March 2016 - luv-main

An email problem
by zlinw＠mcmedia.com.au 20 Mar '16

20 Mar '16

I currently use an mcmedia email address, recently mcmedia changed hands and it is now part of a Bendigo based group. I ___appear___ to be one of the few using an email address based on there dial up servers and would definitely seem to be running on borrowed time. I am at the moment trying for various reasons to get a new ISP. What options have i got for an email service. I at the moment use a home based mail system but if there is no viable option a web based set up would be OK. Although I have now been running Linux for 24 years and have a network at home I actually know little about such things, it has always just worked and my interest has always been much more into the Kernel and X and general linux PC configuration. Lindsay

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Mobile broadband service that works with Linux
by zlinw＠mcmedia.com.au 20 Mar '16

20 Mar '16

I am looking for a Mobile broadband service provider whose service works with Linux, I would really prefer a Prepaid plan. I am currently with Virgin who uses the Optus network. I have tried the service offered be Bendigo Telco, which in fact does use Optus but strangely it I could not get it to work well. I did get it to work but it was dead slow. Telstra has a prepaid that appears to be better than Virgin, anyone tried it on Linux. Lindsay

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mon
by Russell Coker 19 Mar '16

19 Mar '16

I'm just setting up some Mon installations as I need monitoring but not the complexity of Nagios. What's the best way of monitoring the internal state of other systems from Mon? I want to monitor things like RAID state, load average, temperature, etc. Should I just have a script named something like /usr/local/bin/monitorthishost and have one of the mon services do "ssh host monitorthishost"? -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/

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Meeting today
by Russell Coker 19 Mar '16

19 Mar '16

It will be at 1:30. Those of us who arrived on time are at the Victoria Lounge on Victoria St, join us if you are in the area. -- Sent from my Samsung Galaxy Note 3 with K-9 Mail.

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Device renaming itself
by Dan062 14 Mar '16

14 Mar '16

Hi, Using Ubuntu 12.04: I have a strange situation where a usb drive was initially mounted as /dev/sdb1 to a directory /ut. For several days data read-write to the drive was going just fine. Then suddenly all read-write stopped, with a Input/Output error, and while mount showed that /dev/sd1 was still mounted on /ut. Investigating further I found using blkid that the usb drive was now showing as /dev/sdc1. How can this happen? I first thought, may be the pc rebooted itself after a power failure and the drive got reassigned, but uptime showed it has been on for 49 days since last reboot. The problem only appeared today or yesterday. I can mount /dev/sdc1 elsewhere and everything seem to be still there. So somehow the usb drive got reassigned by itself. Any ideas how/why this happened? Daniel. -- dan062 <dan062(a)yahoo.com.au>

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Giveaways and FS: Cubie, Radxa and Raspberry boards
by Toby Corkindale 07 Mar '16

07 Mar '16

I hope this post isn't inappropriate for the mailing list. I have three single-board-computers that I haven't used in ages, and wondered if anyone would like them? All three come with a case. I have an original CubieBoard, free to a good home! Cortex-A8 ARM CPU, 1GB RAM, 4GB NAND flash, HDMI, MicroSD slot, USB, ethernet, SATA. http://docs.cubieboard.org/products/start I have an original Raspberry Pi, free to a good home as well! I have a Radxa Rock: Quad-core ARM CPU, 2GB RAM, USB, ethernet, bluetooth, WiFi, 4GB NAND flash, microSD slot, HDMI, audio out, etc. http://wiki.radxa.com/Rock/specifications The Rock's the most powerful out of the set, and I'm not giving it away for free -- but happy to sell it on pretty cheaply. No postage, collection from Fitzroy, Victoria. -Toby

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gsutil -m rsync + Invalid Unicode path encountered error
by Piers Rowan 05 Mar '16

05 Mar '16

I am getting this error: Caught non-retryable exception while listing file:///home/backups/html/: CommandException: Invalid Unicode path encountered (u'/home/backups/499322._425050_.can._R\xe9 sum\xe9 - Jeremy Smith.pdf'). gsutil cannot proceed with such files present. Please remove or rename this file and try again. NOTE: the path printed above replaces the problematic characters with a hex- encoded printable representation. For more details (including how to convert to a gsutil-compatible encoding) see `gsutil help encoding`. The filename is; 499322._425050_.can._Résumé - Jeremy Smith.pdf # convmv -r -f ISO-8859-1 -t UTF-8 499322._425050_.can._Résumé\ -\ Jeremy\ Smith.pdf Skipping, already UTF-8: 499322._425050_.can._Résumé - Jeremy Smith.pdf I am confused here - the convmv says its UTF-8 already but gsutil throws the error. Using the convmv --nosmart flag screws up the file name. Can anyone shed light on this? I have about 1 mil files and I don't want to rename them one by one each time I get an error. Thanks Piers

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Email Clients
by Piers Rowan 02 Mar '16

02 Mar '16

Hi there, I currently use Thunderbird and have used Evolution in the past. I have a wish list that I wanted to share with the aim of perhaps finding an alternative. My criticisms with TB: - Changing the UI They added a archive button to some threads and this is on the right of the preview pane tool bar. If this does not show then the delete button is in that location (as the toolbar aligns to the right). So if you are mas deleting email by scanning the pane then the delete button moves each time the archive one is shown. This means that you can to move the mouse (look / read / think) - rather than just deleting email. - Searching for everything It shouldn't be that difficult to have some indexes for sender, sender domain and message prefixes. I would prefer to have a feature to have tabs / quick lists rather than search / sort my entire mailbox each time I wanted a type of message - Tags Highlighting the row in colour is great.....but that only happens when you have focus on the message - otherwise the text only is a different colour. This means if you have a moderate use of tags then you end up with unicorn vomit rainbow text and have to drill down on each message to see the colour of it - which defeats the point of MAKE SURE YOU DO THIS THING IN BOLD RED tags. - Plugins I am sure there is a (valid) comeback that there "is a plugin for that already" or "write your own" [you flatter me :-] but I would like to think that the core of an email client should cover off: - Email - Inbox filters/views/colour tags - Consistent UI - Tasks & Diary ...as core and not as plugins. I get a lot of email across several accounts and perhaps I am being picky. I am interested in hearing if others have similar / opposing feedback and recommendations of configurations / plugins or applications that addresses these issues. Cheers Piers

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