Re: Frames and Motorola's New Router.

2023-03-12 Thread Bruce Labitt
On 3/12/23 9:29 PM, Benjamin Scott wrote: > At 2023 Mar 12 Sun 10:42 PM +, Lori Nagel wrote: >> Why don't linux machines let me use the Wi-Fi when the router is set to >> frames. > I'm not sure what you mean here. A "frame" is the unit of network data > transmission at the data link level

Re: Email & Spam

2023-03-10 Thread Bruce Labitt
the likes of Google (because your server can get the IP address of the server that connected to you) and Google IP addresses are moderately static.  However, this is not always the case. --Bruce On 3/10/23 12:43, Bruce Labitt wrote: In email headers, are there any fields which are not

Re: Email & Spam

2023-03-10 Thread Bruce Labitt
52199,37.6155 Yeah, that sounds benign...  So is this normal, or should I contact the FBI? On 3/10/23 12:43 PM, Bruce Labitt wrote: In email headers, are there any fields which are not spoof-able?  Or is email simply a morass that is totally unsolvable and broken?  Simply impossibl

Re: Email & Spam

2023-03-10 Thread Bruce Labitt
PM, Bruce Labitt wrote: Spoke too soon.  I am far from understanding this all, but why would my ISP send me mail that failed the following tests? dmarc, spf or dkim?  The latest spam I received failed _all_ three tests. It appears not everyone is consistent with using this stuff, I found

Re: Email & Spam

2023-03-09 Thread Bruce Labitt
Airlines that apparently doesn't use dmarc, but at least it passed spf and dkim.  What a mess. I tried to send this email and it was blocked when I included the dmarc text. On 3/9/23 11:49 AM, Bruce Labitt wrote: Crossing fingers, my spam storm has paused.  No spam since 3:27 EST yesterday

Re: Email & Spam

2023-03-09 Thread Bruce Labitt
it. My kids, both on different ISP's had no increase in spam in the past week.  I asked them last night, trying to figure out if this was a local thing, or more wide spread.  Guess it was local, or their ISP's were more on the ball. On 3/8/23 5:59 PM, Bruce Labitt wrote: > I think that someth

Re: Email & Spam

2023-03-08 Thread Bruce Labitt
> in your client if you need to. > > Have fun... > > Ronald Smith > r...@mrt4.com > 603-360-1000 > > - - - - > > On Wed, 8 Mar 2023 13:31:56 -0500 > Bruce Labitt wrote: > >> Seems to be an uptick in spam received lately.  Doesn't seem that my ISP &g

Re: Email & Spam

2023-03-08 Thread Bruce Labitt
ail server reputation is something that mail providers / businesses care about ( to some extent anyway, and some more than others ), because they get shut off if it gets too low. ( other people won’t take their mail ).  - Bryan On Mar 8, 2023, at 2:06 PM, Bruce Labitt wrote: Pe

Re: Email & Spam

2023-03-08 Thread Bruce Labitt
privacy settings. On Mar 8, 2023, at 1:31 PM, Bruce Labitt wrote: I did a whois, and due to privacy cr*p, there's no longer a way to get to the registrants.  I can see why this might be, but it does make it harder to report people ___ gnhlug-discu

Email & Spam

2023-03-08 Thread Bruce Labitt
Seems to be an uptick in spam received lately.  Doesn't seem that my ISP is on top of it.  In the past 48 hours have received at least three dozen spams from similar parties.  Many seem to be coming from *.store domains.  I haven't knowingly ever visited one of these domains. I don't think I

Book or online source on modern Linux system files and organization

2022-12-21 Thread Bruce Labitt
Feeling like a bit of a fossil and not knowing what files do what, or where things are located.  Need to fix an obnoxious problem with a keyboard and realize I just don't know even how to investigate this anymore.  What are recommended sources for a modern overview of system files, purposes

Re: setting up my own git server

2022-10-09 Thread Bruce Labitt
On 10/9/22 3:00 PM, Bruce Labitt wrote: > On 10/9/22 2:41 PM, Šarūnas wrote: >> On 09/10/2022 14.32, Bruce Labitt wrote: >>> I am trying to accomplish this and am running into a couple of >>> problems.  Following the instructions at: >>> https://www.linuxfound

Re: setting up my own git server

2022-10-09 Thread Bruce Labitt
On 10/9/22 2:41 PM, Šarūnas wrote: > On 09/10/2022 14.32, Bruce Labitt wrote: >> I am trying to accomplish this and am running into a couple of >> problems.  Following the instructions at: >> https://www.linuxfoundation.org/blog/blog/classic-sysadmin-how-to-ru

setting up my own git server

2022-10-09 Thread Bruce Labitt
I am trying to accomplish this and am running into a couple of problems.  Following the instructions at: https://www.linuxfoundation.org/blog/blog/classic-sysadmin-how-to-run-your-own-git-server Specifically, the command $ cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub | sshgit@remote-server "mkdir -p ~/.ssh && cat

Re: Is there a decent file attribute (date) conserving way to download your photos from Google?

2022-06-22 Thread Bruce Labitt
=11064.0 On 2022-06-21 13:41, Mark Komarinski wrote: There should be EXIF metadata in each photo which should include the date taken. Should. -Mark On Jun 21, 2022 1:27 PM, Bruce Labitt wrote: Recently got a message (well really quite a few) warning me that my "free st

Is there a decent file attribute (date) conserving way to download your photos from Google?

2022-06-21 Thread Bruce Labitt
Recently got a message (well really quite a few) warning me that my "free storage" on google is running out.  This, of course, is yet a new way for Google to monetize all the free stuff that they had been providing for a while.  I do have strong opinions on re-negging on promises, but lets not

Re: Debugging linux crashes

2022-06-14 Thread Bruce Labitt
n't handle a lot of these transitions, falsely thinking there's an error, or there's a goofy hard limit programmed in the kernel... Can anyone think of why USB transactions or USB mode switches might trip a trip into lala land? On 6/13/22 10:20 PM, Bruce Labitt wrote: FWIW, this total system

Re: Debugging linux crashes

2022-06-13 Thread Bruce Labitt
for any developers... On 6/6/22 4:05 PM, Bruce Labitt wrote: Followup with SW related items. $ cat /etc/os-release NAME="Pop!_OS" VERSION="22.04 LTS" ID=pop ID_LIKE="ubuntu debian" PRETTY_NAME="Pop!_OS 22.04 LTS" VERSION_ID="22.04" HOME

Re: Debugging linux crashes

2022-06-06 Thread Bruce Labitt
display.  Or, I was, until my laptop crashed... On 6/6/22 3:47 PM, Bruce Labitt wrote: Will try my best.  It's tough to keep your cool when your life, ie. your own computer is crapping out.  Much easier, when it is someone else's.  Pity the machine is not up at the moment.  Been busy transf

Re: Debugging linux crashes

2022-06-06 Thread Bruce Labitt
would have been fixed by now. The title of the thread was really about how to go about doing the debugging.  The methodology.  It's improbable that anyone else would have experienced this particular crash type. On 6/6/22 14:09, Ben Scott wrote: On Sun, Jun 5, 2022 at 12:09 PM Bruce Labitt wrote: I

Re: Debugging linux crashes

2022-06-05 Thread Bruce Labitt
else happens.  syslog got a string of \00\00... to it. dmesg shows the same time for the reboot, the same USB message and nothing else. This has been pretty frustrating. On 6/5/22 12:08 PM, Bruce Labitt wrote: > I am experiencing severe Linux crashes, due to some unknown causes. > They

Debugging linux crashes

2022-06-05 Thread Bruce Labitt
I am experiencing severe Linux crashes, due to some unknown causes.  They appear to be related to the use of Ty Commander and programming a Teensy 4.1 in the Arduino IDE environment, but I am not positive.  All I know at the moment, is that the screen freezes and is unresponsive to keyboard or

Re: Permanently changing nameserver

2021-08-02 Thread Bruce Labitt
can "fix" this by removing the 'domain-name-servers' from > the 'request' stanza in /etc/dhcp/dhclient.conf. You probably want to do > this ONLY on the machines that you don't want to get the DNS servers from > DHCP. > > --Bruce > On 8/2/21 11:45 AM, Bruce Labitt wrote: &g

Re: Raid1 Issue on RPI4

2021-05-29 Thread Bruce Labitt
- this doesn't seem robust. On 5/29/21 4:57 PM, Bruce Labitt wrote: > So I got the raid1 array running on the RPI4.  Today, I tried to add a > sub directory to the array.  Apparently something bad happened and one > of the disks disappeared.  When this happened there was some kind of >

Raid1 Issue on RPI4

2021-05-29 Thread Bruce Labitt
So I got the raid1 array running on the RPI4.  Today, I tried to add a sub directory to the array.  Apparently something bad happened and one of the disks disappeared.  When this happened there was some kind of major upset, as the OS stopped functioning, like it no longer knew where commands

Re: Have suggestions for a "roll your own file server"?

2021-05-28 Thread Bruce Labitt
fstab updated.  Just needed to use UUID=, not PARTUUID.  I do notice significantly long boot times now, guess it takes a while to get the RAID1 up.  Used to take 5 seconds to be available to ssh into, now takes about 45 seconds to a minute. I think I'd like the server to initiate the backup. 

Re: Have suggestions for a "roll your own file server"?

2021-05-26 Thread Bruce Labitt
er, it's nice to just monitor the server instead of > multiple clients. > > Nice buiild > > On Wed, May 26, 2021 at 11:00 AM Bruce Labitt < > bruce.lab...@myfairpoint.net> wrote: > >> Finally back to this. Built a stack of metal plates that house my RPI4, >> a b

Re: Have suggestions for a "roll your own file server"?

2021-05-26 Thread Bruce Labitt
of the hardware build see https://www.hobby-machinist.com/threads/an-rpi4-based-file-server.92273/#post-846939 On 3/10/21 8:49 PM, Bruce Labitt wrote: I'll take a look at that.  Thanks for the link. On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 8:15 PM Marc Nozell (m...@nozell.com <mailto:m...@nozell.com>) mail

Re: Open source IP to Fax software?

2021-05-03 Thread Bruce Labitt
On 5/3/21 1:16 PM, Derek Atkins wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, May 3, 2021 1:01 pm, Bruce Labitt wrote: >> Not sure if this is a unicorn or it is common.  A simple search gave >> ambiguous results.  I'm looking for some program that will send a pdf >> file to a remote FAX m

Open source IP to Fax software?

2021-05-03 Thread Bruce Labitt
Not sure if this is a unicorn or it is common.  A simple search gave ambiguous results.  I'm looking for some program that will send a pdf file to a remote FAX machine.  I don't have a fax machine anymore.  I don't have a fax modem.  It's hard to remember how long ago that was even a thing...

Re: Python re to separate some data values

2021-04-28 Thread Bruce Labitt
On 4/28/21 6:35 PM, Henry Gessau wrote: > On 4/28/2021 17:57, Bruce Labitt wrote: >> I've looked in https://www.w3schools.com/python/python_regex.asp, >> https://docs.python.org/3/library/re.html, >> https://docs.python.org/3.8/howto/regex.html, >> https://www.guru99.com

Re: Python re to separate some data values

2021-04-28 Thread Bruce Labitt
On 4/28/21 6:28 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote: > On 4/28/21 5:57 PM, Bruce Labitt wrote: >> If someone could suggest how to do this, I'd appreciate it.  I've >> scraped a table of fine thread metric screw parameters from a website. >> I'm having some trouble with regex (re) s

Python re to separate some data values

2021-04-28 Thread Bruce Labitt
If someone could suggest how to do this, I'd appreciate it.  I've scraped a table of fine thread metric screw parameters from a website.  I'm having some trouble with regex (re) separating the numbers.  Have everything working save for this last bit. Here is a sample string: r1[1] = '

Re: Trying to figure out if I have a bad NVME device

2021-03-23 Thread Bruce Labitt
system. Any advice? Thanks. On Sun, Mar 21, 2021 at 11:05 AM Bruce Labitt wrote: > I have a USB3.2-PCIE NVME adapter (actually have 3 of them) using the > JM583 chip. I also have a Samsung 970 EVO Pro 1TB NVME and recently bought > 2 WD 1TB NVME cards. > > I canno

Re: dd cloning a Win10 HDD to SSD

2021-03-23 Thread Bruce Labitt
to see if all this survives a reboot... Yes! Well, hot diggity dog! At least for this disk pair, dd worked great! No BS, no FUD, it just worked. :) On Tue, Mar 23, 2021 at 1:00 PM Bruce Labitt wrote: > I was 20 minutes into dd when I noticed that the disks were mounted. > Aborted dd. Unm

Re: dd cloning a Win10 HDD to SSD

2021-03-23 Thread Bruce Labitt
tolerable, but not speedy. On Tue, Mar 23, 2021, 12:19 PM Joshua Judson Rosen wrote: > On 3/23/21 9:07 AM, Bruce Labitt wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 23, 2021 at 8:52 AM Dan Jenkins d...@rastech.com>> wrote: > > > > In my experience dd works. Make sure the destin

Re: dd cloning a Win10 HDD to SSD

2021-03-23 Thread Bruce Labitt
d <http://www.typeapp.com/r?b=16417> > On Mar 23, 2021, at 7:33 AM, Bruce Labitt wrote: >> >> I'd be grateful to learn what worked. No need to waste my time more than >> necessary. >> >> On Tue, Mar 23, 2021, 8:30 AM Greg Kettmann < g...@kettmann.com> wro

Re: dd cloning a Win10 HDD to SSD

2021-03-23 Thread Bruce Labitt
the same size drive or larger. > The image is created with partclone so it's smaller, but it will fall back > to dd if needed. > > > > On Tue, Mar 23, 2021 at 9:09 AM Bruce Labitt wrote: > >> In my case the disks report to be the same size in lsblk. >> fdisk -l reports t

Re: dd cloning a Win10 HDD to SSD

2021-03-23 Thread Bruce Labitt
rks. Make sure the destination disk is larger than > the source. I've had problems sometimes when they were the exact same > size. Any other issue was due to issues on the source disk, in which > case ddrescue, has worked. > > On 2021-03-23 08:33, Bruce Labitt wrote: > > I'd be grate

Re: dd cloning a Win10 HDD to SSD

2021-03-23 Thread Bruce Labitt
was a year ago. > > Greg > > Get TypeApp for Android <http://www.typeapp.com/r?b=16417> > On Mar 22, 2021, at 10:19 PM, Bruce Labitt wrote: >> >> Have this excruciatingly slow Win10 HDD I'd like to clone to SSD. >> Reading about how to do this leads me to dd as a wa

Re: dd cloning a Win10 HDD to SSD

2021-03-23 Thread Bruce Labitt
Is there a compelling reason to use ddrescue over dd for this? Is gnu ddrescue the preferred choice of the ddrescues? Or is this a fool's errand? On Mon, Mar 22, 2021, 11:14 PM Curt Howland wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > > On Monday 22 March 2021,

dd cloning a Win10 HDD to SSD

2021-03-22 Thread Bruce Labitt
Have this excruciatingly slow Win10 HDD I'd like to clone to SSD. Reading about how to do this leads me to dd as a way to clone the disk. The disks are close in size. According to lsblk, the HDD sdb is 931.5GB, and the SSD sdf is 931.5GB. sdb has 5 partitions on it. 1) EFI

Trying to figure out if I have a bad NVME device

2021-03-21 Thread Bruce Labitt
I have a USB3.2-PCIE NVME adapter (actually have 3 of them) using the JM583 chip. I also have a Samsung 970 EVO Pro 1TB NVME and recently bought 2 WD 1TB NVME cards. I cannot get a WD NVME to be recognized by the OS. I haven't tried the second WD NVME as I am leaving the package unopened.

Re: RPI HW PWM fan control

2021-03-20 Thread Bruce Labitt
. This was a devil to find... There was an oblique reference to silent failing in the bcm2835 library documentation, which gave me a clue. On Fri, Mar 19, 2021 at 5:05 PM Bruce Labitt wrote: > I found a project on > https://gist.github.com/alwynallan/1c13096c4cd675f38405702e89e0c536 for a >

RPI HW PWM fan control

2021-03-19 Thread Bruce Labitt
I found a project on https://gist.github.com/alwynallan/1c13096c4cd675f38405702e89e0c536 for a hardware controlled pwm fan for the RPI4. This should have low resource usage, as compared to software controlled pwm. I don't have a Noctua type pwm fan, but I made a simple circuit with a resistor, a

Re: Have suggestions for a "roll your own file server"?

2021-03-10 Thread Bruce Labitt
me flood plain or fire area you are. >> > > >> > > Do an rsync every night to keep them in sync. >> > > >> > > Help your friend/relative do the same thing, keeping a copy of their >> data in your house. If your disks are big enough you could s

Re: Have suggestions for a "roll your own file server"?

2021-03-10 Thread Bruce Labitt
Take the replaced system over to your > friends/relatives and copy the data at high speed, then take the copied > system back to your house and start using it again. > > > > You would need three disks to fail at relatively the same time to lose > your data. Or an asteroid crashing that w

rsync question

2021-03-09 Thread Bruce Labitt
A maybe not so smart rsync question... If one uses rsync -avz src/bar /disk2will that copy over everything from src/bar and create a directory bar on disk2? What if src/bar has other users or root? In other words, does the -a mean that it will preserve ownership and links and copy to

Re: Kind of puzzled about timestamps

2021-03-08 Thread Bruce Labitt
Yet you might think that since many, many people pay off mortgages or pay off mortgages on sales of property every single year that they might have it down to a science by now. It is not like I am the first mortgage that has been paid off in the past 30 years.. Maddog, I totally agree with

Have suggestions for a "roll your own file server"?

2021-03-08 Thread Bruce Labitt
For the second time in 3 months I have had a computer failure. Oddly, it was a PS on the motherboard both times. (Two different MB's.) Fortunately the disks were ok. I'm living on borrowed time. Next time, I may not be that lucky. Need a file server system with some sort of RAID redundancy.

Re: Kind of puzzled about timestamps

2021-03-08 Thread Bruce Labitt
If my experience is a guide, you have a few more months to go. Once we paid off our mortgage it took almost 6 months to clear everything up. (That was in late 2018) What you probably aren't realizing is that they have to hunt down your paperwork. Your note was probably transferred to dozens of

Re: Kind of puzzled about timestamps

2021-03-05 Thread Bruce Labitt
yeah, I was warned about that. Next thought will be, "Gosh, how am I going to fix this?" On Fri, Mar 5, 2021, 8:54 PM Joshua Judson Rosen wrote: > On 3/5/21 2:15 PM, Bruce Labitt wrote: > > > > On 3/4/21 10:51 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote: > > > > > > See

Are there any "relatively" local PySIG's any more?

2021-03-05 Thread Bruce Labitt
Been reminiscing a bit lately and thought about the PySIG group we had in the area.  Stumbled across the Boston Python Users Group.  Is that the closest one?  Are there any others not on the Python Software Foundation Meetup Pro Network? Jeesh, don't even know why I'm asking about locality

Re: Kind of puzzled about timestamps

2021-03-05 Thread Bruce Labitt
one spans the new year and we need a leap second! On 3/4/21 10:51 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote: > See also: "The Problem with Time and Timezones" > <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5wpm-gesOY> > >  > > On 3/4/21 10:32 PM, Bruce Labitt wrote: >> On 3/4/21 9

Re: Kind of puzzled about timestamps

2021-03-04 Thread Bruce Labitt
On 3/4/21 9:56 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote: > On 3/4/21 7:13 PM, Bruce Labitt wrote: >> Good point.  I'll check that.  Logging machine was set to local time EST.  >> But it does have a wireless link, maybe it set itself internally to UT.  >> Thanks for the hint. > You h

Re: Kind of puzzled about timestamps

2021-03-04 Thread Bruce Labitt
If I'm reading it correctly, it's a 5 hr difference?  Local vs gmt? On Thu, Mar 4, 2021, 6:43 PM Bruce Labitt mailto:bruce.lab...@myfairpoint.net>> wrote: This is an odd question.  It involves both python and linux. Have a bunch of files in a directory tha

Re: Kind of puzzled about timestamps

2021-03-04 Thread Bruce Labitt
gmt? > > > On Thu, Mar 4, 2021, 6:43 PM Bruce Labitt > wrote: > >> This is an odd question. It involves both python and linux. >> >> Have a bunch of files in a directory that I'd like like to sort by >> similar names and in time order. This isn't particularly di

Kind of puzzled about timestamps

2021-03-04 Thread Bruce Labitt
This is an odd question.  It involves both python and linux. Have a bunch of files in a directory that I'd like like to sort by similar names and in time order.  This isn't particularly difficult in python.  What is puzzling me is the modified timestamp returned by python doesn't match whats

Question about ssh key generation

2021-02-16 Thread Bruce Labitt
Gitlab is asking for ssh keys now.  Is there a recommended type of key these days? man ssh-key gives me the following choices:  dsa | ecdsa | ecdsa-sk | ed25519 | ed25519-sk | rsa Which should I choose?  Which ones offer the longer/longest key length (best security?) Sorry for the simplistic

Help me fix this annoying RPI4 Buster printing problem

2021-01-08 Thread Bruce Labitt
At the moment I'm on an RPi4 running Raspberry Pi OS.  My laptop died recently.  I'm trying to figure out this OS works.  Have to say, it's been painful in many ways.  One is that the RPI is slow...  It will be a little while before I get a replacement laptop, so I have to deal with this.

Re: SMART data & Self tests, not sure if my SSD is on it's last gasp

2021-01-06 Thread Bruce Labitt
To put some bounds on this, I'm currently looking at an Oryx Pro. I have it tricked out to $2100. i7-10875H, 32GB 3200MHz RAM, RTX2060 6GB, 1TB NVME seq. RD 3500MB/s, seq WR 3300 MB/s, 15.6" display 1080p. Seems to be the best combination of stuff I can find for the price. Can a standard make

Re: SMART data & Self tests, not sure if my SSD is on it's last gasp

2021-01-06 Thread Bruce Labitt
6E7 > > On Wed, Jan 6, 2021, 3:07 PM Bruce Labitt wrote: > >> Checked the media, both are readable using the RPI4. Seems like the >> power supply is failing. It's cycling on and off even with no media, dvd, >> or drives. I think this is a dead parrot. >> >

Re: SMART data & Self tests, not sure if my SSD is on it's last gasp

2021-01-06 Thread Bruce Labitt
ourse, light and performance is good too. Any good laptops out there? Been out of the loop a while. On Wed, Jan 6, 2021 at 1:33 PM Bruce Labitt wrote: > One more oddity, when I turned it off by pressing the power off button, > the laptop went off, then started again. Is this a clue? > &

Re: SMART data & Self tests, not sure if my SSD is on it's last gasp

2021-01-06 Thread Bruce Labitt
One more oddity, when I turned it off by pressing the power off button, the laptop went off, then started again. Is this a clue? On Wed, Jan 6, 2021 at 1:31 PM Bruce Labitt wrote: > I yanked the battery, and all the disks. Tried booting with AC power. > And no usb stick. I get th

Re: SMART data & Self tests, not sure if my SSD is on it's last gasp

2021-01-06 Thread Bruce Labitt
(with original disk) was 28 minutes . Is this a sagging or failing power supply? What else electrical could it be? On Wed, Jan 6, 2021 at 12:49 PM wrote: > Yank the SSD and USB and see if it boots. That will at least isolate if > either of those are involved. > > On Jan 6, 2021 12:10 PM,

Re: SMART data & Self tests, not sure if my SSD is on it's last gasp

2021-01-06 Thread Bruce Labitt
and nothing else. Posting from an RPI4 now. Tried various combinations of F2, F7, and no screen activity. :( Basically in the place I didn't want to be with my primary computer. On Wed, Jan 6, 2021 at 10:27 AM Bruce Labitt wrote: > Found out how to check the whole usb disk. $ sudo sha256sum

Re: SMART data & Self tests, not sure if my SSD is on it's last gasp

2021-01-06 Thread Bruce Labitt
Found out how to check the whole usb disk. $ sudo sha256sum -b /dev/sdx Sudo was required. Hope to be back and running soon... Sorry for all the noise. On Wed, Jan 6, 2021 at 10:03 AM Bruce Labitt wrote: > System76 thinks it's the ssd. Machine strangely got locked up while > trying to

Re: SMART data & Self tests, not sure if my SSD is on it's last gasp

2021-01-06 Thread Bruce Labitt
do before replacing the disk? Just checked the sha256sum on the iso. How do I check if the USB stick I burned is ok? On Sat, Jan 2, 2021 at 10:14 PM Bruce Labitt wrote: > Think it's a driver issue. Looked in journalctl and there's some errors > indicated. One is a video issue, a

Re: SMART data & Self tests, not sure if my SSD is on it's last gasp

2021-01-02 Thread Bruce Labitt
be incorrectly configured when it is > initialized.) > > If it was a one-time occurrence then it was most likely an overdue fsck, but > syslog will indicate that if that's the case. > > Ronald Smith > > -- > > On Wed, 30 Dec 2020 14:04:43 -0500 >

SMART data & Self tests, not sure if my SSD is on it's last gasp

2020-12-30 Thread Bruce Labitt
I think I have a SSD on the way out.  Last reboot took a REALLY long time.  Like 30 minutes.  I ran the smart data and self test and the SSD passes.  Overall assessment is disk is ok.  I really don't know how to interpret what the results are. I think the disk is in pre-fail based on the

Known good wireless Linux Keyboard & Mouse combos?

2020-11-12 Thread Bruce Labitt
My old Logitech K270 keyboard and Performance MX mouse are long in the tooth and need replacing.  The paint is worn off several keys and sometimes keys either stick or the KB doesn't seem to transmit a keystroke.  The MX mouse charging circuit seems to have failed.  If I put in a charged NiMH

Re: How does Linux handle DST/ST? It's all about time...

2020-11-10 Thread Bruce Labitt
"Dumb" machine, while actually computer controlled, is closed source.  No possibility of changing its behavior. No ssh, no network.  It's a data logger to an SD card.  I have to use sneaker net to transport data to my PC. Other possibility (after a SD card backup) is to change the dumb machine

How does Linux handle DST/ST? It's all about time...

2020-11-10 Thread Bruce Labitt
Still looking at a time related bug.  Wondering how (nowadays) linux handles TZ and DST/ST transition. Does linux embed DST state into TZ?  Or is there a variable with a name like "DST"? I want to set two different machines, one a PC, the other a dumb instrument to the same time.  The dumb

Re: Simple git question

2020-11-04 Thread Bruce Labitt
Thanks all.  I found that the simple git pull did what I needed it to do. Built an experimental version of an experimental version...  If anyone is interested I'm trying to hunt down a weird DST/ST time bug.  These are a bear.  It's really amazing how often people get this wrong.  And quite

Simple git question

2020-11-04 Thread Bruce Labitt
Guys & Gals, sorry for the elementary question. I have cloned a project that I am interested.  Along the way, I fiddled with setting, mostly debug, but none of my changes are important.  I've built the project and am using it.  I'd like to re download it from the repo again, abandoning any

Re: How was the get-together?

2020-02-24 Thread Bruce Labitt
As much as I enjoy eating out, the venue was too noisy for a meeting.  If there's a meeting, it would be good to be able to hear folks.  It was difficult to hear people talking only 2 or 3 people away.  My 2 cents.  What I was able to hear was both interesting and informative, and occasionally

Linking problem

2019-09-13 Thread Bruce Labitt
Puzzling over the use of ldconfig.  As I understand it ldconfig can be used to rebuild/locate all the shared libraries.  It looks in ld.so.conf for the directories to use. In my case ld.so.conf has one line in it: "include /etc/ld.so.conf.d/*.conf" I have 3 conf files in ld.so.conf.d.

Re: Arduino question?

2019-05-04 Thread Bruce Labitt
. I'll still be coming up to the MakerSpace on Monday.  I'd like to check out the setup.  There is one in Nashua, just wondering how the Manchester one compares. Regards, Bruce On 5/3/19 7:34 PM, Bruce Labitt wrote: Hi Paul, It seems this is a variant of header hell that I am stewing

Re: Arduino question?

2019-05-03 Thread Bruce Labitt
ring open house (6pm-8pm). I'll likely be in giving tours, I can take a look with you when tours simmer down. Cheers, Paul Beaudet On Fri, May 3, 2019 at 4:57 PM Bruce Labitt mailto:bruce.lab...@myfairpoint.net>> wrote: Can I ask an Arduino/C/C++ question here?  If not, where is a

Arduino question?

2019-05-03 Thread Bruce Labitt
Can I ask an Arduino/C/C++ question here?  If not, where is a decent place to ask?  Full code is just under 50KB (unzipped). It's a "Variable was not declared in this scope" problem. Basically, I'm in over my head at the moment.  I'm not a good structured programmer - so let's get that out of

truncated: Recommendations on cloning a bootable main disk Now: grub and mounting said disk

2018-12-02 Thread Bruce Labitt
Hi Jerry, I'm clearly seeing the merit of your approach by now.  Next time, I think I'll do it that way. Since I'm so deep into this (spent way too much time already), I'd like to complete the process. I've learned about gparted (how to use it successfully) and now hopefully grub.  Found

Re: Recommendations on cloning a bootable main disk

2018-12-02 Thread Bruce Labitt
to be done to grub on the new disk. Since I had done a dd copy, wouldn't grub already be there? On 12/2/18 10:47 AM, Bruce Labitt wrote: Thanks Dan!  That did the trick. Doing it the way you suggested worked, vs. the way in the video (which did not work). Your way was simple and with no erro

Re: Recommendations on cloning a bootable main disk

2018-12-02 Thread Bruce Labitt
Apply step 4. 6. Create an extended partition in that 30 GB unallocated space. 7. Create a 30 GB swap partition in that new extended partition. 8. Apply steps 6 & 7. On 12/1/2018 9:05 PM, Bruce Labitt wrote: Thanks for the instructions on the BIOS - umm, nothing was wrong

Re: Recommendations on cloning a bootable main disk

2018-12-01 Thread Bruce Labitt
Thanks for the instructions on the BIOS - umm, nothing was wrong.  Having the USB stick prior to entering the BIOS made the device show up. OK, dd'd the disk.  Took a long time, 94 minutes, but everything is transferred, except for this email. Next is to resize in gparted - which didn't

Re: Recommendations on cloning a bootable main disk

2018-12-01 Thread Bruce Labitt
I forgot just how slow DVD burning can be.  No wonder, no one hardly uses them anymore.  USB3 is truly a great invention. On 12/1/18 4:24 PM, Bruce Labitt wrote: Totally unexpected fly in the ointment.  Option in BIOS to boot to USB has disappeared. Arggghh! American Megatrends BIOS

Re: Recommendations on cloning a bootable main disk

2018-12-01 Thread Bruce Labitt
... Bruce On 12/1/18 3:18 PM, Tom Buskey wrote: Clonezilla is awesome for that. On Sat, Dec 1, 2018 at 2:07 PM Dan Jenkins <mailto:d...@rastech.com>> wrote: We use Clonezilla off a bootable USB flash drive. On December 1, 2018 12:51:34 PM EST, Bruce Labitt mailto:

Re: Recommendations on cloning a bootable main disk

2018-12-01 Thread Bruce Labitt
Thanks for everyone's suggestions! Sometimes one misses the obvious. Bruce On 12/1/18 1:50 PM, Mac wrote: Umm...make a bootable usb stick, boot from that and do the dd? On Sat, Dec 1, 2018 at 12:51 PM Bruce Labitt mailto:bruce.lab...@myfairpoint.net>> wrote: It' apparent that on

Recommendations on cloning a bootable main disk

2018-12-01 Thread Bruce Labitt
It' apparent that one uses a variant of dd.  What isn't apparent is how one goes about cloning one's primary disk (active).  From searching it appears it is not recommended to use dd when the disk is active, either the source or the destination. I'm trying to clone my nearly full SSD with the

symlink confusion

2015-11-14 Thread Bruce Labitt
Confused about this, so I'd like to ask, before I mess things up. I am attempting to follow the instructions on http://askubuntu.com/questions/693145/installing-cuda-7-5-toolkit-on-ubuntu-15-10 I'd like to create a symbolic link from cc (which is a symlink) to /opt/compiler_cuda/gcc |cc ->

Re: symlink confusion

2015-11-14 Thread Bruce Labitt
directory without it. On Sat, Nov 14, 2015 at 12:31 PM Bruce Labitt <bruce.lab...@myfairpoint.net <mailto:bruce.lab...@myfairpoint.net>> wrote: Confused about this, so I'd like to ask, before I mess things up. I am attempting to follow the instructions on http://a

Re: symlink confusion

2015-11-14 Thread Bruce Labitt
On 11/14/2015 04:07 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote: Bruce Labitt <bruce.lab...@myfairpoint.net> wrote: Pardon my denseness (density?), but what you have shown is still confusing to me. ln -s thing-I-want-a-symlink-to where-I-want-to-put-it <-- I don't understand this :( In my case, I

Re: SDHC card locked?

2015-09-19 Thread Bruce Labitt
o running > ubuntu. i was using a microsd card via an adapter. i used a usb adapter > instead and that worked fine. > > On Sat, Sep 19, 2015 at 4:10 PM Bruce Labitt <bruce.lab...@myfairpoint.net> > wrote: > >> I recently bought a Flash Air III SDHC card. I wanted to

Re: SDHC card locked?

2015-09-19 Thread Bruce Labitt
,rw What is ??, is it /media/bruce/647E-E27B2 ? On Sat, Sep 19, 2015 at 4:33 PM, Bill Ricker <bill.n1...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 19, 2015 at 4:09 PM, Bruce Labitt < > bruce.lab...@myfairpoint.net> wrote: > >> . I wanted to copy my data >> from a

SDHC card locked?

2015-09-19 Thread Bruce Labitt
I recently bought a Flash Air III SDHC card. I wanted to copy my data from another SDHC card to it. The card seems to be locked, and is preventing writing to the card - although the little slider is set to the unlocked position. Short of returning the card, which may be my best option,

Re: FYI: Comcast Metro ethernet to the home

2015-07-17 Thread Bruce Labitt
I'm in Nashua (north end) and have fiber. However, this fiber was installed when Verizon owned the landlines. But Fairpoint did the pole to house drop. You sure there is no fiber downtown? Best regards, Bruce Please excuse any typos, sent by my iPhone. On Jul 17, 2015, at 17:53, Joshua

Re: Need some suggestions on a borked upgrade

2015-05-10 Thread Bruce Labitt
Thanks. Will try tomorrow. Bruce Please excuse any typos, sent by my iPhone. On May 10, 2015, at 22:04, Jeffry Smith jsm...@alum.mit.edu wrote: Run ls /dev/sd* before after inserting stick. Then point /dev/sdnew disk Will show up in /media Jeff On May 10, 2015 9:42 PM, Bruce

Re: Need some suggestions on a borked upgrade

2015-05-10 Thread Bruce Labitt
Ok. Seemed to have lost the ability to log into x. I can login. I ran the command and it created the log file. How do you mount a usb stick when you don't know its name? Then I can copy the file. It's getting to the point of removing the drive, copying /home and doing a new installation.

Need some suggestions on a borked upgrade

2015-05-10 Thread Bruce Labitt
Been quiet on the list. Upgrade from Ubuntu 14.10 to 15.04. Apt seems to be hung up with removing a single file - which is old and not needed. But because of this the upgrade is severely screwed up. Not sure if it will boot again properly. I just downloaded an 15.04 iso to burn to a

Can this disk be repaired? Does it need to be?

2014-12-04 Thread Bruce Labitt
Have an SSD formatted to NTFS. I had intended to use it between linux and Win7 as a backup. It worked for a while in both OS. Yesterday Win7 asked if I wanted to repair the disk. Since there are directories and file names that are not windows safe, I declined. Later in the day, I reconnected

Re: Can this disk be repaired? Does it need to be?

2014-12-04 Thread Bruce Labitt
with an Ethernet cable and access it via NFS and Samba. On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 12:24 PM, Bruce Labitt bdlab...@gmail.com wrote: Have an SSD formatted to NTFS. I had intended to use it between linux and Win7 as a backup. It worked for a while in both OS. Yesterday Win7 asked if I wanted to repair

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