So tomorrow, I will un-install it all, and then start again with screen-captures to show the One True Way.
So tomorrow, I will un-install it all, and then start again with screen-captures to show the One True Way.
Lubuntu - LTS or latest? Let me know how you get on. I was using it on my Netbook - which I dusted off now and then to re-partition SD cards using Gparted.
The bloody stupid thing set the clock an hour slow without me realising. I'm missing Celebrity Bake Off!
I find it unproductive to play availability games. My availability is what Outlook says it is. You can request any free time. If I need time then I block it out.
It doesn't really matter what you do to organise cables. Entropy always wins, unless they're not being used.
At least I know all the cables will bethe right length!1cm too short
Wondering why denyhosts doesn't seem to be doing anything. It wasn't working on the Raspberry Pi either. Is it broken?
Maverick,
Must admit I've a touch of envy.
I still have a Mac Mini on my virtual wish list.
Yesterday I drilled a lot of holes and learned how to make a patch cable.
Today I'm starting to set-up a server and running ethernet cables around the lower floors of a studio building.
Maverick,
Must admit I've a touch of envy.
I still have a Mac Mini on my virtual wish list.
Yesterday I drilled a lot of holes and learned how to make a patch cable.
Today I'm starting to set-up a server and running ethernet cables around the lower floors of a studio building.
Sorry for that ;) My high spec mid 2011 Mac Mini is for sale here -> https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=79368.0 (https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=79368.0) and I can throw in the Apple wireless keyboard and Magic Mouse as new ones came with the iMac :demon:
RAID 1 meant that it mirrored the corruption to the other disk leaving the whole thing useless.
RAID 1 meant that it mirrored the corruption to the other disk leaving the whole thing useless.
This is like the rule about expensive semiconductors blowing to protect fuses, I think.
Testing a backup tool, Deja Dub, which should be able to rsync from ubuntu to a windows machine over network (wifi) and encrypt the files.
It might not be the best idea to do the test run on /home - 405Gb in 300.000+ files :)
Filesystem GB blocks Free %Used Iused %Iused Mounted on
/dev/aaaaaa 307772.15 147844.49 52% 147040917 43% /aaaaaa
I think it would be best to do a sneakernet first on that drive before going over any kind of network.Testing a backup tool, Deja Dub, which should be able to rsync from ubuntu to a windows machine over network (wifi) and encrypt the files.
It might not be the best idea to do the test run on /home - 405Gb in 300.000+ files :)
This filesystem at work must be fun to backup:-Code: [Select]Filesystem GB blocks Free %Used Iused %Iused Mounted on
/dev/aaaaaa 307772.15 147844.49 52% 147040917 43% /aaaaaa
ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x1 SErr 0x0 action 0x0
ata2.00: irq_stat 0x40000008
ata2.00: failed command: READ FPDMA QUEUED
ata2.00: cmd 60/06:00:f1:08:00/00:00:00:00:00/40 tag 0 ncq 3072 in
res 41/40:06:f1:08:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x409 (media error) <F>
ata2.00: status: { DRDY ERR }
ata2.00: error: { UNC }
Not really fettling anything, just surfing along happily and looked at my always open terminal and saw this :
Message from syslogd@rodney at Feb 13 20:14:46 ...
kernel:[63296.540525] Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
Message from syslogd@rodney at Feb 13 20:14:46 ...
kernel:[63296.540869] Stack:
Message from syslogd@rodney at Feb 13 20:14:46 ...
kernel:[63296.540910] Call Trace:
Message from syslogd@rodney at Feb 13 20:14:46 ...
kernel:[63296.540978] Code: 8b 04 24 75 d6 eb e0 31 c0 48
M85 ff 74 45 48 8b 47 10 48 85 c0 74 0c 48 39 70 10 76 06 48 39 70 08 76 30
48 8b 57 08 31 c0 eb 1a <48> 39 72 d8 76 10 48 39 72 d0 48 8d 42 c8 76 0f b 47 148 8b 52 10 eb
Message from syslogd@rodney at Feb 13 20:14:46 ...
kernel:[63296.541082] CR2: fffffffffffffffd
Eh!?!
Not really fettling anything, just surfing along happily and looked at my always open terminal and saw this :
Message from syslogd@rodney at Feb 13 20:14:46 ...
kernel:[63296.540525] Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
Message from syslogd@rodney at Feb 13 20:14:46 ...
kernel:[63296.540869] Stack:
Message from syslogd@rodney at Feb 13 20:14:46 ...
kernel:[63296.540910] Call Trace:
Message from syslogd@rodney at Feb 13 20:14:46 ...
kernel:[63296.540978] Code: 8b 04 24 75 d6 eb e0 31 c0 48
M85 ff 74 45 48 8b 47 10 48 85 c0 74 0c 48 39 70 10 76 06 48 39 70 08 76 30
48 8b 57 08 31 c0 eb 1a <48> 39 72 d8 76 10 48 39 72 d0 48 8d 42 c8 76 0f b 47 148 8b 52 10 eb
Message from syslogd@rodney at Feb 13 20:14:46 ...
kernel:[63296.541082] CR2: fffffffffffffffd
Eh!?!
Scratch that. As I had half-expected, network connection sharing seems to needlessly complicate things - as a starting "let's just see if this works", I can copy a music file from a SMB share to my home folder and play it from there but it won't play directly from the network. It doesn't seem to play nicely with USB sharing my Garmin either. As this was only intended as a stepping stone, I CBA to figure it out - I might as well just go the whole hog and dual-boot.
REST is not an API, it is a paradigm.
I've stuck an extra pair of RAM sticks into the desktop PC, which is now up to 4x2GB. I accidentally ordered RAM which is rated faster than my motherboard - 1600mhz rather than 1333mhz - but it seems to work fine (at 1333 of course).
I've stuck an extra pair of RAM sticks into the desktop PC, which is now up to 4x2GB. I accidentally ordered RAM which is rated faster than my motherboard - 1600mhz rather than 1333mhz - but it seems to work fine (at 1333 of course).
I think the rating might be just for the motherboard's default setting. You might (or might not) have a setting in the BIOS to overclock it (as well as the CPU).
Have you got an SSD yet? :demon:
All done and copying my stuff back from the external drive. I had a minor xkcd://910 (http://xkcd.com/910/) moment but settled on Hodor, as it'll be "carrying" a Windows VM called Bran:
Managed to recover the files off the churches broken office PC. Windows file permissions are really bizarre. 'You must get permission from user xxxx to access this file' I am user xxx, what are you playing at?
And silly things about 'filename too long'.
Grr.
You need to have Admin rights, and 'Take Ownership' of the files in question.
That will re-write the ACLs with your new SID.
Mindful of my OS - Mint 14 - becoming end of life I looked for an upgrade. Mint 16? Nah, supports ends July '14 (thanks, Ubuntu ::-)). Arch? It may have a good rep but give me an installation guide that I can understand please! So, Mint Debian Edition it will be. I'll hopefully do it at the w/e.
Trying to improve the OCZ revodrive on this desktop PC hasn't brought any great revelations, either. Repair reinstallation and update done on the driver, with no effect. Bootup message states its running OK at PCI-E x4, at 5.0 Gbps, but it just seems lacklustre, f'rinstance, copying files to a USB3 stick usually runs at about 30MB per sec, and copying them from that stick onto the new SSD equipped laptop runs at about 100MB per sec.
Trying to improve the OCZ revodrive on this desktop PC hasn't brought any great revelations, either. Repair reinstallation and update done on the driver, with no effect. Bootup message states its running OK at PCI-E x4, at 5.0 Gbps, but it just seems lacklustre, f'rinstance, copying files to a USB3 stick usually runs at about 30MB per sec, and copying them from that stick onto the new SSD equipped laptop runs at about 100MB per sec. I'd hoped for snappy loading of my Photoshop library, but no, it takes ages. Its an Asus Z87A mobo with 16Gb of RAM and an i7 4770K processor.
Trying to improve the OCZ revodrive on this desktop PC hasn't brought any great revelations, either. Repair reinstallation and update done on the driver, with no effect. Bootup message states its running OK at PCI-E x4, at 5.0 Gbps, but it just seems lacklustre, f'rinstance, copying files to a USB3 stick usually runs at about 30MB per sec, and copying them from that stick onto the new SSD equipped laptop runs at about 100MB per sec.
You're comparing writing to reading speed of the USB stick and ports there, most likely nothing to do with the Revodrive. The Revodrive should be tested indpendently - eg with ATTO (what OCZ use), or HD Tune (with Block size set to 8 MB).
I'm thinking either the USB stick simply can't write faster than 30 MB/s, or that the desktop port is working at USB 2.0 speed.
netsh winsock reset catalog
netsh int ipv4 reset reset.log
netsh int ipv6 reset reset.log Tried to...
Got new Samsung SSD to replace the flaky OCZ (spit) Revodrive. Installed data migration software, just like I did with the netbook... migrated data, just like I did with the netbook.... took out the revodrive and installed the SSD, just like I did with the netbook, booted it up, just like I did with the netbook, and what, fucking nothing... not like the netbook, which just went. My PC is now fucked, thank you OCZ, may your redundant ex-employees burn down your director's homes.
Apparently boot files are missing (possibly because the revodrive kept them somewhere other than the actual hard disk, so they didn't migrate.). The PC suggests I plonk in the windows disc and select repair. This does not work. Any ideas as to how to rescue my PC from being a very expensive, highly specified boat anchor?
The thought of rebuilding that lot fills me with dread. I've never actually restored from a backup, so I assume I have to install Windows, install Acronis true image, and then backup? I think I've jsut found a flaw in that plan, where is my True Image install file, oh, its on the backup... shit.
I finally shut down a monsterous old P4 tower which had been my Domain Controller for many years.
I'd put up a couple of HP micro-servers a few years back, and transferred most of the FSMO roles over, but never got round to finishing the project.
All roles and Global Catalogs now transferred.
Old DC dcpromo'd back to Member Server and shut down.
All seems stable so far.
DCDIAG seems to have found all the FSMO role holders where I expected.
I'll leave the old machine sitting there for a while before physically removing it, just in case.
It's noticeably quieter and cooler in the server room now.
The internet's working, Feanor looks happy :)
Been doing some build tests today. Our SVN and CVS archives are held remotely, but I keep a mirror here, sync'd overnight.
It's always comforting to know that a full checkout of Everything from my local server is enough to get the machine's fans whirring nicely :thumbsup:.
Fwiw, Dan, those Atom boards run quite well without a fan, and withstand relatively warm locations (ours lives in a cabinet that used to be a hifi cab, with little ventilation).
I've just installed one of these:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0024CV3SU
Made a mobile more child (and concerned parent) friendly by installing Children Tracker and AppLocker. The moral dilemma created by installing the former is still to be resolved.
Made a mobile more child (and concerned parent) friendly by installing Children Tracker and AppLocker. The moral dilemma created by installing the former is still to be resolved.
Back in the day (when chat rooms/MSN were all the kiddie rage) I installed keyboard logging / website monitoring etc on Miss Ham's computer and checked it regularly. It was difficult on occasion not acting or reacting on the knowledge I had, but that wasn't why it was there. Screw the moral dilemma, you have a responsibility to look after kids. In the unlikely event that you needed it to be there and it wasn't, and you are technologically savvy to have done so, you would never forgive yourself. No dilemma, no option.
Fitted a new digitiser glass to the distinctly non-bouncy Asus tablet. That was a pain. Never done the glass before. Hair drier on hot, hotter, no - more heat. Pull the old surround off, lever the chips of broken glass that were left out of the glue. Clean the new glass, wear gloves so I don't get finger prints on the inside or the screen.
Re-assemble (so glad I took pictures as I dismantled the thing, they came in very handy).
Turn on. Computer part works, but touch screen is not working at all.
Re-check that the very small, very fiddly ribbon cables have been pushed in enough (they hadn't).
Turn it on again. Touch screen sort of works, but is all over the place. Reboot. Peal off the protective cover. Reboot again. Calibrate the screen, reboot, remove the calibration data, reboot again.
It works!
Snap the back cover back on.
Really happy that I've got it working again, but I think I need new eyes, everything was too small.
Now you've done that, do you want to do Samsung Galxy S2 that had an unfortunate interface with a wall, not once, but three times?
Now you've done that, do you want to do Samsung Galxy S2 that had an unfortunate interface with a wall, not once, but three times?
Give it a go yourself, you can hardly make it worse! ;D
There are front screen replacement kits on ebay for a tenner. Although I think after 3 visits against a wall, there might be more wrong with it than just the screen?
You would think so, wouldn't you? I connected it to a computer after the incident and could see the filesystem etc.
Obv. dunno if things like the radio still work, but do know that the glass is in LOTS of little pieces and the LCD is fubar'd.
What even is the point of IPv6 on a LAN/Local WiFi? Surely there are enough addresses in IPv4 space for the local network, and IPv6 is more for global networking?
- Your IPv4 address on the public Internet appears to be 94.**.**.**
- Your Internet Service Provider (ISP) appears to be BSKYB-BROADBAND-AS British Sky Broadcasting Limited,GB
- No IPv6 address detected
- Good news! Your current configuration will continue to work as web sites enable IPv6.
- You appear to be able to browse the IPv4 Internet only. You will not be able to reach IPv6-only sites.
- Your DNS server (possibly run by your ISP) appears to have no access to the IPv6 Internet, or is not configured to use it. This may in the future restrict your ability to reach IPv6-only sites.
Your readiness score
0/10 for your IPv6 stability and readiness, when publishers are forced to go IPv6 only
And see who can visit this website:
http://loopsofzen.co.uk/
Call your ISP if you can't.
No DNS on that web link.
See, no A-record ( legacy IPv4 ).
Hassle your ISP. They are supposed to be providing *Internet* access.
All of it.
Not just the old legacy IPv4 corner of the Internet.
No DNS on that web link.
I went back to the very slow old netbook. Anyway, Linux Mint 17.1 has fixed it.
Nothing really fettled, but one of my clients has suddenly received a cartload of bounced emails he never sent, so I've been chasing that down. Boring. He's a motor-mouth, too, yak yak yak yak yaketty yak.
Anyway, it's working now, with the SD card not mounted, so let's see how it performs over the next few weeks.
While we're on the topic... At some point today I'll fettle Win7 back onto my Atom-based shuttle PC so that I can hook it back up to the TV and press it back into service as a Netflix/EurosportPlayer viewer.
Unfortunately doing this involves playing "musical optical drives" with the other PC and I really cannot be bothered yet this morning. Need Coffee.
Have flashed a Motorola Xoom to use Omni rom, instead of the stock Motorola one.
It is currently booting, but taking a LONG time over it, hope it worked (I am not too worried, they do usually take longer than normal to boot first boot after flashing)
FWIW HP Envy laptops actually have two vidoe cards, an Intel one and a NVidia one. The default is to use the Intel one, for power saving reasons. To get the laptop to use the NVidia for more grunty work (such as 1080p video) you need to install Bumblebee and Primus.
FWIW HP Envy laptops actually have two vidoe cards, an Intel one and a NVidia one. The default is to use the Intel one, for power saving reasons. To get the laptop to use the NVidia for more grunty work (such as 1080p video) you need to install Bumblebee and Primus.
Not quite true. The latest Nvidia binary drivers will let you switch between the two GPUs without using Bumblebee but using the Nvidia app instead. Which way is better depends on your distribution and or requirements.
FWIW HP Envy laptops actually have two vidoe cards, an Intel one and a NVidia one. The default is to use the Intel one, for power saving reasons. To get the laptop to use the NVidia for more grunty work (such as 1080p video) you need to install Bumblebee and Primus.
Not quite true. The latest Nvidia binary drivers will let you switch between the two GPUs without using Bumblebee but using the Nvidia app instead. Which way is better depends on your distribution and or requirements.
I tried them, but couldn't get GDM toreliablywork, I just got a white screen with a sad looking computer on it. Using Bumblebee and Primus works fine (and the load average stays at ~0.5, instead of >5 when playing a movie)
Suffering significant keyboard lag atm and trying to trace/eliminate cause.
Finally coerced Samba into offering some network shares. Probably about time I garnered a better understanding of it.
Finally coerced Samba into offering some network shares. Probably about time I garnered a better understanding of it.
Good luck with that :) I have a config file that works, and does exactly what I want, it having taken me many months to mangle into the right shape. It is one of the critical backup items, being backed up to 2 machines and to 2 CDs.
Finally coerced Samba into offering some network shares. Probably about time I garnered a better understanding of it.
Good luck with that :) I have a config file that works, and does exactly what I want, it having taken me many months to mangle into the right shape. It is one of the critical backup items, being backed up to 2 machines and to 2 CDs.
Providing Windows AD integrated log-on to our fleet of linux servers would be a boon. Subject to feasibility/cost.
Damn you Android and Google. Nexus 7 OTG only works if the device language is set to US English. Apparently a known issue since at least 2013.
Can I have some hours of my life back?
How can I swap the drive letters for the HDD and the CD drives?
Cheers Biggsy - normal drive lettering has been resumed. Now I have to figure out how to disable the annoyance that is:
>>Checking media presence.....
>>Media present.....
>>Starting PXE over IP4.
after the BIOS splash screen. The last line changes to IP6 after a while. Quite a long while, which is somewhat negating the speed advantage of booting off a supersonic SSD. I may have to RTFM :(
Persuaded a friend's MotoG that had ostensibly bricked itself to reboot. All I did was apply power and sit holding the volume and power buttons for an unreasonably long time, at which point it hiccuped and went into charging mode as if nothing was wrong.
Got BBC iPlayer working again on the Squeezebox :thumbsup:
We'll see how long this lasts.
Is going to change three differet android phones to theree different cyanogen android thingies...wish me luck.
Is going to change three differet android phones to theree different cyanogen android thingies...wish me luck.
And fail as I can't find the sd card adaptor.
Having been informed that spam is originating from an old & almost unused e-mail account of mine, I went for this computer with all the AV tools I could. Found a nasty worm - but it was in a backup on an external HDD not plugged in since February. ???
Brought Lt. Col. Larrington (retd.)'s desktop Babbaging imto the 21st century by replacing his Windows 98 box with my old XP one; also replaced his printer with my old Canon and connected my old monitor to his laptop.
Sharing permissions not right?
Are you using password protected sharing on the W7 box?
Procured a RasPi 2 to run as a low cost HTPC.
Thus far, I've managed to install OpenElec/Kodi. And because things are slightly complicated in that this Pi will live on the WAN side of my firewall*, I've configured an OpenVPN end point with appropriate firewall rules to restrict access to DNS/NTP and Plex services.
I've still to get the OpenVPN client working on the Pi, as well as the Plex plugins. Hopefully the quad-core Pi will have enough grunt for streaming from the Plex server whilst encrypting/decrypting VPN traffic.
*I'm in temporary accommodation for a few months, with my network connected to the home network via a Wi-Fi bridge
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I see that XMBC/Kodi has moved on a bit since I last installed it, in that it's end of life. OSMC is where it's at, apparently. But that seems a bit too resource/power hungry for my Pi and 1A psu, so I found the last ever Raspbmc image and jiggledd my Raspberry Pi so that it talks Wifi to the rest of the network.
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I see that XMBC/Kodi has moved on a bit since I last installed it, in that it's end of life. OSMC is where it's at, apparently. But that seems a bit too resource/power hungry for my Pi and 1A psu, so I found the last ever Raspbmc image and jiggledd my Raspberry Pi so that it talks Wifi to the rest of the network.
Kodi is very much alive???
15.0 was released late last week and 15.1 is in test.
Kodi is a media center application and OSMC is the operating system that runs Kodi and brings it to your device. OSMC is not a fork of Kodi but rather a Linux distribution that ships Kodi as the main application. This is a similar concept to Kodi running on top of Windows or Android.
Take a look at OpenElec if you want Kodi on the Pi.
I wouldn't piss about if you suspect power issues on a Raspberry Pi with USB stuff attached. They seem to work admirably well from a decent 5V supply, but can become quite flaky when powered by random phone chargers that are a bit more droppy-outy than they ought to be.You right. I've ordered 2A 5V usb goodness from 7 day shop.
Needed a change so tried out Ubuntu 15.04, in hope that my laptop would like it. Naa nope, stuff still freaked out my CPU for no reason and eat RAM. So back to Debian 8, openbox and tint2 for a much cooler CPU and more RAM. Still slow by today's standards but fast enough to not drive you nuts. And I think I can stretch the life span a bit more on the laptop before upgrade is needed.Update on this I still have a few bits to sort out, mainly shortcut and links, but I managed to get the laptop to run at about 2-300Mb less RAM eaten compared to before, which is nice.
Did a fan transplant on the firewall, when I got home last night.
This needs to be done regularly, as the fan is a tiny 40mm one and the bearings are so small they fail, from heat and dust, usually within a year (thus I keep a supply handy in the cupboard directly under the firewall).
Why trying to ssh directly to the home/ISP IP or via the no-ip url, I get time outs, I do not understand. Especially when I can do the ssh when connected to the OpenVPN or Hamachi VPN.
An hour later*, I've got a guest wireless network providing internet access and a second 'private' wireless network providing internet and internal network access. And that's with a dumb switch between the AP and the smart switch.
Why trying to ssh directly to the home/ISP IP or via the no-ip url, I get time outs, I do not understand. Especially when I can do the ssh when connected to the OpenVPN or Hamachi VPN.
This is fairly normal behaviour for NAT routers, and depends on things like interface-specific rules and the order that NAT and port-forwarding rules are applied. It's entirely possible that port forwards on the WAN interface won't apply to packets arriving on other (LAN) interfaces, or that connections don't get NATed until they leave the WAN interface, so you won't be able to connect to services on your external IP from the internal network. Not that you really want to anyway - it's best for LAN hosts to communicate directly and keep the router out of it, and this can be made reasonably transparent by creative manipulation of DNS.
The proper solution is to use real IP addresses on the LAN, not have to use any NAT/port-forwarding bodges (open ports at the firewall rather than forwarding them) and everything Just Works, though with IPv4 it's becoming harder to get real addresses.
Found enough time to get Postfix/Dovecot installed and configured onna VPS hosted mail server with a reasonably secure configuration. This was semi-painful on a minimal ubuntu install provided by the host. A number of things didn't work out of the can, including rsyslog.
Not tested yet. And I've got to deploy anti-spam measures, MX/SPF records etc.
But once it's all set up, you will be in a happy place that you can fix mail issues yourself straight away, without having to deal with useless support staff working for big-cos who randomly apply policies and filters you have no control over.
Yes, I know the pain.
I self-host my domain's MX too.
But once it's all set up, you will be in a happy place that you can fix mail issues yourself straight away, without having to deal with useless support staff working for big-cos who randomly apply policies and filters you have no control over.
:thumbsup:
Yes, I know the pain.
I self-host my domain's MX too.
As any self-respecting geek should!But once it's all set up, you will be in a happy place that you can fix mail issues yourself straight away, without having to deal with useless support staff working for big-cos who randomly apply policies and filters you have no control over.
:thumbsup:
Asboslutly!
Not to mention not paying for hosting I barely use, experiencing problems due to shared and abused IP addresses and starting to reduce reliance on G00gle.
Having run massive farms of mail servers professionally I'd much rather pay someone else to do it for me, I can think of so many better ways to spend my time. Plus the search on my google apps account actually works and has a calendar I can share with my wife, parents, etc unlike the more available free web mail options. Plus I'd never get wife clearance for the 100mb synchronous connection I'd want to make running my own services worthwhile.
I consider my self a geek but I just wouldn't bother, it's just something people do because they can, meanwhile my mail is accessible from anywhere on all my devices and just works (and if google get any marketing value from my mum asking me what date we are going to France, and my wife asking me what I want for tea then crack on).
I used to run my own mail server, albeit using a Synology NAS and to be honest I miss the flexibility.
I'm planning to cut my reliance on Screwgle and IME ISP mail hosting falls into two camps. Spendy or Sh1te.
The Gmail search is crud. Professionally we rely on Google Apps for Business and I'd personally not want to tread that path.
What I don't get is why you feel the need to subsitutue the name of google for something childish like screwgle, G00gle or something else, it's like the people who replace microsoft with micro$oft or microshaft I just find it really stupid. I have friends who work for both firms and they are just folk trying to make products that customers might want to use, sure I might not agree with the management of those firms but trying to be funny with the names is just a bit purile.
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I quite like the search I've always managed to find what I'm looking for among the thousands of messages I've held onto (though owing to subject access requests I purge everything non essential or sensitive from some accounts every six months).
What I don't get is why you feel the need to subsitutue the name of google for something childish like screwgle, G00gle or something else, it's like the people who replace microsoft with micro$oft or microshaft I just find it really stupid. I have friends who work for both firms and they are just folk trying to make products that customers might want to use, sure I might not agree with the management of those firms but trying to be funny with the names is just a bit purile.
D.
not bought, but just been given a 160gb SSD drive......looking forward to using that little baby
What I don't get is why you feel the need to subsitutue the name of google for something childish like screwgle, G00gle or something else, it's like the people who replace microsoft with micro$oft or microshaft I just find it really stupid. I have friends who work for both firms and they are just folk trying to make products that customers might want to use, sure I might not agree with the management of those firms but trying to be funny with the names is just a bit purile.
The worldwide howls of protest which accompany just about every new release of Windows suggests that Microsith as a corporate entity is not trying hard enough to determine what customers want. Or, perhaps more importantly, what customers don't want.
Got fail2ban configured on the VPS so it actually works properly with SSH/IMAPs. Nice refresher in RegEx.Roundcube. I had run squirrelmail for years, but it doesn't handle html emails well or some emails from Ms outlook that just come up completely blank. Roundcube fixes all those issues and feels much more modern to use.
Also configured the VPS to send an email following a successful SSH authentication.
Next step is installing a webmail client. Any suggestions on which? (SquirrelMail, Horde, RoundCube).
Sounds like a close call. Do you have anywhere else you can backup your home directory too?
Next repair to the DELL should be to its misbehaving DVD drive - it has a mind of its own when requested to open/close the disk tray. I frequently need to resort to the paper-clip-in-the-hole recovery method.
So, question - is it possible to reset the opening mechanism or is this a chuck-and-replace-whole-unit job? Its a Philips +/-RW DVD8701.
Next repair to the DELL should be to its misbehaving DVD drive - it has a mind of its own when requested to open/close the disk tray. I frequently need to resort to the paper-clip-in-the-hole recovery method.I don't know, but a replacement could cost as little as £12. Any PC DVD drive with the right interface will do, ie. SATA or IDE/PATA.
So, question - is it possible to reset the opening mechanism or is this a chuck-and-replace-whole-unit job? Its a Philips +/-RW DVD8701.
The cert is for the smtp server itself, not for DKIM signing.
Sorry I rambled from one thing to another without making that clear!
Written a line intersect algorithm. Can do 2 million intersects per second, so not too shabby. Borrowed from gaming ray tracing algorithms.
Downloaded OS contour data and converted and loaded into a MySQL database , just under 700,000 contours for UK.
Performances tuned a process that took 3 mins down to 0.1 seconds. Mix of tuning database queries, and changing db cache setting.
Satisfying day.
Written a line intersect algorithm. Can do 2 million intersects per second, so not too shabby. Borrowed from gaming ray tracing algorithms.
Downloaded OS contour data and converted and loaded into a MySQL database , just under 700,000 contours for UK.
Performances tuned a process that took 3 mins down to 0.1 seconds. Mix of tuning database queries, and changing db cache setting.
Satisfying day.
Interesting...
Might the intersections and contours be related?
Are you trying to build an app that can produce a contour-counted elevation gain for any GPX file?
Independent of the GPS or mapping site's DEM model?
An AAA man's Holy Grail, so to speak...
They intersect with a gpx track, when you ride up hills...
Swapped barakta's pair of decent-if-oldish Iiyama monitors for a couple of mismatched crusty Dells that were doing menial duties elsewhere, to what she reports is a vast improvement.
So, does anyone make decent matte displays in the Century of the Fruitbat? Word on the gamerwebs seems to be Eizo. I blame Steve, who will have lived in a world of impeccable lighting design and probably enjoyed fastidiously polishing his monitor every morning.
Swapped barakta's pair of decent-if-oldish Iiyama monitors for a couple of mismatched crusty Dells that were doing menial duties elsewhere, to what she reports is a vast improvement.
So, does anyone make decent matte displays in the Century of the Fruitbat? Word on the gamerwebs seems to be Eizo. I blame Steve, who will have lived in a world of impeccable lighting design and probably enjoyed fastidiously polishing his monitor every morning.
Probably doesn't help that my 12 year old Eizo L768 is matt and still performs better than most, although I would say its strength is colour rendition rather than contrast. They may have changed since then.
I've matt screens but I'm going the shiny route. Never really had an issue with this Macbook Air, the simple expedient of having blinds in my office and minor positioning adjustments seem to prevent glare. Your milage may vary.
I use televisions. The only downside of reading the forum on a forty-inch screen about three metres away is that I have to move my head to read to the end of the line ;D
[...] building a case for it in LEGO.
Rather disappointed that you can't Googlecast side loaded songs or video!
Rather disappointed that you can't Googlecast side loaded songs or video!
I would see this as a plus!
You could use DLNA.
There's a few other options too, intranet radio.
I'll be looking at spinning my own at some point.
The soundbase will play from a DNLA box, in fact it sees the Popcorn Hour box straight away. However being able to use GC would have been nice but it forces you to use content from Playstore. I have ~100g of MP3s and >1Tb of videos which I can play other ways (reminds me I really must re-enable Twonky on the filestore)You can upload all of your own music to Google Play. Then you can play it through the Android app, and cast to Chromecast etc.
However I was more interested in streaming from Android devices.
BTW we are using a Sony HT-XT3 as the soundbase
The soundbase will play from a DNLA box, in fact it sees the Popcorn Hour box straight away. However being able to use GC would have been nice but it forces you to use content from Playstore. I have ~100g of MP3s and >1Tb of videos which I can play other ways (reminds me I really must re-enable Twonky on the filestore)You can upload all of your own music to Google Play. Then you can play it through the Android app, and cast to Chromecast etc.
However I was more interested in streaming from Android devices.
BTW we are using a Sony HT-XT3 as the soundbase
It allows up to 50,000 tracks for free. Though it might take a while to upload it all...
As I understand it, it doesn't do that. When syncing your music it compares what you've got against its library of tracks. If it already has it it doesn't upload it, but lets you access the one it already has.The soundbase will play from a DNLA box, in fact it sees the Popcorn Hour box straight away. However being able to use GC would have been nice but it forces you to use content from Playstore. I have ~100g of MP3s and >1Tb of videos which I can play other ways (reminds me I really must re-enable Twonky on the filestore)You can upload all of your own music to Google Play. Then you can play it through the Android app, and cast to Chromecast etc.
However I was more interested in streaming from Android devices.
BTW we are using a Sony HT-XT3 as the soundbase
It allows up to 50,000 tracks for free. Though it might take a while to upload it all...
That I didn't know!
However I would have to upload them 3 times over*. Makes just using a DVLA box seem like a good idea!
*once each for me, Mrs T and TLD!
As I understand it, it doesn't do that. When syncing your music it compares what you've got against its library of tracks. If it already has it it doesn't upload it, but lets you access the one it already has.The soundbase will play from a DNLA box, in fact it sees the Popcorn Hour box straight away. However being able to use GC would have been nice but it forces you to use content from Playstore. I have ~100g of MP3s and >1Tb of videos which I can play other ways (reminds me I really must re-enable Twonky on the filestore)You can upload all of your own music to Google Play. Then you can play it through the Android app, and cast to Chromecast etc.
However I was more interested in streaming from Android devices.
BTW we are using a Sony HT-XT3 as the soundbase
It allows up to 50,000 tracks for free. Though it might take a while to upload it all...
That I didn't know!
However I would have to upload them 3 times over*. Makes just using a DVLA box seem like a good idea!
*once each for me, Mrs T and TLD!
So for three identical collections each track will either be uploaded once or not at all.
The matching is across their whole database, so if you bought the track as a download they will already have it. If you ripped it they will have that version after the first sync and not do it again.As I understand it, it doesn't do that. When syncing your music it compares what you've got against its library of tracks. If it already has it it doesn't upload it, but lets you access the one it already has.The soundbase will play from a DNLA box, in fact it sees the Popcorn Hour box straight away. However being able to use GC would have been nice but it forces you to use content from Playstore. I have ~100g of MP3s and >1Tb of videos which I can play other ways (reminds me I really must re-enable Twonky on the filestore)You can upload all of your own music to Google Play. Then you can play it through the Android app, and cast to Chromecast etc.
However I was more interested in streaming from Android devices.
BTW we are using a Sony HT-XT3 as the soundbase
It allows up to 50,000 tracks for free. Though it might take a while to upload it all...
That I didn't know!
However I would have to upload them 3 times over*. Makes just using a DVLA box seem like a good idea!
*once each for me, Mrs T and TLD!
So for three identical collections each track will either be uploaded once or not at all.
Good idea, but...
Each person's devices (phone, tablet etc) are using a different Google account...
Fixed BBC iPlayer on the Squeezbox again ::-) Wondering how long before it stops working permanently.
The first "server" rack was a bit over the top and if you looked at it LEGO fell off. So therefore this more solid "server" and with an Admin too. Cool place to work I'll say, as the bikes can be parked in the in office. Sadly Slaske (as the Admin is called), is getting a bit long in the teeth - got him back in middle 70's my first LEGO man - as he fried my 1TB USB disk. We mounted it, played music from it on this laptop, rsynced to it just fine. But upon reboot the disk just clicks - WD forums tells me, that it is dead Jim. Sadly 26000 tunes, went with it ...[...] building a case for it in LEGO.
Pictures or it didn't happen :)
Fixed BBC iPlayer on the Squeezbox again ::-) Wondering how long before it stops working permanently.
Got it working for listen live, and now for some listen-again. Can't get R4 listen-again working, is it working for you?
I'm upgrading my media server/tv recording box. It died recently due to a dead mobo :(. I have:
- new mini-ITX mobo with (Intel Celery 3150 (http://ark.intel.com/products/87258/Intel-Celeron-Processor-N3150-2M-Cache-up-to-2_08-GHz))
- 4GB RAM
- a currently unused 1TB drive (former NAS drive, since upgraded)
which will go in the existing case. I'm awaiting delivery of a new TV tuner (HD, natch)
Fixed BBC iPlayer on the Squeezbox again ::-) Wondering how long before it stops working permanently.
Got it working for listen live, and now for some listen-again. Can't get R4 listen-again working, is it working for you?
Seems to be.
ETA: I added a plugin called BBC Iplayer Extras and downloaded a file called BBCXMLParser.pm. I got the info from a Squeezebox forum. The thread from this post (http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?53229-Announce-BBCiPlayer-Plugin-(UK-only)&p=834104&viewfull=1#post834104) on refers.
(http://random.woollypigs.com/stuff/Lego_pi_case.jpg)
Fixed BBC iPlayer on the Squeezbox again ::-) Wondering how long before it stops working permanently.
Got it working for listen live, and now for some listen-again. Can't get R4 listen-again working, is it working for you?
Seems to be.
ETA: I added a plugin called BBC Iplayer Extras and downloaded a file called BBCXMLParser.pm. I got the info from a Squeezebox forum. The thread from this post (http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?53229-Announce-BBCiPlayer-Plugin-(UK-only)&p=834104&viewfull=1#post834104) on refers.
Fantastic, thanks for the ETA! All working now :D
Installed openvpn on the RasbPi2, but for the life of me I can't remember what I ticked/checked/edited the last time I hit the same problem. I can connect and use the vpn locally, but outside I can't connect. I'm sure that it is the udp vs tcp setting, that I faffed the last time and got it to work, but today no go.
Might have to fettle some networking. So just wondering how long can a CAT5 cable be before performance get reduced. Because WiFi is strongest at the other end of the house of where access to the internet is needed. WiFi could be used there but it is a bit slow/weak.
Removed 22 virtual ethernet adapters from Adam Boyle, the Great Hall machine. Bog knows where they came from ???
Removed 22 virtual ethernet adapters from Adam Boyle, the Great Hall machine. Bog knows where they came from ???
Modern equivalent of http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~kovar/realtek.html no doubt
I got as far as the second sentence before it all turned into a version of Aramaic written in a colour only visible to bees.
/*
* Here's a totally undocumented fact for you. When the
* RealTek chip is in the process of copying a packet into
* RAM for you, the length will be 0xfff0. If you spot a
* packet header with this value, you need to stop. The
* datasheet makes absolutely no mention of this and
* RealTek should be shot for this.
*/
Next on the list is to try to sort out ARC on the anbaric distascope once and for all.
Came home to find my always-on Brix running Mint was not responsive. I gave it a hard kick and the BIOS complains that no bootable media was found. Pulled the disk and mounted it in another machine. I could mount root and home partitions but the boot partition was fishy.
Made a couple of quick/fuitle attempts to rescue the boot partition, but a partition check was vociferously bemoaning about overlapping and generally twisted partitions.
Reinstalled OS and away we go again. All a bit suspect as the device hadn't been subject to any random power failures or hard reboots.
Early entry system for LEL2017 completed this week, so I can relax over summer before coming back to website stuff in the autumn. If you know what a http header is, you might find some geeky suprises if you visit the websiteLike!
Early entry system for LEL2017 completed this week, so I can relax over summer before coming back to website stuff in the autumn. If you know what a http header is, you might find some geeky suprises if you visit the website
The I2C board has a good rep at Makerspace. seems to behave nicely for modest loads and give a robust behaviour (unlike PWM direct from the Pi)
Pi are nice but very misapplied. (I'm building the 'see like a bat' project and it makes n^2 more sense to use an arduino for it.)
Yesterday at close of play I was trying to get my Pi Zero to talk to a spectrometer. Unfortunately the serial adapter (RS232) just had the minimal connections - +ve, GND, RX and TX. The Spectrometer dates from the era of very slow serial printers (anyone remember those?) so requires hardware control. A quick visit to Makerspace and use of a soldering iron, some headers and I could then bridge CTS/RTS and pull DTR high. It now behaves so I can enhance the functionality of the spec with simple Python.
I should really put the DSR and or DCD (whichever is the equivalent of DTR going the other way) instead of guessing the time it takes to perform operations like shutter open/close and changing wavelength. At present I just use a time.sleep(n) to allow it time to do what it needs.
But it works and the colleagues are impressed.
Yesterday at close of play I was trying to get my Pi Zero to talk to a spectrometer. Unfortunately the serial adapter (RS232) just had the minimal connections - +ve, GND, RX and TX. The Spectrometer dates from the era of very slow serial printers (anyone remember those?) so requires hardware control. A quick visit to Makerspace and use of a soldering iron, some headers and I could then bridge CTS/RTS and pull DTR high. It now behaves so I can enhance the functionality of the spec with simple Python.
I should really put the DSR and or DCD (whichever is the equivalent of DTR going the other way) instead of guessing the time it takes to perform operations like shutter open/close and changing wavelength. At present I just use a time.sleep(n) to allow it time to do what it needs.
But it works and the colleagues are impressed.
La la la la fingers im my ears I'm not listening ! I had to do too much of that sort of rubbish 20 years ago. I think I still have an RS232 break out box in the attic somewhere.x
In the attic? I think my interfaker is on the shelf in the office. It makes me even more appreciative of USB. ....
In the attic? I think my interfaker is on the shelf in the office. It makes me even more appreciative of USB. ....
Yeah, I've got one of those around here somewhere...
Deployed a small shell script to make exim reject emails with zip attachments that contain Windows executables. Because it's been a long time since I had a sensible reason to email one, and all the trojans that sneak past the spam/virus filter are getting boring.
Hardly a day goes by without me talking to something over a serial cable, or more likely these days still is getting two devices to talk to each other over a serial connection.You speed demon! This is 1200, 7 bit, odd parity 1 stop bit. Hardware (CTS/RTS, and DTR required.) Given the response time of the spec I may well try the DSR to optimise for speed.
Today I made a lighting control system from manufacturer X talk to an interface from manufacturer Y to deal with some curtains. All at 9600 baud (8 1 N for total transparency). I actually had a conversation with one of my business partners about why I ran it so slow (as low as one of the interfaces would go, I think the other could drop even lower) when they could both run at 115200. Because I don't feel the need for speed to exchange a very infrequent amount of 30ish ASCII characters and over the years I have seen plenty of stuff claim it can handle the giddying speeds of 115200, but in fact just curl up into a ball and die when something throws it some stuff to deal with.
9600 forever!
Anyway, in the world of BMS and lighting controls, serial is still dominant because it does just work both in point to point and multi-point flavours.
You speed demon!
This required ( as do all my RS-232 projects, it seems ) burning your fingers making up custom leads with the necessary crossover-ness and RTS/CTS and DTR/DSR jibbling to make it work.
I think our dial up when I got my first laptop in 1990 was 19,200 baud. It connected to a Browns Box connected to our mainframe. More than quick enough for text based command line exchanges. The joys of pagers and oncall. Before that in the late 80's I'd have dot matrix print outs of the code of the trial we were doing. Then do support over phone whilst reading through the code. Happy days from more than a quarter of a century ago.A couple of years after that I was dialling in to support systems for a couple of county councils at 9.6K baud. OK for command line stuff.
Hardly a day goes by without me talking to something over a serial cable, or more likely these days still is getting two devices to talk to each other over a serial connection.
Today I made a lighting control system from manufacturer X talk to an interface from manufacturer Y to deal with some curtains. All at 9600 baud (8 1 N for total transparency). I actually had a conversation with one of my business partners about why I ran it so slow (as low as one of the interfaces would go, I think the other could drop even lower) when they could both run at 115200. Because I don't feel the need for speed to exchange a very infrequent amount of 30ish ASCII characters and over the years I have seen plenty of stuff claim it can handle the giddying speeds of 115200, but in fact just curl up into a ball and die when something throws it some stuff to deal with.
9600 forever!
Anyway, in the world of BMS and lighting controls, serial is still dominant because it does just work both in point to point and multi-point flavours.
My first DuckDuckGo CheatSheet is live.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=notepad%2B%2B+cheat+sheet&ia=cheatsheet&iax=1
I've got two more in the pipeline...
My first DuckDuckGo CheatSheet is live.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=notepad%2B%2B+cheat+sheet&ia=cheatsheet&iax=1
I've got two more in the pipeline...
My first DuckDuckGo CheatSheet is live.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=notepad%2B%2B+cheat+sheet&ia=cheatsheet&iax=1
I've got two more in the pipeline...
Is it Vi?
Android won't let me enter Vi in lower case without auto-incorrecting it.
Yesterday, ye gods...
Inlaw Paw's bedroom TV has HDMI sockets but refuses to accept input from perfectly fine DVD player & HDMI cable. After wasting a hour trying out Stuff:
1. set up old laptop with Ubuntu, shoved a DVD in. It opens, great! Shows the files but won't play them: "Format error". But DVD is fine.
2. set up 2nd old XP laptop - had to restore system to get it to boot in less than 20 minutes. Shoved in DVD: it plays!!!! But audio is kaput.
3. set up missus's old Mac. Surprise, surprise, when she moved back to a PC n years ago she didn't take the batteries out of the KB or mouse. Mouse OK, batteries in KB needed Delicate Persuasion® so now even with brave new ones it's kaput. So I sacrificed the USB KB from my Pi :( and went through the recognition rigmarole.
And it works. The IP is content.
I want a new keyboard.
The DVD player and the cable work with a different TV. The DVD had already been played umpteen times and was fine. The IP's TV wouldn't even show the player's built-in menu. The TV's own menu included a selector for HDMI input that had no effect. Conclusion: TV's defective.How old is the TV/DVD and does the DVD have copy protection in hardware that the TV does not support?
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use HTTP::Request;
use LWP::Simple;
package main;
use constant RPZ => '/var/lib/bind/db.rpz.network.home'; # BIND
response policy zone (RPZ)
use constant TMP => '/tmp/rpz.tmp';
open my $in, '<', RPZ or die "Can't read file: $!";
open my $out, '>', TMP or die "Can't write new file: $!";
my @in_rpz = ();
while(<$in>) {
$_ =~ s/^(\s+)(\d+)(\s+;\s+serial)/$1.($2+1).$3/e; # increment serial
number
print $out $_;
next if (($_ =~ m/^\$/) || ($_ =~ m/^\@/) || ($_ =~ m/^\s/) || ($_ =~
m/^#/));
push (@in_rpz, $_);
}
my @content = split /\n/, get
'http://pgl.yoyo.org/adservers/serverlist.php?hostformat=one-line&showintro=0&startdate[day]=&startdate[month]=&startdate[year]=';
die "Couldn't get adserver list" unless @content;
# Parse response data
foreach my $line (@content) {
next unless ($line =~ m/^\w+\.\w+(\.\w)*\,/);
($main::dns = $line) =~ s/<\/pre>//;
}
die "Failed to parse adserver list" unless $main::dns;
# Add record for each adServer to RPZ, if not already listed
DN:
foreach my $dn (split /,/, $main::dns) {
foreach (@in_rpz) {
next DN if ($_ =~ m/^$dn/);
}
printf $out "%-46sCNAME .\n", $dn;
}
close $out;
rename TMP, RPZ or die "Failed to write rpz file" . RPZ;
system("/usr/sbin/rndc", "reload", "rpz.network.home")
exit 0;
Feedback from the perl experts is welcome. Nice not to rely on ad-blocking software in the browser :thumbsup:
I know nothing of perl but have recently found myself wishing for some clever bugger to come up with ascripting language that doesn't resemble line noiseversion of DCL that works properly onna PC </VMS_Spod>
Feedback from the perl experts is welcome. Nice not to rely on ad-blocking software in the browser :thumbsup:
You might want to have a look at pi-hole (https://github.com/pi-hole/pi-hole), it's a DNS ad blocker that does pretty much what you're doing. You might be able to take some ideas from it.
sudo modprobe w1-gpio && sudo modprobe w1_therm
ls -l /sys/bus/w1/devices/
b) If you're blessed with an absence of special ergonomic requirements, do yourself a favour and buy a Logitech or Microsoft mouse. You know it makes sense.
My Microsith trackball/IBM Model combo may be old-skool but will almost certainly outlive anything its plugged into and probably me as well.
#!/bin/bash
crl="/usr/bin/curl -sf"
grp="/bin/grep"
for statusReport in $( \
$crl https://managed.mytalktalkbusiness.co.uk/network-status.php | \
$grp '<tr>' | \
$grp -v 'https://managed.mytalktalkbusiness.co.uk/images/greenlight.gif' | \
$grp -v 'https://managed.mytalktalkbusiness.co.uk/images/bluespanner.gif' | \
$grp -oP 'https://managed.mytalktalkbusiness.co.uk/network-status-report.php\?reportid=\d{4,7}')
do
page=$($crl $statusReport)
[ $? -ne 0 ] && continue
echo $page | $grp '<strong>Current Status:</strong></th><td>Open</td>' > /dev/null 2>&1 \
&& echo $page | $grp -i 'someplace' > /dev/null 2>&1 \
&& \
echo -e "Subject: TalkTalk Update\nFrom: root@somebox.somedomain.sometld\nTo: somebody@somedomain.sometld\nOpen TalkTalk Status Report concerning 'someplace' exchange..\nStatus Report: $statusReport\n\n" | \
/usr/sbin/sendmail -t
done
The git bit is dead easy Afasoas. Just drop the script commands you need into the post-receive folder of where the git repository is. From there they'll get executed automatically after a fresh push / commit, I do that for pushing out fresh commits to the LEL2017 web servers and it works reliably and consistently. If you need an example script to start out then let me know.
Compiling Emacs for the first time in years. 25.1 has been released (first major update in a decade) and I have to give it a whirl.
Modern fast mutli-core CPUs might be able to compile it in under an hour too.
Compiling Emacs for the first time in years. 25.1 has been released (first major update in a decade) and I have to give it a whirl.
Has it got a decent text editor yet? ;D
He then needs to enter the incoming IMAP and outgoing SMTP hostnames, but then it Just Works.
That was fairly painless.
Created my first Docker app. A simple nodejs hello world web server to get started before I start work on the full app. Ran 17 copies of the web server in 1Gb of memory. The thing that impresses me the most how quick it is to start up additional copies. A second or so and you have another web server on another port. An hour well spent this evening.
Created my first Docker app. A simple nodejs hello world web server to get started before I start work on the full app. Ran 17 copies of the web server in 1Gb of memory. The thing that impresses me the most how quick it is to start up additional copies. A second or so and you have another web server on another port. An hour well spent this evening.
:thumbsup:
I've started building a node.js CMS, mainly for the experience of doing it and I was planning to dockerise it. Might be asking you one or two questions if I come unstuck.
iCloud can fuck the fuck off and fuck off some more!
And applepay wallet wank can go in the same pile... Managed to persuade her it was Apple's PayPal and she hates PayPal so was happy for me to disable it all with extreme prejudice :D
She's far better talking to nice humans on the phone or in person who can understand her muddle....
Nowt to stop you putting iTunes database on a NAS drive though it does behave a bit strangely if you have two instances of iTunes running on different machines at the same time.
I don't *do* Apple.
So I then spent the next 2 hours doing Apple.
I don't *do* Apple.
So I then spent the next 2 hours doing Apple.
Funny how that happens, isn't it?
I don't *do* Apple.
So I then spent the next 2 hours doing Apple.
Funny how that happens, isn't it?
Well you have jinxed it now :)
Trying to convert a Word document to a database friendly file. >:( >:( >:(
Trying to convert a Word document to a database friendly file. >:( >:( >:(
Cut-and-paste into Excel, tidy and save as a CSV.
Finally Hate Word and its acceptance of formatting with TABs and CRs. Hate it a lot.
Welcome to my life. Non-computer literate biologists who have hand edited a machine generated file, taken it through various permutations and then encoded critical information as colours or font selections in an Excel spreadsheet.
So bad it isn't even wrong.
So-far-unsuccessful attempt to revive Windows updates on a laptop. I noticed, this week, that it hasn't been updating since the attempt to get a free upgrade from Windows 7 to 10 failed in the middle of last year.If you find a solution please share, my laptop has been searching for updates since the 25th. I don't think it has managed to get any since September.
I'm sure I've read that that is a common problem. I've certainly Googled plenty of solutions for general Windows-doesn't-update issues. Keep trying...
So-far-unsuccessful attempt to revive Windows updates on a laptop. I noticed, this week, that it hasn't been updating since the attempt to get a free upgrade from Windows 7 to 10 failed in the middle of last year.If you find a solution please share, my laptop has been searching for updates since the 25th. I don't think it has managed to get any since September.
I'm sure I've read that that is a common problem. I've certainly Googled plenty of solutions for general Windows-doesn't-update issues. Keep trying...
I'm away for two weeks from Monday. So I need my laptop to be all happy and up-to-date. So I switched it on for the first time in three months.
This could take a while...
I'm away for two weeks from Monday. So I need my laptop to be all happy and up-to-date. So I switched it on for the first time in three months.
This could take a while...
Updated half a dozen programs. Updates iTunes. Twice. Added a very large number of tunes to iTunes library. Twice. Windows updates applied. Now rebooting.
Mega-Global Fruit Corporation of Cupertino, USAnia, just sort yourselves out! There is no need to try to add that file to iTunes, because it's a fucking Excel spreadsheet >:(
His Anthem software, which is designed as a spreadsheet, but also has a unique feature to convert corporate accounts into music, was extremely popular,
Like the idea of having my own server. Wonder how easy and practical it is to create one?
I binned my APC UPS some years back, on the basis that it was less reliable than the supply it was backing up.
Afasos,
What make of switches do you use? I'm 100% with you on all the security & privacy points you make and would like to improve my setup. My pc & laptop protect me but I'd like to start introducing network level measures. Blocking of shitware, tracking & privacy invading domains for my company gear SSID & VLAN, a less restricted SSID & VLAN for Mrs tweens PC & our (untrustable) androids plus a guest SSID.
I've been looking at the Draytek gear. I'm pretty sure the L2+ managed switch (http://www.draytek.com/en/products/products-a-z/switch.all/vigorswitch-p2261), access points (http://www.draytek.com/en/products/products-a-z/wireless-ap.all/vigorap-910c) and router (http://www.draytek.com/en/products/products-a-z/router.all/vigor2120-series) will give me the multiple SSID & VLAN segregation I'm after but one of my access points would be in another building over a power line link. I'm struggling to the grasp how fully 8 port 'smart' switch (http://www.draytek.com/en/products/products-a-z/switch.all/vigorswitch-p1100) would extend the full features of the 24 port L2+.
(The UPS I'm retiring is a 3kVA Chloride PowerLan thing that doesn't go in for that sort of rubbish, but in the absence of the proprietary unobtanium monitoring software, there isn't an easy way to tell whether the battery's b0rked until it's actually needed.)
(The UPS I'm retiring is a 3kVA Chloride PowerLan thing that doesn't go in for that sort of rubbish, but in the absence of the proprietary unobtanium monitoring software, there isn't an easy way to tell whether the battery's b0rked until it's actually needed.)
3kVA? That's quite hefty.
Well yesterday, but following the CyanogenMod meltdown, I was looking for an alternative ROM for the ageing (2012) Nexus & Wifi tablet. Running out-of-date Android Security patches is not a good place to be unless you want to join a few botnets.
I was a bit disappointed that although the tablet was supported under CyanogenMod, it is not going to be on the successor LineageOS.
However, I installed a LineageOS Nougat "unofficial" build (read unsupported) from XDA (https://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-7/development/rom-lineageos-14-1-nexus-7-2012-t3530261 (https://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-7/development/rom-lineageos-14-1-nexus-7-2012-t3530261)).
Like magic the Nexus 7 has become responsive and usable again. Probably the first time since Google upgraded it from KitKat. Obviously a 5 year old device is not going to be as fast as the latest and greatest but more than adequate for my needs.
I was so enthused that I even followed the build guide on the XDA thread and created my own up-to-date ROM. Open source rocks - independence at last!
Anyone else still using the Nexus 7?
Like magic the Nexus 7 has become responsive and usable again. Probably the first time since Google upgraded it from KitKat. Obviously a 5 year old device is not going to be as fast as the latest and greatest but more than adequate for my needs.Yes. Actually I'll use this as an excuse to start a break-out thread (https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=101550), rather than take this one off topic.
I was so enthused that I even followed the build guide on the XDA thread and created my own up-to-date ROM. Open source rocks - independence at last!
Anyone else still using the Nexus 7?
Defettled the b0rked SuperDrive out of my iMac and refettled an unused SSD into the empty space. I got to use fancy Torx drivers and secret-squirrel suction cups. And it still works. It was great. Now I'm just waiting while macOS reinstalls on the SSD, then I'll have a ninja-fast computer! :thumbsup:Ooh, where did you get your secret-squirrel suction cups from? I'm going to be needing some to replace a Thinderbolt display glass that has cracked
Having written a load of backup scripts and various other cron jobs for thecentral serverraspberry pi, it's a good time to create some clones. Why does it take so long to copy a 16 GB card?
Reading is not too bad:
15931539456 bytes transferred in 1632.556495 secs (9758645 bytes/sec)
But writing the new ones is taking forever:
12722733056 bytes transferred in 5091.772678 secs (2498684 bytes/sec)
Having written a load of backup scripts and various other cron jobs for thecentral serverraspberry pi, it's a good time to create some clones. Why does it take so long to copy a 16 GB card?
Reading is not too bad:
15931539456 bytes transferred in 1632.556495 secs (9758645 bytes/sec)
But writing the new ones is taking forever:
12722733056 bytes transferred in 5091.772678 secs (2498684 bytes/sec)
Normal for flash memory.
Defettled the b0rked SuperDrive out of my iMac and refettled an unused SSD into the empty space. I got to use fancy Torx drivers and secret-squirrel suction cups. And it still works. It was great. Now I'm just waiting while macOS reinstalls on the SSD, then I'll have a ninja-fast computer! :thumbsup:Ooh, where did you get your secret-squirrel suction cups from? I'm going to be needing some to replace a Thinderbolt display glass that has cracked
That was bearable, if tedious, the second one is running at 1/10th of the speed. This one is kingston, never used in anger and the status is:
2760536064 bytes transferred in 13193.062733 secs (209241 bytes/sec)
Not sure what's going on. I reformatted and restarted and the speed is the same. It's touch and go whether it will be finished by the time I have to set off for work tomorrow.
Defettled the b0rked SuperDrive out of my iMac and refettled an unused SSD into the empty space. I got to use fancy Torx drivers and secret-squirrel suction cups. And it still works. It was great. Now I'm just waiting while macOS reinstalls on the SSD, then I'll have a ninja-fast computer! :thumbsup:Ooh, where did you get your secret-squirrel suction cups from? I'm going to be needing some to replace a Thinderbolt display glass that has cracked
I bought a couple of these (Nozama link) (https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0036W70BG/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1) - cheap and cheerful but did the job fine!
I was fettling well...
...until the new glass broke. >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( and >:( >:(
My old imac 10.6.7? has decided to be slow to start and locking up when using firefox, firefox version is no longer supported, so can't update flash which I suspect is the the problem. Suspect I need to do something so that it can run newer software.10.6.8 is the last version that'll run Power PC based software.
My old imac 10.6.7? has decided to be slow to start and locking up when using firefox, firefox version is no longer supported, so can't update flash which I suspect is the the problem. Suspect I need to do something so that it can run newer software.10.6.8 is the last version that'll run Power PC based software.
If you update from that, AFAIK you'll no longer be able to run your old software using the Intel processor.
It is how I ended up running 2 iMacs side by side - one to run the old stuff, one to run the new - I'm not in a strong position to upgrade all of the software I have on the old machine - it worked out cheaper to buy another iMac.
I replaced the jet engine fans in the UPS with some nice quiet ones. This was annoying because it meant powering everything down, extracting the UPS and then removing a zillion screws to get the cover off, before arsing about crimping non-standard connectors to the fans to suit those on the PCB.
It was even more annoying when this promptly invoked a fan failure alarm.
Interestingly, these are two-wire fans, so it's not sensing them by the traditional tachometer method. I tried experimenting with a shunt resistor to bring the load of the quiet fans up to that of the originals, and blowing extra air over the board with one of the originals powered from elsewhere, but neither seemed to help.
So I gave up and installed some medium-loud fans that I had previously removed from a server, on the basis they were still an improvement. This worked long enough for me to decide all was well, reassemble the ups, return it to the rack, boot everything back up and go to the shops in search of milk.
When I got back it was screaming about fan failure.
So I've had to re-fit the originals. >:(
Not sure what to try next. I guess it's sensing the fan RPM via ripple on the supply or something clever, which means I need to try to find a broadly similar spec fan that's less loud. Joy.
ETA: Googling for the fan's model number brought up endless purveyors of cheap Chinese fans, and this: https://forums.anandtech.com/threads/how-to-silence-an-unneeded-fan-but-one-that-must-keep-running.2485051/
I was fettling well...
...until the new glass broke. >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( and >:( >:(
Oh no! Oops!
Bit puzzled why Win 10 keeps spinning it up every now and then.
Low level format on HDD I am getting rid of. It took a very long time and I could have, of course, just drilled a hole through the middle. mmm. Bit puzzled why Win 10 keeps spinning it up every now and then.
Do cool PCs run faster than hot PCs? Having cleared the fan debris the laptop seems to perform much better.It it detects overheating, then it may throttle the CPU. So yes, this would slow it down.
Set-up a couple of HE / Tunnelbroker.net IPv6 over IPv4 tunnels. So now we have IPv6 connectivity on both WANs. :thumbsup:
Thus far only the DMZ has a route-able IPv6 address and DHCPv6/RA configured. WANs are in failover so NPt on the secondary IPv6 tunnel and policy routing take care of things. 8)
I've got to suss DNS integrated DHCPv6/RA on home server before I can roll it out to the home network. And find away of ensuring VPN clients can't reach any of the IPv6 gateways, which depends on all clients fully supporting DHCPv6 / static assignment :hand:
Sometimes I can only follow the smileys - and my CV says I'm an IT professional :-\
I know IPV6 is a Good Thing, but as everything's still working at the moment I don't see a compelling reason to worry about it.
Almost fettled a script to semi-automagically shut down/reboot the WD NAS but still need to figure out how to extract the thing's IP address from the output of $COMMAND and turn it into a variable, on account of it not having a static IP address.
opendkim
opendkim
Sounds painful to me.
If you're called Kim and you're getting opend it would be extremely painful.
Setup a personal email server on AWS.
Virtual domains and email addresses plus email aliases (for shopping with)
Certificates auto generated (and renewed) via Letsencrypt certbot-auto
Imap receive and smooth send over TLS connections all in place.
Blocks attempts to use it as mail relay.
SPF record in place, need to add DKIM record
Need to add spam detection into the loop
Google servers are happy sending / receiving email from my mail server, so far so good.
Just got a bit tired of Google reading my emails and then putting bloody adverts up in the browser...
I got bored of running my own email server a few years ago and switched to googlemail
I got bored of running my own email server a few years ago and switched to googlemail
I've got bored of Google reading my email then pushing adverts in my face left right and centre.
I got bored of running my own email server a few years ago and switched to googlemail
I've got bored of Google reading my email then pushing adverts in my face left right and centre.
Google will still be reading a fair proportion of your email courtesy of the other end of the conversation but, yes, fewer adverts if you run your own.
I need to do something about my spam problem, it went from 5 spams a day to ~400 a day about 12 months ago (on an email address I've never attempted to hide that's almost 20 years old now). I really need to get my hosting provider to move it to IMAP and then use a script running on a machine at home to filter the spam to a separate folder (whitelisting, blacklisting, heuristics), also want to do some other filtering too.
smtpd_recipient_restrictions =
permit_mynetworks,
permit_sasl_authenticated,
reject_unauth_destination
reject_unauth_pipelining,
check_client_access hash:/etc/postfix/client_access,
check_sender_access hash:/etc/postfix/sender_access,
reject_unknown_client,
reject_invalid_helo_hostname,
reject_non_fqdn_helo_hostname,
reject_non_fqdn_sender,
reject_non_fqdn_recipient,
reject_unknown_sender_domain,
reject_unknown_recipient_domain,
reject_invalid_hostname,
reject_rbl_client zen.spamhaus.org,
reject_rbl_client bl.spamcop.net,
reject_rbl_client b.barracudacentral.org,
reject_rbl_client dnsbl.sorbs.net,
check_policy_service unix:private/policy,
permit
Bear of a morning here at Feanor Towers.
Multiple hardware failures, and me making an arse of things making it worse...
I was in Romania last week, and lost contact with my servers back home.
Call home, and yes, the Internet went down overnight and didn't come back.
Guided them through some basic diagnostics, and we have no blinkenlights on the Firebrick firewall appliance.
Looks like a failed PSU ( internal ).
It's done that before.
Ordered replacement PSU to arrive yesterday just as I get home.
Hmm, it's not the PSU.
There's perfectly good 5v going to the main board. Main board has further on-board regulators and the test points show a lack of 3.3v.
Call to AAISP, and they agree to send me a loaner whilst I send back the failed unit.
The only problem with the RBLs are the legitimate senders that wind up on them, including yahoo (btinternet) and aol mail servers
I need to do something about my spam problem, it went from 5 spams a day to ~400 a day about 12 months ago (on an email address I've never attempted to hide that's almost 20 years old now). I really need to get my hosting provider to move it to IMAP and then use a script running on a machine at home to filter the spam to a separate folder (whitelisting, blacklisting, heuristics), also want to do some other filtering too.
Bear of a morning here at Feanor Towers.
Multiple hardware failures, and me making an arse of things making it worse...
I was in Romania last week, and lost contact with my servers back home.
Call home, and yes, the Internet went down overnight and didn't come back.
Guided them through some basic diagnostics, and we have no blinkenlights on the Firebrick firewall appliance.
Looks like a failed PSU ( internal ).
It's done that before.
Ordered replacement PSU to arrive yesterday just as I get home.
Hmm, it's not the PSU.
There's perfectly good 5v going to the main board. Main board has further on-board regulators and the test points show a lack of 3.3v.
Call to AAISP, and they agree to send me a loaner whilst I send back the failed unit.
In the meantime, I cobble together an alternative firewall out of chewing gum and Intel network cards to get the rest of the family off my case.
So today, replacement FB arrives, and I go to restore my saved config onto it.
But my last saved config was a bit old, and there had been changes since then.
So I'd manually edited the XML config file to current spec before restoring it.
All is well, and Internet Connectivity is restored.
Then the IP phone rang.
From extension 1002.
I don't have an extension 1002.
The call did not come in over the landline, it came in over IP.
But it hadn't come in to the Asterisk box over any of the IAX trunks I have from other family member's Asterisk boxes,
nor had it come in over the landline ( the landline phone did not ring ). So how had the call come in to the Asterisk box?
I don't allow unsolicited SIP inbound through the firewall (Because people try to rape your Asterisk box for free phone calls onto the PSTN).
Dawning realisation...The firewall is not firewalling.
Pull the Internet connection straight away.
Check the config: I've messed it up manually editing, and got the default no-match to ALLOW not REJECT!!!
Fix this in short order.
But in the meantime, my 2 Win Server 2008R2 boxen have been compromised, and were hammering the Internet themselves.
I've just finished restoring them from backups.
And mid-way through fixing them, I lost the Remote Desktop Connection to both of them.
This time, it was a gigabit switch that decided to give up.
All port lights jammed on solid, no blinken like normal.
Replaced the switch and finally got the servers back up, and we're done.
I'm going to have a glass of grog with my lunch now!
My advice is to clear all such shite from your mind, and get on a plane to the Southwest of the USA.
Works for me.
I upgraded the home server from jessie to stretch. Due diligence meant the mail system didn't break at all. :smug:
So naturally PHP dependency hell shat all over several semi-important legacy applications (ie. squirrelmail and phpmyadmin), and now I'm trying to do SQL lookups in asterisk extension language, because that seems marginally less painful than PHP and more likely to get the phones working before bedtime.
I hate computers.
I hate computers.
This means that rather than just linking them with a Cat 6 cable, you can link them over HDMI.
I imagine those switches are pretty power hungry - one of the reasons I'm running a single 'prosumer-esqe' switch at home - as much as I'd like stacked switches and LAG to all the servers, it's just not worth the energy cost. If I was away from home more often, I would probably dig into it, as well as running redundant firewalls and making all network services highly available (N.B. running on at least two servers)
I'm building a MIDI lighting controller. I did the prototyping with an Arduino Nano pushed into a breadboard kit and happily got the five faders and joystick working leaving one spare analogue channel.
Move on and create a smart aluminum panel with slots for the five faders and a hole for the joystick and then look at the Arduino controller that I will be using... It only has 6 analogue channels! BAH!!!!!1!!
(Note - I can't use the Nano as it doesn't allow re-programming the USB interface as a MIDI device)
24 hours and many Bad Swears later, laptop is trying to install Feature update to Windows 10 version 1709.
For the fourth time >:(
If Microsith wanted you to go fiddling under the bonnet they wouldn't split Stuffs between Control Panel and Settings (no-one has yet explained what the difference is). They won't really be happy until they've got it as bolted-down as an old-skool Mac. Frankly I'm surprised they still give us a command line interface.
Holding on to stuff "just in case" is the bane of my life. I just need to sell stuff when I stop using it, or give/throw it away if it's not worth selling.
I've got a PowerMac G5 Quad core machine here that hasn't been turned on for years. If I'd sold it when I stopped using it I'd have got £500+ for it. Now I'll be lucky to get half that. Bah.
[ 0.000000] Kernel/User page tables isolation: enabled
Holding on to stuff "just in case" is the bane of my life. I just need to sell stuff when I stop using it, or give/throw it away if it's not worth selling.
I've got a PowerMac G5 Quad core machine here that hasn't been turned on for years. If I'd sold it when I stopped using it I'd have got £500+ for it. Now I'll be lucky to get half that. Bah.
I've still got one of these
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/Portable_386.png/320px-Portable_386.png)
in my loft which, coincidentally I used to fettle some quiz buttons for a broadcast programme some 30 years ago. Just sayin'.
Made a lot of things say:Ditto. The first three of my 'problems' down tonight. And arguably they were the worst ones as I had to go full dist upgrade. ~17 to go.Code: [Select][ 0.000000] Kernel/User page tables isolation: enabled
Jan 5 23:16:50 brox kernel: [ 0.000000] Kernel/User page tables isolation: enabled
Didn't get to go to MiL so I fettled a virtual machine with raspbian and hacked a script I found on github. So now when you lot post something here I can see it on irc (#yacf on freenode).
Main thing was that someone on on #raspberrypi pointed me toward tmux. Yeah I know it is old as old things, but I did a search and found a easy to understand howto. I had tried some years ago but it went straight over my head.
Finally backed up a 2.3TB library. :o
**In an ideal world in which I could afford multiple static IPs on each internet connection, I'd run both firewalls redundantly
And to answer my own question pfsense does:
https://www.pfsense.org/
So, you used Flickr, and trusted Ya!hoo!! but you don't like Google. And you want stuff free. Fair enough, your choice, if slightly inconsistent.Who said I trusted them? I used them because Google was barely a twinkle in someone's eye when I set the Yahoo acct up and if they've been able to extract any value from the crap and generally misleading data I set up my Yahoo account with, getting on for 15 to 20 years ago, then jolly good luck to them. Oh yeah the Flickr acct, which was only 10 years old, was likewise an utter fabrication as far as personal details went.
Facebook?*Giggles*
So, you used Flickr, and trusted Ya!hoo!! but you don't like Google. And you want stuff free. Fair enough, your choice, if slightly inconsistent.Who said I trusted them? I used them because Google was barely a twinkle in someone's eye when I set the Yahoo acct up and if they've been able to extract any value from the crap and generally misleading data I set up my Yahoo account with, getting on for 15 to 20 years ago, then jolly good luck to them. Oh yeah the Flickr acct, which was only 10 years old, was likewise an utter fabrication as far as personal details went.
Now we've finished with the obligatory name-calling I'll repeat my request for a non-Google alternative to Flickr. And no it doesn't have to be free, but very, very cheap would be good.
.....or maybe smugmug for photos.
I'll repeat my request for a non-Google alternative to Flickr. And no it doesn't have to be free, but very, very cheap would be good.
Made my scanner work. Or not, as it appears to have some inbuilt SCIENCE that stops it from scanning banknotes.
Made my scanner work. Or not, as it appears to have some inbuilt SCIENCE that stops it from scanning banknotes.
Yes. Banknotes have something called the EURion constellation* – the scanner spots this super-secret stenography hidden on banknotes and gently spanks you for your tentative turpitudinous temerity.
Yes. Banknotes have something called the EURion constellation* – the scanner spots this super-secret stenography hidden on banknotes and gently spanks you for your tentative turpitudinous temerity.
ITYM steganography. It's like stenography, but with thagomizers.
I promised a picture of a five-dollar bill to anyone who could provide me with some chap's surname for entirely innocent purposes. My grate frend Al replied within two minutes so I wanted to send him a picture of a crumpled twenty from my wallet instead, but had to make do with a stock photo snarfed from Wikinaccurate chiz.
No, your reply wasn't blatant name-calling but it was at that level and completely irrelevant to the question that was asked.
> ... you are happy creating a fictitious Yahoo account...
It was created so long ago that there was no requirement to confirm that details entered were genuine. It's the only reason I maintain the account.
I guess we reached WiFi saturation. Coverage around the house has never been great here - which I can't really fathom because we life in a spit-'n-tissue-paper new-build box that only has solid outsides - the internals are mostly cardboard.
Think about where the router is located in your home. Probably in a corner, close to where the internet service enters your home. The problem is, that far flung corner is the worst location to place a router if you want fast Wi-Fi throughout the house. The farther you are from the router, the weaker the signal, which leads to dreaded dead zones and buffered videos.
I thought I'd look at what this "mesh" is all about...QuoteThink about where the router is located in your home. Probably in a corner, close to where the internet service enters your home. The problem is, that far flung corner is the worst location to place a router if you want fast Wi-Fi throughout the house. The farther you are from the router, the weaker the signal, which leads to dreaded dead zones and buffered videos.
Ah, thank you for asking, it's a Ubiquiti access point connected by wire to the virgin router and located under the stairs pretty much in the middle of our brick built victorian house at ground floor ceiling level. Don't think mesh is for us. The weak point is the SEEKRIT BUNKER at the bottom of the garden, served by a plug in repeater half way down (plugged in when needed). That would be good to improve if I could.
New video card arrived to replace b0rked one. Took far longer to unplug all the string under the desk than it did to install the thing once the PC had been retrieved from under the desk. Gigabyte's take on the Nvidia RTX 2070 which, AFAICT, consists mostly of fans. Further sub-desk grovelling later and it works! Except for even yet more sub-desk grovelling to reseat the keyboard cable, which is connected via a chunky PS/2-USB adapter because the PS/2 socket on the mofoboard either doesn't like the keyboard or just plain doesn't work.
Why don't you actually design it like an actual airport? So instead of connecting A to B, connect A to B, via GHFSERBNSJIUEYR and S. Don't forget there are bonus points for each escalator, and remember, the data must be slowed to go through an inescapable slalom of duty-free tat.
Just spent 2 hours trying to work out why the filestore and the Google Home had stopped working.
It all came down to a TV, which had been working fine for months on one IP address but had decided to change today, to the same as the filestore. The Google Home issue was a ??? one, but once I had cleared up the TV one it resolved itself.
Still am confused as to why this happened.
I amused myself by committing a total rookie mistake by deactivating a netwrk interface, whilst I was SSH'd in to it...
Just spent 2 hours trying to work out why the filestore and the Google Home had stopped working.
It all came down to a TV, which had been working fine for months on one IP address but had decided to change today, to the same as the filestore. The Google Home issue was a ??? one, but once I had cleared up the TV one it resolved itself.
Still am confused as to why this happened.
I amused myself by committing a total rookie mistake by deactivating a netwrk interface, whilst I was SSH'd in to it...
It shouldn't have happened.
How it the filestore IP assigned?
If the filestore is on a static IP, is that either reserved or excluded in the DHCP scope?
Put something solid in the lapdancer...
Installed an ssd with the old hd cloned on it onto this laptop. It seems to have JUST WORKED :o :thumbsup:
Put something solid in the lapdancer...
Installed an ssd with the old hd cloned on it onto this laptop. It seems to have JUST WORKED :o :thumbsup:
It's so quiet... shhh :P
:-\Put something solid in the lapdancer...
Installed an ssd with the old hd cloned on it onto this laptop. It seems to have JUST WORKED :o :thumbsup:
It's so quiet... shhh :P
Gah, spoke too soon. No sound :(
After its 6th unsuccessful attempt to boot Ubuntu, hauled MrsT's machine over to the workshop and blasted enough dust out of it to supply the Okie FX for Interstellar. Very glad I did it in the doorway with a fan behind me blowing out, and wore a complete face-mask.
Machine booted up like a wee angel afterwards.
I reckon that if folk invested £80 in an electric air compressor when they bought a computer and used it every 6 months, new-computer sales would drop like a stone.
Neighbours are still coughing.
Do let us know if it hatches...
Just started an upgrade from Ubuntu 14.04 to 16.04. There may be BAD SWEARSTM later.
That's because you kicked off the process early enough in the day.
Never attempt these things in the evening, if you want to go to bed.
Fettled timings for today's BHPC racing (http://www.bhpc.org.uk/Data/Sites/1/media/events/events19/04preston/index.html) without adult supervision. I appear not to have cocked it up.
Fettled timings for today's BHPC racing (http://www.bhpc.org.uk/Data/Sites/1/media/events/events19/04preston/index.html) without adult supervision. I appear not to have cocked it up.
You’re not Barney Harle. Barney's got a beard.
Windows upgrades don't like anything connected to USB at all.
found = re.compile(r'(\w*?)_?enabled\s*=\s*(\w+)')
Took the DVD drive out of my old PC to put into the new one. Then realised it uses an IDE connection, which the new PC doesn't have.
Not sure if it is really worth buying a new drive. Could get a DVD writer for £10, or Bluray for £50. But can't remember when I last needed a CD/DVD anyway.
There was a thirdly figuring out of where precisely the five million CD-Rs that I somehow one thought were a budget purchase had been dumped then the discarding of the ones that had turned a funny colour.
Anyway, it was about three hours work because they won't download the bloody things and double-click on them (why, who knows).
.
I have a bunch of old hard drives (10-15) from old computers that I need to go through, copy stuff off, and then bin[1]. That should be way less than 500GB in total, I'll also give my brother a login so he can rsync his backup over to mine.
1. Wiping them with DBAN, then writing "BITCOINS" on them with a Sharpei and then teasingly throwing them into the computer parts bin at the recycling depot. Or is there a better recycling method
Nvidia are notoriously crap at releasing good Linux drivers or enough info for other people to write good drivers. Shame really as they are good graphics cards.
I need to install Windows 10 on the computer upstairs because Windows 7 is out of support. I have put this off because I use Windows 10 at work and it sucks arse (although not so much as Office 365, which sucks goats' knobs in hell).
I use Linux on the laptop but I need Windows to update a couple of devices, like my Garmin.
Dug out an old Hi-Grade W7 Pro 64-bit PC that I’d bought used a long time ago, as I now have a potential use for it.
It consistently crashes midway through loading Windows, repeated applications of Windows Startup Repair would get it booting for a while, then the crashing started again.
A check of the RAM and disk didn’t reveal any errors, so a Windows reinstall is called for, but having been bought used, no installation DVD.
Found a source on eBay, but before ordering it I wanted to satisfy myself that it could run Windows OK, so I hunted around my library of installation CDs and found an old copy of W2K(!) Workstation. That installed OK (apart from a predictable lack of drivers for some of my hardware), so W7 Pro DVD duly ordered.
As the intended use is as a web server, I splashed out on an upgrade from the current 2Gb to 8Gb (second-hand DIMMs, obviously!).
Fingers crossed that when the bits arrive later in the week all will be well.
I breath a heavy sigh. I have had two SSDs on a shelf for a long time waiting for me to rebuild the boot disk onto redundant software RAID (MDADM). Looks like I didn't get around to it in time.Which version of Linux are you using? I couldn't find a way to get Mint to boot off RAID so I'm currently using a small non-raid boot partition with RAID1 for the bulk. I'm not happy with that so I've bought an Adaptec 6405 hardware raid controller off ebay. T'was only £15 though that doubles once you add a genuine Adaptec cable plus a few quid more for the generic SFF-8087 to SATA cable that doesn't work.
Which version of Linux are you using? I couldn't find a way to get Mint to boot off RAIDgrub2 supports both lvm and software raid1; I'm booting Debian stable that way (lvm on md raid1) but I would expect any relatively recent Linux to work. I have a md raid1 array built from gpt partitions, on the raid1 I have lvm, and then I have lvm partitions for / and /home (I don't use a separate /boot). One complication is that I'm using uefi and things didn't work if the /boot/efi partition was on raid, so I have a small efi partition on each of my raid1 disks but only one is mounted on boot.
[One complication is that I'm using uefi and things didn't work if the /boot/efi partition was on raid, so I have a small efi partition on each of my raid1 disks but only one is mounted on boot.To clarify, this restriction exists because the efi partition is accessed by the motherboard firmware and the firmware doesn't understand linux filesystems, that's why the efi partition contains a vfat filesystem. The firmware loads grub from the efi partition, then grub boots linux from software raid.
At this point I discover that Disk Director 12.5 cannot clone GPT partitioned disks.
I was very disappointed I think I used a system with GPT over ten years ago. It is now the default with all modern UEFI bios systems.
At this point I discover that Disk Director 12.5 cannot clone GPT partitioned disks.
I was very disappointed I think I used a system with GPT over ten years ago. It is now the default with all modern UEFI bios systems.
Macrium Reflect (https://www.macrium.com/reflectfree) can, even the free version.
I used TrueImage Echo for years, but I had progressively more problems with Acronnis software, and gave up on them and use Macrium Reflect now.
Dave
Ordered a Raspberry Pi 4 (4GB version).
Daughter has a Pi 3 (1GB) at the moment and Kano (the OS) has moved on and many bits are a bit slow due to bumping up against the available memory, 4GB (and the improved processor) should make it fly for Scratch and Minecraft.
The only grumble is there's no on screen display manager for linux. Trying to do PIP using the buttons is tedious to the point of giving up. It's not ViewSonic to blame - there's no support for hdmi-cec or DisplayPort aux channel in the NVidia drivers nor in nouveau.
Started on the last machine in project get-off-windows, my mail server
My mail server is better at not losing mail than Plusnet, better at not hiding things than Google, has effectively unlimited storage and is faster than my internet connection. Given that it's a toss up between hosting it locally or paying for an equivalent service elsewhere, I consider it the path of least resistance. Of course, there isn't any Windows involved, which helps.
My mail server is better at not losing mail than Plusnet, better at not hiding things than Google, has effectively unlimited storage and is faster than my internet connection. Given that it's a toss up between hosting it locally or paying for an equivalent service elsewhere, I consider it the path of least resistance. Of course, there isn't any Windows involved, which helps.
Given so many people use google for their email Google probably gets to read half of your email anyway.
When I ran my own mail server at home I did have an MX secondary elsewhere with a 2 week queue
I had to pay for that of course
Yes, I out-source the spam filtering in hMailServer to various 3-rd party services.
But I can instantly white-list any false positives at my whim.
Yes, I out-source the spam filtering in hMailServer to various 3-rd party services.
But I can instantly white-list any false positives at my whim.
....almost as quick as adding an email address to contacts :demon:
I do understand how some would prefer not to use Google, but I'd suggest that control over spam shouldn't be one of the reasons.
Completed changing out all the 'wrong' colour patch leads in the network, different colour per VLAN. OCD tendencies satiated for now.
| Purple | Blue | Green | Yellow | Orange | Red | Brown |
| trunk | LAN | Manglement | CCTV | DMZ | WAN | RIPE Atlas |
Took a Mac Mini and upgraded it to Yosemite then on to Mile High Stadium, or some such (can you tell that the OSX naming convention means nothing to me?).
Took a Mac Mini and upgraded it to Yosemite then on to Mile High Stadium, or some such (can you tell that the OSX naming convention means nothing to me?).
Things in California (Santa Catalina is an island off the coast, near LA, quite a pleasant day trip). The next release is, however, 'Fresno Crack House.'
MrsT: My printer won't switch on. So I dive in under her desk and find that the surge arrestor she's plugged it into isn't itself plugged into anything. Cable rationalisation & dust-induced hay-fever ensue.
Babbage-Engine then takes umbrage. Connects and disconnects disk every three seconds.
Babbage-Engine then takes umbrage. Connects and disconnects disk every three seconds.
Not enough power being delivered by that USB port.
just wrote a script in python to update various software controlled infrastructure doohickeys
- I haven't written any python for months and kept having to look everything up
- It has 70 lines of code and 35 of tests
- fixing pep8 took ages, it seems that xcode doesn't do it as you go. Yes, I have autopep8
- You can tell I was for many years a perl programmer, check out this linefound = re.compile(r'(\w*?)_?enabled\s*=\s*(\w+)')
Ethernet cables don't go off, do they?
Ethernet cables don't go off, do they?
Depends on how much wood you've filed from the underside of the landlord's shonky doors...
A bit of ping -f while frobbing the door might be prudent...
Have you considered wifi, Señor Larrers?
A bit of ping -f while frobbing the door might be prudent...
A cursory pinging of NAS devices in both locations shews “time<1ms”. Not very helpful :P
Ethernet cables don't go off, do they?The demise of one here was assisted by meece. Unfortunately, I wasn't using PoE wound up to eleven and the perpetrators got away.
A bit of ping -f while frobbing the door might be prudent...
A cursory pinging of NAS devices in both locations shews “time<1ms”. Not very helpful :P
That's where the -f comes in. Spews packets as fast as unreasonably possible, prints a '.' for each packet sent and a backspace for each packet received. If your terminal starts filling up with dots, you know something's leaking.
This is particularly helpful as the output can be squinted at from across the room while wiggling wires.
lots. I do some IT work at a Uni. Comedy gold at times. Currently replacing the covid ridden kybds of yesteryear with new ones covered in a plastic film (so they can be wiped) before those get replaced with medical grade kybds at £100 each and mice at a similar price. Pre covid,nobody cared about those kybds. Full of skin,bogeys, food etc. Now it's a frenzy. prob 2000 upwards being replaced. So 2000+ @100 pound plus o/t at time and a half or double for those who want it. Lots of these machines are locked down incl the peripherals so prob 5 mins at least per machine to unlock/replace/lock. Macs have a slightly different kybd layout but we havent bought Apple specific kybds so people are having issues with eg @ which is in a different place.You can remap the keyboard- have a Microsoft (Windows layout) keyboard on my 2006 Mac Pro, works fine.
Spent much of the day reading up on VLANs and eventually came to the conclusion that the method I was attempting to apply to segregate my switch & router from other stuff was not going to work. The only way is a separate management VLAN. That meant an additional NIC in my desktop (the management device). As my finger hovered over the Amazon order button on a £9 TP-Link I thought maybe I should spend a bit more on a server NIC that would be VLAN capable....
That led to a thought, could the NICs on my ancient Gigabyte mobo possibly be 802.1q capable?
inxi -Fxz told me the manufacturer and series (3 possibilities) for the driver.
Realtek.com told me the current offerings of all 3 series support 802.1q.
Grabbed the spare mobo off the shelf which told me the exact part including the generation.
Some cruddy spec PDF regurgitation website told me that yes, that generation of part is indeed VLAN capable.
Quick scan of a couple of Linux VLAN how-to sites and Robert's your mothers brother. Dead easy. Why did I faff down a blind alley so long?
You could always have the switch tag untagged packets on the way into the port the computer is plugged into. The setting for this is usually pvid or Primary vLAN Id.That was Plan A. Office VLAN & Management VLAN were within the same subnet and the ports tagged & pvid appropriately. The desktop port was tagged for both VLANs but but there can be only one pvid and whichever pvid I set that's the VLAN the desktop could see. I was hoping having it tagged for both would magically make it work for both.
Or, you could setup a vLAN interface on top of your existing interface, and add the appropriate route so that your management PC can talk to both the default vLAN and the management vLAN at the same time.I didn't need to manually set any routing. Office & Management are now on separate subnets. The desktop switch port is still tagged for both and has the office PVID so those packets are untagged between switch & desktop. The management VLAN is added in the desktop config with the Office NIC as parent. I have an urge to make the Office traffic tagged too and assign no IP to the parent NIC but I can't think of any reason, other than neatness/OCD, to go to that extra effort.
ntopng package onto pfSense. Once you get over how largely useless the default view is, it's not half bad. Drives up CPU utilisation on the Firewall somewhat though - I reduced the number of interfaces it was monitoring and turned off some features. That has tempered it somewhat. The community edition is somewhat neutered - does give a useful view of what is going on in realtime, which is fine if you have a problem right now. And although there are some historic stats, there is not nearly enough historic information without paying for a licensed version. Which I am sorely tempted to do - the Raspberry Pi Pro license is 50 EUR. But as nice as it is to see what hosts on the Internet machines on my network are talking to, it is not needed and I'll probably remove it from the Firewall in a few days.Got a USB powerbank that allows through charging?
It also appears to be borking my PowerLine kit. It uses powerline comms to communicate with the microinverters and separate 1901 systems are supposed to co exist. The evidence suggests they don't. Worst case I'll have to move the solar kit to a separate consumer unit and fit chokes to keep it out of the main board which would be a right PITA.I was wrong, the controller to microinverter traffic is not ISO1901, its a much lower frequency band. Also, further testing reveals comms to Mrs Tween's barn (on the Iso1901 powerline devices) is perfectly adept at falling on it's arse with the solar kit all off. Next theory, it's the power saving in the powerline adapters switching 'em off. They only wake up in response to whiffy traffic of which there's none when the link is down, the remote end pi is polled only other than it's midnight backup job. I now have a 10s interval ping running, lets see how long that lasts.
Fun day of eBGP combined with tracing packets in and out of dual datacentre VXLAN EVPN fabrics.
Surprisingly after all the crap that's gone on with this job over the last few weeks it all worked exactly as it should.
I guess there is more to these connectors than I realised.
I guess there is more to these connectors than I realised.
It's an entire video card in a dongle, isn't it?
I guess there is more to these connectors than I realised.
It's an entire video card in a dongle, isn't it?
video card is probably the issue. Maybe if I had bought the Maplin version (https://www.maplin.co.uk/maplin-lightning-to-hdmi-digital-av-adapter-inc-lightning-power-port-5026686002218) it'd have worked.
I also tried hooking up the tennis (Amazon Prime) to the monitor with a 2018 firestick for Mrs A and it worked ok but when I ditched the firestick for a laptop the picture was a lot clearer. The monitor has fast response and refresh rates so is good for things like tennis.
Chipset specifications[edit]
The Allwinner SoC family includes A-series, which is intended for Android OS, and F-series, which is intended for the company's self-developed Melis operating system.
The A-Series, including the A10, A20 and A31 SoCs, have a proprietary in-house designed multimedia co-processing DSP (Digital Signal Processing) processor technology for hardware accelerated video, image, and audio decoding, called CedarX (with subprocessing called "CedarV" for video decoding and "CedarA" for audio decoding), able to decode 2160p 2D and 1080p 3D video. The main disadvantages with CedarX technology and associated libraries is that Allwinner's own CedarX proprietary libraries have no clear usage license, so even if the source code for some versions is available the terms-of-use is unknown in open source software, and there is no glue code for any other multimedia frameworks on GNU/Linux systems that could be used as a middle-ware, like for example OpenMAX or VAAPI.
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Allwinner has also been accused of including a backdoor in its published version of the Linux kernel.[71][72] The backdoor allows any installed app to have full root access to the system. While this may be a remnant of debugging during the development process, it presents a significant security risk to all devices using the Allwinner provided kernel.
A Quad. Ooh, nice. Quite a beast in its day, as short as that was, being the last hurrah of the PowerPC line. Still got its replacement (2.66 quad Mac Pro 1,1) here.
* Sell Quad Core PowerMac G5 on eBay
A Quad. Ooh, nice. Quite a beast in its day, as short as that was, being the last hurrah of the PowerPC line. Still got its replacement (2.66 quad Mac Pro 1,1) here.
* Sell Quad Core PowerMac G5 on eBay
Been running Zwift off the iPad and thinking a bigger picture would be nice I bought a connector off ebay. Apple were selling them for £49.99 which seemed expensive for a simple(?) interconnect and there are dozens of cheapos on ebay.
Of course I could not get it to work and contacted the seller. Following their advice (including an Apple video link) I could only get the ebay one to work once after much jiggery-pokery. After that the monitor refused to talk to it. Totally. Then I found ebay had withdrawn the item and I can't even leave feedback! I await their refund with low expectations.
Now I have bought the Apple version. No prizes for guessing which:
(https://i.ibb.co/vdsNhPV/P1020117.jpg)
The Apple one works straight out of the carefully sealed box with a lovely picture albeit slightly wrong aspect ratio at the moment. I guess there is more to these connectors than I realised.
I wanted a small form factor PC with dual digital display outputs to drive a pair of monitors displaying status information, when I'm working.
I wanted a small form factor PC with dual digital display outputs to drive a pair of monitors displaying status information, when I'm working.
I would have spent £60 or so for a Raspberry Pi 4 with 8GB RAM that can drive dual 4K displays.
I wanted a small form factor PC with dual digital display outputs to drive a pair of monitors displaying status information, when I'm working.
I would have spent £60 or so for a Raspberry Pi 4 with 8GB RAM that can drive dual 4K displays.
I honestly don't think a Pi will cut it. One page renders about 16 graphs/charts which are constantly refreshed. The other shows the current status of the development pipeline from a web application that serves as a test bed for front end developers. So that means it opens a web socket and pulls down jigglebytes of data before deciding what to render, and then renders it with lots of animation. (It is that bad we're now trialling live streaming it to reduce VPN bandwidth utilisation).
Put together the new budget silent PC ...
Put together the new budget silent PC ...
OOI, what's the spec?
Fun with BGP and MPLS L3VPN today in my home lab.
All working.
Now I have to attach some Cisco FTD firewalls to it and model failover times across the whole setup.
Re-imaging the 5 SD cards that are used in my Raspberry PI K8s cluster, as I am switching to K3s (k8s too heavyweight for what I want to do and for Pi 3)
Following on from the disastrous upgrade to pfSense 2.5.0 (https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=80478.msg2595594#msg2595594), I have performed a fresh install using ZFS as the filesystem, restored the configuration from backup (which went flawlessly, hurrah!) and created snapshots of the working system.
At least if another upgrade goes wrong I should be able to roll back the changes next time.
After a great deal of faffing about Professor Larrington and I have managed to persuade Lt. Col. Larrington (retd.)'s Mega-Global Big River Corporation of Seattle, USAnia dimwitted Alexa thing to start talking to the Internets again.
After a great deal of faffing about Professor Larrington and I have managed to persuade Lt. Col. Larrington (retd.)'s Mega-Global Big River Corporation of Seattle, USAnia dimwitted Alexa thing to start talking to the Internets again.
Are you sure that's wise? As opposed to, say, burying it in concrete...
Trying to get Logitech Media Server to see what's attached to a USB port on the router. The router thinks it's G:\ drive. I can navigate to it using Windows Extorter (This PC\Archer_VR900\Browse Folders\sda\Music) and play FLACs with VLC.
Other than that I'm a bit stuck :(
Has it ever worked?
Could be SMB version hell.
I haven't backed-up any data on my desktop or laptop. I am thinking of buying a couple of SSDsA few months ago we replaced the house desktop, because the old one had become painfully slow & occasionally froze. I told Mrs B that it might be fixable, but she insisted on a new one, so we got something with a shiny new NVMe SSD, & she was happy. Impressively fast starting up, loading software & closing down.
for the job. Would backing up the (windows 10) operating system to the external drives be as easy
as doing it for other files on the machines?
I haven't backed-up any data on my desktop or laptop. I am thinking of buying a couple of SSDs
for the job. Would backing up the (windows 10) operating system to the external drives be as easy
as doing it for other files on the machines?
I haven't backed-up any data on my desktop or laptop. I am thinking of buying a couple of SSDs
for the job. Would backing up the (windows 10) operating system to the external drives be as easy
as doing it for other files on the machines?
Can recommend buying a backup solution that does automatic incremental backups of the whole system (OS and data) to a local SDD, so you never lose any data (should the PC ever kick the proverbial)...
Take your pick from StorageCraft, Actify, Acronis etc. All are more or less good these days.
Or, if you are on Mac, just use Time Machine...
The battery in my phone no longer lasts a day, but other than that, it's still fine (it was top of the range 3 years ago). Samsung service centre initially said they could change the battery for me, but ultimately couldn't, as mine is a Hong Kong model, and has a different battery SKU number. So after watching a lot of videos in youtube I decided to take the risk and change the battery myself.I sent my iMac to the guys that provide cover for the office computers when it needed a new HDD. Cue an email asking if I had ever noticed a crack in the screen. No, I replied. Totally honest, never been damaged, sent to them in original apple packaging.
Essentially all modern phones are kept water tight by hot melt glue, you have to heat the back of your phone with a hairdryer, and then try get a little sliver open, and then get a paper thin piece of plastic in the crack to slice through the glue, and ball it up, and the glass back should lift off.
Took me a couple of hours, and in the spirit of fix it until it's broken, I cracked the glass back when I was a bit impatient. However the new battery is in, and I've got a few more days of battery testing before the new glass back arrives and I reseal it all.
Anyway, I've now modified the code so that the watchdog (an actual 555 timer, because AVRs are rubbish) resets it if there isn't an HTTP request for a few minutes. And swapped the Arduino board for another one in case (as I suspect) this is actually due to hardware gremlins[1]. If that doesn't work, it's getting retired in favour of an ESP32.
It’s only 67,412 tracks…How many years to listen to them all? ;D
I'm just hoping that I'm not going to seriously regret owning a graphics card with fans on it. I got stung by that back in the TNT2 era, and have made a point of seeking out passively cooled cards ever since. At least these ones are quiet.BTDT, almost identical history wise:
The circuit board is flexible, and it also forms the ribbon cable. There are backlights in there somewhere. It can’t be tested without taking the computer to bits. It’s all stuck together with sticky backed plastic. I can’t even work out how to get the visible bits of the keys off non-destructively.Well the new keyboard arrived today and is fitted, and working, so I can write this without extraordinary measures. I defeated the DRM on the new keyboard by ignoring the instruction "Contains technical equipment to be installed only by qualified service engineer. Not for consumer installation".
£25 for a new one seems the least painful solution.
like who bothers having a printer at home nowadays?[...]
- Selected pages from device datasheets when mucking about with electronics. I should really get round to sorting out a cable and sone kind of bodged VESA mount so I can connect an additional monitor in a suitable position to my computer for this sort of thing.
I can at least test the theory with the USB input on the DAC which is in the HiFi rack.
Yahoo?
Fettled any computer stuff today?
Can you cancel the £2 a month toner subscription as that sounds expensive. Our laserjet toners were ~20 and I don't think we use one in a year.