[PLUG] Unable to Connect to NAS ( Buffalo nor Synology NAS) Or USB External HD

2022-02-04 Thread mitch Stanley
Hi, Unable to Connect to NAS ( Buffalo nor Synology NAS) Or USB External HD. ( Laptop with Ubuntu LTS 20.04 ) I've tried to get this to work for several months but have been unsuccessful. Also, Unsuccessful to find a Local Tech Person to come to House . Any suggestions for a Tech that does

Re: [PLUG] PGP key "phonebook?"

2022-02-04 Thread Russell Senior
Another possible listing place is keybase.io. It takes a slightly different approach to key validation. The basic idea is that you demonstrate your control of the matching private key by using it to sign proofs on various platforms (websites, social media, etc), that keybase tracks and validates.

Re: [PLUG] PGP key "phonebook?"

2022-02-04 Thread Randy Bush
> Is PGP still an OK way to encrypt a document to send > securely as an attachment via email? we use it > Is there a "phonebook" of trustworthy PGP public keys? `gpg --locate-external-keys --auto-key-locate wkd ra...@psg.com` is my fave. half-assed baroque doc at

Re: [PLUG] PGP key "phonebook?"

2022-02-04 Thread Russell Senior
On Fri, Feb 4, 2022 at 8:19 PM Keith Lofstrom wrote: > > Is PGP still an OK way to encrypt a document to send > securely as an attachment via email? Yes. > > Is there a "phonebook" of trustworthy PGP public keys? Yes, there are many to choose from, but your interlocutore might not be listed.

[PLUG] PGP key "phonebook?"

2022-02-04 Thread Keith Lofstrom
Is PGP still an OK way to encrypt a document to send securely as an attachment via email? Is there a "phonebook" of trustworthy PGP public keys? Not really an explanation of what I need: I occasionally want to send secure messages to people I don't know well, prior to negotiating more secure

Re: [PLUG] usb-storage process continues to run

2022-02-04 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 4 Feb 2022, Randy Bush wrote: http://www.raid-calculator.com/ https://www.omnicalculator.com/other/raid Thank you, Randy. Rich

Re: [PLUG] usb-storage process continues to run

2022-02-04 Thread Randy Bush
http://www.raid-calculator.com/ https://www.omnicalculator.com/other/raid

Re: [PLUG] usb-storage process continues to run

2022-02-04 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 4 Feb 2022, Galen Seitz wrote: This is normal. mdraid works at the kernel/device driver level. It will keep doing its thing as long as the system is up. Even if you were to shut it down, it would pick up where it left off upon rebooting. BTW, what you are seeing is likely not a process,

Re: [PLUG] usb-storage process continues to run

2022-02-04 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 4 Feb 2022, John Jason Jordan wrote: That is sort of true. With two physical disks RAID0 turns them into one device. In theory your OS reads/writes to both at the same time, speeding things up by a factor of two. In reality the speedup is far less than two. And since both disks have

Re: [PLUG] usb-storage process continues to run

2022-02-04 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Fri, 4 Feb 2022 13:19:23 -0800 (PST) Rich Shepard dijo: >On Fri, 4 Feb 2022, Rich Shepard wrote: >My limited understanding of RAIDs is that striping would increase >writing speed but lose the redundance of the hdds themselves. Am I >mistaken? That is sort of true. With two physical disks

Re: [PLUG] usb-storage process continues to run

2022-02-04 Thread Galen Seitz
On 2/4/22 13:47, Rich Shepard wrote: On Fri, 4 Feb 2022, Galen Seitz wrote: Look at the output of "cat /proc/mdstat". mdraid may still be working to build the RAID1 array. Looking at /proc/mdstat I see that it's chugging away while root returned to its shell prompt in 8 seconds.

Re: [PLUG] usb-storage process continues to run

2022-02-04 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 4 Feb 2022, Galen Seitz wrote: Look at the output of "cat /proc/mdstat". mdraid may still be working to build the RAID1 array. Looking at /proc/mdstat I see that it's chugging away while root returned to its shell prompt in 8 seconds. /proc/mdstat tells me that 'resync = 1.8%

Re: [PLUG] usb-storage process continues to run

2022-02-04 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 4 Feb 2022, Rich Shepard wrote: Yep, lsblk doesn't show dev/md1. I'm creating the RAID1 anew. The linux RAID how-to I'm following says to create a RAID0 (stripe) after, but it also has instrucions for creating a RAID5 if there are 3 or more disks in the array. My limited

Re: [PLUG] Slackware 15.0 finally happened!

2022-02-04 Thread Chuck Hast
Yes, but if you were one of those she would let you know in uncertain terms that ripe was not what she ment. She would probably hand you a bar of soap and show you the bath... I used to see her get in discussions with the gas co they would go out and shut down a customer due to a leak, she would

Re: [PLUG] usb-storage process continues to run

2022-02-04 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 4 Feb 2022, Galen Seitz wrote: Look at the output of "cat /proc/mdstat". mdraid may still be working to build the RAID1 array. Galen, Thank you. I assumed the process was finished when the vt returned to the shell. I rebooted the host so I guess I'll start over and rebuild the raid

Re: [PLUG] usb-storage process continues to run

2022-02-04 Thread Galen Seitz
On 2/4/22 12:12, Rich Shepard wrote: After creating the RAID1 /dev/md1 I installed the file system: mkfs.ext4 /dev/md1 This ran for a few hours (2 x 2T hard drives in the array). Then root's shell prompt returned. However, the lights on the RAID enclosure keep flickering and gkrellm shows both

[PLUG] usb-storage process continues to run

2022-02-04 Thread Rich Shepard
After creating the RAID1 /dev/md1 I installed the file system: mkfs.ext4 /dev/md1 This ran for a few hours (2 x 2T hard drives in the array). Then root's shell prompt returned. However, the lights on the RAID enclosure keep flickering and gkrellm shows both user and system activities on the

Re: [PLUG] Slackware 15.0 finally happened!

2022-02-04 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 4 Feb 2022, Ben Koenig wrote: Just an observation. I know you won't like it. ;-) Ben, Au contrair! It is not unexpected. Keep on truckin', Rich

Re: [PLUG] Slackware 15.0 finally happened!

2022-02-04 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 4 Feb 2022, Paul Heinlein wrote: There's the hardware side of age -- how many trips around the sun have you made? -- and the software side -- do you "act your age"? The two are obviously linked, limitations imposed by the former cannot always be ignored by the latter, and yet there are

Re: [PLUG] Slackware 15.0 finally happened!

2022-02-04 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Fri, 4 Feb 2022, Chuck Hast wrote: My grandmother who ran a plumbing shop until she was 87 and was taken by a heart attack, told me that there are two types of people, those that get old and those that get ripe, she said to get ripe, not old. She was quite a character up to the night she

Re: [PLUG] Slackware 15.0 finally happened!

2022-02-04 Thread Chuck Hast
My grandmother who ran a plumbing shop until she was 87 and was taken by a heart attack, told me that there are two types of people, those that get old and those that get ripe, she said to get ripe, not old. She was quite a character up to the night she passed on. On Fri, Feb 4, 2022 at 7:37 AM

Re: [PLUG] Slackware 15.0 finally happened!

2022-02-04 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 3 Feb 2022, Wayne E. Van Loon Sr. wrote: I am old now and I guess that was my swan song. I made a living for years using Slackware and was able to save enough to retire comfortably. Wayne, Many decades ago an older woman neighbor and friend shared her philosophy of life that I