December 2014 - luv-main

Re: The most awesome personal organiser ever
by Peter Ross 09 Dec '14

09 Dec '14

From: "Scott Junner" <scott.junner(a)gmail.com> > Yeah. I started writing it because I realise I could wait for ever for > someone else to build me the thing I want and make it work the way I want > it to work. Good luck! Let me know how you are faring. I am interested. BTW: Owncloud is interesting, as the central storage of files. And then a database.. A lot of stuff comes per e-mail. But I have a problem to link it in a database because it is lacking a URL, a unique ID and a way to access it via web browser. (E.g. "Project organizer, e-mail by Scott Junner -> read original e-mail") Well, there may be a way to fetch all your e-mail and store it in the database. But it seems to be so "disconnected" to the reading of e-mails (which can be everywhere, of course) so it feels rather clumsy. Any ideas to solve this in a elegant way? (reminder to myself.. may be solved in document management systems.. looking for ideas there) Regards Peter

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Re: The most awesome personal organiser ever
by Peter Ross 09 Dec '14

09 Dec '14

From: "Scott Junner" <scott.junner(a)gmail.com> > I'm looking for suggestions, if you have them. > > I want a personal organiser that is organised. Go figure. Let me try;-) Maybe you write it. I do not have the time - partially thanks to the lack of the personal organizer;-) BTW: I spend a morning walking (without thinking of documenting, photographing etc.) and writing mail on paper. It really feels healthier than all of the electronic gadgets which are stealing hours craving for attention. I am more and more in favour of "single purpose machines." If I want a phone I use a phone. If I want to read I read a book. If I want to work or doing more complicated things I use a computer. The best organizer seems to be notebook. A6 so it fits in my trousers. What's missing is a "grep" and a "sort". And a one click action on my mailreader, browser etc. to "send" it to the notebook. So maybe you can build this one for me;-) But in absence of it, what about a web app containing this? If you put it in the cloud you have it everywhere as long as you have a computer. So, what's needed? 1. A database 2. An easy way to insert events 3. A URL for every reference 4. A tagging system 5. A search engine 6. A slick presentation A lot of bits and pieces exists. Maybe it just needs some assembly work to get it done. Or it already exists? BTW: This all screams for a standardized object-oriented base system and GUI so you can add an "organizer dialogue", "open" and 'search" action to every object you want to reference.. I am definitely not up to scratch in all areas so I wonder what people can contribute in a "brain storming" session. Regards Peter

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Re: PCIe SATA controller
by Tim Hamilton 08 Dec '14

08 Dec '14

> > Date: Sat, 06 Dec 2014 12:21:23 +1100 > From: Rohan McLeod <rhn(a)jeack.com.au> > To: LUV Main <luv-main(a)luv.asn.au> > Subject: Re: PCIe SATA controller > Message-ID: <54825A13.3040101(a)jeack.com.au> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > Tim Hamilton wrote: > > > > [1] http://www.pccasegear.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=210_385 > > > I notice all these controllers are SATA III. > When I was struggling to understand why my new 4TB > HGST_HDN7240_40ALE_640 SATA III HD ; > couldn't seem to deliver a much higher data transfer rate on SATA III > than on SATA II.; > one comment which was illuminating to me was; > " there is no such thing as a SATA III rotating hard-drive" > which I took to mean as : > ' there is no rotating harddrive; whose heads can transfer data on/off > the disk; > at anything like 6Gb/s ~ 600GB/s' (SATA III max)'. > in contrast to say a SATA III SSD, where this is quite possible ! > Apologies if this is merely repeating old news ! > > regards Rohan McLeod > Indeed, I was using new cards as a reference point to begin trying to understand what was available. That said, I don't see an abundance of new or used SATA II cards available on places like eBay either.

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Suggestions for holiday gift ideas?
by Andrew Pam 08 Dec '14

08 Dec '14

Does anyone have any suggestions for things that you have seen and coveted that would be worth mentioning in my talk on holiday gifts for Linux lovers tonight? Hope to see you there, Andrew

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free E4600 system with broken PSU
by Russell Coker 07 Dec '14

07 Dec '14

I've got a NEC mini-tower system with a E4600 CPU that is free for anyone who has a PSU. I'll bring it to the January meeting if anyone wants it then and I could probably arrange delivery in the CBD if that helps. Otherwise it's e-waste. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/

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gnome remote access
by James Harper 06 Dec '14

06 Dec '14

I'm testing out a few possibilities for getting 3d games working on thin clients, using the likes of virtualgl. But I can't even get basic XDMCP or VNC working... VNC (via xrdp) says "Oh no! Something has gone wrong", which I think is a gnome message XDMCP keeps giving me obscure messages about needing to authenticate to get a color managed device, and then crashes (gdm on the console too). And then I'm left with heaps of gdm-session-worker processes running... And auth.log and syslog are so full of cryptic error messages that I don't quite know where to start - past experience says that a bunch of error message under gnome are probably normal so I don't know which are important and which are just noise. I'm using Debian Jessie, so obviously some bugs are to be expected... but is anyone using XDMCP with gnome successfully? Thanks James

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debian dummy package
by James Harper 06 Dec '14

06 Dec '14

I am running Debian Jessie and want to install the latest Zabbix server package. It is packaged in zabbix's own repository, as Debian doesn't yet package the latest version. Because the Zabbix provided package is built against Wheezy, it depends on libsnmp15, which isn't available in Jessie. I used equivs to build a dummy package, but libsnmp30 is flagged as breaking libsnmp15, so my dummy package won't install. Any suggestions on how I can get around this, without building from source? I'm hoping I could put some flags in my dummy libsnmp15 package that would allow it to install despite the flags in libsnmp30 that say it can't. I'm reluctant to use override flags for installing because they just come back and bite later on. Thanks James

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A really good speaker set for your Linux HIFI
by zlinw＠mcmedia.com.au 06 Dec '14

06 Dec '14

Now being a glutton for punishment, I once again put my head in the lions mouth... I post this as it may be helpfull, good speakers at a reasonable price being a ____very____ rare species. Now I like a good sounding sound system while I would not call myself a HIFI fanatic. I did ___very___ early on (early 1980's) purchase a top end system. The AMP was and is a Pioneer A88X, still regarded as agood amp. THe speakers though are Magnaplanar MG2A's regarded to this day as amongst the best speakers ever made. Now I have always been looking for something that sounds at least something like the MG2A's, but at a fraction of the price for my PC system. THe other day I recieved delivery of a pair of Microlab Solo 9c amplified speakers. These are big PC speakers being 575mm high by a round 200 wide and 323 deep. The sound though really is good, good tight (not drummy) base and real clear sound imaging. Playing tunes like The cat empire, steal the light and the Skyrim by Pter Hollens and Lindsay Stirling was really soemthing. Now these speakers are __better__ definitely clearer (in my opinion) than Maudio's AV40 or even the BX5a's (both of which I have) but they are only $199 from PCcase gears, a ridiculosly low price for such good speakers. While they are big they go well either side of my 30" 2560x1600 monitor. Speakers highly recommended, do not let the low price fool you, Lindsay

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Hetzner servers for ZFS storage
by Russell Coker 04 Dec '14

04 Dec '14

http://www.hetzner.de/en/hosting/produktmatrix/rootserver-produktmatrix-px I'm looking at migrating an Internet service to the new Hetzner servers. It has to be servers with ECC RAM (the above link contains all suitable options) and is for running ZFS. The storage requirement at the moment is about 1.2TB, it's currently spread across 4 servers (2 with ZFS RAID-1 and 2 with Ext4/LVM/Linux software RAID-1). Performance is OK with the current setup but not always great. Obviously if I ordered 4*PX60 servers I would get OK performance. The old servers each have 16G of RAM and as 70% of disk IO is reads the extra RAM for cache should make disk performance good enough. One possibility I'm considering is getting 2*PX70-SSD or 2*PX90-SSD and adding 2*2TB disks to each to run ZFS with ZIL and L2ARC. Has anyone had some experience with ZIL and L2ARC on Linux? What things should I be investigating in this regard? Another possibility is to use 2*PX70-SSD and add an extra 2*480G SSDs to each so I get 1.5T of RAID-Z storage on each server. Any suggestions? -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/

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MySQL table crash
by Russell Coker 02 Dec '14

02 Dec '14

After a reboot of the LUV server to upgrade the kernel I got the following messages. I just ran "repair table" commands on all of them. Is this something to be concerned about? Dec 2 14:51:32 itmustbe mysqld: 141202 14:51:32 [ERROR] /usr/sbin/mysqld: Table './wikimaus_officialwikidb/pagelinks' is marked as crashed and should be repaired Dec 2 14:51:32 itmustbe mysqld: 141202 14:51:32 [Warning] Checking table: './wikimaus_officialwikidb/pagelinks' Dec 2 14:51:32 itmustbe mysqld: 141202 14:51:32 [ERROR] /usr/sbin/mysqld: Table './wikimaus_officialwikidb/searchindex' is marked as crashed and should be repaired Dec 2 14:51:32 itmustbe mysqld: 141202 14:51:32 [Warning] Checking table: './wikimaus_officialwikidb/searchindex' Dec 2 14:51:32 itmustbe mysqld: 141202 14:51:32 [ERROR] /usr/sbin/mysqld: Table './wikimaus_officialwikidb/site_stats' is marked as crashed and should be repaired Dec 2 14:51:32 itmustbe mysqld: 141202 14:51:32 [Warning] Checking table: './wikimaus_officialwikidb/site_stats' Dec 2 14:51:32 itmustbe mysqld: 141202 14:51:32 [ERROR] /usr/sbin/mysqld: Table './wikimaus_officialwikidb/user' is marked as crashed and should be repaired Dec 2 14:51:32 itmustbe mysqld: 141202 14:51:32 [Warning] Checking table: './wikimaus_officialwikidb/user' Dec 2 14:51:32 itmustbe mysqld: 141202 14:51:32 [ERROR] /usr/sbin/mysqld: Table './wikimaus_officialwikidb/watchlist' is marked as crashed and should be repaired Dec 2 14:51:32 itmustbe mysqld: 141202 14:51:32 [Warning] Checking table: './wikimaus_officialwikidb/watchlist' -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/

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