So yet another chapter of ubuntu-isms begins in my life, trying to
install on my new desktop. Step 1 defeat, their server install won't
even boot with a 16.04.1 server disk. Internal cdrom or external usb
cdrom, no usb thumbdrive.
Then tried a 16.04.1 desktop installer for kubuntu, which
Good to know - I was contemplating doing this with some spinners in it
for bulk storage, as I have some 2tb's left over now. Peeling off some
of those 512's to cache for the spinners might make them more useful so
I don't have to burn space on the ssd's exclusively.
How much ssd do you end up
ks for the thoughtful
post here. I'm probably going to hail-mary and try them, and really
hope I don't make a mistake here. Worst case, normal sata disks are
cheap enough I'll get a few drives to put /boot on, and everything
else on the nvme's.
==Joseph++
On 10/27/2016
I've been doing so for probably a good 7-8 years now in various
capacities with single disk or raid, but been doing raid usually
choosing even laptops with dual drive capabilities for the past 5-6 years.
Most ssd's have died within a year, but usually only one. My desktop
with Crucial C100's
Curious if anyone has taken the plunge to play with nvme-based ssd's
under linux here? Particularly around raid.
Not finding a lot pertaining to them that is positive toward linux on
the tubes, and I'm looking to reproduce my usual raid1+luks+lvm atop
them, so feedback on doing so would be
acquired them, it seems to be only going down
hill since visio 2007, much as microsoft has.
-mb
On 10/18/2016 10:48 AM, Brian Cluff wrote:
On 10/18/2016 10:08 AM, Michael Butash wrote:
I'm still down to only visio I simply haven't found a suitable
replacement for yet.
Have you looked
I've been running disk encryption with luks on my own laptops
since I stopped using windoze years ago, and it can have multiple
unlock key slots, both for yourself, and corporate IT. The only
real deficiency is there isn't any centralized management for it
On 10/04/2016 08:20 PM, Eric Oyen wrote:
actually,
there are other reasons for using an encrypted tunnel besides bit
torrent. How about secure banking? or perhaps secure purchasing?
mayhap even more secure email access.
Yes, SSL was born as a tunnel between your client and a service provider
Yay, I get $9 dollars back. How much
are the lawyers getting?
Yes, there was a point in the lawsuit, but in the end, it was
still pointless, as always it is cheaper for Sony and like to
break the law than let consumers have they were originally sold.
I'll second PIA as a provider, they have egress points in most countries
you'd care to egress via.
I built a little ubuntu minimal vm that acts as a lan proxy gateway for
the vpn, and runs a squid http proxy on it. I register the vm on a
bridge in my network off my server, and it's purpose
On 10/01/2016 05:32 PM, Vara La Fey wrote:
Hey Michael, thanks for all the info. Being as I'm not ON Linux yet,
I'm going to save this for when I am.
Take the plunge, try a live cd, and if you don't like it, just reboot
back into windoze. No harm, no foul, and you can see if the hardware
Interesting, can't say I've ever used
sound input hard-switched to output in that capacity, but seems
like something that would require a driver, or at least some
method of communications to change the hardware. I doubt that's a
default behavior, or at least
Why not just add it as a separate vhost
site? Because of ssl, you can either do a san in the cert for
both, or just add another ip address and bind it to that, create
dns for both hostnames, and that way keep them both independent
and your rules as-is per
How do you like actually using
landscape? It's been a while since looking, I noticed they now
offer a 10-free client option for local servers that might be
useful and get me to try it since I use ubuntu in some capacity
for everything.
I've looked
-mb
On 09/16/2016 09:52 PM, Stephen Partington wrote:
the XPS15 however is wonderful
On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 9:39 PM,
Michael Butash <mich...@butash.net>
wrote:
Ohh,
pretty.
Ohh, pretty.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/3120815/hardware/windows-10-haters-try-linux-on-kaby-lake-chips-with-dells-new-xps-13.html
Shame they still leave only an anemic intel gpu in it, and no real
docking station.
-mb
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PLUG-discuss
Checkout a clonezilla server. I set one up years ago as a dedicated vm
install I kept around for demonstration of linux power novelty. Booting
it would setup dhcp on the port, tftp, all the booting files needed
(using LTSP), and provide a multi-boot prompt of which linux you wanted,
building
This is a common recommendation really with hpc applications,
particularly when doing higher-bandwidth operations, such as networking
at 10-100gb interfaces. Hyperthreading arbitrator in the kernel is like
a buffer, the L1-2 cache (I think), that fills as the cpu backs up.
When full, the
Agreed - the os just sees logical or
physical "cores", be it hyperthreaded 2*core or not.
Hyperthreading just invokes an arbitrator in the form of a thread
load-balancer and doubles the core count to the kernel in
reporting outside the bios at the os level.
Obfuscated code, apparently this is
more common these days to do. There's something that does a hash
off the posted payload input that interprets the real code and
functions behind it as it is read.
I was reading about something like this not long ago the
I'd second the nas with hard drives too, I just got a synology that has
been pretty cool so far. You can get an esata like Stephen said too
pretty cheap with an internal pci to esata card, but what you'd really
want (for performance) is one with a sas connector on it. Get yourself
an
My "key" software is generally the Kernel.
One particularly nasty little side note I've found was related to my
logitech wireless keyboard. At least twice now, I've run into this
where I'll upgrade ubuntu's kernel, and I can't unlock my hard drives or
get to a desktop as my dongle isn't
I remember trying the static compile approach back circa 2000 with linux
and slackware. After I'd learned Solaris, and why to hate it (making
gnu software compile on it to not be a useless/costly linux), a buddy
got me into Slackware, helping me install it, and how to compile a
kernel and
I've gotten to the point I don't update/reboot my os until I need to. I
tried to keep up with security patches, and ended up breaking my system
every other week. Usually because of crappy amd video drivers, but
often far more obscure things would just sort of freak out with an
update. My
I found quicken to be pretty lame for the minute I tried it with a
former accountant, and found it really didn't do anything I couldn't get
in Xero accounting suite, a web-based product. Far better integration
as well with other apps like expensify and freshbooks.
I ended up with both Xero
I would tend to disagree here. As a
business owner for a few years and a full-time linux user for 10+
years, I've really not had any reason still to go back. I do my
own accounting and time management with Freshbooks/Xero, payroll
with Gusto, LibreOffice for
I'd recommend removing bits of the
.config/$dir or .cinnamon directories for it, and logging out/back
in, just rebuild your settings.
Moving around different KDE versions, I'd find it'd freak out due
to some change in handling of the config files that
What sort of gpu? Nvidia and AMD tend
to be quite different.
Nvidia tends to use Cuda framework, AMD uses OpenCL. They offer
some level of compatibility I think, but nothing I've particularly
used outside of pure graphic opengl for gaming and
https://github.com/merculite/BLE-Security/blob/master/DEFCON24.pdf
Look at the parent github site for the scripts. Pretty sad security
seems the last thing most physical lock vendors consider now.
Caveat emptor if you use one. I'm dismayed, my Danalock's made the
list, but less craptastic
I've stayed a lot with Sony for the
same reason, well that and they still make something smaller than
5" phone. They're usually good about providing bootloader
unlocking, though the last Z5 Compact I got was more of a pain,
part of why it's still
This is why people unlock bootloaders and run 3rd party roms - regaining
ownership of the device you bought. Sad you even have to.
If you can root without unlocking the bootloader, even better, just use
titanium backup to "freeze" them, which will remove the icon and make
them inert from
You might want to try the kde neon ppa to get up to latest, I upgraded
to 5.7.2 for hopefully some fixes yesterday, and I'll have to say, there
are a lot of things working better now/fixed. So far my displays
haven't freaked out when being unplugged, though my taskbar is still
going to the
and
really have not run into the other issues.
And Wayland is being stubborn ad well.
On Jul 22, 2016 7:39 PM, "Michael
Butash" <mich...@butash.net>
wrote:
I bet you do - kde has some rea
I bet you do - kde has some real
bastard issues with multi-monitor I've been finding.
If you're on 14.04, you're mostly hozed - they didn't fix kde
remembering display setups until plasma 5.x. This alone drove me
into the 16.04 adventure with plasma 5.
All the incumbent MSO's (cable) and
LEC's (ma bell) across the country are. Cox won the first round
getting SRP as a Cox customer to NOT give fiber to Google in
Phoenix with backdoor negotiations, which caused Google's initial
delay after fanfare.
Back when I worked there early 2000's and took over the network from
@home, we'd begun, at times forcibly, to get the business services
installers to refurb the site more than normal contractors might for
"just video". Mainly if there were even borderline issues, we pushed
them to clean
Another thing to check actually, do you monitor your outbound wan port
usage on your router in any way? What kind is it?
More often than not, when I'd notice my bandwidth lagging, I'd check my
utilization at the cable modem port, and find one of my roommates doing
something on the network,
I get no variation at my house, never have (peoria), which is consistent
with what you *should* see. If not, you're either a) in a saturated
area for users, or b) you have RF issues at the house.
RF is variable, especially with temperatures as we see in az, and the
copper tends to go bad at
Residential and Business *are* the same infrastructure when it comes to
Cox HFC. The only thing that differentiates a business customer from
residential is the boot file pushed to the modem at boot, the speed set
up/down, and ip/port access list allowed through. Of course your bill
too, nice
At one point I fought with Cox, asking
how to get a secondary IP address on Residential, as they used to
do this for another 5-10 a month. Surprisingly (or not), no one
could tell me. Most of the people could barely spell IP let alone
know what they were, but
The only thing it really gets you is:
1) better support sla for on-site (bad cable, az happens)
2) slightly better port access (http/smtp)
3) routing if desired (static prefix or bgp)
Otherwise, I do everything over residential service. Since they opened
https for sslvpn, even less desirable
inverted right x axis y axis)
DP-4 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DP-5 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
Brian Cluff
On 06/23/2016 12:13 AM, Michael
Butash wrote:
I'd love
System is a 4700K intel pro, 32gb of ram, x99 gigabyte mobo, and my
mentioned 7970 soft-moded to a r9-280.
It actually runs just dandy, memory being a big part of that. I do run
out of 32gb of ram periodically when things misbehave, I've seen pulse
volume control chew up 12gb with memory
I'd love to be wrong here, but for
years nvidia imposed a limitation of only 2 monitors possible at
all when I was already doing 6x wide with ati on a 5870 card. As
buggy as fglrx tended to be, it mostly worked as a desktop in ways
nvidia seemingly could only
Likewise, much the same, I was going to go with 40", but a buddy got one
of the seiki cheap 4k tv's, and it was just too small, odd to say.
Standing in front of a 55" seemed too big, I ended up with the 48's that
I think are just about right with 4k, and curved was nice for the
desktop. I
Ah, I meant more gpu really. Nothing against their cpu's, but their
hardware and drivers in the linux video realm leave much to be desired.
Amd still lets the ATI division toward linux run like a bastard
stepchild to support the hardware with proper drivers. With radeon oss
drivers
-400 more than retail by parasites soaking them up from
retail chains for profit. Another good reason to avoid nvidia it
seems.
-mb
On 06/19/2016 02:07 PM, Brian Cluff wrote:
On
06/18/2016 09:22 PM, Michael Butash wrote:
Since I
in recovery, it
would make my life much easier, and seems they are making some
improvements at least. They just abandoned plasma4 to be utterly broken
for multi-monitor, hoping that's not the case here.
-mb
On 06/19/2016 02:07 PM, Brian Cluff wrote:
On 06/18/2016 09:22 PM, Michael Butash wrote
More desktop really, some ergonomics. I moved from 6x old 24" 1080p
displays that my neck would hurt having to look down constantly for
them, and find my neck doesn't hurt now that I tend to work level set
with my head with the 3x 48's. I didn't want to craft some sort of
riser for all 6
Check your /var/log/Xorg.0.log file, see what graphics you're running.
The compositor sounds broken, and might just need a different solution
(ie. changing nouveau to nvidia blob). Compositors break grandly with
nouveau still, and yours sounds quite broken for some reason.
I tried mint
What GPU? Check Compiz/CCSM as Ted
mentioned, looking under general at the resolution, gl modes,
vsync, etc is often related to compositing window managers.
Multi-monitor always required manual tweaking to behave at all, if
ever with compiz.
I'd
I'd second if the same size doing raid-1, I do this for every client I
have anymore, especially when using SSD's that seem to drop like flies.
I do this for laptops too when an option, I just make sure to buy
laptops that can take two. More common it seems with the advent of
msata or m2
Just thought I would share something really cool I've been playing with
the past few days...
https://www.zerotier.com/
So this is both sort of an IAAS solution for Software-Defined Networking
(SDN), but is so brain-dead simple, and pretty capable for something of
an overlay VPN-ish service
Not exactly a linux topic, but since most modern home (or industrial)
automation/security solutions tend to be linux-based, thought I would
ask here.
I've been playing around with home automation for years, just wondering
if anyone else does so as well. Often feels I'm going this stuff
I have this issue when dealing with libreoffice, as importing data for
reports from various places including the web bring formatting that
screws everything up. Usually I'll end up dropping copied formatted text
into gedit/pluma, normalizing it as plain text there, and cutting it
back out into
Far as I know, M$ OEM's are not transferable in any way, even to VM.
Yet another kick in the shorts, you get the joy of paying the microsoft
tax twice, and in theory paying far more than oem license costs.
Having purchased time and time again laptop hardware with pre-paid
windoze licenses
Find and mock the internal developers that don't know how to make
standard-compliant code, usually tends to begin at least some vague
awareness for those crappy windoze-only devs that are unaware of a
bigger world out there now. Tough love, but friends don't let friends
run IE, or force
Since microsoft seems to insist on keeping their browsers perpetually
vulnerable for the government to exploit, seems sandboxing is about the
only way to keep it from infecting your os. A full vm just to keep ie
from infecting you though?
Why not just NOT use IE? It's really not common
I've not seen this issue with it, and I've had to have windoze enumerate
some pretty extensive directories of files being forced to work with
various data for a customer last year for several months, or even just
my music directory. It's not uncommon I'm editing files between windoze
in a
Funny you mention this - been struggling with KDE4 and 3x monitors when
NOT using the binary drivers of late. I really liked KDE, using that
predominantly for the past few years on 5-6 montiors just dandy, but
with amd drivers setting up the screens that worked mostly ok.
I moved to 3x 4k
For a while doing work for a vendor I
offloaded a build image into a vm, and just used a virtualbox as a
corporate image in windoze 7, complete with all the
security/spyware installed, which actually would tax the
underlying host some. Using it with virtualbox,
6 12:12 PM, Wayne D wrote:
On 04/19/2016 10:15 AM, Michael Butash wrote:
Use virtualbox with "seamless" mode, all the windoze apps run
windowed to be less annoying overall, and you can hide the disgrace
mostly of still using it. :)
1 vote each for VirtualBox and QEMU
Pro
actually shipped with 2x 256gb ssd's
in raid-0 oddly, so one dies, it all goes poof. Weird to see that on a
consumer device, but I redid it as redundant raid-1. My current dell
latitude
-mb
On 04/19/2016 12:39 PM, Matt Graham wrote:
On 2016-04-19 10:15, Michael Butash wrote:
[snippage]
WD
I agree here, it is an important factor, but really only to us linux
folk. Windoze people remain blissfully ignorant mostly except when
dealing with the horrible bioses these days built for uefi. I think diy
mobo's will remain safe, but laptops are a wildcard when dealing with
non-business
Last time I tried to use uefi on an
asus laptop mentioned a few weeks ago in another thread, it was
terribly quirky setting up the os. At the time, the ubuntu
desktop installer was highly broken in a number of ways, which
sadly doesn't seem to change much, and
On 04/18/2016 11:18 PM, Wayne D wrote:
It's a 4 core machine and the user is not happy with the speed AND has
complained of heat issues. This machine is VERY important. He makes
his living using apps on this machine. Downtime must be kept to a
absolute minimum. Apps are 50% Web based and
So not sure how you ended up here, but I've been doing research, and
finally pulled the trigger on my desktop upgrade with 3x 4k monitors
that sadly all only come with hdmi ports vs. displayport natively.
RE: cables, I ended up getting pretty generic, but well rated, amazon
"hdmi 2.0
What window manager are you using? Anything that composites wreaks havoc
on a vnc server, ubuntu/unity make vnc useless, kde sort of works, but
ymmv when you're doing things like video that might render off the gpu
and compositing.
Try disabling the compositing as a test if so, usually some
Likewise - I use them for a basic WP site for my biz, as I don't want to
have to patch it every other day with new vulns announced. This is
something I tend to think is easily done and/or portable to another
provider a I'd like to do, but at least with this I haven't had any
issues with GD,
I had an employer get me a nice laptop years ago as their default was a
pos, an asus ultrabook that this sounds a lot like. It was entirely
wrought with issues I never could resolve trying to make ubuntu work on
it from suspend issues, display glitches, gpu driver issues, efi
weirdness (no
For me, GD has the most compelling mail offering at the cost. Part of
that is my account is still oddly screwed up from my employee account
days that no one there has figured out how to remove a bunch of free
services, including mail forwarders from my account in 10 years since I
quit the
ford it. You are right, many clients don’t
need it but they want it lol. They are signing 3 year
contracts on these servers also.
Jason
>
ear contracts on these servers also.
Jason
On Mar 22, 2016, at 12:45 PM, Michael Butash <mich...@butash.net> wrote:
That (simple/dumb customers), and most of their customer base being that really
*does not need* dedicated services for what they are doing. It doesn't meet
their busines
That (simple/dumb customers), and most
of their customer base being that really *does not need* dedicated
services for what they are doing. It doesn't meet their business
model, or technology models around that business when consumer
cores are still 2-4 per cpu,
Just look for anything that can run wrt
on it.
Personally, I replaced my cisco asa with a netgear r7000, dual
core arm, gig of ram, usb3 ports, gig, and I'm actually quite
happier with it for around $200 new (2 years ago). I still keep
my wlan
This is a persistent frustration of mine, trying to resize a window
takes some skill and simply infuriates me at times. Sadly I couldn't
find an equivalent in kde4, I saw this post and thought to go looking
again... Looked around Window Behavior, Workspace Behavior, and a
several others -
, Steve Litt wrote:
On Wed, 30 Dec 2015 22:45:43 -0700
sean <sean.a.ritz...@gmail.com> wrote:
On Dec 30, 2015 10:41 PM, "Michael Butash" <mich...@butash.net> wrote:
This is a persistent frustration of mine, trying to resize a window
takes some skill and simply infuriates
Ah crap, that's where they hid it! Props for finding it. More than a
few times I've cursed retarded defaults here...
Yeah, noticed it increased the border width, but I think I'll take it in
lieu of options.
Thanks in any regard, sort of a random thing, but still an annoyance
they don't
I was curious too as usually not ever doing bridging within linux, and
not to be an arse, but googling "iptables bridge filter" for you seemed
to turn up interesting results first:
http://serverfault.com/questions/607224/iptables-matching-packets-for-bridged-interface
I never knew about
Do you even see anything with lspci or
lsusb of your soundcard? What kind of sound is it?
Updating kernel breaks things I've found (newish intel z99 mobo
did in earlier kernels), but unless hardware changed, shouldn't
unless something just fried or you
was going to turn my computer off
for th night but 45 minutes I turned it back on and everything
was fine.
now on to learning xsane!
On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 12:07 AM,
Michael Butash <mich...@butash.
I didn't think amex hired anyone actually from the US anymore. You'd
never know stepping on campus it wasn't Bangalore itself.
-mb
On 12/20/2015 06:55 PM, George Toft wrote:
Never a dull day and every day is different. If you know the
difference between a CN and a DN in LDAP, this job
So like what, .net programmers?
-mb
On 12/18/2015 03:26 PM, Keith Smith wrote:
On 2015-12-18 13:39, David Schwartz wrote:
Do you mean H-1B visas?
I read H2 - non agricultural workers.
I see it is low skilled workers. Sorry to post here. I thought it
meant anyone except agricultural
I use straight talk, which uses ATT or
TMO networks (you choose) for 45/mo unlimited phone/data, throttle
after 3gb. I just got a tablet plan too for 20/mo 3gb data for my
nexus 9. I have no issues with coverage, other than oddly at my
house I never get LTE.
Anything to do with Sprint scares me - they were absolutely horrid to
use. That is odd, using sprint AND tmo sprint since it is cdma and tmo
is gsm. Unless just staying on LTE or something that doesn't suck like
the PCS spectrum... or just a backup plan to switch to gsm when (not
if) sprint
Not in the modem, but likely in the router (the layer 3 ip router/nat
here) itself to enable shaping to your given committed bandwidth rate
(assuming it's stabe bw, this is dsl we're talking).
Most people don't ever do (or understand why), but shaping is pretty
important when dealing with
CL is pretty much "as good as it gets, depending on your distance from
co" vs. more stable rate=bw @ cox, seeing as you don't live in a totally
crappy end of the valley with 30yr old coax. Cox has mostly replaced
that sort of ancient feeders, so less of an issue these days with cable
My last upgrade was for a few reasons, mostly my mobo was acting up
(original p65 with failing southbridge), but also wanted pci-e3.0 slots
for my video that I can never seem to keep happy (my vid was 3.0 running
in 2.1), more memory, and a faster proc. It never fails between gaming
and just
Well, looking at the places, they're
all boutique places that sell it I'm sure for 10 bucks a gallon,
mostly as it's sunoco race gas. They're all high-octane gases for
the most part from what I saw, which most cars can't even really
handle.
Reason
Oh yeah - best part was dual ssd in that e7240 dell laptop for being all
that and like 2lb too. I'm very fond of raid 1 with ssd's. Great
little powerhouse, at least until one with a 4k display comes around.
On 10/07/2015 07:03 PM, Michael Butash wrote:
Before buying my dell, I looked
My current customer threw me a t440 with a dock to use internally.
Decent - light, but sorely underpowered.
I slaughter 8gb of ram on the t440 with win7 seemingly like nothing, and
the i5 proc will haaang visio forever doing complex edits of groups
of shapes for sometimes 30sec. Windoze
One thing to keep in mind is the dns lookup on a host is part of the
transactional process, and inclusive of total delay.
I've seen everything from crappy/slow dns servers causing application
latency across clusters to broken dns records causing a good 10second
delay in responding to clients
So I still use the same dns server in phoenix and dallas they had when
they took over from @home/work, 68.2.16.30 and 68.1.208.30. These were
old farm vips of e220 solaris boxen that served from the dark days, and
remain (hopefully as not those same slowaris boxen) somewhat unhampered
as so
ScriptSafe (notscript prior, think it went defunct) and adblock for chrome.
I used to run noscript and adblock edge under firefox, and still do as I
had to stop using chrome|chromium for destabilizing my system and/or
consuming 30gb of memory at a time under ubuntu.
Even under windoze back
Isn't that the problem with mobiles in
general right now? I'm still using my almost 4 year old phone
still, a sony z1 compact, everything else up the z5 is only
marginal improvement in that time. Seems everything has been
done, but more/faster, mine's
Actually, most distros like ubuntu began removing traceroute in favor of
mtr instead as default.
Why I don't know, I'll give up 68k for the binary as it's useful still.
Problem is mtr isn't very suitable for leaving the output on screen for
you to cut and paste without invoking specifically,
Really odd if so, internally (cox) and externally (google) I seem to
resolve the cox address, so wonder if his bgp advertisement is just
going away somehow to go to a different place, mine again just ends in
Cox's network, seemingly at the right endpoint, but not the routed
Looks like someone took it down, but dead.horse resolves to a service
provider (CariNet, Inc) hosted on cox's network now. They're just not
allowing it. Interesting, yesterday it was egressing to hurricane
electric, to atlantic metro's DC in NY.
Something tells me someone didn't like the
For the replay out cox's network:
# traceroute bad.horse
traceroute to bad.horse (162.252.205.157), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
1 * * *
2 * * *
3 100.127.69.152 (100.127.69.152) 20.267 ms 22.860 ms 22.863 ms
4 70.169.75.248 (70.169.75.248) 22.861 ms 23.292 ms 23.294 ms
5
I've noticed on lower-end systems, that daily cron will peg a system for
a bit while that occurs. I had an ancient imac with ubuntu installed
that the apt update would hang the system for like a half-hour with an
old 400mhz ppc proc, consuming all cpu and memory, then swap and thus
disks too.
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