Hi there!
We have moved to GMail from our own servers. For good reasons I have 4
mailboxes that I use. (At least one of which receives 200 messages per
hour with a rule in place to move some of the content into folders).
I am using Thunderbird right now and the performance of GMail vs our
Dovecot (Linux IMAP server) is sluggish. In addition mail takes longer
to arrive and polling seems to cache old message lists.
Given that we cannot move away from GMail is it a client issue? Is there
a better client?
Any feedback welcomed.
Have a great day.
P
Hello,
I have installed Debian/stretch on a MacBook Pro, and it all seems OK,
except suspend/resume is now suspend/crash instead. Sometimes I get a
black screen, most times the screen gets restored and then it crashes.
Furthermore, I was accidentally pressing the power button and shutting
down the system, so changed this action to suspend. Now instead of a
clean shutdown, I get a dirty crash whenever I accidentally press the
power button :-| Maybe should change that to ignore for now...
How do I go about debugging suspend/resume problems?
Online reports seem to indicate that there should be no problems with
suspend/resume and a recent kernel.
Regards
Files produced by python-iview give errors like the following when I try to
play them with mplayer. Anyone have suggestions for how to deal with it? The
files produced last year were ok but it seems that something changed at the
ABC so files downloaded this year don't work.
$ mplayer IN1501H016S00MA1D1_20171216030611_650000.flv
MPlayer 1.3.0 (Debian), built with gcc-7 (C) 2000-2016 MPlayer Team
do_connect: could not connect to socket
connect: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control.
Playing IN1501H016S00MA1D1_20171216030611_650000.flv.
libavformat version 57.83.100 (external)
libavformat file format detected.
LAVF_header: av_find_stream_info() failed
LAVF: no audio or video headers found - broken file?
libavformat file format detected.
LAVF_header: av_find_stream_info() failed
LAVF: no audio or video headers found - broken file?
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Hello All,
I am having mixed results printing on a Debian Stretch 64 bit system
with a HP LJ4+. I can print postscript from the command line, I can
get the test page to print, but nothing from LibreOffice 5 nor a text
editor such as leafpad. There is some data sent to the printer, but it
just sits there and taking off line and pressing the form feed does
not produce a page, even a partial page of something.
Adding to the insult, I cannot set it up as a second printer, but
non-postscript. I am far from impressed, it is now an unduly
complicated mix of bits and pieces that is difficult to follow and
sort and read to see the configuration and understand to debug.
Regards,
Mark Trickett
Does this:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/akita/akita-instant-privacy-for-smart-…
do anything special that is not already available in linux software?
Apart from a neat packaging exercise of course?
The description includes:
"Connected to a LAN port on your router, Akita scans your network for
any unusual activity and immediately shuts it down. All-the-while
letting you know an attempt was made to invade your privacy. Akita uses
military-grade security protection that’s been retrofitted for the
home. Then, if you run into any issues, we can remotely preserve and
restore your privacy with the help of our always on-call privacy experts
at Axi.us.
Akita uses threat intelligence, behavioral analysis, machine learning
and doesn't slow your connection at all. Importantly, it doesn't use
deep packet inspection."
Hello,
I seem to be having an increasing problem on my Thinkpad Carbon X1 2015,
where:
* The screen will lose sync. Like it is an older analogue monitor.
Sometimes it will come good after 1 second. Other times a suspend/resume
will solve this. Some videos showing the problems:
https://photos.app.goo.gl/g71psLYXEfcNK1Vx1 - the black screen with dots
is uncommon, the scrolling display is more common. This is with *one*
emacs window shown at full screen.
* The screen will flash bright for a second, go back to normal, and then
the computer will completely freeze.
* These above symptoms typically happen in response to a keypress at a
terminal window (gnome terminal and xterm both affected). Especially the
down button or escape key, but these aren't the only ones. Happens with
no external devices plugged in.
* wayland/xorg gnome/kde/awesome/etc all have the same problem.
Have latest Debian/stretch with latest security updates. It is possible
that a regression in a security update has caused increased problems,
but I am doubtful.
At first I thought this was a hardware problem. Which means I should try
to get it fixed under warranty. But:
* Built in tests all pass.
* The problem is not reproducible under Windows.
* I installed Debian/stretch (brand new install) on a very different
computer - a MacBook Pro, and encounter - what appears to be - exactly
the same symptoms. Although the "lost sync" affect doesn't last as long.
The only thing in common is both have high resolution displays. I
reduced the resolution on the Thinkpad, just in case, but still get
similar problems. This MacBook Pro works fine with OSX.
Any ideas?
This is making Linux on these computers unusable, I never know when it
is going to crash. In practice, times are often very short, or worst
time (e.g. 2nd time entering this email... This time under OSX).
Regards
Hi,
On 03/01/18 09:09, Paul van den Bergen via luv-main wrote:
> OK. As of reinvent 2017, AWS introduced bare metal server pricing. As
> far as I understand it, if the hardware breaks, you get a new machine,
> but it's up to you to manage DR.
>
> dedicated instances - it's a long term contract for a VM (not a bare
> metal machine)
>
> on demand - you pay per hour.
Typically you want a mailserver running 24/7, so about 750 hours every
month.
> spot price - you pay "bid" for a low priced VM. If someone outbids you,
> you lose the VM.
Do you mean, you have a box, working... then you get outbid and lose a
working box?
Kind Regards
AndrewM
https://www.fool.com/investing/2017/12/19/intels-ceo-just-sold-a-lot-of-sto…https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/02/intel_cpu_design_flaw/
Lev just tweeted the above links. This is annoying, it means rebooting all
systems with Intel CPUs for which security is important and also ongoing
performance loss for all modern systems with Intel CPUs.
People who care about performance not security (EG gamers and people who
mostly do compiles) could run in a less secure mode (run an old kernel or
maybe a newer kernel patched to turn off this security feature).
I guess the lesson from this and the previous security issues is to just avoid
Intel CPUs. It's what Intel's CEO expects us to do.
On 2 Jan 2018 5:15 pm, "Brian May via luv-main" <luv-main(a)luv.asn.au> wrote:
Andrew McGlashan via luv-main <luv-main(a)luv.asn.au> writes:
> Okay, the problem pricing may be related to "Amazon EC2 Dedicated
> Instances" ... that seems the closest (from what I can tell), to having
> your own physical server and being able to do with it what you like.
>
> Perhaps this product is way overkill.
If I am reading that correctly, sounds like you get exclusive access to
the hardware. i.e. not a VM. So, probably will cost more.
Correct. In AWS 'dedicated instances' are exclusive access to the hardware,
typically there most expensive option.
Last I looked, the reserved instance stuff was the cheapest. Although
was somewhat confusing for me to understand initially, and I had to
complain to Amazon when their website stuffed things up.... IIRC, if you
have a reserved instance, then the hourly fees get reduced significantly
(but are still payable). So the total payable is less. I think there
might have been two types of reserved instances, but I have forgotten
this stuff already.
Reserved instances are the cheapest option. They come in full-upfront and
partial-upfront versions and can be bought for 1, 2, or three years.
Full-upfront is the most economical where as the name suggests you pay
fully upfront for the resources you think you will need. There are some
limitations on the elasticity of what you buy and of course if you end up
using less than you paid for you lose out. Last time I talked to our
account manager you can save up to 48% using the right RIs.
Even with the reserved instance, you probably find you will end up
paying more then for an alternative provider. At least that is what I
found several years ago, when I moved to Hetzner instead.
> I also find that all (or too many, if not all) AWS pages are super
> resource hungry and cause performance issues (that is, their website
> pages detailing the products on offer). This may be due to me using
> Palemoon -- which is a fork of Firefox; I actually use a combination of
> browsers, Firefox [due to how they have changed since version 57 in
> particular], is used much less by myself now.
No argument here.
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Brian May <brian(a)linuxpenguins.xyz>
https://linuxpenguins.xyz/brian/
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