Re: [GTALUG] Raspberry Pi
On Sun, Mar 7, 2021 at 8:39 PM Kevin Cozens via talk wrote: > > On 2021-03-07 9:26 a.m., Aruna Hewapathirane via talk wrote: > > In case anyone may have a need my resume is here: http://sahanaya.net/fsf/ > > Please scroll down and click the red 'download resume' button. Thanks. > > I saw your postings to the GTALUB mailing list. I had a quick look at your > web page. Nice page showing an interesting set of past work. Just a couple > of comments for you. > > You have a typo in the MY STRENGTHS diagram. You have "Preety Good" instead > of "Pretty Good". You have a very sharp eye for detail. Thank you. I have corrected the typo. > The Work Process section still has some Latin placeholder text. Not sure if > that is deliberate or a section you haven't yet completed. I never got around to fixing that till just now. Fixed now and thanks again :-) --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
[GTALUG] How Linux is Built - YouTube
I came across this today. While the numbers are a bit dated, this video can help explain a bit about Linux to others. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVpbFMhOAwE --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
Re: [GTALUG] Which NAS harddisk? -- Seagate or Western Digital
On Sun, Mar 07, 2021 at 06:28:47PM -0500, William Park via talk wrote: > 2 of my harddisks are failing, so I need to buy something fairly soon. I > haven't bought a harddisk for a long time. Has Seagate improved their > quality? Or, should I go with Western Digital as I usually do? I am certainly sticking with WD, although of course be aware of WD totally botching the WD Red line by switching them to shingled drives without telling people and breaking what the entire point of that model line was (being excellent in RAID systems). The original WD Red drives are now the WD Red Plus drives (same exact model number as before, new label). It would take years of no more problems before I would trust Seagate with my data. -- Len Sorensen --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
Re: [GTALUG] Raspberry Pi
On Fri, Mar 05, 2021 at 07:24:56PM -0500, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: > On the face of it, it sounds as odd as: > > Watch a TV ad on TV. > Conclude the advertised TV's picture looks better than your > TV. I do love it when people ask for pictures of a TV on forums as if they could judge anything based on that given camera variances and what kind of computer screen they are viewing the picture on. They are mostly meaningless (unless you are using it to compare two TVs in the same image, in which case you can probably tell something about their differences). > Clearly, your Raspberry Pi OS in Virtual Box cannot be faster than the > host OS since it is using the host OS. > > Perhaps this is what's going on: > > - modern Linux desktops use 3D accelerated compositing > > - Hasell iGPUs are weak at 3D > > - Raspberry Pi OS avoids this. > > So: > > Switch your PC to another Desktop Environment that doesn't do this > heavy compositing. Which ones? I don't know, but there are a > million. debian supports a whole bunch, I think. XFCE? I use XFCE a lot. Nice and simple and lightweight. Gets the job done. > I had a few SSDs fail in early the days. None recently. > > When they fail, they tend to fail suddenly and hard. But then again > HDDs can fail that way too. > > From my early experiences, I organize my desktop this way: > / on SSD > /home ond HDD. > > That way, a broken SSD is no problem: just replace and install a new > OS. If it is important, I run RAID1 of SSDs. Then if it fails, you replace it, and life goes on. But other than the OCZ vertex 3 drives I got initially years ago, I haven't had SSDs fail on me so far. I am sure they will at some point. For large storage I still use harddisks (currently 9x4TB WD Red Plus drives in RAID6) and my mythtv front end still runs a pair of 500GB WD blue's in RAID1, and my laptop has 1 1TB HD and 1TB SSD, so I have a few harddisks around, but most machines are mainly SSD now. -- Len Sorensen --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
Re: [GTALUG] Raspberry Pi
On 3/8/21 9:21 AM, James Knott via talk wrote: On 2021-03-08 7:44 a.m., o1bigtenor via talk wrote: (Re: DHL) Hmm - - - - did you enjoy the insecure (only a http NOT https) web form you got to use for giving them your information? Did you 'like' the fact that you were set up so that you couldn't clear the shipment yourself? Did you like the 'nice' fee you were charged for their rather lackadaisical halding of the same? I never entered info on the DHL site. I provided info to the shipper in Hong Kong. IIRC, the fee from DHL was $20 or so. This is a lot less than what UPS charged years ago. It was so obscene that I and others refused to use them. I don't have a problem paying a reasonable amount for border brokerage service. My item was over $300, so it couldn't slip through without attracting HST etc.. Having been raped by UPS/Fedex a few times for customs brokerage I try to only use USPS when getting things from the US. I have never had to pay clearing changes and only once had to pay HST out of possibly 100 shipments over the years. -- Alvin Starr || land: (647)478-6285 Netvel Inc. || Cell: (416)806-0133 al...@netvel.net || --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
Re: [GTALUG] Raspberry Pi
On 2021-03-08 7:44 a.m., o1bigtenor via talk wrote: (Re: DHL) Hmm - - - - did you enjoy the insecure (only a http NOT https) web form you got to use for giving them your information? Did you 'like' the fact that you were set up so that you couldn't clear the shipment yourself? Did you like the 'nice' fee you were charged for their rather lackadaisical halding of the same? I never entered info on the DHL site. I provided info to the shipper in Hong Kong. IIRC, the fee from DHL was $20 or so. This is a lot less than what UPS charged years ago. It was so obscene that I and others refused to use them. I don't have a problem paying a reasonable amount for border brokerage service. My item was over $300, so it couldn't slip through without attracting HST etc.. --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
Re: [GTALUG] Raspberry Pi
On 2021-03-08 12:33 a.m., Stewart C. Russell via talk wrote: And subsidized shipping. It is often cheaper to mail from China or Hong Kong than from within Toronto. When someone pays for international mail, the country that has to deliver it receives nothing. This means China can set a low fee for that mail and Canada gets to pay for the delivery. I've also had DHL be faster from China than Canada Post's fastest service can make it across Toronto. I recently received a parcel from Hong Kong via DHL. It took just over a week. --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
Re: [GTALUG] Raspberry Pi
On Sun, Mar 7, 2021 at 11:33 PM Stewart C. Russell via talk wrote: > > On 2021-03-07 11:14 a.m., D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: > > > > And subsidized shipping. It is often cheaper to mail from China or Hong > > Kong than from within Toronto. > > Canada's mail pricing is iniquitous. I sent a Raspberry Pi Pico (okay, > and a tiny piezo speaker so it would play the rickroll tune when plugged > in …) to Halifax, NS the other week. Small padded bag, 35 grams: $18. > > I've also had DHL be faster from China than Canada Post's fastest > service can make it across Toronto. > (Re: DHL) Hmm - - - - did you enjoy the insecure (only a http NOT https) web form you got to use for giving them your information? Did you 'like' the fact that you were set up so that you couldn't clear the shipment yourself? Did you like the 'nice' fee you were charged for their rather lackadaisical halding of the same? I didn't! Then Canada Post - - - - - dunno how they manage to do it but they are largely technologically incompetent and mostly unable to get the job (their mandate) done. In fact - - - they're so incompetent that they think they're competent (dunno how they manage this but they do!). Regards --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
