[GLLUG] Update was Re: Information please about FTTH/FTTP

2022-03-31 Thread James Roberts via GLLUG
. Which is nice. So far, so good. MeJ On 25/02/2022 16:28, James Roberts via GLLUG wrote: On 25/02/2022 16:02, Chris Bell via GLLUG wrote: PS They have a chat facility on the website. I got most of that info form their tech guy who seemed very competent. If you ask tech questions sales

Re: [GLLUG] Information please about FTTH/FTTP

2022-02-25 Thread James Roberts via GLLUG
On 25/02/2022 16:02, Chris Bell via GLLUG wrote: PS They have a chat facility on the website. I got most of that info form their tech guy who seemed very competent. If you ask tech questions sales will pass you to tech. MeJ -- Stabilys Ltdwww.stabilys.com 244 Kilburn Lane

Re: [GLLUG] Information please about FTTH/FTTP

2022-02-25 Thread James Roberts via GLLUG
Chris, they have just done my street. I am interested. I don't have full info, but: - they do dual fibre to the premises with (according to a fibre optic guy on a forum) decent termination into the media box - they supply a modem with RJ45 - they supply a Linksys mesh wifi thingy to plug in

Re: [GLLUG] Best NIX-based router/software for a small business network

2021-06-14 Thread James Roberts via GLLUG
OPNSense. We used to be a pfsense reseller but they IMHO went psychotic a few years ago. Product OK though... except for the Wireguard nonsense. OPNSense is good. On 14/06/2021 16:42, gvim via GLLUG wrote: With ransomeware becoming a threat to both small and large businesses I'm inclined to

Re: [GLLUG] Power control over IP

2021-06-02 Thread James Roberts via GLLUG
On 01/06/2021 15:53, stuart taylor via GLLUG wrote: hi all, We will have food for thouht at our admins meeting later this week. We have 4 servers in our cabinet all quite old and all donated second hand: two IBM X3250s (I think) and two SUN ultras. The solutions suggested are all very good

Re: [GLLUG] Power control over IP

2021-05-31 Thread James Roberts via GLLUG
On 29/05/2021 16:19, stuart taylor via GLLUG wrote: Hi all, During the past 15 months I have managed to change various things involving our systems, for the better I think. We have also gained various part time volunteer admins, who are very good, mostly better than I am. One of them showed

Re: [GLLUG] SMS text scam warning

2021-04-24 Thread James Roberts via GLLUG
My wife had five of these yesterday, out of the blue... MeJ On 24/04/2021 10:10, Chris Bell via GLLUG wrote: Hello, bbc.co.uk/news/technology have relayed a warning from GCHQ about huge numbers of messages sent to UK mobile phones claiming that there is a parcel on its way, please download the

Re: [GLLUG] How to repair an unallocated hard drive?

2021-04-21 Thread James Roberts via GLLUG
On 21/04/2021 13:06, J Southall via GLLUG wrote: Hi MeJ, I apologise forĀ  replying to the wrong message. Poor Chris Bell tries to help me and in return I moan at him. Life is not fair, John Hah is np, we all need an occasional shot in the ARM. Or M1 perhaps? Or a

Re: [GLLUG] How to repair an unallocated hard drive?

2021-04-21 Thread James Roberts via GLLUG
In my wife's experience, "you are now 23rd in the queue" - so perhaps, yes! Slower than a check on a 8TiB drive, which does at least, eventually, complete or fail. It's all going to pot (holes, hereabouts) MeJ On 21/04/2021 11:40, J Southall via GLLUG wrote: I was ill yesterday and so I am

Re: [GLLUG] Teddy bear principle

2020-12-23 Thread James Roberts via GLLUG
In my long but limited experience (all experience is limited!) usually the problem isn't in explaining the problem, or in even solving the problem, it's in grasping what it *really* is in the first place. Especially so when it is explained to you by someone who doesn't understand the problem

Re: [GLLUG] Multi-Boot Puzzle - a bit OT

2020-10-04 Thread James Roberts via GLLUG
Ah the joys of multi-booting different versions of Windows! A lot of wild guesses below: On 03/10/2020 23:37, Ken Smith via GLLUG wrote: Win 7 has put its boot files on the partition for Server 2003 as there is a /boot in there. I suspect this partition being NTFS is a factor in this

Re: [GLLUG] why is adduser unknown command in Debian 10.4?

2020-09-02 Thread James Roberts via GLLUG
"Use su - instead" - we always were supposed to do that and I tried to remember to do so, but bad habits learned early on persist and I often slipped. Now I'll be forced into canonicity :) MeJ On 01/09/2020 18:24, Andy Smith via GLLUG wrote: Hello, On Tue, Sep 01, 2020 at 04:01:04PM +,

Re: [GLLUG] [OT] How to look stupid on the international stage.

2020-05-15 Thread James Roberts via GLLUG
On 13/05/2020 18:20, Marco van Beek via GLLUG wrote: I think the whole thing sums up Huawei 's attitude towards security, if one of their "top security engineers" thinks that the code was of an acceptable quality for production. Regardless of whether you subscribe to the whole China /

Re: [GLLUG] Internet Data Rate

2020-05-15 Thread James Roberts via GLLUG
On 14/05/2020 04:40, Christopher Hunter via GLLUG wrote: That's Virgin "engineers"! That's virgin' on the ridiculous... MeJ -- In accordance with UK Government directives due to the Covid-19 situation, our office is temporarily closed. All staff are working from home. These

Re: [GLLUG] Link two RAIDs in one LVM?

2020-05-11 Thread James Roberts via GLLUG
On 11/05/2020 11:58, Andy Smith via GLLUG wrote: ... Yes I actually think it is possible and is a reasonable plan, though backups will still be advised. I didn't suggest this at first because initially we thought there were unequal-sized devices (4T and 8T). Same here. I believe modern

Re: [GLLUG] Link two RAIDs in one LVM?

2020-05-11 Thread James Roberts via GLLUG
On 10/05/2020 21:35, Andy Smith via GLLUG wrote: Hello, On Sun, May 10, 2020 at 10:03:32PM +0200, Dr. Axel Stammler via GLLUG wrote: On Sun 2020-05-10 08.53.16, James Courtier-Dutton wrote: So, I think moving to an "LVM mirror" solution is your best bet for future extensibility. I haven't

Re: [GLLUG] Hosting recommendations

2020-03-24 Thread James Roberts via GLLUG
My answer again, I've used Dreamhost for a Long Time. - Free Wordpress (I know - but it's good for non-tech contributors) - Free let's Encrypt - shell - much more MeJ On 24/03/2020 11:54, Adrian McMenamin via GLLUG wrote: To combatĀ boredom in the household I have promised other family members

Re: [GLLUG] Useful little cute box full of IP glue

2020-03-03 Thread James Roberts via GLLUG
On 02/03/2020 19:18, Tim Woodall via GLLUG wrote: On 02/03/2020 07:54, Tim Woodall via GLLUG wrote: ... Faced with these sorts of issues on anything digital I always first suspect the PSU Indeed - and my tweaks involve ensuring that it's getting exactly 5v0. I think it was getting

Re: [GLLUG] Useful little cute box full of IP glue

2020-03-02 Thread James Roberts via GLLUG
On 02/03/2020 07:54, Tim Woodall via GLLUG wrote: 1. One of them periodically locks up in a most peculiar way : I can ssh in via ethernet, Devices can associate (it's running as an AP,) but it appears that no (useful) traffic makes it across the bridge from ethernet to wifi. Even a reboot

[GLLUG] Useful little cute box full of IP glue

2020-02-06 Thread James Roberts via GLLUG
I don't normally recommend anything, but I have just run into a neat little device that has solved a problem for me, so I thought I'd mention it on-list in case it can help someone else. I'm just a happy user: no connection with the product otherwise. I am using it to solve a VoIP problem I

Re: [GLLUG] moving a fixed ip number

2020-02-04 Thread James Roberts via GLLUG
I do believe that DNS was invented to solve this problem, inter alia :) MeJ On 04/02/2020 12:54, John Winters via GLLUG wrote: On 04/02/2020 11:09, Oliver Howe wrote: It is a leased line into my office. I want to move to a new provider (the current one is more of a reseller) and keep the same

Re: [GLLUG] Web hosting

2020-01-16 Thread James Roberts via GLLUG
On 16/01/2020 13:32, James Roberts via GLLUG wrote: On 16/01/2020 00:30, John Levin via GLLUG wrote: ...but I'm slightly wary of hosting in the USA. I'm wary of recommending anything, but I have used Dreamhost in the States for at least 20 years with many sites and no major issues

Re: [GLLUG] Web hosting

2020-01-16 Thread James Roberts via GLLUG
On 16/01/2020 00:30, John Levin via GLLUG wrote: ...but I'm slightly wary of hosting in the USA. I'm wary of recommending anything, but I have used Dreamhost in the States for at least 20 years with many sites and no major issues for general web hosting. They run Ubuntu now, was Debian