Re: tbird troubles

2024-04-16 Thread gene heskett
ropping it at a place which is instead treated as outside of the window. Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis

Re: tbird troubles

2024-04-16 Thread gene heskett
On 4/16/24 10:22, Curt wrote: On 2024-04-15, gene heskett wrote: For the last 2 or 3 reboots, when launching t-bird, I get 2 copies of the gui stacked on top of each other. I can move them separately to 2 separate workspaces, and both appear to work for some definition of working, but quitting

Re: tbird troubles

2024-04-15 Thread gene heskett
On 4/15/24 15:26, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Mon, Apr 15, 2024 at 03:10:20PM -0400, gene heskett wrote: [...] Try running "thunderbird" from a terminal emulator and see what happens. Stopped it. opened an xfce4 terminal and typed "thunderbird"enter, same old same old,

Re: tbird troubles

2024-04-15 Thread gene heskett
On 4/15/24 14:24, David Wright wrote: On Tue 16 Apr 2024 at 01:20:03 (+0800), Bret Busby wrote: On 16/4/24 00:49, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Mon, Apr 15, 2024 at 10:59:25AM -0400, e...@gmx.us wrote: On 4/15/24 10:01, gene heskett wrote: On 4/15/24 09:09, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Mon, Apr 15

Re: tbird troubles

2024-04-15 Thread gene heskett
On 4/15/24 14:01, Matthew Lemon wrote: aptitude purge '?and(~i ?tag(suite::kde))' I thought it was installed, but apparently is not. Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order.&q

Re: tbird troubles

2024-04-15 Thread gene heskett
On 4/15/24 12:49, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Mon, Apr 15, 2024 at 10:59:25AM -0400, e...@gmx.us wrote: On 4/15/24 10:01, gene heskett wrote: On 4/15/24 09:09, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Mon, Apr 15, 2024 at 08:28:24AM -0400, gene heskett wrote: For the last 2 or 3 reboots, when launching t-bird, I

Re: tbird troubles

2024-04-15 Thread gene heskett
On 4/15/24 11:00, e...@gmx.us wrote: On 4/15/24 10:01, gene heskett wrote: On 4/15/24 09:09, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Mon, Apr 15, 2024 at 08:28:24AM -0400, gene heskett wrote: For the last 2 or 3 reboots, when launching t-bird, I get 2 copies of the gui stacked on top of each other. I can

Re: tbird troubles

2024-04-15 Thread gene heskett
On 4/15/24 10:13, Charles Curley wrote: On Mon, 15 Apr 2024 08:28:24 -0400 gene heskett wrote: I am supposedly running xfc4 as a desktop, but htop says I have a heck of a lot of kde5 running. How do I get rid of the kde stuff? Dependencies seem to be protecting it from being removed. You

Re: tbird troubles

2024-04-15 Thread gene heskett
On 4/15/24 09:09, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Mon, Apr 15, 2024 at 08:28:24AM -0400, gene heskett wrote: For the last 2 or 3 reboots, when launching t-bird, I get 2 copies of the gui stacked on top of each other. I can move them separately to 2 separate workspaces, and both appear to work for some

tbird troubles

2024-04-15 Thread gene heskett
ot of kde5 running. How do I get rid of the kde stuff? Dependencies seem to be protecting it from being removed. Anybody have a clue whats going on? Thanks for any advice that works. Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and a

Re: What use can i give to linux?

2024-04-06 Thread gene heskett
mn smart lady. :-) We're way off topic Roy, but my now departed music teacher never "got the fever" was not a bit impressed by the district forcing her to use a dos box (2.1 I think), two floppy drives to make out grades and report cards the last 5 years of her 35 year teaching

Re: What use can i give to linux?

2024-04-06 Thread gene heskett
had to be rebooted & stick a postit note on it. And kept a copy in my office to remind me when it was time to go reboot it. . Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdersh

Re: NextGov: Linux XZ Utils Backdoor Was Long Con, Possibly With Support

2024-04-06 Thread gene heskett
eally required a lot of coincidences." gene heskett wrote: In light of that its worth noting that an M$ employee was the first to spot it. Indeed. Thus we should also praise the peace between Microsoft and free software which broke out a few years ago. There remains the question, whom a go

Re: NextGov: Linux XZ Utils Backdoor Was Long Con, Possibly WithSupport

2024-04-05 Thread gene heskett
that an M$ employee was the first to spot it. Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law res

Re: making Debian secure by default

2024-03-31 Thread gene heskett
On 3/31/24 17:16, Andy Smith wrote: Hello, On Sun, Mar 31, 2024 at 04:27:52PM -0400, gene heskett wrote: On 3/31/24 15:26, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2024/msg00058.html Does this mean its now safe to update our bookworm installs? I am not

Re: making Debian secure by default

2024-03-31 Thread gene heskett
ata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs//main/u/util-linux/util-linux_2.39.3-11_changelog The fix has also been made to stable and oldstable: https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2024/msg00058.html Does this mean its now safe to update our bookworm installs? TY. Regards, -Roberto

Re: Debian 12.5 up-to-date Xfce, Firefox clings to USB stick

2024-03-30 Thread gene heskett
r home in a pi clone. Possibly fixed by stopping firefox first? Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) If we desire respect for the law, we must first

Re: testing new sdm drive

2024-03-26 Thread gene heskett
On 2/9/24 20:36, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: On 10.02.2024 03:34, gene heskett wrote: On 2/8/24 07:22, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: This is how I would test it. First create a new GPT partition table and a new 2TB partition: $ sudo gdisk /dev/sdX check /!\  Make double sure you&#x

Re: OT: End the Phone-Based Childhood Now

2024-03-16 Thread gene heskett
noise? Or at least make them aware of their rudeness. Thank you. +100. Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) If we desire respect for the law, we

Re: Debugging an USB array issue

2024-03-16 Thread gene heskett
rtech, probable. I have several startech's in service for years. And have NOT had to replace any of them. Ignore that faint knocking on wood sound. :o)> Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use i

Re: libbusiness-us-usps-webtools-perl and USPS Ground Advantage shipping

2024-03-08 Thread gene heskett
for labels are slowly going paperless, instead using a recyclable plastic label material, you should probably be asking for something compatible with the plastic paper labels. . Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and amm

Re: strange time problem with bullseye/buster

2024-03-07 Thread gene heskett
On 3/7/24 21:30, David Wright wrote: On Thu 07 Mar 2024 at 19:17:02 (-0500), gene heskett wrote: On 3/7/24 12:19, David Wright wrote: On Thu 07 Mar 2024 at 11:29:47 (-0500), gene heskett wrote: On 3/7/24 10:59, Greg Wooledge wrote: You should be able to verify that the systemd-timesyncd

Re: strange time problem with bullseye

2024-03-07 Thread gene heskett
to be firefox. I just need to look at that system monitor every once in a while and when things start getting excessive shut firefox down and restart it. Then I don't have the problem... I'm not sure if I have ntp or something else running here. (Looking...) I don't see it

Re: strange time problem with bullseye/buster

2024-03-07 Thread gene heskett
On 3/7/24 12:19, David Wright wrote: On Thu 07 Mar 2024 at 11:29:47 (-0500), gene heskett wrote: On 3/7/24 10:59, Greg Wooledge wrote: You should be able to verify that the systemd-timesyncd package is removed. In some older versions of Debian, systemd-timesyncd was part of the systemd

Re: strange time problem with bullseye

2024-03-07 Thread gene heskett
On 3/7/24 11:18, Jeffrey Walton wrote: On Thu, Mar 7, 2024 at 8:44 AM wrote: On Thu, Mar 07, 2024 at 08:31:16AM -0500, gene heskett wrote: [...] Now, how do I assure timedatectl stays stopped on a reboot? [...] I'll have to leave this to others more fluent in systemd-ish. Mask the sy

Re: strange time problem with bullseye

2024-03-07 Thread gene heskett
On 3/7/24 10:59, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Thu, Mar 07, 2024 at 08:31:16AM -0500, gene heskett wrote: So I purged ntpsec and re-installed chrony which I had done once before with no luck but this time timedatectl was stopped and it worked! Now, how do I assure timedatectl stays stopped on a

Re: strange time problem with bullseye

2024-03-07 Thread gene heskett
tay well Tomas. Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis

Re: strange time problem with bullseye

2024-03-06 Thread gene heskett
On 3/6/24 18:02, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Wed, Mar 06, 2024 at 05:56:29PM -0500, gene heskett wrote: On 3/6/24 12:42, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Wed, Mar 06, 2024 at 12:31:46PM -0500, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: sudo timedatectl set-ntp true But *don't* do that if you're using

Re: strange time problem with bullseye

2024-03-06 Thread gene heskett
edatectl to slam the ntp time into the system clock on first access at bootup. That would fix a lot of bogus times reported by fluidd, the printers web based gui front end. Thanks Greg. Take care & stay well. Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of

Re: electrons/the Internet doesn't like question authority niggahs?,oris it that I like to eat raw garlic, ...

2024-03-05 Thread gene heskett
On 3/5/24 00:34, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Mon, Mar 04, 2024 at 07:44:41PM -0500, gene heskett wrote: On 3/4/24 11:42, Albretch Mueller wrote: spend days on end reading, coding and thinking about Math? [...] Your traceroute might be your isp throttling things as traceroute demands an answer

Re: electrons/the Internet doesn't like question authority niggahs?, oris it that I like to eat raw garlic, ...

2024-03-04 Thread gene heskett
e> which unless your email agent is truly Jurassic, will protect the link from line wrapping. It can then be wrapped in transit and still work. It has been a std for 2 decades or more. [...] Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ball

Re: How to upgrade the GLIBCXX and GLIBC to the specific version

2024-02-27 Thread gene heskett
20 bill in the armbian kitty every month. TANSTAAFL folks. Natures only 100% true law. Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) If we desire respect

Re: medically smart watches

2024-02-26 Thread gene heskett
n the kde-built-in one. If someone knows, how to pair these (maybe I have to take notice of some things), I will take a further look. I hope, this helped a little bit more. It does shine a bit of light on some of the problems to be aware of. Thanks Hans. Take care & stay well. Best Hans C

Re: medically smart watches

2024-02-26 Thread gene heskett
On 2/26/24 06:25, hw wrote: On Sat, 2024-02-24 at 10:03 -0500, gene heskett wrote: [...] bluetooth, and It looks as if I have to buy a BT adaptor, so advise on that front would be most welcome also. [...] If you're locking for a bluetooth USB adapter: I have a 'Bluetooth 5.0'

Re: medically smart watches

2024-02-25 Thread gene heskett
On 2/25/24 14:19, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: On Sunday 25 February 2024 05:16:21 am gene heskett wrote: I have no idea how many EE's there are here in the states, 10,000+ probably. There are only around 130 CET's. More than that. My certificate number is PA-230... Mine is NB-11

Re: /etc/apt/sources.list example [WAS Re: medically smart watches]

2024-02-25 Thread gene heskett
sList Thanks Andy. Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis

Re: medically smart watches

2024-02-25 Thread gene heskett
On 2/25/24 03:36, Geert Stappers wrote: On Sat, Feb 24, 2024 at 02:05:50PM -0500, Lee wrote: On Sat, Feb 24, 2024 at 12:06 PM gene heskett wrote: On 2/24/24 11:03, Loïc Grenié wrote: On Sat Feb 24th, 2024, at 16:03, Gene Heskett wrote: Greetings all; As most of you know I'm

Re: medically smart watches

2024-02-24 Thread gene heskett
On 2/24/24 12:36, gene heskett wrote: On 2/24/24 12:23, John Hasler wrote: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noninvasive_glucose_monitor The consensus seems to be that hey are not yet ready for daily driver use. But I'm that curios cat. Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET. So I just installed the

Re: medically smart watches

2024-02-24 Thread gene heskett
On 2/24/24 12:23, John Hasler wrote: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noninvasive_glucose_monitor The consensus seems to be that hey are not yet ready for daily driver use. But I'm that curios cat. Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: so

Re: medically smart watches

2024-02-24 Thread gene heskett
n "sorry, couldn't resist" . That category seems to fit both of us. ;o)> Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) If we desire respec

Re: medically smart watches

2024-02-24 Thread gene heskett
On 2/24/24 11:03, Loïc Grenié wrote: On Sat Feb 24th, 2024, at 16:03, Gene Heskett wrote: Greetings all; As most of you know I'm a DM-II, but the recent shortage of trulicity, a weekly self administerd shot that helps regulate one's blood guclose levels

medically smart watches

2024-02-24 Thread gene heskett
3% dependability, haven't messed with it since. Couldn't move a 3k text file even rz/sz-3.3.6 aka zmodem. Thank you all. Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howder

Re: Orphaned Inode Problem

2024-02-21 Thread gene heskett
a pi u-sd in quite a few years. So even though the system, with all the trash collected over a decade might amount to 10G's, they have 64G to play with. I must be doing something right. What's your opinion? How much time do you have :) -H Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET. -- "There

Re: red SATA cables "notoriously bad"?

2024-02-20 Thread gene heskett
moved most of my drives internal, and bought a few SATA III mobile racks for off-site backup drives.  My SATA connection problems are finally resolved. How many more nearly identical story's can be teased out of this group of old hands at this game of making moving electrons do useful thi

Re: red SATA cables "notoriously bad"?

2024-02-19 Thread gene heskett
On 2/19/24 22:15, Andy Smith wrote: Hi, On Mon, Feb 19, 2024 at 10:06:23PM -0500, gene heskett wrote: Andy, look at that CET after my name in the sig, that stands for Certified Electronics Tachnician. There isn't a polite way to say this really but unfortunately I am unable to tak

Re: red SATA cables "notoriously bad"?

2024-02-19 Thread gene heskett
igment damaging the copper. Have you got a reference so I can learn more? Don't you ever read Gene Heskett posts? Ah I see: https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2023/06/msg00103.html Stefan: Can you point to any evidence? Gene: Just my own life [segue to story from 19

Re: red SATA cables "notoriously bad"? (Was Re: Orphaned Inode Problem)

2024-02-19 Thread gene heskett
ellow, but not hot red. And sleep better knowing that time bomb has gone out with the trash. Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) If we desire re

Re: SMART Uncorrectable_Error_Cnt rising - should I be worried?

2024-02-17 Thread gene heskett
sata-III to usb3 adapter for about a tenner a copy. So a 7 port hub takes up only 1 or the 4 usb3 ports on a bpi-m5, leaving 3 more ports available on the bpi-m5 itself. See at ssh into it from the Main system and run the pi headless. Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET. -- "There are four boxe

Re: f3tools vs Silicon Power 4T drive

2024-02-17 Thread gene heskett
On 2/17/24 00:47, gene heskett wrote: On 2/16/24 21:13, Andy Smith wrote: Hello, On Fri, Feb 16, 2024 at 02:02:59PM -0600, David Wright wrote: On Fri 16 Feb 2024 at 14:48:12 (+), Andy Smith wrote: No, because it's a filesystem label for the ext4 fs created on /dev/sdz1. If sdz1 is t

Re: f3tools vs Silicon Power 4T drive

2024-02-17 Thread gene heskett
On 2/17/24 00:35, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Fri, Feb 16, 2024 at 12:12:06PM -0800, David Christensen wrote: On 2/15/24 17:44, gene heskett wrote: [...]  Other than that the gui access delay (30+ seconds) problems I have did NOT go away when I moved /home off the raid to another SSD

Re: f3tools vs Silicon Power 4T drive

2024-02-16 Thread gene heskett
s4t1 and giga-s4t2. ditto for the bottom one. named giga-s4b1 and giga-s4b2. 1 partition to hold amanda's database and one to serve as amanda's holding disk. Whats so meaningless to you that you can't see the utility in that? That has not been explained, so please educate me as

Re: f3tools vs Silicon Power 4T drive

2024-02-16 Thread gene heskett
e. FWIW, my crystal ball says "30s => software timeout rather than hardware problem" Stefan We are on the same page, but what is causing the timeout? . Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo.

Re: f3tools vs Silicon Power 4T drive

2024-02-16 Thread gene heskett
On 2/16/24 07:46, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: gene heskett wrote: On 2/15/24 15:45, Andy Smith wrote: MD RAID isn't the only way to achieve redundancy. You also haven't explained why you need LVM. Depending on your needs, maybe a filesystem with redundancy and volume

Re: f3tools vs Silicon Power 4T drive

2024-02-15 Thread gene heskett
On 2/15/24 16:20, David Wright wrote: On Thu 15 Feb 2024 at 20:44:52 (+), Andy Smith wrote: On Thu, Feb 15, 2024 at 03:19:54PM -0500, gene heskett wrote: On 2/15/24 11:21, Andy Smith wrote: You asked if "labels" would survive their associated partition being put into LVM. I sai

Re: f3tools vs Silicon Power 4T drive

2024-02-15 Thread gene heskett
On 2/15/24 16:20, Andy Smith wrote: Hi, On Thu, Feb 15, 2024 at 03:59:30PM -0500, gene heskett wrote: Now the question remains howinhell do I put a label on a drive such that it does survive making a raid or lvm device with it? To not have a way to id its the drive in slot n of a multislot

Re: f3tools vs Silicon Power 4T drive

2024-02-15 Thread gene heskett
On 2/15/24 15:45, Andy Smith wrote: Hi, On Thu, Feb 15, 2024 at 03:19:54PM -0500, gene heskett wrote: On 2/15/24 11:21, Andy Smith wrote: You asked if "labels" would survive their associated partition being put into LVM. I said, "yes if you mean partition names, no if you

Re: f3tools vs Silicon Power 4T drive

2024-02-15 Thread gene heskett
On 2/15/24 15:45, Andy Smith wrote: Hi, On Thu, Feb 15, 2024 at 03:19:54PM -0500, gene heskett wrote: On 2/15/24 11:21, Andy Smith wrote: You asked if "labels" would survive their associated partition being put into LVM. I said, "yes if you mean partition names, no if you

Re: f3tools vs Silicon Power 4T drive

2024-02-15 Thread gene heskett
id sees all 5 drives, but udev see's only the unique serial numbers. gparted can change the devices blkid, getting a new one from rng so while you all think that's the greatest thing since bottled beer, I know better. Take care, stay well all. Thanks, Andy Cheers, Gene Heskett,

Re: f3tools vs Silicon Power 4T drive

2024-02-15 Thread gene heskett
On 2/15/24 11:21, Andy Smith wrote: Hi, On Wed, Feb 14, 2024 at 09:56:07PM -0500, gene heskett wrote: On 2/14/24 19:48, Andy Smith wrote: I hope you are putting a level of redundancy under that LVM or are using the redundancy features of LVM (which you need to go out of your way to do

Re: f3tools vs Silicon Power 4T drive

2024-02-14 Thread gene heskett
On 2/14/24 21:14, Max Nikulin wrote: On 15/02/2024 08:48, gene heskett wrote: This is what gparted calls a "partition label" and certainly does not need a 4.5 megabyte camera image to see. or even a 50k screen snap. lsblk --fs -o +PARTLABEL  /dev/sdc NAME FSTYPE FSVER LA

Re: f3tools vs Silicon Power 4T drive

2024-02-14 Thread gene heskett
On 2/14/24 20:49, gene heskett wrote: On 2/14/24 19:48, Andy Smith wrote: Hi, On Wed, Feb 14, 2024 at 05:09:02PM -0500, gene heskett wrote: I have made 1 full partiton om each one, a labeled those partitions  as SiPwr_0 and SiPwr_1 Please show us the command you used¹ to do that, so we know

Re: f3tools vs Silicon Power 4T drive

2024-02-14 Thread gene heskett
On 2/14/24 19:48, Andy Smith wrote: Hi, On Wed, Feb 14, 2024 at 05:09:02PM -0500, gene heskett wrote: I have made 1 full partiton om each one, a labeled those partitions as SiPwr_0 and SiPwr_1 Please show us the command you used¹ to do that, so we know what exactly you are talking about

Re: f3tools vs Silicon Power 4T drive

2024-02-14 Thread gene heskett
On 2/14/24 19:48, Andy Smith wrote: Hi, On Wed, Feb 14, 2024 at 05:09:02PM -0500, gene heskett wrote: I have made 1 full partiton om each one, a labeled those partitions as SiPwr_0 and SiPwr_1 Please show us the command you used¹ to do that, so we know what exactly you are talking about

f3tools vs Silicon Power 4T drive

2024-02-14 Thread gene heskett
well. Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis

Re: shred bug? [was: Unidentified subject!]

2024-02-13 Thread gene heskett
On 2/13/24 16:00, David Christensen wrote: On 2/13/24 11:31, gene heskett wrote: Next experiment is a pair of 4T Silicon Power SSD's When they & the startech usb3 adapters arrive.  I'll get that NAS built for amanda yet. 2.5" SATA SSD's and SATA to USB adapter cab

Re: shred bug? [was: Unidentified subject!]

2024-02-13 Thread gene heskett
On 2/13/24 14:44, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, Gene Heskett wrote: Next experiment is a pair of 4T Silicon Power SSD's When f3 has (hopefully) given its OK, the topic of a full write-and-read test will come up again. I'm looking forward to all the spin-off topics. I'll have

Re: shred bug? [was: Unidentified subject!]

2024-02-13 Thread gene heskett
On 2/13/24 12:56, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, Greg Wooledge wrote: Let me write out the example again, but with the bug fixed, and then explain what each line does, [... lecture about advanced shell programming ...] And this all because Gene Heskett was adventurous enough to buy a cheap fake

Re: find and it uncommon syntax - grrrrrrrrr

2024-02-10 Thread gene heskett
On 2/10/24 16:07, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Sat, Feb 10, 2024 at 02:58:24PM -0600, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: On Sat, Feb 10, 2024, 2:46 PM gene heskett wrote: Greetings; I have misplaced file someplace in /home/gene. its name is bpim5*shelf.scad Assuming that you are searching in the

Re: find and it uncommon syntax - grrrrrrrrr

2024-02-10 Thread gene heskett
On 2/10/24 15:55, Greg Wooledge wrote: find . -iname 'bpim5*shelf.scad' Thank you Greg, it worked and 4 more copies are under construction now, but why is this not in the man page? Mind boggling. Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of

Re: Home UPS recommendations

2024-02-10 Thread gene heskett
fraction of a volt lower, but treated right will actually live years longer. Modern gel cell's are even more quickly destroyed by over charging. Your trivia factoid for the day, from somebody who understands the chemistry. Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET. -- "There are four boxes to be us

find and it uncommon syntax - grrrrrrrrr

2024-02-10 Thread gene heskett
where do I put that as an alias, in my .bashrc? Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law r

Re: Unidentified subject!

2024-02-10 Thread gene heskett
On 2/10/24 13:30, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, gene heskett wrote: my fading eyesight couldn't see the diffs between () and {} in a 6 point font. I need a bigger, more legible font in t-bird. That's why i propose to copy+paste problematic command lines. Your mouse can read it,

Re: Unidentified subject!

2024-02-10 Thread gene heskett
On 2/10/24 05:39, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, Gene Heskett wrote: Is bash not actually bash these days? It is not doing for loops for me. Come on Gene, be no sophie. Copy+paste your failing line here. :)) Alexander M. posted it a few days ago but my fading eyesight couldn't see the

Re: Things I don't touch with a 3.048m barge pole: USB storage(WasRe: Unidentified subject!)

2024-02-10 Thread gene heskett
On 2/10/24 00:54, David Christensen wrote: On 2/9/24 04:53, gene heskett wrote: Interesting report from gdisk however: GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 1.0.9 Partition table scan:    MBR: MBR only    BSD: not present    APM: not present    GPT: not present

Re: testing new sdm drive

2024-02-10 Thread gene heskett
On 2/10/24 00:46, David Christensen wrote: On 2/9/24 00:51, gene heskett wrote: On 2/8/24 13:25, David Christensen wrote: On 2/7/24 23:14, gene heskett wrote: gene@coyote:/etc$ sudo smartctl --all -dscsi /dev/sdm ... scsiModePageOffset: response length too short, resp_len=4 offset=4 bd_len=0

Re: testing new sdm drive

2024-02-10 Thread gene heskett
On 2/9/24 20:37, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: On 10.02.2024 03:34, gene heskett wrote: On 2/8/24 07:22, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: This is how I would test it. First create a new GPT partition table and a new 2TB partition: $ sudo gdisk /dev/sdX check /!\  Make double sure you&#x

Re: testing new sdm drive continued

2024-02-10 Thread gene heskett
cards at 1/3rd the cost. HTH Linux-Fan öö [...] c Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the

Re: testing new sdm drive

2024-02-10 Thread gene heskett
On 2/8/24 15:36, Linux-Fan wrote: Alexander V. Makartsev writes: On 08.02.2024 12:14, gene heskett wrote: gene@coyote:/etc$ sudo smartctl --all -dscsi /dev/sdm smartctl 7.3 2022-02-28 r5338 [x86_64-linux-6.1.0-17-rt-amd64] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-22, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke

Re: Unidentified subject!

2024-02-10 Thread gene heskett
rom a few days back to run. Is bash not actually bash these days? It is not doing for loops for me. Thanks for the heads up, Stefan. Stefan . Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use

Re: testing new sdm drive

2024-02-09 Thread gene heskett
On 2/8/24 07:22, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: On 08.02.2024 12:14, gene heskett wrote: gene@coyote:/etc$ sudo smartctl --all -dscsi /dev/sdm smartctl 7.3 2022-02-28 r5338 [x86_64-linux-6.1.0-17-rt-amd64] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-22, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke

Re: Things I don't touch with a 3.048m barge pole: USB storage (WasRe: Unidentified subject!)

2024-02-09 Thread gene heskett
rst usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 409566 Partitions will be aligned on 64-sector boundaries Total free space is 30 sectors (15.0 KiB) Number Start (sector)End (sector) Size Code Name 1 64 409599 1.9 TiB 0700 Microsoft basic data Com

Re: testing new sdm drive

2024-02-09 Thread gene heskett
On 2/8/24 15:11, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: On 09.02.2024 00:23, gene heskett wrote: Looks neat. Any chance this will crash my machine? I have other design work going on, and I'd hate to have to start from scratch. Well, it will consume CPU cycles for sure, at least to calculate md5 h

Re: testing new sdm drive

2024-02-09 Thread gene heskett
On 2/8/24 13:25, David Christensen wrote: On 2/7/24 23:14, gene heskett wrote: gene@coyote:/etc$ sudo smartctl --all -dscsi /dev/sdm smartctl 7.3 2022-02-28 r5338 [x86_64-linux-6.1.0-17-rt-amd64] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-22, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org

Re: Things I don't touch with a 3.048m barge pole: USB storage (WasRe: Unidentified subject!)

2024-02-09 Thread gene heskett
On 2/8/24 11:15, Gremlin wrote: On 2/8/24 10:36, Andy Smith wrote: Hello, On Wed, Feb 07, 2024 at 03:30:29PM -0500, gene heskett wrote: [629241.074187] scsi host37: usb-storage 1-2:1.0 USB storage is for phones and cameras etc, not for serious computing. Many people will disagree with that

Re: testing new sdm drive

2024-02-08 Thread gene heskett
On 2/8/24 07:22, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: On 08.02.2024 12:14, gene heskett wrote: gene@coyote:/etc$ sudo smartctl --all -dscsi /dev/sdm smartctl 7.3 2022-02-28 r5338 [x86_64-linux-6.1.0-17-rt-amd64] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-22, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke

testing new sdm drive

2024-02-07 Thread gene heskett
minate command early due to bad response to IEC mode page A mandatory SMART command failed: exiting. To continue, add one or more '-T permissive' options. gene@coyote:/etc$ And then again, it worked, sorta Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of l

Re: Portable External Hard Drive 2TB (was: Unidentified subject!)

2024-02-07 Thread gene heskett
On 2/7/24 21:55, David Christensen wrote: On 1/22/24 19:55, gene heskett wrote: > 2T ssd's: > > <https://www.amazon.com/External-Portable-Drive2TB-Desktop-Chromebook/dp/B0CPDGY8RC/ref=sr_1_62?crid=1JJ4ZBDF36VT8&keywords=usb-c%2B2T%2Bssd&qid=1705982036&sprefix=usb

Re: Portable External Hard Drive 2TB (was: Unidentified subject!)

2024-02-07 Thread gene heskett
On 2/7/24 21:55, David Christensen wrote: On 1/22/24 19:55, gene heskett wrote: > 2T ssd's: > > <https://www.amazon.com/External-Portable-Drive2TB-Desktop-Chromebook/dp/B0CPDGY8RC/ref=sr_1_62?crid=1JJ4ZBDF36VT8&keywords=usb-c%2B2T%2Bssd&qid=1705982036&sprefix=usb

Unidentified subject!

2024-02-07 Thread gene heskett
disk gene@coyote: Looks like a reasonable facsimile of a 2T disk to me. Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) If we desire respect for the law, we

Re: printing problem, markdown files

2024-02-02 Thread gene heskett
On 2/1/24 15:31, Dan Ritter wrote: gene heskett wrote: On 2/1/24 12:24, Dan Ritter wrote: gene heskett wrote: pandoc -f markdown FILEIN.md -t pdf -o FILEOUT.pdf will turn markdown into PDF, which you can probably print, if by no other means than FTP to the printer itself. (Try it, Brothers

Re: printing problem, markdown files

2024-02-01 Thread gene heskett
On 2/1/24 12:24, Dan Ritter wrote: gene heskett wrote: debian bookworm everting updated earlier this morning. I have an about 125 page .md file I need hardcopy of. If you don't have pandoc installed: sudo apt install pandoc then: pandoc -f markdown FILEIN.md -t pdf -o FILEOUT.pdf

printing problem, markdown files

2024-02-01 Thread gene heskett
enu no longer has an options tab used to set that stuff. Does anyone know of a fix? Thanks for any help Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) If we desir

Re: chrony date months off

2024-01-31 Thread gene heskett
On 1/31/24 21:50, Max Nikulin wrote: On 31/01/2024 20:24, didar wrote: On Wed, Jan 31, 2024 at 05:32:26AM -0500, gene heskett wrote: How do I setup /etc/chrony/chrony.conf so it slams the system clock to the current time on the first cycle as its rebooting? There was 20 yeas back, an ntpdate

SOLVED:Re: chrony date months off

2024-01-31 Thread gene heskett
On 1/31/24 13:19, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Wed, Jan 31, 2024 at 12:56:37PM -0500, gene heskett wrote: [...] # Stop bad estimates upsetting machine clock. maxupdateskew 10.0 initstepslew 30 192.168.71.3 # This directive enables kernel synchronisation (every 11 minutes) of the # real-time

Re: chrony date months off

2024-01-31 Thread gene heskett
On 1/31/24 10:44, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Wed, Jan 31, 2024 at 10:25:40AM -0500, gene heskett wrote: On 1/31/24 08:53, John Hasler wrote: Gene writes: How do I setup /etc/chrony/chrony.conf so it slams the system clock to the current time on the first cycle as its rebooting? initstepslew

Re: chrony date months off

2024-01-31 Thread gene heskett
On 1/31/24 08:53, John Hasler wrote: Gene writes: How do I setup /etc/chrony/chrony.conf so it slams the system clock to the current time on the first cycle as its rebooting? initstepslew man chrony.conf deprecated in favor of makestep, and did not work, John. Thanks, John Cheers, Gene

Re: chrony date months off

2024-01-31 Thread gene heskett
nvironment and its solution is not maxstep. Gene, are you going to complain again that some package has no man pages? Mope. Thanks Max Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed

chrony date months off

2024-01-31 Thread gene heskett
How do I setup /etc/chrony/chrony.conf so it slams the system clock to the current time on the first cycle as its rebooting? There was 20 yeas back, an ntpdate command that would do that. Now it appears to conflict with the other client/servers Thanks Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET. -- "Ther

Re: Home UPS recommendations (Was Re: rsync --delete vs rsync--delete-after)

2024-01-28 Thread gene heskett
dy since. I have an APC-1600 that been begging for a battery for a couple years, Still works fine for those few seconds. Take care, stay well, Andy. Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order.

Re: Automatically installing GRUB on multiple drives

2024-01-26 Thread gene heskett
y their product. Let there be competition based on the quality of their product. . Cheers, Gene Heskett. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) If we desire respect for the law, w

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