I'm hoping someone here may have some insight to cabling
responsibilities under the NBN and also my expected rights under the
Customer Service Guarantee (CSG).
I was talking to Internode today about transitioning to the NBN and had
a few surprises:
1. I will now be responsible for the cabling from my wall socket to some
as yet undefined location in the street (sales guy couldn't tell me
where that was).
2. I have to waive my rights to the CSG.
I have had two occasions in the last year when I've had to call Telstra
to come and fix my line issues (which they did at no cost to me). What
can I expect under the NBN?
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# free -m
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 7962 2212 498 533 5251 4942
Swap: 10719 1732 8986
The above is from my workstation. It's running KDE, Chrome, KTorrent, and not
much else. My understanding of the above is that most RAM is being used for
cache and it's quite likely that this achieves the goal of reducing the number
of storage accesses.
The problem is that I don't want to reduce the number of storage accesses, I
want to improve the performance of interactive tasks. Ktorrent is configured
to only upload 60KB/s so a lack of caching of the torrents shouldn't prevent
it from uploading at the maximum speed I permit. When large interactive
programs like Chrome and Kmail get paged out it causes annoying delays when I
want to perform what should be quick tasks like replying to a single message
or viewing a single web page.
Any suggestions as to how to optimise for this use case? I already have swap
on one of the fastest SSDs I own and don't feel like buying NVMe for this
purpose or buying a system with more RAM, so software changes are required.
When replying please feel free to diverge from the topic. I think this is an
area where most Linux users know less than they would like so randomly
educational replies will be appreciated even if they don't help me with this
problem.
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community. Once you have that, one question is what the purpose of that
community is. Collaborating on the maintenance of the project is clearly
part of it, but that needs to be balanced with having some fun. If there
is no fun involved, people are likely to leave; if there is too much
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Note that this also applies to some degree to user groups such as LUV!
Share and enjoy,
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Andrew McGlashan via luv-main <luv-main(a)luv.asn.au> wrote ..
>
> Sorry I can't help, but I wouldn't recommend Melbourne.IT to ANYBODY,
We have one domain with them (which my Dad bought in 2000) and there were two other sites under the same account. One of the other domain owners recovered their domain access and changed the notification email to something other than the company inbox.
I will be moving the domain in great haste to a viable provider.
I am back up now after 8 calls to the same off shore team who told me they couldn't access the account so someone would call me on Monday. NONE of their web recovery tools worked or even recognised my account or domain.
Perhaps it would be wrong to can a company on the Internet but:
1) Their social media chat was a bot
2) They can't run any sort of web services
3) They keep you on hold for 15 minutes and then the call drops (automated?)
4) They tell you that they can't do anything then after 7 calls the same coal face employee can achieve a task.
Thanks to those of you who replied; and apologies to those who got spammed this message.
Cheers
P
Hi there,
Does anyone know someone in AU from here? I've got a massive problem because none
of their automated stuff works (account recovery, etc) and support can't do anything
until Monday.
I normally post from another account but it won't work because the expired domain
notice was send to an address that was changed and now the lights are out on the
DNS.
I wouldn't ask if it was important but if you can ping your networks I would be greatly
appreciative.
If you can't assist then pls forgive this intrusion into your weekend and have a
great day!
Thanks
Piers
Hi,
It seems to me that DKIM signing is only normally implemented via
remote_smtp transport in exim4 of Debian based GNU/Linux.
Let's say you have a mail server, it might be for a single domain or it
might be for many domains.
How do you get DKIM to sign every single email, regardless of whether or
not it needs to transit via smtp to another server? If I send to a
different domain (or any that the server is responsible for), but
without needing remote_smtp transport, then emails don't get signed.
I want to do this as I want to use DMARC and force emails to require
both SPF and DKIM signing for every email of any or all domains served
by the mail server. There are a couple of edge cases too, but I'm not
sure I want to go there. One edge case is when you have a device use
SMTP to send an alert via an ISP mail server or other mail server that
is not trusted with a copy of the private key. The other edge case
being emails sent via PHP (with/without Wordpress for example).
I've also played around with using a pipe with "Resent-To" facility, not
sure I want to sign these, really, as the original author may b
problematic; but if I can sign them, then I would use a special selector
for that purpose to help protect reputation.
Any thoughts? Implementation help?
Thanks and Kind Regards
AndrewM
Hi All,
I have had a pretty crappy run with print drivers on my Ubuntu 18.04
desktop, including one that I got from Epson in England.
But today, after accepting the offer to upgrade, my machine jumped from
16.04 to 17.10. But before I could enjoy it it offered the upgrade to
18.04, same as my desktop.
But the Printer driver I had installed in 16.04 is now running
extremely well in 18.04, same printer, no surprise.
So now, I want to remove all traces of the other epson drivers I had
installed from deb files. How do I find them, how do I delete them? I
will use exactly the same driver as is running so well in my laptop.
Can someone point me in the right direction, in RPM land I was fine.
But there is better maintenance of GIMP and Darktable in this side of
the force.
Gratefully
Andrew Greig
Hello All,
>From what I have read and the like, HDMI is supposed to be a "secure"
connection that does not allow recording. My experience so far bears
this out. I have a Viewer Assist Satellite Television system, the
satellite dish, the LNB, and the set top box. That said box is a UEC
device, actually a custom Linux box with an infrared remote control
for the choice of channel and the like. It has the outputs for
component signal to the TV, and HDMI. I used to use it with an old
style tube TV, to good effect, but it is now connected to a reasonable
LED TV that has the option to record to USB, but will not do so for
HDMI input.
Is there any way to subvert that, with a PC in the middle, is it even
possible to put a HDMI signal into a PC, or is the PC out to a monitor
only?
Regards,
Mark Trickett
I think it would be good to try cooperative learning online in the evenings
and possibly weekends. The idea is that everyone would join an IRC channel at
a suitable time with virtual machine software configured and try out new FOSS
software at the same time and exchange ideas about it via IRC. It would be
fairly informal and people could come and go as they wish, the session would
probably go from something like 6PM to midnight and anyone could just take a
break for dinner etc whenever they feel like it.
I've got some under-utilised KVM servers that I could use to provide test VMs
for network software.
The general idea would be for two broad categories of sessions, ones where an
expert provides a training session (assigning tasks to students and providing
suggestions when they get stuck) and ones where the coordinator has no
particular expertise and everyone just learns together (like "let's all
download a random BSD unix and see how it compares to Linux").
As this would be IRC based there would be no impediment for people from other
regions being involved (hi Rick) apart from the fact that it might start at
1AM their time (sorry Rick). Rick, if you want to run a session then 9AM on a
Saturday or Sunday would be a reasonable start time for people here that might
be OK for you.
While the aims of this would mostly be things that relate to LUV (IE Linux and
*BSD) I would be happy to coordinate a session on ReactOS as well.
I'm thinking of running training sessions on etbemon, DNS, Postfix, BTRFS, ZFS
(maybe with Craig), and SE Linux.
I'm thinking of coordinating learning sessions about DragonflyBSD
(particularly HAMMER2), ReactOS, Haiku, and Ceph. If people are interested in
DragonflyBSD then we should do that one first as in a week or so I'll probably
have learned what I want to learn and moved on (but not become enough of an
expert to run a training session).
I'm also interested in volunteers to run training sessions or coordinate
learning sessions. There are some skilled members of this list who never turn
up to meetings, hopefully some of them will be interested. Note that the
topic doesn't have to be something that interests me, all we need is a
trainer/coordinater and a group of people who want to learn.
So the issues to be discussed are:
1) What communication method to use? IRC? What server?
2) What time/date for the first session?
3) What topic for the first session? DragonflyBSD?
4) Do we try and make this a mostly-LUV thing or just open it to the world?
I wouldn't block random people who want to join, but I also wouldn't
necessarily advertise it where people who aren't LUV members would see it.
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