Re: [PLUG] running stress

[Michael Rasmussen]

On Sat, Jun 25, 2016 at 05:59:09PM -0700, Denis Heidtmann wrote:
> In investigating the random, now rare, lockup on my lenovo L420 I was
> advised to try stressing the thing.  I ran memtest (14 passes), e2fsck, and
> glmark2.  No issues.  Now on to cpu exercise.  I have installed stress, but
> the capability is so extensive I do not know where to start.  I do not want
> to melt the thing--I just want to give it some exercises.  Can I get some
> advice here?

Pick it up and flex it.
That  will show you if you have any physical issues.

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Re: [PLUG] Gnome-Software, apt

[Nat Taylor]

I  haven't used a GUI package manager for a while , don't miss it.  Pacman,
apt-get, yum, aptitude all work just fine.  What was the ncurses Debian
one?  Aptitude with no arguments, or dselect, or?
On Jun 25, 2016 7:05 AM, "Richard Owlett"  wrote:

On 6/24/2016 5:14 PM, wes wrote:
> They're copying the Microsoft business model in the hopes it will work for
> them too
>
> -wes

ROFL
Are we sure Canonical is not just Gates's alter ego ;/


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[PLUG] running stress

[Denis Heidtmann]

In investigating the random, now rare, lockup on my lenovo L420 I was
advised to try stressing the thing.  I ran memtest (14 passes), e2fsck, and
glmark2.  No issues.  Now on to cpu exercise.  I have installed stress, but
the capability is so extensive I do not know where to start.  I do not want
to melt the thing--I just want to give it some exercises.  Can I get some
advice here?

Thanks,
-Denis
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Re: [PLUG] NAS System suggestions

[Michael Rasmussen]

On Sat, Jun 25, 2016 at 03:47:18PM -0500, Louis Kowolowski wrote:
> Regarding XFS, why would you need ways to zero out data? I thought the whole 
> point was to keep the data…isn’t that why we’re storing it? I mean…srsly.

To prevent those that should have access to what is private to getting at it.

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Re: [PLUG] NAS System suggestions

[Louis Kowolowski]

On Jun 24, 2016, at 12:41 AM, Michael Dexter  wrote:
> 
> On 6/22/16 9:52 AM, Vedanta Teacher wrote:
>> This may or may not help... but ixsystems sells a FreeNAS Mimi
>> with 4 bays for $999 @ https://www.ixsystems.com/freenas-mini/
>> I've never used the FreeNAS OS myself .
> 
> Well, some of us have. In fact, I have been doing 3+ years of FreeNAS 
> support. Love or hate FreeNAS, it's the OpenZFS you want:
> 
> https://www.ixsystems.com/blog/openzfs-vs-the-competition/
> 
> Nothing comes close, and I base that statement on extensive research, 
> though I don't fully know what EMC does under the hood because it's 
> proprietary. No, not Btrfs. They borked the volume manager, have space 
> accounting issues and still think in terms of say, the fstab and fsck. 
> My favorite: Forget to tell Btrfs your data is compressed etc. and it 
> appears corrupt, until you remember you have to do that kind of thing 
> manually. XFS? Search for "XFS null files". They found ways to 
> (repeatedly) zero-out data in case of a panic, even with READ-ONLY 
> MOUNTS! How did they pull that off?
> 
> Anyway, watch for FreeNAS 10 and while you'll probably say the $999 plus 
> disks Mini is expensive, that's a solid piece of hardware for protecting 
> your data. ECC RAM, etc.
> 
++

I’ve been using FreeNAS for close to 10yrs now. Don’t want to use anything else.

I haven’t looked at the VNX stuff. Clarrion was running a stripped down version 
of Windows. Isilon of course is FreeBSD based. Ditto with Netapp.

Regarding XFS, why would you need ways to zero out data? I thought the whole 
point was to keep the data…isn’t that why we’re storing it? I mean…srsly.

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[PLUG] Wrong From address when replying to PLUG

[Dick Steffens]

I brought this up before, but now I have more information. Well, I had 
it then, but didn't notice it.

When I get an email from PLUG, the To: address is not my address but 
plug@lists.pdxlinux.org. According to what I've read about replying at 
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Multiple_identities_per_e-mail_account, 
Thunderbird is supposed to use the default From: address when it doesn't 
recognize the To: address. What it does instead is to use the first 
account in the list of accounts as the From: address.

I notice the problem when I don't see my signature block, since I don't 
have a signature block for the first account in the list. I can always 
change the From in the composition window for the reply, which is what 
I've been doing for at least a couple of years. Now that I see that the 
problem is related to the original message's To address, I'm hoping to 
find a solution.

There appear to be several different solutions referenced on that 
mozillazine site. What isn't clear is which one to use. Folder Account, 
from https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/folder-account/, 
looks like it might be the thing I need. Has anyone else encountered 
this problem? What solution works for you?

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Dick Steffens

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Re: [PLUG] Nothing on monitors

[wes]

Do you have sshd running on the desktop? And you haven't changed its
listening port from default?

You may have to install nmap if your laptop doesn't have it already.

sudo nmap -p 22 192.168.1.2- | grep -B 2 open

-wes

On Sat, Jun 25, 2016 at 8:32 AM, Dick Steffens 
wrote:

> I'm typing this on my laptop.
>
> I've just set up my computer after it was off for a couple of weeks. I'm
> installed at a friend's house, so I don't know much about the local
> network except that it's 192.168.1.xxx being fed by a Netgear WNR1000.
>
> I plugged all the stuff together for my desktop computer ... two
> monitors, power and data connected, monitor pilot lights blink. I've got
> a keyboard and a mouse connected, and the Ethernet cable is connected.
> Power to the box is connected. Speakers are connected and powered.
>
> When I turn power on to the computer, I hear it do all it's usual stuff,
> but nothing appears on the monitors. At this point I don't know what
> it's IP address is, so I can't try connecting from the laptop.
>
> Any ideas where I should look next?
>
> Is there a way, using my laptop, to find out what IP address the WNR1000
> assigned to the desktop computer? The laptop is connected to the WNR1000
> via WiFi. I've also got my wife's Win7 machine up and running on the
> same network.
>
> Clue stick appreciated.
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Dick Steffens
>
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Re: [PLUG] NAS System suggestions

[wes]

On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 9:49 PM, Tomas Kuchta 
wrote:

>
>
> On Friday, June 24, 2016 04:21:17 PM wes wrote:
> > > I do not see too many positives for using SMB on linux, without real
> samba
> > > user space mount option available.
> >
> > As much as I hesitate to spend any time advocating for M$-originated
> > technologies, I must say I do not see the challenge here. I mount SMB
> > shares (from all walks of OS life) in my userspace without any elevated
> > privileges all the time. When I need them to persist, I write a cronjob
> to
> > monitor their status and restore them as needed.
>
> Just wondering - Would you share how do you mount SMB in user space?
> I mean mount not type smb://serverName/dir into some sort of GUI browser.
>
>
mount -t cifs //10.3.14.123/c$ ~/c -ouser=wes

it then prompts for my password, and mounts the share

-wes
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Re: [PLUG] Resolved: Nothing on monitors

[r...@dimstar.net]

> On Jun 25, 2016, at 8:49 AM, Dick Steffens  wrote:
> 
>> On 06/25/2016 08:32 AM, Dick Steffens wrote:
>> I plugged all the stuff together for my desktop computer ... two
>> monitors, power and data connected, monitor pilot lights blink.
> 
> In the past I've always had the mini tower on the floor, and so I was 
> always crawling on the floor when connecting stuff, and could see all of 
> the connections. This time the mini tower is on a desk and I'm standing 
> above it looking down. I plugged the video cables into the jacks I could 
> see. I just remembered that those are on the motherboard, and I have an 
> nVidia card on this machine. After moving the cables to the correct 
> jacks, all is well, again.

For future reference, if the DHCP Table is not available in the router, doing a 
network scan or looking at the arp table will give you a look at nearby 
connected computers. 

-RJ

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[PLUG] Resolved: Nothing on monitors

[Dick Steffens]

On 06/25/2016 08:32 AM, Dick Steffens wrote:
> I plugged all the stuff together for my desktop computer ... two
> monitors, power and data connected, monitor pilot lights blink.

In the past I've always had the mini tower on the floor, and so I was 
always crawling on the floor when connecting stuff, and could see all of 
the connections. This time the mini tower is on a desk and I'm standing 
above it looking down. I plugged the video cables into the jacks I could 
see. I just remembered that those are on the motherboard, and I have an 
nVidia card on this machine. After moving the cables to the correct 
jacks, all is well, again.

-- 
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Dick Steffens

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[PLUG] Nothing on monitors

[Dick Steffens]

I'm typing this on my laptop.

I've just set up my computer after it was off for a couple of weeks. I'm 
installed at a friend's house, so I don't know much about the local 
network except that it's 192.168.1.xxx being fed by a Netgear WNR1000.

I plugged all the stuff together for my desktop computer ... two 
monitors, power and data connected, monitor pilot lights blink. I've got 
a keyboard and a mouse connected, and the Ethernet cable is connected. 
Power to the box is connected. Speakers are connected and powered.

When I turn power on to the computer, I hear it do all it's usual stuff, 
but nothing appears on the monitors. At this point I don't know what 
it's IP address is, so I can't try connecting from the laptop.

Any ideas where I should look next?

Is there a way, using my laptop, to find out what IP address the WNR1000 
assigned to the desktop computer? The laptop is connected to the WNR1000 
via WiFi. I've also got my wife's Win7 machine up and running on the 
same network.

Clue stick appreciated.

-- 
Regards,

Dick Steffens

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Re: [PLUG] Gnome-Software, apt

[Richard Owlett]

On 6/24/2016 5:14 PM, wes wrote:
> They're copying the Microsoft business model in the hopes it will work for
> them too
>
> -wes

ROFL
Are we sure Canonical is not just Gates's alter ego ;/


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Re: [PLUG] NAS System suggestions

[r...@dimstar.net]

> On Jun 24, 2016, at 9:49 PM, Tomas Kuchta  
> wrote:
> 
> Just wondering - Would you share how do you mount SMB in user space?
> I mean mount not type smb://serverName/dir into some sort of GUI browser

But that is exactly how you mount in Windows. Then you assign a drive letter, 
and poof, it's mounted. This can be either in a file explorer or work alike or 
at a command prompt. 

On OS X, one opens the finder, an navigates to the /Volumes/DriveName, and the 
drive was auto mounted for me...
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