[GTALUG] Fwd: 📅 Just scheduled: Pi Day 2024: Let's get this Party (Re-)Started!

2024-02-12 Thread Aurelian Melinte via talk
Maybe a bit off-topic Meetup Raspberry Pi invites you to a new event  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ 

Re: [GTALUG] growing an EFI System Partition (ESP)

2023-11-08 Thread Aurelian Melinte via talk
On 07/11/2023 12:20, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: 5. Make a new, larger FAT filesystem, filling the partition: "sudo mkfs.vfat X" where X is the device name of the ESP partition. On my system, it was /dev/nvme0n1p1 but yours might well be different This will wipe the old FAT filesystem and

Re: [GTALUG] Debian has suddenly become unstable

2023-10-11 Thread Aurelian Melinte via talk
Define crashing :) Is is simply rebooting or freezing or shuting down. I would try to use journalctl to check logs; as detailed in the keyboard thread. Normally the kernel should trace the oops/fault before crashing. An alternative would be to boot an older kernel - it should be still installed

Re: [GTALUG] No keyboard at boot?

2023-10-11 Thread Aurelian Melinte via talk
On 11/10/2023 11:50, Peter King via talk wrote: This, mind you, to get a replacement machine for the one with the flaky motherboard (which runs just fine once it has booted as long as you reset time/date and don't try to run X). Change the BIOS battery for the old MB? I would expect the BIOS t

Re: [GTALUG] No keyboard at boot?

2023-10-10 Thread Aurelian Melinte via talk
Try unplugging the keyboard then plug it back in. If it is USB, try changing the port. Try another keyboard. Try booting an USB stick with some other live distro then peek into the Arch logs. On 10/10/2023 14:29, Peter King via talk wrote: The saga continues. While waiting for a replacement mo

Re: [GTALUG] looking for a general purpose boot media to keep in case of distasters

2023-09-20 Thread Aurelian Melinte via talk
On 19/09/2023 23:22, bitmap via talk wrote: I'd really like to have a good USB key to boot from when some kind of problem happens. Typically I use whatever installation media is lying around but they have really limited tools available. Not to mention tres obnoxious defaults like transparent term

Re: [GTALUG] mail oddity [was Re: Debian Linux as-a-router Guide]

2023-09-08 Thread Aurelian Melinte via talk
I shut down postfix, archived the queue then analyzed it, then deleted it. Changed my SASL password (a very lengthy one before & after), and it appears to be okay now? Did you (re)use that password somewhere? It is best to have unique passwords, a different one for each login. Years ago I got

Re: [GTALUG] computer hardware testing tools.

2023-07-12 Thread Aurelian Melinte via talk
On 12/07/2023 15:15, Don Tai via talk wrote: yes, you can plug your power bar into the UPS You can and I do but I do not plug surge-protected power bars in. These might trigger on the output provided by the UPS (not that I ever tried, but I respect this rule) On Wed, 12 Jul 2023 at 15:14, Ka

Re: [GTALUG] Anybody using rclone?

2023-06-05 Thread Aurelian Melinte via talk
On 05/06/2023 12:03, Alvin Starr via talk wrote: On 2023-06-05 11:16, Scott Sullivan via talk wrote: On 2023-06-05 09:14, Alvin Starr via talk wrote: Does anybody know of an volume based backup solution that can work in an incremental manner? This questions has big unstated conditional. Are y

Re: [GTALUG] wireless to ethernet adapter suggestions?

2023-04-20 Thread Aurelian Melinte via talk
On 20/04/2023 11:44, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: I'll top-post. I'm 99% sure that are on your Landlord's LAN, so you can see each other's devices. How can you test for this from MSDOS? I have no idea. Try pinging the broadcast address in your net. Not all devices present might respond

Re: [GTALUG] Cannot get a network in Linux (Ubuntu) after using Windows 10

2022-12-17 Thread Aurelian Melinte via talk
On 17/12/2022 15:22, BCLUG via talk wrote: sciguy via talk wrote on 2022-12-17 12:14: When I say I can't get a network, I mean that my Linux OS can't see any external hardware, including the router. And of course, I can't get the Internet. When in W10 (as I am now), I checked the router "confi

Re: [GTALUG] RAID SATA controller card recommendation?

2022-12-13 Thread Aurelian Melinte via talk
On 11/12/2022 15:45, William Park via talk wrote: Now that you found a solution, I have question... Why hardware card?  I assume it's Linux.  And, I found software raid (mdadm or btrfs) good enough for mirror setup. The machine is an old Dell Optiplex 755. I can see sometimes the CPU in pain s

Re: [GTALUG] RAID SATA controller card recommendation?

2022-12-11 Thread Aurelian Melinte via talk
On 06/12/2022 19:53, Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Thu, Dec 01, 2022 at 02:00:24PM -0500, Aurelian Melinte via talk wrote: I am looking to get a RAID card to put my SATA HDDs in a mirror. Has to be hardware RAID for that particular machine which is quite old. Can anyone please recommend a reliable

[GTALUG] RAID SATA controller card recommendation?

2022-12-05 Thread Aurelian Melinte via talk
Hello, I am looking to get a RAID card to put my SATA HDDs in a mirror. Has to be hardware RAID for that particular machine which is quite old. Can anyone please recommend a reliable one, $250 or less? Thanks! -- -- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. www.avas