, but its another box New drives aren't too bad these days - consider a couple of 1-2TB drives in a raid1 for all your data. Depends on budget. Nick Rout wrote, On 09/02/10 16:27: OK I have been collecting media files for ages and have: 2 compaq small form factor boxes, one freebsd and one linux, each with a 300G hard drive for videos. (PATA) 2 external usb hard drives with 300 SATA and 250G PATA respectively. (each has a brick power supply) 1 mythtv backend box in a tower with a 1TB SATA drive (for tv) and a 750G SATA drive (for videos and music) These plus a cable modem and router under the stairs contribute significantly to global warming and power consumption. I'd like to rationalise this, particularly the 2 compaq boxes and the external drives. The mythtv box I will pretty well leave alone, its working and the one mantra about mythtv is that if it ain't broke, don't fix it! I am wondering about turnkey NAS systems, maybe something to hold everything that's not in the myth backend box. Ignoring the operating systems that's about (300+300+300+250 = 1.15T) - so to allow headroom and avoid the same problem again later I figure something with 2-4TB would be needed. But that'll cost quite a bit I imagine, and then I'll have all those drives left over and nothing in particular to do with them unless I foolishly start down the same track again... OTOH I could resurrect a tower from the garage with an IDE motherboard, get a PCI SATA card and shove all those drives in one box, and maybe a couple more besides. Anyone got any suggestions to restore sanity to all this? -- Craig Falconer
Re: Revamping my storage
On Tue, 2010-02-09 at 13:13 +0900, Andrew Errington wrote: On Tue, February 9, 2010 12:27, Nick Rout wrote: OK I have been collecting media files for ages and have: snip Anyone got any suggestions to restore sanity to all this? You need a SheevaPlug. Or not. A I was in 2 minds about suggesting this, as it's going to be a messy solution... 1. A sheeva plug 2. A powered USB hub 3. n X External USB storage. 4. USB wireless? 5. Number 8 wire 6. ??? 7. Profit! Steve -- Steve Holdoway st...@greengecko.co.nz http://www.greengecko.co.nz MSN: st...@greengecko.co.nz GPG Fingerprint = B337 828D 03E1 4F11 CB90 853C C8AB AF04 EF68 52E0 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Revamping my storage
A curse on top posters! I sort of disagree with this... haven't seen 200GB disks for ages anywhere! 1TB disks are under $150 each now. I go for simplicity rather than saving the odd $50 and mirror the server - which is raid 10 - using a remote raid 5 box, and a cheap WD green 5 port gigabyte switch. Overkill for most households, but I have the luxury of working from home most of the time! I also save the really important stuff to a remote server in Texas. If you haven't come across snapback2, I really like it as a simple, space-effective backup method. The biggest problem I have is rats chewing the cabling. Walnut trees. Always attracts them. I think freenas is going linux kernel soon, if it hasn't already. This'll make it much more workable, as the lack of hardware support was really annoying. Steve On Tue, 2010-02-09 at 17:31 +1300, Craig Falconer wrote: You need to rate your data's importance too. Server 1 - file/etc 2x200 GB drives in a RAID1 for my important stuff 1TB for exported myth recordings (long term storage) 200 GB system drive Server 2 - mythtv and backups 500 GB for myth live recordings (expires over time) 250GB for backups 40GB system drive So while I'd like to raid everything, I can't afford that. Only the important stuff is on a raid, then backed up to another disk, which is then off-sited on a USB drive. How much important data do you have? We have been toying with freenas and openfiler lately, using iSCSI and NFS and cifs to access disks over the network. Works nicely, but its another box New drives aren't too bad these days - consider a couple of 1-2TB drives in a raid1 for all your data. Depends on budget. Nick Rout wrote, On 09/02/10 16:27: OK I have been collecting media files for ages and have: 2 compaq small form factor boxes, one freebsd and one linux, each with a 300G hard drive for videos. (PATA) 2 external usb hard drives with 300 SATA and 250G PATA respectively. (each has a brick power supply) 1 mythtv backend box in a tower with a 1TB SATA drive (for tv) and a 750G SATA drive (for videos and music) These plus a cable modem and router under the stairs contribute significantly to global warming and power consumption. I'd like to rationalise this, particularly the 2 compaq boxes and the external drives. The mythtv box I will pretty well leave alone, its working and the one mantra about mythtv is that if it ain't broke, don't fix it! I am wondering about turnkey NAS systems, maybe something to hold everything that's not in the myth backend box. Ignoring the operating systems that's about (300+300+300+250 = 1.15T) - so to allow headroom and avoid the same problem again later I figure something with 2-4TB would be needed. But that'll cost quite a bit I imagine, and then I'll have all those drives left over and nothing in particular to do with them unless I foolishly start down the same track again... OTOH I could resurrect a tower from the garage with an IDE motherboard, get a PCI SATA card and shove all those drives in one box, and maybe a couple more besides. Anyone got any suggestions to restore sanity to all this? -- Steve Holdoway st...@greengecko.co.nz http://www.greengecko.co.nz MSN: st...@greengecko.co.nz GPG Fingerprint = B337 828D 03E1 4F11 CB90 853C C8AB AF04 EF68 52E0 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: This years format.
On 9 February 2010 17:55, Tom Smith snake...@xtra.co.nz wrote: Hi Guys and gals. Durring the time I have been on the clug list I have been to only one fixit-up evening and I think would like to be more involved. If its been all ready posted or is found on a site, please give link. My apologies if this is all ready been mentioned. What is this years intended/hopeful format for fixit-up evenings, information nights, install-fests and such. Also who is responsible for arranging this. If I remember correctly Christopher used to do a lot of work in this area. That's correct. He did, for several years. He found that as the years passed, Linux became so much more sophisticated and easier to install use, the need for install-festivals and fix-up evenings became so close to zero, that the number of people in the audiences became so small that we could no longer justify the expense of hiring a hall. He also took an extended break from Christchurch last Winter, and does not now feel a personal need or urge to take on the stress of running the CLUG meetings. Many Linux user groups have mogrified into geek oriented social clubs which meet informally in licensed premises. Christopher's suggestion is that we follow that horde. One LUG with which he had a very brief contact had their meeting on the same day of the month by date. This means that the day in the week changes continually, thus avoiding continuous clashes with other activities. How does that sound to other CLUG list members? Christopher has no particular preference for a date, except that he will be otherwise occupied on the 15th. of this month. -- Sincerely etc. Christopher Sawtell
Re: Joke of the day
On Tue, 09 Feb 2010 14:32:21 Nick Rout wrote: OK we had tip of the day, now joke of the day: Ubuntu is an ancient African word, meaning can't configure Debian No it means Slackware is to hard for me. Everyone knows that. -- Quote of the login: Real Programmers think better when playing Adventure or Rogue.
Re: This years format.
On Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:49:41 Christopher Sawtell wrote: Many Linux user groups have mogrified into geek oriented social clubs which meet informally in licensed premises. Christopher's suggestion is that we follow that horde. Would it be possible to go in the other direction and do workshops on particular things that can be done? For instance, Programming one night, administration another and something else the next. One LUG with which he had a very brief contact had their meeting on the same day of the month by date. This means that the day in the week changes continually, thus avoiding continuous clashes with other activities. That sounds like a good idea. -- Quote of the login: Real Programmers think better when playing Adventure or Rogue. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: This years format.
Many Linux user groups have mogrified into geek oriented social clubs which meet informally in licensed premises. Christopher's suggestion is that we follow that horde. One LUG with which he had a very brief contact had their meeting on the same day of the month by date. This means that the day in the week changes continually, thus avoiding continuous clashes with other activities. How does that sound to other CLUG list members? I vote we do this. Including the fixed date thing so we don't clash every time. Yuri
Re: Joke of the day
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 8:13 PM, Ryan McCoskrie ryan.mccosk...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, 09 Feb 2010 14:32:21 Nick Rout wrote: OK we had tip of the day, now joke of the day: Ubuntu is an ancient African word, meaning can't configure Debian No it means Slackware is to hard for me. Everyone knows that. LOL s/Slackware/gentoo/
