Re: SSHD (and steam and windows and other stuff)

2016-01-14 Thread Tim Connors via luv-main
On Thu, 14 Jan 2016, Trent W. Buck via luv-main wrote: > $ msy | foldr grep -Fi -- 2tb 3.5 sata3 7200 msy? That looks nifty, given how horrible browsing the pictures on their webshite is. details? > What's the failure mode when the NAND wears out? > Does it detect that and fall back to bei

meeting

2016-02-28 Thread Tim Connors via luv-main
No meeting tomorrow? -- Tim Connors ___ luv-main mailing list luv-main@luv.asn.au https://lists.luv.asn.au/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/luv-main

Re: simple CLI MUA for GPG

2016-04-07 Thread Tim Connors via luv-main
On Fri, 8 Apr 2016, Trent W. Buck wrote: > Andrew McGlashan via luv-main > writes: > > > On 7/04/2016 2:22 AM, Russell Coker via luv-main wrote: > >> So my plan now is to use something simple for sending GPG encrypted mail > >> (which is a small portion of my email) and use Kmail for the majority

Re: simple CLI MUA for GPG

2016-04-10 Thread Tim Connors via luv-main
On Mon, 11 Apr 2016, Trent W. Buck via luv-main wrote: > Russell Coker via luv-main > writes: > > > On Fri, 8 Apr 2016 01:41:40 PM Trent W. Buck via luv-main wrote: > >> >> Why does everyone still use gnupg 1.x ? > >> > > >> > 'cause that's what's in Debian? > >> > >> Both are, since forever. > >

Re: mjg59 | Skylake's power management under Linux is dreadful and you shouldn't buy one until it's fixed

2016-04-17 Thread Tim Connors via luv-main
On Fri, 15 Apr 2016, Trent W. Buck wrote: > Andrew McGlashan via luv-main > writes: > > > This looks like a very big OUCH for latest generation of Intel based > > laptops! > > -- desktops might be okay though. > > > > http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/41713.html > > Note the second part, > which says

Re: new Linux server offerings

2016-05-30 Thread Tim Connors via luv-main
On Mon, 30 May 2016, Brian May wrote: > Russell Coker writes: > > > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Power_management > > > > It is annoying that this happens. The above URL tells you how to change the > > systemd reaction to the power key press. What happens if you just set it to > > "igno

Re: puppet, chef, etc

2016-08-03 Thread Tim Connors via luv-main
On Wed, 3 Aug 2016, Chris Samuel wrote: > On Wednesday, 3 August 2016 1:10:05 PM AEST Russell Coker via luv-main wrote: > > > What system do you recommend for creating such images? Puppet? Chef? > > We've been using Puppet for infrastructure VMs but now migrating to using Salt > instead. https:/

Re: Hardware for kids

2016-08-29 Thread Tim Connors via luv-main
On Mon, 29 Aug 2016, Chris Samuel wrote: > On Monday, 29 August 2016 12:27:08 PM AEST Paul van den Bergen wrote: > > > IIUC, someone recently released the golden key that is part of the security > > system underpinning UEFI anyway... the inherent danger of golden keys > > etc... > > It wasn't a ke

Re: TCP rate/congestion control

2016-09-18 Thread Tim Connors via luv-main
On Sat, 17 Sep 2016, Julien Goodwin wrote: > On 16/09/16 18:33, Julien Goodwin via luv-main wrote: > > Over and above the rate control algorithm Linux has a bunch of features > > that make it work much better than a to-the-spec cubic implementation > > (not surprising with a bunch of large content

How to make systemd more reliable

2016-09-28 Thread Tim Connors via luv-main
Stop using it! And that part is easy, just run NOTIFY_SOCKET=/run/systemd/notify systemd-notify "" in a while 1 loop as an ordinary user. https://www.agwa.name/blog/post/how_to_crash_systemd_in_one_tweet (sorry for the flamebait first line - I know this list is full of systemd fanbois) --

Re: rsync with multiple threads

2017-02-21 Thread Tim Connors via luv-main
On Tue, 21 Feb 2017, Craig Sanders wrote: > On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 06:25:38PM +1100, Joel W. Shea wrote: > > > Are you maxing out your disk/network bandwidth already? > > This is key, IMO, to whether running multiple rsyncs in parallel is > worth it or not. Almost all of the time, rsync is going

smaller pavucontrol

2017-04-28 Thread Tim Connors via luv-main
Is there a smaller version of pavucontrol that can access all the mixers and give a quick visual indication of current volume levels, but still fit on the screen when you have more than 5 or 6 audio applications open at once? -- Tim Connors ___ luv-main

Re: Reworking filenames

2017-05-03 Thread Tim Connors via luv-main
On Tue, 2 May 2017, Andrew McGlashan wrote: > # The ./ with the ls is there on purpose to make it safer > # from potential globbing issues > for old_fn in $(ls ./*.jpg) Just stop it right now! Stop doing that! Just don't! `for old_fn in *.jpg` is all you need, all you want. Then make sure "$o

Re: Btrfs has been deprecated in RHEL

2017-08-16 Thread Tim Connors via luv-main
On 17 Aug. 2017 13:22, "Russell Coker via luv-main" wrote: On Wednesday, 16 August 2017 11:12:06 AM AEST Rick Moen via luv-main wrote: > Maybe Stratis after interim use of XFS. > https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Stratis- Red-Hat-Project > https://stratis-storage.github.io/Strat

Re: Btrfs has been deprecated in RHEL

2017-08-17 Thread Tim Connors via luv-main
On 17 Aug. 2017 16:02, "Russell Coker via luv-main" wrote: On Thursday, 17 August 2017 3:16:49 PM AEST Craig Sanders via luv-main wrote: > On Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 01:37:24PM +1000, Tim Connors wrote: > > Both XFS and btrfs enthusiastically like to silently throw any data > > written > > in the pa

Re: Btrfs has been deprecated in RHEL

2017-08-18 Thread Tim Connors via luv-main
On Fri, 18 Aug 2017, Stewart Smith wrote: > > > On 17 August 2017 1:37:24 pm AEST, Tim Connors via luv-main > wrote: > >Both XFS and btrfs enthusiastically like to silently throw any data > >written > >in the past 5 days on the floor when there's a power fai

disk usage in perl without modules or /bin/df

2018-03-20 Thread Tim Connors via luv-main
I have a very minimal system where I can't use df because I want an extended output df can't do, and I can't install CPAN modules (there isn't Filesys::Df, Filesys::Statfs, etc) I want it to take args of a given file/directory. stat()'s first returned arg is st_dev. What's a system call that can

Re: rsync and filesystem capabilities

2019-01-08 Thread Tim Connors via luv-main
On Wed, 9 Jan 2019, Glenn McIntosh wrote: > On 8/1/19 11:44 pm, Russell Coker via luv-main wrote: > > Below is an example. Is there a good way of preserving capabilities apart > > from running "getcap /bin/* /sbin/* /usr/bin/* /usr/sbin/*" and storing the > > output? > > Since the capabilities ar

Re: rsync and filesystem capabilities

2019-01-09 Thread Tim Connors via luv-main
On Thu, 10 Jan 2019, Russell Coker wrote: > On Wednesday, 9 January 2019 12:14:47 PM AEDT Tim Connors via luv-main wrote: > > rsync flags I frequently see people forget to use on rsync when they want > > the destination to be exactly the same as the source: > > > > rsy

Re: copy and paste, under Wayland, and to and from an XTerm, was relating to dl audio and video

2020-08-29 Thread Tim Connors via luv-main
On Sun, 30 Aug 2020, Craig Sanders wrote: > On Tue, Aug 18, 2020 at 04:54:08PM +1000, Mark Trickett wrote: > > I do understand that there can be security issues if used without a measure > > of care and thoughtful, but it also has much merit when coping with some of > > the regular expressions tha

Re: Choosing an NBN RSP

2020-12-15 Thread Tim Connors via luv-main
On Tue, 1 Dec 2020, Jason White wrote: > > On 11/29/20 7:51 PM, Mike O'Connor via luv-main wrote: > > This is connected to a PC router (6 ethernet ports) running a standard Linux > > and a 24 POE switch. I like the flexibility of a full Linux disto for my > > router. > > > I'm currently using Open

debian: mozilla into cgroup limiting memory?

2020-12-24 Thread Tim Connors via luv-main
`ulimit -v` doesn't work very well for multithreaded applications to limit their memory usage because it just spawns off more processes when it wants to hog more resources, and any limit I've found to stop it crashing my machine are unrealistically small per process and stops legit tabs from runnin

Re: debian: mozilla into cgroup limiting memory?

2020-12-25 Thread Tim Connors via luv-main
On Sat, 26 Dec 2020, Craig Sanders via luv-main wrote: > pps: final alternative: buy more RAM. You owe it to the advertisers and other > spies. After all, they're the real owners of your PC. When I bought the laptop in 2014, I thought "32GB would be enough for *anyone*!". But specifically, looki

S3 glacier deep archive?

2021-01-22 Thread Tim Connors via luv-main
Say I have 10TB or so of ZFS storage, and I generate roughly 1GB/day of incremental ZFS snapshots from my backup system. I had been ferrying those snapshots to work, but post Covid I probably won't even have a desk anymore. But my NBN is such that I should be able to transfer the initial backup i

cherry-pick specific patch into debian kernel?

2021-08-11 Thread Tim Connors via luv-main
I want to apply this specific patch to current testing kernel to see if it fixes debian bug #992121 (hopefully before stable!): https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=cca342d98bef68151a80b024f7bf5f388d1fbdea Testing kernel is linux-image-5.10.0-8-amd64, sourc

Re: cherry-pick specific patch into debian kernel?

2021-08-18 Thread Tim Connors via luv-main
On Thu, 12 Aug 2021, russ...@coker.com.au wrote: > On Thursday, 12 August 2021 3:08:23 PM AEST Tim Connors via luv-main wrote: > > I want to apply this specific patch to current testing kernel to see if it > > fixes debian bug #992121 (hopefully before stable!): > > https://g