William Kenworthy wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-08-07 at 23:18 -0500, Dale wrote:
>> William Kenworthy wrote:
>>> On Tue, 2012-08-07 at 21:19 -0500, Dale wrote:
Paul Hartman wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 5:26 PM, Dale wrote:
> ...
>>> Goggle have a well known document
>>> (http://research.googl
Am 07.08.2012 07:02, schrieb Philip Webb:
> Just an observation : when I updated Libre Office & Firefox this week,
> neither compile used swap (I have 4 GB RAM);
> OTOH when I did them the previous time, both did use swap;
> the total time & the HDD usage remained almost the same.
> In between, I
On Tue, 2012-08-07 at 23:18 -0500, Dale wrote:
> William Kenworthy wrote:
> > On Tue, 2012-08-07 at 21:19 -0500, Dale wrote:
> >> Paul Hartman wrote:
> >>> On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 5:26 PM, Dale wrote:
...
> > Goggle have a well known document
> > (http://research.google.com/archive/disk_failures.pd
> To wipe a drive use dban. - live CD which uses (US) gov approved
> standards of wipe methods/patterns.
Or shred, which comes with coreutils.
> dd is only going to show sectors on a failed drive - too late!
>
> To explain, modern drives have a store of locations they can use to
> transparently r
William Kenworthy wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-08-07 at 21:19 -0500, Dale wrote:
>> Paul Hartman wrote:
>>> On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 5:26 PM, Dale wrote:
I didn't know you could do low level formats anymore. Really? What
package provides that? Hmmm, I'm thinking about those HOURS spent
fo
On Wed, 2012-08-08 at 14:02 +1000, Adam Carter wrote:
> > I have seen where people use dd to do this sort of thing to. I read
> > somewhere that if you do a dd and put in all 1's, then all 0's then back
> > again that it is very hard to get any data back off the drive. I think
> > if you do it li
> I have seen where people use dd to do this sort of thing to. I read
> somewhere that if you do a dd and put in all 1's, then all 0's then back
> again that it is very hard to get any data back off the drive. I think
> if you do it like over a dozen times, it is deemed impossible to get
> anythi
On Tue, 2012-08-07 at 21:19 -0500, Dale wrote:
> Paul Hartman wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 5:26 PM, Dale wrote:
> >> I didn't know you could do low level formats anymore. Really? What
> >> package provides that? Hmmm, I'm thinking about those HOURS spent
> >> formatting a 100Mb drive and t
Paul Hartman wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 5:26 PM, Dale wrote:
>> I didn't know you could do low level formats anymore. Really? What
>> package provides that? Hmmm, I'm thinking about those HOURS spent
>> formatting a 100Mb drive and then thinking about how long it will take
>> to do a 3Tb d
On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 4:06 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Tuesday 07 August 2012 23:39:05 Mark Knecht wrote:
>
>> Dead out of the box is dead. However a drive failing in a couple of
>> months _might_ have showed up in the smartctl output ...
>
> I wonder. Does anyone here know what most often cau
On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 4:05 PM, Dale wrote:
> In
> the meantime, it is what it is.
I completely understand Dale, and I'm not picking on you. Just get
that second drive as soon as you can.
Cheers,
Mark
On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 3:54 PM, walt wrote:
> On 08/07/2012 11:46 AM, Mark Knecht wrote:
>
>> Each Windows VM has it's own Windows
>> license as well as it's own virus protection license. I run different
>> trading apps in different VMs. All trading VMs are Virtualbox.
>
> Just curious if you've g
On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 5:26 PM, Dale wrote:
>
> I didn't know you could do low level formats anymore. Really? What
> package provides that? Hmmm, I'm thinking about those HOURS spent
> formatting a 100Mb drive and then thinking about how long it will take
> to do a 3Tb drive. O_O I mean reall
On Tuesday 07 August 2012 23:39:05 Mark Knecht wrote:
> Dead out of the box is dead. However a drive failing in a couple of
> months _might_ have showed up in the smartctl output ...
I wonder. Does anyone here know what most often causes HD failure after
a couple of months? I imagine it's some c
Mark Knecht wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 3:26 PM, Dale wrote:
>
>> Well, I don't want to force it to fail just for the heck of it.
> Of course...
>
>> I just
>> want to make sure it is not going to fail in the first few months of
>> use.
> But what you don't know about those failed drives is w
On 08/07/2012 11:46 AM, Mark Knecht wrote:
> Each Windows VM has it's own Windows
> license as well as it's own virus protection license. I run different
> trading apps in different VMs. All trading VMs are Virtualbox.
Just curious if you've given wine a try in recent months. I use a few
proprie
On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 3:26 PM, Dale wrote:
> Well, I don't want to force it to fail just for the heck of it.
Of course...
> I just
> want to make sure it is not going to fail in the first few months of
> use.
But what you don't know about those failed drives is whether the user
could have pre
Paul Hartman wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 5, 2012 at 7:45 AM, Dale wrote:
>> Howdy,
>>
>> I finally got me a 3Tb drive on the way. Should be here Wednesday. I
>> have seen some reviews where it would not work right. I think some of
>> it may be BIOS related since some BIOS's don't like drives that larg
On Tuesday 07 Aug 2012 19:46:24 Mark Knecht wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 10:17 AM, James wrote:
>
>
> > Hello Mark,
> >
> > I think I'll put the R stuff as research interest on a separate
> > machine to evaluate... I'm Looking for some guidance on this
> > (VM) subject, related to online st
On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 10:17 AM, James wrote:
> Hello Mark,
>
> I think I'll put the R stuff as research interest on a separate
> machine to evaluate... I'm Looking for some guidance on this
> (VM) subject, related to online stock trading. Should I set up a
> machine on a hardened system? SeLinu
Mark Knecht gmail.com> writes:
> > I'm looking into setting up a stock market monitoring
> > and trading workstation on Gentoo. Any suggestions
> > or experiences are welcome.
> Good luck. I don't envy you and I (attempt to) do this for a living at home...
Exactly what I (feared) suspected
On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 8:51 AM, James wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm looking into setting up a stock market monitoring
> and trading workstation on Gentoo. Any suggestions
> or experiences are welcome.
>
>
> James
Good luck. I don't envy you and I (attempt to) do this for a living at home...
TTBOMK the
Hello,
I'm looking into setting up a stock market monitoring
and trading workstation on Gentoo. Any suggestions
or experiences are welcome.
James
On Mon, Aug 06, 2012 at 06:37:07PM +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
> Paul Hartman [12-08-06 17:36]:
> > On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 8:01 AM, wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I am asking, because I found not only one description of somehow
> > > complicated setups to compile a distribution (namely gento
meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
>
> Hi Dale,
>
> TADA! CONFIG_HIDRAW was missing in my .config. Now it works again!
> Thank yoy very much for your help! :))
>
> Best regards,
> mcc
>
>
This is something new. You are not the first to miss it and I almost
did myself. Just shear luck on my part. I just
Dale [12-08-07 11:44]:
> meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
> > Hi Neil,
> >
> > yes they are...
> > It works before (same kernel) so something different must have
> > changed.
> > Is there any order of scripts under /etc, which may have resorted
> > while updateing Gentoo?
> >
> > Best regards,
> > mcc
>
meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
> Hi Neil,
>
> yes they are...
> It works before (same kernel) so something different must have
> changed.
> Is there any order of scripts under /etc, which may have resorted
> while updateing Gentoo?
>
> Best regards,
> mcc
>
Someone else ran into this a few weeks or so
Neil Bothwick [12-08-07 10:29]:
> On Tue, 7 Aug 2012 06:56:31 +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
>
> > Now, I can enter the grub and add an "S" to the commandline
> > and boot the kernel by pressing "B".
> >
> > When the kernel asks for the root password, the keyboard is
> > no longer recognized.
On Tue, 7 Aug 2012 06:56:31 +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
> Now, I can enter the grub and add an "S" to the commandline
> and boot the kernel by pressing "B".
>
> When the kernel asks for the root password, the keyboard is
> no longer recognized. No chance other than to press the
> power butt
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