Is there a good app for displaying 3G signal levels on Android? When signal is poor my Note3 displays a circle with cross symbol where the signal bars usually are while still allowing 3G to work. In that situation I'd like to have a good measure of signal strength (preferably better than a 1-5 rating) so I can find the best location available.
Any suggestions?
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Just a curiousity... I'm nc-ing a disk image from a laptop, like:
gzip </dev/sda | nc target 4242
and on the target computer:
nc -l -p 4242 | gunzip | dd bs=4k conv=sparse of=laptop-xp.img
and on the target computer I am also impatiently doing:
du -sk --apparent-size laptop-xp.img && du -sk laptop-xp.img
and the output is a bit strange. The two values obviously differ a bit, and I'd expect them to differ more once it hits the empty part of the disk, but I'm getting outputs like:
# du -sk --apparent-size laptop-xp.img && du -sk laptop-xp.img
834016 laptop-xp.img
831992 laptop-xp.img
# du -sk --apparent-size laptop-xp.img && du -sk laptop-xp.img
841088 laptop-xp.img
672500 laptop-xp.img
# du -sk --apparent-size laptop-xp.img && du -sk laptop-xp.img
844224 laptop-xp.img
752876 laptop-xp.img
# du -sk --apparent-size laptop-xp.img && du -sk laptop-xp.img
851168 laptop-xp.img
849144 laptop-xp.img
# du -sk --apparent-size laptop-xp.img && du -sk laptop-xp.img
855200 laptop-xp.img
853176 laptop-xp.img
The size reported by du actually goes down periodically then up again.
What's with that? The filesystem is btrfs but I don't know that that's anything to do with it.
Just curious...
James
Dear Linux users,
I recently bought, from Harvey Norman, for around $390, an Acer Aspire
XC-603 desktop computer. It was pre-installed with "Windows 8.1 with Bing".
I was going to repartition the hard disk drive in order to make the
computer a dual boot Linux/Windows computer.
To do this, of course, I needed to boot off the Linux DVD (or Gparted).
However, I was not able to force the computer to boot off the DVD drive.
In the past it was possible to do this by pressing either Esc key or the F2
key during the boot-up process. However, nothing I did during the boot-up
of this computer prevented the computer from booting Windows 8.1 off the
hard drive.
Can anyone tell me if it is possible to boot off the DVD and, if so, how to
do it?
Thanks in anticipation,
James Sinnamon
It seems that I can get msata ssd card these days, and a dual or quad pcie msata card (msata card mounts on the pcie card), and save myself a bunch of existing sata ports and other server real estate.
I have a server that doesn't have a lot of disk bays and I want to start using bcache again, but not with just a single ssd (want to do writeback so need raid1), so this seems like a reasonable option.
Are there any better options for a similar price?
Thanks
James
What's a good cgi-bin formmail script?
I want to do basic sending of email with the option of adding extra parameters
(IE having a drop-down or check-box on the web page). Also I want to specify
the recipient in the script or a configuration file (not like some of those
older script that made your web site into a spam bot).
Finally it would be really good if it didn't require any special Perl modules
etc, or at least nothing aprt from the modules that are packaged for Debian.
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2014-12-11 13:26 GMT+01:00 James Sinnamon <james.sinnamon(a)gmail.com>:
> I thought I had changed the boot order so that the first boot device is the
> DVD.
> However, it will still only boot Windows 8.1 off the hard disk drive.
As I was afraid of: the secure boot!
>
> At the moment, I am allowing Windows to boot and install, but have first
> disconnected the computer from the network. (If it won't install Windows
> off-line, then i consider that a warranty issue.)
I'm afraid I don't get the point (relationship between off-line
install and warranty).
However the key is disabling secure boot protection. If you google it,
you'll probably find lots of information and guides to do it, likely
related to your specific model (and linux distribution).
My advice was just a sketch.
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2014-12-11 12:33 GMT+01:00 James Sinnamon <james.sinnamon(a)gmail.com>:
>>
>> Basically, to have dual boot machine, the procedure should be:
>> 1. disable secure boot
>> 2. re-install windows
>> 3. install your linux distribution
>
> Hope I can avoid having to reinstall Windows 8.1 . It's not on a separate DVD.
I hope too, for you!
>
> However, I do have my own Microsoft Win Pro 7 that I think I was given during a single University C# programming unit I studied in 2011.
May be a solution. Anyway try the keys you have found before. Maybe
the secure boot was already disabled at the time original windows copy
was installed.
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I'm in need of a PCIe SATA controller that works well under linux and
supports BTRFS / ZFS raid arrays to be used in a home NAS I'm building and
am no sure what I'm looking for.
>From what I can see, Astrotek have a reasonably priced ($32) CPES6 and
Highpoint make a more expensive Rocket R640L ($99).[1]
Aside from the obvious number of ports, is anyone able to tell me the
difference between these two cards, or recommend an alternative that's
known to work under linux.
My current need is only for a single additional SATA port but my preference
is for a card that will support future expansion, I'm just not sure 2 more
ports are worth the almost 3 fold price differential.
Tim
[1] http://www.pccasegear.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=210_385
I'm looking for suggestions, if you have them.
I want a personal organiser that is organised. Go figure.
The problem it seems is that thus far we have viewed personal organisation
in parts. An application for tasks. An application for a calendar. An
application for contacts. Perhaps an application for projects. All of these
for iPoofs, another set for Windows, another set for penguins. Blah Blah
Blah
But this seems to suggest that my calendar exists separately from my tasks
separate from my projects separate from my contacts. But all of it is
intertwined all the time. It's at work, at home, on vacation, stationary,
moving, eating, sleeping, humping. It's all interconnected.
So I may have to write this one myself. But I'd prefer not to if anyone
knows of it's existence or at least close to it.
I want a personal organiser that interconnects all parts of personal
organisation across all platforms. All of them! I want the same application
to work on my linux desktop, windows desktop, apple laptop, android phone.
And my fax machine god damn it.
And I want it all Nimbostratus. Full cloud coverage. I type something into
my desktop and it immediately syncs across everything. And if the cloud
evaporates, I can still sync the devices by taking the phone and plugging
it into my computer etc etc.
And I want my contacts, notes, tasks, calendar, events, projects all
interconnected and cross referenced with the ability to link to bloody
anything else.
Does this already exist? Or do I have to write the damn thing?
Stay Frosty
Scott