Re: Castrated netbook (Windows 10 only)

My personal recommendation would be to avoid Lenovo completely... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superfish On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 3:41 PM, Peter Ross via luv-main wrote: > Hi all, > > at least I could return the "faulty" device without problem. > > Leaves me with the question what else I can buy

Re: pxe server

I got the impression that the DHCP server has to do the job. It's part of the DHCP response, so can't be from separate servers, even if you could get the machine to talk to 2 simultaneously... (normally it takes the first responder) What does that mean? Probably that you can't use the routers DHCP

Re: Anyone for Telstra Air

Hi Folks, Just as I was leaving telstra, this was one of the projects pending kick-off for our team. Based on FON in europe. so naturally when it became available I signed up. So far I've barely used it. those times I have, it's been via the Telstra provided hotspots and the service hasn't been

Re: Best Database For Storing Images

have a look at OMERO then. that's what it does - it's a metadata manager. (fundamentally though, any DB is a front end to a filesystem anyway...- even if it is it's own "special" FS) On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 4:12 PM, Craig Sanders via luv-main < luv-main@luv.asn.au> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 13, 2016

Re: Hardware for kids

slightly off-target, you might be interested in Infinity One - from the same team who worked on the one laptop per child program... https://www.one-education.org/ (I know one of the folks working there) On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 1:37 AM, Russell Coker via luv-main < luv-main@luv.asn.au> wrote:

Re: Hardware for kids

the answer to the question "is it possible to install Linux" is always yes... however I shall ask. On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 11:07 AM, Andrew Pam wrote: > On 23/08/16 11:01, Paul van den Bergen via luv-main wrote: > >> slightly off-target, you might be interested

Re: Hardware for kids

ays > yes... > > however > > I shall ask. > > > > > On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 11:07 AM, Andrew Pam > wrote: > >> On 23/08/16 11:01, Paul van den Bergen via luv-main wrote: >> >>> slightly off-target, you might be interested in Infinity One - from

Re: Hardware for kids

? > > I looked at it a while ago and was really interested in it (but now enough > spare $$$ to buy one when the crowdfunding happened) > > The Windows 10 laptop I found recently does not interest me that much. > > Regards > Peter > > On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 11:01

Re: Hardware for kids

uv-main < > luv-main@luv.asn.au> wrote: > >On 23/08/16 11:01, Paul van den Bergen via luv-main wrote: > >> slightly off-target, you might be interested in Infinity One - from > >> the same team who worked on the one laptop per child program... > >> > >> h

Re: Hardware for kids

s running Linux is better. > >They can > >> play without worrying too much about breaking things and the > >environmental > >> cost is 0 because it was assigned to rubbish at the start. > >> > >> On 23 August 2016 11:07:09 AM AEST, Andrew Pam via luv-main

Re: Hardware for kids

sad but potentially true - but then, I can't see oracle, google, vmware, cisco or anyone else using unix variants to agree to that On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 4:04 PM, Craig Sanders via luv-main < luv-main@luv.asn.au> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 11:09:26AM +1000, Paul van den Bergen wrote:

Re: Hardware for kids

IIUC, someone recently released the golden key that is part of the security system underpinning UEFI anyway... the inherent danger of golden keys etc... Deeply flawed system is deeply flawed... On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 2:35 PM, Russell Coker via luv-main < luv-main@luv.asn.au> wrote: > On Thursda

Re: Orbital simulation

the biggest drawback for both the Niven ring and the Dyson sphere is there is no gravitational attraction inside the ring or sphere to the sphere - only towards the sun, or only on the outside On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 1:09 PM, Russell Coker via luv-main < luv-main@luv.asn.au> wrote: > On Sun

Re: How to make systemd more reliable

Fanbois huh? vi or emacs? I'm going to be critical here - it is rare that you have personal choice over the tools your system uses. Do the job in front of you. If that means you support windows ME as a security portal(!), that's what you do... at least until you find a better job. On Thu, Sep

Re: New Device Suggestions

I'd be interested in knowing also - using ubuntu on two non-touch laptops with minimal hassle, but considering upgrading my win10 machine to linux... perhaps ask the system76 guys? there are a few websites that list laptops compatible with linux and hackintosh out there too that might provide som

Re: New Device Suggestions

while on the subject... https://www.one-education.org/ (I know one of the guys developing this - follows on from the One Laptop per Child initiative from a few years ago) also, in the more hands on lab/maker space... https://playpiper.com/ On Fri, Dec 9, 2016 at 3:05 PM, Paul van den Bergen <

Re: pop3 email service provider

I know the people @ fastmail - personal bias... I'd recommend them because I know the competence of the individuals involved, and have heard some of the war stories... https://blog.fastmail.com/ On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 6:44 PM, Stewart Smith via luv-main < luv-main@luv.asn.au> wrote: > On Mon, D

Re: reproducibility of results

Funny, I was asked about exactly the same problem when I started @WEHI... only there was no attempt made to even start tackling the problem... Virtualisation of workload makes the problem a lot easier to tackle, but even so... 7 years is a long time in IT... On 24 Dec 2016 4:19 pm, "Craig Sanders

Re: reproducibility of results

Virtualisation can help a lot. The ability to snapshot a server version along with the data it analysed is probably the right approach (and a relatively small footprint, since if you are doing it right, you are taking snapshots anyway) But you still have to set it up... Research data is interest

Re: Dell notebook 2510872AV Intel Core i7q 7500u

http://www.dell.com/learn/au/en/aubsd1/campaigns/xps-linux-laptop for example... On Sat, Feb 11, 2017 at 2:21 PM, Andrew Greig via luv-main < luv-main@luv.asn.au> wrote: > Hi All, > > I am looking at this for my next portable Linux machine, I want to tether > my camera, but I needed inquire, if

Re: Any simple sketcher good for 2D floorplans & elevations?

Not sure if it's what you are after, but there is a phone app called MagicPlan that maps existing structures as a floor plan using the camera. On 29 April 2017 at 19:42, Erik Christiansen via luv-main < luv-main@luv.asn.au> wrote: > On 29.04.17 18:43, Mark Trickett via luv-main wrote: > > Just wa

Re: Resizing jpegs, limiting file size

Also have a look at FIJI (FIJI Is Just ImageJ) as it's emminently scriptable, so I'm told... On 14 May 2017 at 20:29, Ray via luv-main wrote: > On 14.05.2017 17:55, Mark Trickett via luv-main wrote: > >> Hello All, >> >> I am wanting to cut the file size of photos from my phone. I have >> tried

Re: radio ethernet link

if you want to roll your own, have a look at wireless.org.au for usergroups and local communities that will have the resources and links to point you to the right sort of kit... On 3 July 2017 at 18:43, Sean Crosby via luv-main wrote: > Hi Lindsay, > > The device you're looking for is a wireless

cat 5 patch panel

Hi Folks, hard rubbish season here - in my cull, I noticed I still had an old 24 port cat 5 19" 1RU patch panel - anyone want it? It probably works -- Dr Paul van den Bergen ___ luv-main mailing list luv-main@luv.asn.au https://lists.luv.asn.au/

usermod weirdness

Hi Folks, Hoping to get some clarification as to what I'm missing here... I ran the following command: sudo usermod -aG docker ${USER} Which resulted in the following entry in /etc/group docker:x:133:bulwynkl OK, all nice and as it should be. su - bulwynkl then id shows I am a member of grou

Re: usermod weirdness

Hi Glenn, That's exactly what I did. Logged out, logged back in. Still hadn't updated the groups permissions for terminal. Hence the weirdness. FYI, using Gnome. On 28 Oct 2017 1:08 pm, "Glenn McIntosh via luv-main" wrote: On 28/10/17 12:00, Paul van den Bergen via lu

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

OK. As of reinvent 2017, AWS introduced bare metal server pricing. As far as I understand it, if the hardware breaks, you get a new machine, but it's up to you to manage DR. dedicated instances - it's a long term contract for a VM (not a bare metal machine) on demand - you pay per hour. spot pri

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

(keep track of the state of your returns independantly), etc, and so on. Also, IIUC it only hits you when demand is larger than supply. On 3 January 2018 at 15:17, Andrew McGlashan via luv-main < luv-main@luv.asn.au> wrote: > Hi, > > On 03/01/18 09:09, Paul van den Bergen via luv-main

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

hadoop, grid (keep track of the state of your returns > independantly), etc, and so on. Also, IIUC it only hits you when demand is > larger than supply. > > > On 3 January 2018 at 15:17, Andrew McGlashan via luv-main < > luv-main@luv.asn.au> wrote: > >> Hi, >>

Re: Intel CPUs

from the tail end of the theregister article... *PS: It appears 64-bit ARM Linux kernels will also get a set of KAISER patches, completely splitting the kernel and user spaces, to block attempts to defeat KASLR. We'll be following up this week.* On 3 January 201

Re: Security OS

consider containerising whatever work load you intend to secure... On 19 February 2018 at 20:36, Mark Trickett via luv-main < luv-main@luv.asn.au> wrote: > Hello rory, > > On 2/18/18, Rory Geoghegan via luv-main wrote: > > Thanks everyone for the advice, > > > > @ Mark, I've got a process for hi

Re: Biting the bullet - RAID

I currently take the approach that unless I have specific IO needs for a volume, I will work with one partition for OS and data as it is the most efficient use of disk space. This means typically 3 volumes 1) boot/UEFI FAT 32 partition 2) swap 3) file system. I only have 1 disk though so raid doe

Re: Biting the bullet - RAID

Is zfs in kernel space yet? or still user land only? I'd definitely use zfs in BSD or solaris without hesitation over LVM. Not sure about Mac - not familiar with the native FS for that space at all - though I have no doubt one could install zfs without too much hassle. On 24 May 2018 at 16:48, C

Re: Docker for "drivers"

I've essentially done a version of this for the scanner drivers for a brother printer - printer works fine, scanner is a special kind of beast... wine turned out to work - just... it was a large amount of trial and error to determine which utility of the dozen or so was the actual printer manager

Re: RAM sizes

One of the issues we encountered designing a small virtualization farm was that as you add more DIMMs to the system, the clock speed of the RAM had to go down - addressing more addresses over a limited bandwidth meant ou traded of speed for capacity... we chose capacity - and lower speed, lower co

Re: Save and restore window positions with openbox

I may regret looking at this... I vaguely remember there being a profiles thing for Xorg et al, and there is, but it mostly seems to be "per desktop manager" not "per display configuration" the only thing I could see that might help is the capacity to assign hot-keys to arbitrary configuration/co

Re: expect script

are you using a USB to Serial dongle? for some time now they've been a standardised SoC that apparently handles breaks poorly... so if the system is expecting a break... (found this out for Unify PABX and Cisco serial - in the latter case, dropping the speed to 2400 and holding down space bar for

Re: expect script

Yeah, that's probably fine - but it's still something I'd look at for workarounds... that whole "connect then fail to interact" thing sounds familiar... it's waiting for something that never comes, or the return is swallowed by the USB serial chip... On Mon, 20 Aug 2018 at 10:47, cory seligman

Re: expect script

the ones I played with used the CH340 chipset: https://sparks.gogo.co.nz/ch340.html https://cdn.sparkfun.com/datasheets/Dev/Arduino/Other/CH340DS1.PDF do you know what chipset it's using? On Mon, 20 Aug 2018 at 11:32, Paul van den Bergen < paul.vandenber...@gmail.com> wrote: > Yeah, that's proba

Re: expect script

the alternative (read "proper") is FTDI http://forum.arduino.cc/index.php?topic=189239.0 On Mon, 20 Aug 2018 at 11:37, Paul van den Bergen < paul.vandenber...@gmail.com> wrote: > the ones I played with used the CH340 chipset: > https://sparks.gogo.co.nz/ch340.html > https://cdn.sparkfun.com/datas

Re: Symmetric Key Management and Distribution

probably not directly applicable, but a parallel sort of approach for ssh keys... https://github.com/netflix/bless On Wed, 17 Oct 2018 at 19:00, Usman Saeed via luv-main wrote: > Hi, > > I am working on a project involving distributed radio nodes connected over > a wireless network. We are usin

Re: scsi

presuming you've all already seem it, but next time I'm in the market for a laptop I'll be looking at system76. (because some of those laptops have quite a lot of SSD/HDD capacity...) https://system76.com/ also, while we are at it, if you need a system targetted or a specific task, have a look a

Re: Contemplating a complex UEFI-based Linux installation

I looked at this a while back for Ubuntu on my laptop the most recent time I rebuilt it. Specifically I was increasing the size of the boot partition so I didn't run out of space. Read a lot of articles on setting it up, but don't have the details any more. But the good news is that it's definitel

Re: moving partition

none of my suggestions, though humorous, are helpful... disk partition level thinking doesn't consider file system level thinking is probably the correct answer, which incidentally also explains why some hypervisor snapshots suck chunks... On Thu, 31 Jan 2019 at 12:16, Nic Baxter via luv-main w

Re: moving partition

yep, pretty much what I was trying to say - on a mobile - while distracted... The FS has an index of some sort that keeps track of where the bits are, etc. If you move the goal posts you have to change the index to suit, otherwise 1) the OS doesn't know where to find the index and 2) the index doe

Re: Images fro DSLR to the cloud

There are cameras with built in wifi available now. There are also SD cards with built in wifi and a Web server to boot... On Mon, 17 Jun. 2019, 21:15 Morrie Wyatt via luv-main, wrote: > Hi Andrew. > > Couldn't you turn the problem on it's head? > > MicroSD to SD adapters come as a free accessor

Re: Images fro DSLR to the cloud

two thumbs up On Mon, 17 Jun 2019 at 21:51, Andrew Greig via luv-main wrote: > Thanks to Morrie Nick and Paul, > > for three different ways of solving this. I checked out the Amazon link, > liked what I saw but they are out of stock. An eBay supplier in Sydney > can get it to me by next Monday,

Re: Raid Disater

something like this? https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/300122/mount-a-single-hard-disk-that-was-part-of-raid-1/381923 On Mon, 22 Jul 2019 at 17:12, bob via luv-main wrote: > Thanks for the help Glenn. > > On 20/7/19 1:40 pm, Glenn McIntosh via luv-main wrote: > > > On 19/7/19 10:10 am, b

Re: Bash Recursive File Rename

https://www.maketecheasier.com/rename-files-in-linux/ On Fri, 15 Nov 2019 at 12:51, Piers via luv-main wrote: > Hi there, > > I have a bunch of files that I want to rename: > > > 123.someword.doc > 123.doc > > 456.someword.pdf > 456.pdf > > The "someword" is consistent in all the files and they

Re: HP Z420 not booting Linux from USB

It may be looking for the fat16 UEFI boot sector and not finding it on the linux disk On Fri, 2 Oct 2020 at 20:16, Russell Coker via luv-main wrote: > On Friday, 2 October 2020 4:11:24 PM AEST Andrew Pam via luv-main wrote: > > On 2/10/20 3:55 pm, Russell Coker via luv-main wrote: > > > Any id

Re: Error message

aside: most linux distros still seem to default to separate drive partitions for boot and OS. and inadequately size the boot partition at that by default - given how large drives are these days... I'm increasingly wondering if this is legacy behaviour no one understands enough to change, or if I'

Re: GIMP - Flatpak - Snap

Hi FOlks, I've encountered more than one instance where the install via snap is different than that installed by apt on ubuntu - sometimes resulting in subtle bugs, sometimes in incompatibility with other components. I normally embrace new ways of working but I have to say I'm less than impressed

Re: hands-on training

If I had one wish for IT folks it'd be how to configure alarms effectively... On Tue, 23 Mar 2021 at 12:16, Piers Rowan via luv-main wrote: > I still have that sever collecting dust. > > Let me know if it of use Russell. > > P > > On 22/3/21 5:23 pm, Russell Coker via luv-main wrote: > > I'm t

Re: Is Linux an OS?

I have had similar thoughts on disk abstraction - especially the exposure of underlying features like snapshots to higher abstraction layers. So for example it should be possible for a filesystem to implement git like concurrency management using ZFS snapshots... if only the various layers between

Re: Is Linux an OS?

Which makes me wonder if it's not an OS question at all, but an interface question... On Mon, 6 Sept 2021 at 16:54, Paul van den Bergen < paul.vandenber...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have had similar thoughts on disk abstraction - especially the exposure > of underlying features like snapshots to high

Re: 5k displays

I can't see 5k being a long term thing, given the past history of period doubling. The curved screen thing if subtle might be a real benefit if the screen becomes so big you start to notice the world isn't flat, but otherwise I just assumed it's " hey look at this, isn't it shiny" And lastly - re

Re: webcams

Recently purchased a webcam and had a similar discussion - but with a focus on affordability versus utility. Don't buy the cheapest webcams - they are truly crap. But you also don't need to spend huge amounts either. I purchased a Logitech C505 HD, and there are a bunch of good logitech midrange