ke/Mandriva
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kids. But the 2006
ones were visibly built like tanks.
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On Sat, 30 May 2015 07:04:09 -0400
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> Also possibly consider a refurbished unit.
> S
h, because it can be
plugged in, to ground the case, without sending power to the CPU.
Obviously, use static protection. I'm not going to tell you to wear a
wrist strap, because that can put you in danger in a shock situation,
but certainly touch the case every few seconds, and never walk across
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Here's a description of how I brought up a Linux VM with Suckless Init
plus daemontools-encore.
http://troubleshooters.com/linux/diy/suckless_init_on_plop.htm
Enjoy!
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hed with. Often, good
housekeeping with Firefox is the key to avoiding the crawlies.
When the crawlies rear their ugly head, my first step on the path
is the top command, to see who is consuming what resource, and what
resource is becoming a choke point. Then I take care of the choke
p
f bad idea. I might do that too.
Another thing that might help is to have one of your gettys (Let's say
Ctrl+Alt+F6) running with a nice value of -20. You use it for nothing
except using top and killing things when everything bogs down.
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that's the usual
subject, and you can keep your windows so you know which to bookmark.
To do this, you need the following:
* A command to define runaway eclipse. Probably some sort of parsed ps
command.
* A file to store the last value of Eclipse's "runaway value", so yo
tive five second scans.
That way, regardless of whose "fault" it is, your machine will remain
useable. By outfitting your little cron driven program to maintain a
log of kills, you can find out a lot about the nature of this problem,
perhaps eventually leading to a solution.
HTH,
St
e DMCA traps like printer cartridges with firmware whose
real purpose is locking out the competition. This bill sounds like it
enables you to buy parts from whomever you want, without breaking the
law.
Then there's this:
http://www.wired.com/2015/04/dmca-ownership-john-deere/
It's no
rgs landmines:
http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/xargs.htm
Hope you like it.
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as an easier time than I did:
http://troubleshooters.com/linux/void/voidtips.htm
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weapons grade plutonium?
"I literally didn't have time to pee."
What kind of adult diapers were you wearing that day?
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doing it for basically the reason Denys Vlasenko voiced.
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-)) Any reason to keep them?
I've never heard of them. I thought the way to send messages to
consoles was the wall command.
>
> 6. Usenet
>
> The 2nd edition still covered slrn, but personally haven't run a
> newsreader in years.
I have buddies who use Usenet. I&#
more than a decade
ago. After you sell your first copy, you're competing against zero cost
copies of your product.
Here are some articles I've written (a long time ago) on the subject.
http://www.troubleshooters.com/tpromag/200201/200201.htm
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? Who is doing this? How did you find out about it? Where can
I get documentation about this?
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Costco right now and bag a multicore modern
processor with 4GB of RAM and well over 500GB of RAM for $400. How much
less do you have to spend for a working used computer?
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On Fri, 13 Nov 2015 12:56:46 +
"Edward Ned Harvey (blu)" wrote:
> > From: Discuss [mailto:discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On
> > Behalf Of Steve Litt
> >
> > U sure? I can go to Costco right now and bag a multicore modern
> > processor wi
Don't confuse Costco with Sams Club (by Walmart). They're two very
different things. I'd be proud to have a Costco in the commercial
property closest to my house.
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;m
getting tired of maintaining my stuff via KVM switch, VNC etc.
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We sold out mainframe to another company in San
> Antonio, and helped them install IBM DOS (mainframe OS - PCs were not
> yet invented - but there were some decent hobby computers).
>
>
>
> On 11/14/2015 08:46 AM, Steve Litt wrote:
> > On Sat, 14 Nov 2015 07:52:42 -0500
&g
ion will be better than their eyesight. What such a
person needs is *big*.
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lackware
Many more.
If "Alpine Linux" sounds familiar, that's the new development platform
Docker is moving to.
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SD is hearing all that anti-Linux stuff,
perhaps I better stay away from it.
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re focused on the technical
> >> aspects.
> >
> > =8^)
> >
>
> From this discussion primer, I'm actually really looking forward to
> hearing the back and forth about technical aspects of systemd in the
> next presentation. :)
>
> Steve Litt makes
On Thu, 18 Feb 2016 13:03:30 -0500
Rich Pieri wrote:
> On 2/18/2016 12:36 PM, Steve Litt wrote:
> > Go on any Linux mailing list, and *BSD is seen as a close cousin,
>
> RMS and the FSF have, for many years, insulted BSD developers and BSD
> users, calling them "une
t;, Christoph should probably just reply
that all he's doing is teaching the best way to use systemd.
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On Mon, 22 Feb 2016 12:00:16 -0500
Bill Ricker wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 11:20 AM, Steve Litt
> wrote:
> > refers to advantages of systemd
> > over "the old way", hold his feet to the fire, in terms of the many
> > excellent alternatives to syst
On Thu, 31 Mar 2016 20:27:28 -0500
Derek Martin wrote:
> I think there's no
> compelling reason to see releasing software under a non-GPL-style
> license as inherently a bad thing.
Until the corporation patents a proprietary modification of the Open
Source software.
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o send
as my normal address, is I use a different SMTP and in the comment I
put "Steve Litt from Troubleshooters.Com".
Is it ideal? No. Is it consumately professional? No. Is it better than
not being able to send email at all? You bet!
I hope you get your home mail server fixed before you
minor inconveniences.
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On Wed, 6 Apr 2016 12:36:55 -0400
Dan Ritter wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 06, 2016 at 12:32:55PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote:
> > On Tue, 5 Apr 2016 16:01:39 -0400
> > "Greg Rundlett (freephile)" wrote:
> >
> > > It's WRONG that elections are not hel
On Wed, 06 Apr 2016 17:34:55
wrote:
> | On Wed, Apr 06, 2016 at 12:47:40PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote:
> | > On Wed, 6 Apr 2016 12:36:55 -0400
> | > Dan Ritter wrote:
> | >
> | > > I'm perfectly good with the current method we use in Waltham:
> you | > &
nding is that Thunderbird is 10x slower and piggier
than Claws-Mail, therefore more likely to hang and crash, therefore
more likely to lose email.
Claws-Mail is by no means perfect, but I think any mention of an
anecdote where a developer said email loss is OK should be
referenced to put it in context.
S
for a mobo, cpu and ram that will work with each other.
I agree with you. If I "computer lab test" something, it tests out to
be what I want, and it's within 25% of the online price, I'm going to
buy it where I tested it.
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IRC's simple API with
something more modern and complex: Something that integrates completely
with your Facebook account, and requires Gnome on the server end.
:-)
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ave long ago replaced his Xfce
with LXDE, and if LXDE goes to the dark side, he'd have moved to
Openbox, and if Openbox develops dependencies into gigantic, monolithic
software, he'd have moved to dwm or JWM or the like. Ben would know
it's not easy, it requires some amount of t
ironmental or conflict
> mineral side.
I'm tempted to buy it for the same reason I bought a regenerative
shortwave kit (and will later design and hand-assemble another): I
understand what I've built myself, I can work on what I've built
myself, and I can, to a degree, modify what
hey're 23 now), and both of those walk around with incredibly
busted computers because I won't pay for another one, and neither will
they.
Also, the computers of 2000-2008 were much more robust than today's
thin, light, cut glass ornaments that pass for laptops. I bought t
, see
http://troubleshooters.com/projects/umenu2/
Feel free to email me on or off list with any questions, comments or
suggestions.
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ith all these excellent distros around, the only reason to use systemd
is because you like it, because you don't care, because your
employer/client forces it upon you, or because you've drunk the
Kool-aid.
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achine set to be an access point.
My pfSense firewall/router/nat had UPnP turned off, so I left it that
way.
The other thing that worries me is I have no idea what devices around
the house are wifi enabled, except my Brother printer, and maybe some
of my wife's cameras/video-recorders. And I
one, so it makes sense to switch to a lower-cost
> provider.
Use one month's amount to buy yourself a huge UPS to plug the phone,
and only the phone, into. Boom, done.
If they charge you $100 for the fiber line, why not switch your
internet and tv over to the phone company to s
uments, but so far they've failed miserably. Their
exported html and xhtml is so convoluted that you can't use it to write
a flowing text eBook that will conform to Apple's or Amazon's
standards. LyX's html and xhtml export mechanisms prematurely convert
styles to appearan
On Tue, 12 Dec 2017 14:43:13 -0500
Theodore Ruegsegger wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 2:13 PM, Steve Litt wrote:
> > [Rationale for separating document content from presentation, as
> > embodied in Stylz]
>
> Isn't this the raison-d'etre for DocBook?
Yes.
get wild and crazy productivity, and your
need for a panel/taskbar is greatly reduced. See
http://troubleshooters.com/lpm/201406/201406.htm#use_faster_tools_dmenu
HTH,
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Bill Horne wrote:
> On 12/20/2017 4:20 PM, Steve Litt wrote:
> > On Wed, 20 Dec 2017 14:08:27 -0500
> > David Kramer wrote:
> >
> >> Any other distros I should consider?
> > Void Linux (https://www.voidlinux.eu/). I'
ium.com/@varunmittal91/101-brick-lenovo-uefi-computer-in-three-easy-steps-ab48acb789d8
*
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/252073/does-the-the-thinkpads-still-gets-bricked-when-installing-linux
Sure, the user has to make some mistakes for this to happen, but it
BRICKS the computer: No simply reins
e rigorous about how you call it, and distribute it
> using your existing config management.
Or switch to Void Linux, which installs npm with the nodejs package.
Debian isn't the distro it used to be.
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On Tue, 13 Feb 2018 16:35:54 -0500
Kent Borg wrote:
> [Warning, philosophical tangent.]
>
> The thing that strikes me is that it feels like we are doing
> something fundamentally wrong if a sensible way to write "Hello,
> World!" (or "Hello, I'm a GUI widget!") could possibly be: "Fire up a
> Li
On Sat, 03 Mar 2018 02:09:21 +
Mike Small wrote:
> I should be able to find my answers in the man pages or other systemd
> documentation but I'm getting fatigued reading them. So if you have
> the time...
>
>
> I see behaviour where if I change something under /etc/grub.d/, run
> update-gru
On Tue, 8 May 2018 16:05:20 -0400
Dan Ritter wrote:
> On Tue, May 08, 2018 at 02:39:37PM -0400, Richard Pieri wrote:
> > Specifically, I hate Ubuntu 17 and 18.
> >
> > Specifically, I hate Netplan which is a requirement in Ubuntu 17
> > and 18.
>
> required? it's not automatically overruled by
uld* have helped, as perhaps there was a spike that
rode along with the outage. If he meant the computers turned off, then
yes, nothing short of a UPS would help that. I use a UPS, and it keeps
me working through an average of I'd say 3 brief outages per month.
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rtable.
>
> thanks for your lucid explanation.
And just for a laugh, check out the following. It returns "<" or ">"
as expected (but it's undefined if they're equal), and nowhere does it
use any kind of "greater than" or "less than" lo
On Sun, 3 Jun 2018 19:47:52 -0400
jbk wrote:
> On 06/03/2018 07:31 PM, Steve Litt wrote:
> >
> > jbk said "die". If he meant permanently destroyed, I think a better
> > surge protector *would* have helped, as perhaps there was a spike
> > that rode a
filtering, spamassassin, and a webmail
> (roundcube).
The preceding paragraph almost completely describes my setup, except I
have no sieve and spamassassin, and I use claws-mail instead of webmail
to look at my Dovecot IMAP.
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d in the past I've had it get
intermittent on me.
My guess would be that with a lighter weight browser and a lightweight
window manager or desktop environment (wm/de), there's a 50% chance of
your eliminating this symptom or relegating it to "too rare to care"
status.
SteveT
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On Sun, 22 Jul 2018 17:47:11 -0400
dan moylan wrote:
> steve litt writes:
> > On Sun, 22 Jul 2018 12:35:00 -0400
> > dan moylan
> >> since yesterday i have been having irregular freezeups on my
> >> computer. for instance, today i was reading the nytimes
On Tue, 14 Aug 2018 13:14:48 -0400 (EDT)
Stephen Ronan wrote:
> Perhaps of interest to some here:
>
> "last week, the Governor signed legislation limiting the use of
> non-competition agreements."
> https://willbrownsberger.com/a-study-in-persistence-and-compromise-legislation-regulating-agree
On Wed, 15 Aug 2018 12:18:19 -0400
Jerry Feldman wrote:
> Having been a contractor I routinely signed a non-competition. A
> friend of mine was sued by his contract agency. He won the law suit.
How much did it cost him, and how long did it take?
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Jerry Feldman wrote:
> On 08/15/2018 09:20 PM, Steve Litt wrote:
> > On Wed, 15 Aug 2018 12:18:19 -0400
> > Jerry Feldman wrote:
> >
> >> Having been a contractor I routinely signed a non-competition. A
> >> friend of m
On Mon, 20 Aug 2018 16:32:12 +
Mike Small wrote:
> Steve Litt writes:
> > I wish everyone would ask, ahead of time, to read all employment
> > papers they're required to sign, and before resigning their old
> > position, walk away from anyone trying to ram non-comp
Hi all,
I've created a downloadable CIDR (Classless Inter-Domain Routing)
network calculator, whose sole dependency is Python3. It runs in any
terminal or terminal emulator on any Linux or presumably BSD machine.
http://troubleshooters.com/linux/cidr_calc.htm
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Hi all,
I've created a downloadable CIDR (Classless Inter-Domain Routing)
network calculator, whose sole dependency is Python3. It runs in any
terminal or terminal emulator on any Linux or presumably BSD machine.
http://troubleshooters.com/linux/cidr_calc.htm
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ative DNS server.
Hope you like it.
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I just put up several nginx documents helpful to those who don't yet
have a complete knowledge of nginx. You can access them all from the
following URL:
http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/nginx/
Thanks,
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an 2 levels, refer to a directory
full of ini files.
If I'd seen this thread 3 years ago, I'd have structured the data for
UMEN2 as a tree of ini files.
http://www.troubleshooters.com/projects/umenu2/
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On Fri, 12 Jul 2019 16:16:15 -0500
Derek Martin wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 12, 2019 at 02:07:20PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote:
> > On Fri, 12 Jul 2019 13:40:01 -0400
> > Dan Ritter wrote:
> >
> > > Jerry Feldman wrote:
> > > > I have an application
tation gone wrong. Of
course, on the other hand, I do a lot of experiments on my Daily
Driver Desktop, which handles all my Troubleshooters.Com work.
Do as I say, not as I do. :-)
By the way, the following describes my backup system:
http://troubleshooters.com/lpm/200609/20060
ences with USB thumb drives go like this:
1) They're slow, especially USB2. If you have USB3, try that.
2) They come formatted with a windows format, and that windows format
just isn't reliable. When I reformat my thumb drives as EXT4 they
hat's reliable?
>
> Thanks,
What makes you sure it's the enclosure and not the drive. As long as I
can remember, Seagate drives had the reputation of unreliability.
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with 2GB RAM, using Void and Openbox. Of
course, you can't run 20 big programs at a time, nor can you use
Firefox to open 10 javascript laden sites, but you can still do your
job.
Installing Void on a x86 or ia64 is pretty easy: Run a text program
called void-installer from a booted CD or thumb
On Mon, 23 Sep 2019 12:55:13 -0400
Seth Gordon wrote:
> The English word “cancer” can refer to anything from a skin tumor
> that a doctor can remove as an outpatient procedure, to metastatic
> pancreatic cancer that is certain to kill you within six months. But
> both of these things are still ca
rticular instance has
cost him so dearly. But please don't use it to advance your obviously
preexisting dislike of the METOO movement. I have a wife and two
daughters and I don't want some slob rubbing up against one of them in
an elevator and then saying "she was asking for it"
> >
> > -dsr-
>
> How is the number of emails to the email list
> is related to anything?
>
> Are you saying that unless you are constantly on the
> email list, you have no credibility??
Signal to noise. Three messages, one of them was pure noise.
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