not format it ext2 and be done with it?
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On Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:21:28 +, d-...@hadrian-way.co.uk said:
and don't
start me on 'Trick or Treat'.
It's always amused me that parents spend 364 days each year telling their
children not to accept sweets from strangers, and one day a year
encouraging them to ask strangers for sweets.
/month. Next cheapest that I know of is Poundhost in Maindenhead
(equally not local), where it will cost £45/month - but I would not
recommend using them. After that the price goes up and up - we recently
had a quote for over £350 per month for a 1U colo slot(!).
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On Tue, 2 Feb 2010 17:37:01 +, d-...@hadrian-way.co.uk said:
However, I would be happier if the petition followed the French
and Germans and recommended an alternative browser
...or just any standards-compliant browser. Write to the standard and let
vendors fix their browsers to work.
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On Fri, 19 Feb 2010 13:31:24 +, dand...@googlemail.com said:
their stock kernels are far too stable.
Too stable? I wasn't aware that there was a significant demand for less
stability in the kernel (maybe a mail to Linus would help!).
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[1]
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On Sun, 04 Apr 2010 12:55:19 +0100, s...@funkygibbins.me.uk said:
Case in point: I emailed the Labour candidate for our area about the
Digital Economy Bill some time ago and still have not had a reply,
presumably because she is not prepared to go against the party line
Point out to her that
On Mon, 19 Apr 2010 21:29:56 +0100, da...@noroutetohost.net said:
a tour of the C4L facilities
What's C4L?
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with Shorewall (and ipsets in that case), and again
managing that with raw iptables commands would be a nightmare.
Your problem would be trivial to solve with Shorewall.
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What's the point, Simon? Is this some course homework or something? I'm
struggling to understand what makes this better than, say, GPG, unless the
reasoning to try writing some encryption code. Of course, I may have
misunderstood, in which case correct me!
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On Mon, 24 May 2010 20:38:13 +0100, ra...@inputplus.co.uk said:
I often use the command
sudo netstat -tulepn
to see what servers are listening on what TCP ports.
Useful, but note that it also lists UDP ports (use '-tlepn' to show only
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On Wed, 26 May 2010 21:27:35 +0100, jr4...@googlemail.com said:
Ubuntu is British, thank god.
aah, the days of the empire. :-)
Ubuntu is South-African.
Ubuntu is a South African word; the company behind the Ubuntu Linux
distribution is Canonical Ltd, registered in the Isle of Man
Fedora's
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etc. However, it seems unlikely that /dev/sda1 is the swap partition, so
what makes you think that it is?
Once the system has booted, can you give the output of (as root):
# mount
# swapon -s
# fdisk -l
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/dev/sda1
so I wiped the partion, via Gparted on the
live CD, remade the partitions to the same scheme as I had last time and
reformatted to ext3.
Game over, then. I'm sure it would have been fixable.
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On Sat, 7 Aug 2010 21:14:14 +0100, andy.pater...@ntlworld.com said:
I have been running for years without backups - using the relatively
simple notion that raid mirroring is arguably as good as backups
NO!
It might work for you, which is fine; however, there is a world of
difference between
On Sat, 21 Aug 2010 22:24:15 +0100, t...@ls83.eclipse.co.uk said:
The ability of a user on a client with root access being able to gain
access to other users' files on an NFS server seemed like a fundamental
problem when I was making this same decision. With SMB you have got much
better
A correction to my last post: if you were using a network filesystem with
remote authentication - for example, Samba/CIFS - it would be possible to
prevent the local user with root access from accessing others' files on
the server.
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On Wed, 25 Aug 2010 16:15:10 -0400, martin.set...@gmail.com said:
it probably
isn't included in any standard module, however, so you'd probably need to
compile your own.
Debian Lenny:
# modprobe plip
# lsmod|grep plip
plip 11944 0
parport30988 4
You're right.
I wonder: in twenty years' time, will people look back and say, I can't
believe people used to pay for that kind of software? Or will they say,
I can't believe it was free?
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On Mon, 6 Sep 2010 17:24:42 +0100, d-...@hadrian-way.co.uk said:
That's as I understand it, but there is apparently a company out there
somewhere that can patch a running kernel for Enterprise customers.
Well, actually, anyone can do that for any customer, although I wouldn't
recommend it.
On Sat, 16 Oct 2010 09:27:18 +0100, voluntar...@btopenworld.com said:
I do FOSS - Linux and Windows, obviously I haven't made any money
That's not obvious at all.
I run a small business that deals only in Linux, and we make money.
John: send me personal mail if you want to ask about working
On Sat, 16 Oct 2010 16:14:25 +0100, voluntar...@btopenworld.com said:
Keith - I didn't say I hadn't tried.
Neither did I.
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On Sat, 16 Oct 2010 17:06:14 +0100, voluntar...@btopenworld.com said:
So, Keith, what is your business?
Linux support and consultancy (http://www.tiger-computing.co.uk).
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On Wed, 27 Oct 2010 06:37:29 +0100, l...@discoverlinux.co.uk said:
It runs Debian Sarge. I am really pleased
with it.
Good that you're pleased with it, but that release of Debian is over five
years old (http://www.debian.org/releases/sarge/). Is there an
update/upgrade available?
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On Tue, 02 Nov 2010 20:52:55 +, s...@funkygibbins.me.uk said:
And latterly rpms too...
Absolutely (sorry, I should have made that clear). My comment was in
response to ...package managers such as synaptic are built on top of rpm.
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On Sun, 30 Jan 2011 13:42:34 +, d-...@hadrian-way.co.uk said:
Anyone any ideas why this is happening?
The delay could be DNS timeouts. Is Samba configured to do a reverse DNS
lookup of clients? If it is, is there a valid reverse DNS entry (almost
certainly not)?
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Given that you are getting (apparently) some kind of disk corruption, and
given that disk buffers are stored in memory prior to be flushed to disk,
I'd start by running (ideally overnight) Memtest86+ and see if that, er,
flushes out any errors.
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On Thu, 17 Feb 2011 21:59:22 +, andy.pater...@ntlworld.com said:
Then Nokia puts a spoke in the works and effectively indicates that
continuing learning QT will be a waste of t!me
I think you're extrapolating considerably more than was announced. I very
much doubt Qt is going to disappear.
On Fri, 18 Feb 2011 12:39:37 +, ra...@inputplus.co.uk said:
$ foo() { date +%S.%N; }
$ sudo true; foo; sudo fdisk -l /dev/sdb $N; foo
31.142709016
35.482519853
$ e 35.482519853 - 31.142709016
4.339810837
$
Next time:
$ time sudo fdisk -l /dev/sdb
On Fri, 18 Feb 2011 18:55:27 +, ra...@inputplus.co.uk said:
Easier, true, but I wanted more accuracy that /usr/bin/time or bash's
time would give. :-)
Bash's 'time' command resolves to thousandths of a second. I would imagine
that saccadic suppression would make more accurate measurement
On Fri, 25 Feb 2011 09:23:47 +, t...@ls83.eclipse.co.uk said:
It's a pity this upgrade broke a pretty standard driver.
Fair comment, but Debian do document this in the release notes. I would
urge anyone upgrading to Squeeze to read the release notes (yeah, I know).
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On Sat, 26 Feb 2011 18:28:19 +, t...@ls83.eclipse.co.uk said:
out of
interest where is it?
I owe you an apology, Tim, sorry. It's mentioned here
http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/release-notes/ch-whats-new.en.html#nonfree-firmware,
but it doesn't explicitly state that the
On Mon, 04 Apr 2011 23:37:19 +0100, ra...@inputplus.co.uk said:
Note, the -f output is wrong here, I haven't got it to be correct yet
Put an entry in /etc/hosts with the fully qualified domain name (FQDN). If
the system has a fixed IP address, use it; if not, use 127.0.1.1.
Your /etc/hosts will
On Fri, 22 Apr 2011 00:53:11 +0100, cgden...@btinternet.com said:
I know there's plain ip6tables, but can people recommend an easy-to-use
system for maintaining firewalls?
Shorewall. Not a GUI, but it does an excellent job for both IPv4 and IPv6.
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On Fri, 22 Apr 2011 23:09:56 +0100, archi...@tiscali.co.uk said:
Has anyone had any success getting MythTV installed and working without
resorting to Mythbuntu?
Yes, lots of people have.
I am having problems getting it to connect to
the database despite being able to access it myself in a
On Sat, 23 Apr 2011 22:32:33 +0100, archi...@tiscali.co.uk said:
Thanks for your help. I'm sure this is going to be a long road so I may
have mire questions.
Glad you have passed the first hurdle. If you have more questions, I will
try to help - I've been running Myth for a few years now, and
Peter, you need to use the -a switch (although there are other ways):
cp -a from-here to-here
That will copy all directories recursively.
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On Wed, 24 Aug 2011 18:29:20 +0100, t...@ls83.eclipse.co.uk said:
mount.cifs in Debian Squeeze requires entries in /etc/fstab.
Use libpam-mount (unless I've misunderstood what you are trying to do).
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On Sun, 04 Sep 2011 12:01:57 +0100, infocawi...@talktalk.net said:
Which ADSL N routers are compatible with
Linux?
In what way are you expecting a wireless router to be compatible (or not
compatible) with Linux? It's a network device: it's irrelevant what OS you
use to connect to it.
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On Mon, 05 Sep 2011 08:37:20 +0100, t...@ls83.eclipse.co.uk said:
I've been using DD_WRT on a Linksys WRT-54GL for a couple of years now.
+1 to this (and tomato, another open source firmware).
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On Fri, 11 Nov 2011 12:50:09 +, madsmad...@netscape.net said:
on boot I got the message 'No
Operating System' or something of that ilk
A suggestion: when you see an error message that you would like help on,
write down what it is. My first reaction (being a Grumpy Old Man) is that
if you
On Sun, 12 Feb 2012 09:54:26 +, ra...@inputplus.co.uk said:
A re-install isn't necessary AFAICS. Boot from other media
Even easier (to my mind, at least):
Boot with 'init=/bin/bash' appended to the kernel line in Grub (you can
edit that grub line when you boot), then:
# mount -o
On Sun, 12 Feb 2012 11:58:54 +, ra...@inputplus.co.uk said:
Presumably, anything giving access to reboot(2), which reboot(8)
doesn't, would do.
Actually, bear in mind that the method I outlined will have only /bin/bash
running (other than the kernel, etc). The easiest, if somewhat
On Mon, 2 Apr 2012 20:55:21 +0100, victorchurch...@gmail.com said:
Just to let you know that a LinuxQuestions member initiated an
e-petition to call for a Windows to Linux migration on the government
IT systems.
Not going to happen.
I would agree that encouraging the use of Open Source for
On Mon, 09 Apr 2012 16:20:58 +0100, c...@pampru.org said:
whether
my Ubuntu 11.04 is Debian or some other Linux variant.
All Ubuntu versions are derived from Debian, but...
I tried 'sudo apt-get install Ytree-1.97.tar.gz'
'apt-get install' will only install Debian packages, not tarballs,
On Tue, 17 Apr 2012 18:04:56 +0100, t...@ls83.eclipse.co.uk said:
I'm just looking for something a bit more elegant when I have a bunch of
MAC's and a pool range.
Elegant in what way? Or, what are you looking for that the host{} example
you cited doesn't give you?
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On Sun, 09 Sep 2012 17:39:28 +0100, t...@xendistar.co.uk said:
Remove what you've done so far. Edit /etc/rc.local and add:
echo setting up vnc
vncserver -geometry 1024x768 -depth 24 :1
Debian systems will run /etc/rc.local when they finish booting.
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On Sun, 09 Sep 2012 18:30:49 +0100, t...@xendistar.co.uk said:
when should it start
When the system finishes booting. vncserver will run as the user that
started it, so (unless you arrange otherwise), starting it
from /etc/rc.local will start it as the root user.
I suggest you log in as root
On Mon, 05 Nov 2012 16:46:13 +, d-...@hadrian-way.co.uk said:
Well since I posted that there have been some rumbles that the Policy
doesn't apply to COTS software
By COTS, do you mean commercial off the shelf? If so, where did you
hear that?
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On Mon, 26 Nov 2012 09:32:53 +, jo...@bcs.org.uk said:
Can someone please explain why bash in interactive mode doesn't respond
to the tab key
Respond in what way? What are you doing, what happens, and how does that
differ from what you expected to happen?
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On Sat, 15 Dec 2012 13:26:55 +, d-...@hadrian-way.co.uk said:
Anyone got a good bash incantation for removing apostrophes in lots of
file- names?
My first thought on reading the above was not in bash (so I didn't
answer).
Yes, it *can* be done in bash, as others have ably demonstrated,
On Wed, 16 Jan 2013 23:38:38 + (GMT), nrts...@yahoo.co.uk said:
i have wanted to get an IT job for a while but i need experience, do you
think that if i approached some of the companies listed on this lugs
website that this would be helpful.
Offer to work for a charity; offer to work for
On Wed, 13 Feb 2013 11:34:29 +, gra...@gemmill.name said:
it's not easy to have one address-book/mail lists
shared between two (or more) machines. Does anyone have a
suggestion/solution?
Implement an LDAP address book. Not trivial, but it will do precisely what
you want.
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On Sun, 24 Feb 2013 08:19:45 +, d-...@hadrian-way.co.uk said:
This is work related, but I'd like to use Clonezilla to clone an SSD
based RAID 1 array of disks running Win XP.
Hi Terry
It's interesting that you want to know how to implement your chosen
solution (use Clonezilla...) rather
First:
ping thesite.co.uk
...and see what address it pings.
Next, run tcpdump while you access the site and see what address is
accessed:
tcpdump -i any -n port 80
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On Wed, 19 Jun 2013 16:15:15 +0100, c...@pampru.org said:
Any ideas or comments are always most welcome!
You may change your mind about that when you've read my comments...
You seem to be neither Windows nor Linux right now. 20 FAT32 partitions
per drive *for safety*? Four machines dual
On Sun, 18 Aug 2013 05:56:07 +0100, bob.dun...@xyzzy.org.uk said:
A static IP address can be configured by the router using DHCP
What Ralph said, correctly, was, Perhaps what John's friend was
suggesting it to configure the DHCP server on the router to always give a
particular IP address out to
On Sun, 09 Mar 2014 00:32:41 +, gemma_ja...@lineone.net said:
its why they still have pilots on planes
s/planes/passenger planes/
I wonder when that will change.
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If an in-use library file is replaced, the file won't be removed from disk
until no more processes are accessing it. You may see a new file (ie, a
new inode number), but old processes are still using the old library file
(which may well have the same name). You can force a daemon to use the new
On Sun, 20 Apr 2014 20:43:02 +0100, madsmad...@netscape.net said:
It's a long story involving trying to undo a pair of Raid drives
Is that md RAID or some proprietary RAID?
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Maybe you should describe want you want to achieve. I've no idea what
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On Fri, 26 Sep 2014 14:12:56 +0100, p...@pwl.uklinux.net said:
If you want to protect your systems against BASH then try KSH
That seems rather extreme given that most distros have released updates
for bash: it's surely far easier and less disruptive to update bash than
to switch to a new shell.
Adding an extension will make no difference under Linux (that's a
Windows-ism, and one of the most stupid software engineering decisions
that was ever rolled out. But I digress.).
What does
$ file 149C6000
say?
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Be aware that there is an inherent problem using rsync for backups, which
is addressed by some of the projects that wrap around rsync.
If you simply rsync from SystemA to SystemB, you are not preserving
history. If you use the "--delete" switch, SystemB will be a faithful copy
of SystemA;
On Sun, 12 Jun 2016 12:04:44 +0100, d-...@hadrian-way.co.uk said:
> Sometimes I wonder why I stick with KMail!
So change...
> My question therefore is this. If I changed from POP3 to IMAP, (to
> ensure that I can find the messages again in the future using any tool
> if this happens again)
On Mon, 13 Jun 2016 16:32:07 +0100, d-...@hadrian-way.co.uk said:
> Presumably IMAP doesn't work in reverse
There are IMAP copy utilities around. In short, you could upload all your
local mail to remote IMAP folders, but it would take a bit of work.
Unlike others, I abhor Thunderbird - but the
On Wed, 03 Feb 2016 18:21:52 +, d-...@hadrian-way.co.uk said:
> Is there another way to create a list of
> packages that can be passed to apt-get, to re-install everything?
/usr/bin/dpkg --get-selections "*" > package.selections
..to save a list of packages. To install that same list:
On Tue, 23 Feb 2016 11:44:21 +, ra...@inputplus.co.uk said:
> comp.lang.c.moderated, had an excellent FAQ;
Ah, that reminds me of the C Infrequently Asked Questions:
https://www.seebs.net/faqs/c-iaq.html
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On Sat, 20 Feb 2016 08:13:44 +, d-...@hadrian-way.co.uk said:
> One of my problems is that I only
> have a couple of C++ manuals to look at and they both assume that
> everyone knows how to format printf expressions.
If you're going to program in C, get hold of a copy of K
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On Sun, 03 Apr 2016 11:50:02 +0100, d-...@hadrian-way.co.uk said:
> Are there any other bash commands that rely on X to work
There are NO bash commands that rely on X to work (although, of course,
you may run other programs from bash that, in turn, do require X).
Windows running bash is
On Wed, 27 Apr 2016 14:28:47 +0300, mr.fbee...@gmail.com said:
> The ultimate goal would be to develop something that pisses off
> Microsoft to the extent they have a temper tantrum. Some cleverly
> thought out program where they could do nothing about it.
It's not going to happen. Microsoft has
On Tue, 26 Apr 2016 17:38:09 +0100, c...@smithies.org said:
> I just signed the petition "Microsoft: Better Linux support for Skype".
Why?
Microsoft's only interest in Linux is minimizing the damage it can do to
their revenue stream.
If you want to run Skype, run Windows. If you want a VoIP
On Sun, 2 Oct 2016 17:06:11 +0100, gra...@gemmill.name said:
> I cannot understand why a router should start imposing security
> certificates
A lot of domestic routers intercept web browsing, so it wouldn't surprise
me to see security certificates. A quick Google showed up this screenshot
where
Hi Ralph
> What modem-only hardware do you like?
DrayTek Vigor 130. I would no longer recommend DrayTek routers, but their
modems seem solid.
> And did you consider a router that can run OpenWRT or similar?
I have one running Tomato, which seems pretty good.
My attitude to these things has
On Sat, 24 Dec 2016 17:52:55 +, t...@xendistar.co.uk said:
> >> Mine is 53.0.2785.143 from Debian Testing [...]
> Cheers Terry, Debian repos are dragging there heels again,
"Their", not "there". Jessie Updates has 55.0.2883.75:
$ apt-cache policy chromium
chromium:
Installed:
For password management, you could keep it Open Source with Bitwarden.
Runs on Window, Mac, Linux; apps for iPhone and Android; browser plugins
for Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Edge, Safari and even the Tor Browser.
https://bitwarden.com/
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On Sun, 29 Apr 2018 15:28:44 +0100, d-...@hadrian-way.co.uk said:
> What if I accidentally delete a file and don't remember
> until after the next backup?
The products I cited all retain backups for a user-specified time. We
typically configure 30 days' retention, but it could just as easily be
RSnapshot uses rsync, but it's a bit more than a "front end" to rsync. It
organises backups in a space-efficient way, again by utilising hard links.
It's nice for running hourly/daily/weekly/monthly snapshots. The time
period is arbitrary: if you wanted retain a fortnightly or quarterly
backup,
On Sun, 29 Apr 2018 15:03:38 +0100, d-...@hadrian-way.co.uk said:
> So how do I take a full backup once a month as I've been doing for the
> last ten years?
Rather than use terms like "full backup" and "incremental backup",
describe what you actually want to achieve.
I suspect you misunderstand
No. BackupPC is a backup server which backs up clients, possibly including
itself. It may be overkill for what you want, though, on reflection.
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On Sun, 29 Apr 2018 15:14:54 +0100, d-...@hadrian-way.co.uk said:
> So I wouldn't be able to install it on the NAS, which is where it needs
> to be.
Well, if the NAS runs Linux - many do - then maybe you can, but don't.
I thought your original problem stemmed from sbackup being dropped from
Duplicity, BackupPC, RSnapshot and others maintain a "current" backup of
all files in the source directory. You can browse that directory and see
every file that was present in the source. However, if a file hasn't
changed since the last time it was copied, it isn't re-copied: the backup
system
On Sun, 11 Feb 2018 23:36:13 +, pugwash1...@gmail.com said:
> I know a fair bit about how UPS's work and I would be interested i trying
> to build a home brew one if there is enough interest and support.
Enough interest and support to do what? In my experience, if you want to
do something,
Shred is slow. No one will trivially read the ex-data following a
reformat. I suppose if the drive used to hold your plans for world
domination, a few more hours of shred is a small price to pay. However,
if the drive only held data of interest to you and you don't want the PC
running overnight,
On Sat, 17 Feb 2018 18:31:53 +, d-...@hadrian-way.co.uk said:
> I'd be happier if there was no chance of data recovery.
Then destroy the drives.
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On Wed, 22 Aug 2018 21:47:47 +0100, dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk said:
> I just upgraded a week or so ago from Kubuntu 16.04 to 18.04 and
> forgot to do a backup first
Do backups regardless of whether you think you'll need them. One day
you *will* need them, and life is such that you don't know in
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Start by writing your requirements. The hard part: do NOT include any
implementation details in the requirements. Focus on what, not how.
For example, "The database should be hosted on a website somewhere" is not
a requirement. It is a way of achieving an unstated requirement; there may
be other,
On Thu, 11 Oct 2018 07:23:03 +0100, d-...@hadrian-way.co.uk said:
> So you guys who don't use Thunderbird are seeing '>' chars at the
> beginning of the quoted text above?
Yep.
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On Sun, 2 Dec 2018 12:17:19 +, t...@xendistar.co.uk said:
> I noticed a script I added several month ago (and completely forgotten it)
> which cleared the swap and memory cache over night
Glad you found the problem, but what were (are) you trying to achieve with
that script?
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On Sun, 2 Dec 2018 11:15:23 +, t...@xendistar.co.uk said:
> sudo grep checkswap /var/log/messages
>
> Assuming that is correct it has not shown me anything.
OK, it should be creating an entry every 50 seconds, so something is
wrong. It may be that the message isn't going into
I'm not exactly local, but maybe something could be arranged...
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On Sat, 01 Dec 2018 12:31:46 +, ra...@inputplus.co.uk said:
> while sleep 50; do date -Is; swapon -s; done >swap.log
Nice, but I'd use:
while sleep 50; do swapon -s | logger -t checkswap
That will put an entry in the system logger that's tagged 'checkswap'. You
can look at all
The unhelpful advice is "don't do things that lead to this problem".
Usually, that's forcing installs or using disreputable repositories (ie,
not Debian ones).
However, as mentioned, that's not helpful given that you've arrived here.
Resolving this will probably be protracted (but, to me, kinda
On Sat, 12 Jan 2019 19:56:35 +, t...@ls83.eclipse.co.uk said:
> I can't see a laptop on my network from my own computer
What exact commands are you typing, and what exactly is the response?
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On Tue, 18 Sep 2018 21:38:42 +0100, dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk said:
> Mail from the LUG is filtered into a DLUG folder. In this folder the
> emails have the tabs Reply/*Reply List*/ Forward etc. In other folders
> the Tabs are Reply/Forward or if to multiple addressees Reply/Reply
>
As root, run 'crontab -e' and add that line to the end (without the
vertical bars).
Explanation of numbers at start of line: "man 5 crontab"
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