Re: YouTube: Diomidis Spinellis: Solving the Wordle puzzle using Unix tools and regular expressions

2022-01-24 Thread Colin Fee via luv-main
On Tue, 25 Jan. 2022, 00:23 Rodney Brown via luv-main, wrote: > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2PXFt0vdaE > > partly spruiking the edX course "Unix Tools: Data, Software and > Production Engineering" > > https://www.edx.org/course/unix-tools-data-software-and-production-engineering > > I think

system & network monitoring

2021-09-16 Thread Colin Fee via luv-main
Folks, What do you use for monitoring your local systems and network devices e.g. router/modem etc? -- Colin Fee tfecc...@gmail.com ___ luv-main mailing list -- luv-main@luv.asn.au To unsubscribe send an email to luv-main-le...@luv.asn.au

Re: 4k monitors etc

2021-07-14 Thread Colin Fee via luv-main
On Thu, 15 Jul 2021 at 13:40, Russell Coker via luv-main < luv-main@luv.asn.au> wrote: > 4k and 1440p monitors are getting ridiculously cheap. > > I've written several blog posts about high resolution monitors. TLDR Use > DisplayPort instead of HDMI to avoid some hassle in getting 60Hz and you >

Re: Advice needed about ZFS

2020-08-20 Thread Colin Fee via luv-main
On Thu, 20 Aug 2020 at 19:55, stripes theotoky < stripes.theot...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > Wiser and more learned folk will give you a better answer but it will help > if you can provide more data by sending the output of the following: > > sudo zpool list > > NAME SIZE ALLOC FREE EXPANDSZ

Re: Advice needed about ZFS

2020-08-20 Thread Colin Fee via luv-main
On Thu, 20 Aug 2020 at 16:59, stripes theotoky via luv-main < luv-main@luv.asn.au> wrote: > Dear Group, > > I am looking for advice on ZFS. My computer is running painfully slowly. I > assume this is due to ZFS snapshots eating the entire disk space. My > knowledge of ZFS is almost zero, this box

Re: Telstra 4GX Hotspot vs 4GX Wi-Fi Pro

2020-03-28 Thread Colin Fee via luv-main
In the scramble to get people to, work from home over the past weeks, we discovered three that do not have home internet. They asked us for broadband dogles or modems, to which we said use your phone, data charges are similar etc. They contacted their respective telcos who all said don't use your

Re: Rebuild after disk fail

2020-01-16 Thread Colin Fee via luv-main
On Fri, 17 Jan 2020 at 11:36, Andrew Greig via luv-main wrote: > > I am thinking, then, for this build, perhaps I should set it up using > Ubuntu Server. I will need to get my system to recognise the RAID drives > as well. > > So before I jump in the deep end again, are there any "gotchas" of

Re: Having trouble connecting external USB drive

2019-08-29 Thread Colin Fee via luv-main
On Fri, 30 Aug 2019 at 15:13, Terry Duell via luv-main wrote: > On Fri, 30 Aug 2019 15:01:51 +1000, Timothy Rice > wrote: > > >> [ 7413.669770] usb 4-3.1: new SuperSpeed Gen 1 USB device number 8 > using > >> xhci_hcd > >> [ 7413.682284] usb 4-3.1: New USB device found, idVendor=174c, > >>

Re: Xserver

2019-04-25 Thread Colin Fee via luv-main
Have you looked at Xorg.0.log for any errors? On Thu, 25 Apr 2019 at 17:50, stripes theotoky via luv-main < luv-main@luv.asn.au> wrote: > Following the latest update on my Devuan box I have lost the Xserver. > > The box boots normally then instead of a log in screen it is just black. > >

Re: NBN Cabling responsibilities and CSG

2018-07-08 Thread Colin Fee via luv-main
We're on NBN via HFC through Internode (aka TPG). Despite the house already having two cable connections (ex Telstra & Optus), Telstra, providing contracting services for NBN, installed a new connection into our study (as specified by me). This included a new cable from the pole (they removed the

Re: Looking at RAID

2018-03-05 Thread Colin Fee via luv-main
On 6 March 2018 at 00:48, Russell Coker via luv-main wrote: > > If you are worried about data loss then latent sector errors is what you > should worry about. I've replaced lots of disks in production due to them > returning bat data and claiming it to be good. I can't

Re: AWC EC2 queries vs self hosting and other options for a email services

2018-01-02 Thread Colin Fee via luv-main
On 2 Jan 2018 5:15 pm, "Brian May via luv-main" wrote: Andrew McGlashan via luv-main writes: > Okay, the problem pricing may be related to "Amazon EC2 Dedicated > Instances" ... that seems the closest (from what I can tell), to having > your own

Re: ethernet port set up for an 4G router

2017-08-21 Thread Colin Fee via luv-main
Hi Lindsay, I've re-read your original and drawn out what I think your set-up is (or was). A couple of questions that may help formulate an answer. What model is your D-Link 4G modem/router? Which device is providing DHCP for you other devices? Which device (presumably the D-Link) is providing

Re: radio ethernet link

2017-07-03 Thread Colin Fee via luv-main
What's your end goal Ray? If it's simply to make your network, wired and/or wireless, reach the other end of the house younmight consider powerline ethernet (ethernet-over-power) adapters. I'm using them to overcome wireless drop out issues in the kitchen due to the stainless steel splash back

Re: Cheap Home Cloud ~ Raspberry Pi + USB Drives

2016-07-29 Thread Colin Fee via luv-main
On 29 Jul 2016 7:03 pm, "Piers Rowan via luv-main" wrote: > > Friday random semi-serious question; > > Like many people I have too much data some work, some create some family, some other...etc. I have some on some backup USB drives that I have never gone back to and also a

Re: SSHD

2016-01-12 Thread Colin Fee via luv-main
On 13 January 2016 at 13:28, Trent W. Buck via luv-main wrote: > Russell Coker via luv-main > writes: > > > http://cdn.msy.com.au/Parts/PARTS.pdf > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_drive > >

Re: Is my root partition dying?

2015-12-18 Thread Colin Fee via luv-main
On 18 Dec 2015 8:59 pm, "David Zuccaro via luv-main" wrote: > > On 17/12/15 20:00, Robert Parker via luv-main wrote: >> >> >> Too true Craig. >> >> I do my regular backup without the --delete option but then log what would have been deleted otherwise. >> From time to time I