Re: [linux] Bios crash

2021-07-16 Thread Tim Forbes
You could try connecting an external monitor in case the problem is 
onboard display. If you are seeing some LED flickering due to disk 
activity, that could indicated that you have progressed beyond BIOS 
initialization and are into the OS boot sequence.


Tim

On 2021-07-15 10:43 a.m., dpatte wrote:
I appologize in advance if this is the wrong forum for this request, 
but there seem to be many experts on this list - so here goes...


My laptop, a Lenovo y50-70 black screened yesterday, I presume during 
an automated windows update.


It wont boot and I cant even get into the bios to see what's up. On 
boot a few leds go on (power, battery) the disk light flickers for a 
1.5 seconds then flashes on and off each second. No other response.


Lenovo doesnt seem to have a copy of the bios code I could download 
and reflash my bios with.


Any ideas?


I am presuming that the bios is corrupted. Does anyone have suggestions?



Sent from my Galaxy


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Re: [linux] rsync snapshot backup

2020-10-02 Thread Tim Forbes
dirvish is another nice tool, using rsync under the covers. It uses the 
--link-dest option to preserve space too.


Tim

On 2020-10-01 11:19 a.m., Alan McKay wrote:

have a look at rnsapshot - very nice tool

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Re: [linux] what are people using as opposed to zoom for videoconferencing?

2020-04-02 Thread Tim Forbes
I'm not sure if this helps, but I quickly checked hub.docker.com and 
found this...


https://hub.docker.com/r/jitsi/jvb

...as well as other jitsi images. Docker can save a lot of headaches in 
some situations.


Tim


On 2020-04-02 10:47 a.m., Richard Guy Briggs wrote:

On 2020-04-02 09:36, Dianne Skoll wrote:

I use Jitsi.  Seems to work well enough.

You can use it for free at https://meet.jit.si/

However, for my friends and family, I installed my own self-hosted instance.
Download from https://jitsi.org

Ok, excellent, there are locals who are standing up their own server.
This is exactly the sort of solution I was looking for.  I'm not sure
how federation works, but this is the sort of unwalled garden I have
been wanting to use and actively promote.

I'm going to try setting up my own server.


Regards,

Dianne.

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Re: [linux] forwarding to a gmail account

2019-01-19 Thread Tim Forbes
It might be overkill, but if the business has email requirements that 
grow beyond forwarding the mail for a single email address, you might 
consider installing mailinabox on that virtual server (or another one). 
It will handle the email nicely and the management interface is simple, 
so you could probably pass it back to your sister. And it will handle 
the use-case of forwarding mail to GMail.


Tim

On 2019-01-19 1:02 p.m., Michael P. Soulier wrote:

So, I help our my sister's business by handling her domain. For some
time she has paid for a virtual server with westhost.com, and on it, I
have a simple forward rule in /etc/aliases for her business account to
her gmail account, as she requested.

trish: tsoul...@gmail.com
petservices: trish

So someone emailing petservi...@pawsitiveapproach.ca will result in a
forward to tsoul...@gmail.com. This has been working fine.

Suddenly it's not.

- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -
tsoul...@gmail.com
 (reason: 550-5.7.1 This message does not have authentication
information or fails to pass)
 (expanded from: trish)

- Transcript of session follows -
... while talking to gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com.:

DATA

<<< 550-5.7.1 This message does not have authentication information or
fails to pass
<<< 550-5.7.1 authentication checks. To best protect our users from
spam, the
<<< 550-5.7.1 message has been blocked. Please visit
<<< 550-5.7.1
https://support.google.com/mail/answer/81126#authentication for more
<<< 550 5.7.1 information. s3si2560808iom.144 - gsmtp
554 5.0.0 Service unavailable

I don't understand why google is asking for authentication for a simple
forward. We're not relaying, we're forwarding.

I'm in the middle of moving her nameservers to use my config at
digitalocean so I can better control her setup, but I've had the same
issue there with a simple mail forward so I'm asking.

If I use postfix' virtual hosting, then that works. But why would a
simple /etc/aliases forward be rejected?

Help appreciated. Google's explanation is not helpful, at least to me.

Mike

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Re: [linux] Re: dealing with bad blocks?

2019-01-10 Thread Tim Forbes
And if your motherboard has additional controllers you could try other 
combinations of cabling for the SSDs. I've had weird problems with 
particular sequences of drives.


On 2019-01-10 11:09 p.m., Ian! D. Allen wrote:

On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 10:33:50PM -0500, Alan McKay wrote:

Well looks like I got lucky with which one I took out first - the behavior
went away

Make sure you switch drives and prove the other drive causes the problem.

The problem could be Linux mis-handling the RAID1 on those drives, which means 
the problem will only show up with two drives and is not the fault of either 
drive.



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