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by David Zhan 27 Jul '18

27 Jul '18

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intermittent sound on Ubuntu 16.04
by stripes theotoky 23 Jul '18

23 Jul '18

We hear the chimes when the computer starts but then sometimes there is sound sometimes there isn't, sometimes when there is sound it vanishes after the computer suspends. Everything else about the computer seems to be working fine. It is a dell laptop running ubuntu 16.04. Have worked though the first two steps in this with no effect. About to start working on step 3 but in if anyone has any better ideas they would be most welcome. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SoundTroubleshootingProcedure Could bring the laptop to a meeting in Melbourne if someone could look at it for me. I have lost my voice and may not speak on doctors orders so we would have to discuss the problem even if face to face in writing. Anything to make life more complicated than it already is. All the best -- Stripes Theotoky -37 .713869 145.050562

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Save and restore window positions with openbox
by Kim Oldfield 23 Jul '18

23 Jul '18

Hi, Does anyone know how I can save (and later restore) the positions of my windows on my screens? On my laptop I'm running openbox as my window manager on Ubuntu 18.04. At my desk I have a docking station with 2 external monitors. I've configured keyboard shortcuts in openbox to configure my screens appropriately for docked or undocked configuration (using xrandr). Whenever I undock all my windows get moved over to fit on the laptop screen - so when I dock the laptop again the windows are in the wrong locations, and I have to manually position them in the appropriate locations for my external monitors. What I would like is a way to save my window positions before undocking, and then a way to restore these window positions when I dock again later. Does anyone have a solution or suggestions to help with this problem? Regards, Kim

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real time log watching
by Russell Coker 16 Jul '18

16 Jul '18

What's a good real-time log watching program? This is something I've wanted for a while but not had the inclination to get it going. The thing that finally made me want to do it is when my workstation gave the below log messages and decided to stop supporting USB 3.0 ports. As the ports that are most convenient for connecting my keyboard and mouse are USB 3.0 that was inconvenient. Removing the xhci modules and loading them again fixed the problem. So what I want in this instance is a program that will detect one of the below messages and then run a script that will run some rmmod and modprobe commands to fix it. I want it to know which log entries it has dealt with to avoid performing the operation twice (which would cause problems) or maybe have a list of log messages in the problem solved category. Any suggestions? [18408.111698] xhci_hcd 0000:06:00.0: xHCI host not responding to stop endpoint command. [18408.111716] xhci_hcd 0000:06:00.0: xHCI host controller not responding, assume dead [18408.111738] xhci_hcd 0000:06:00.0: HC died; cleaning up [18408.111747] xhci_hcd 0000:06:00.0: Timeout while waiting for configure endpoint command -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/

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NBN Cabling responsibilities and CSG
by Tom Robinson 11 Jul '18

11 Jul '18

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? -- Tom Robinson 19 Thomas Road Mobile: +61 4 3268 7026 Healesville, VIC 3777 Home: +61 3 5962 4543 Australia GPG Key: 8A4CB7A7 CONFIDENTIALITY: Copyright (C). This message with any appended or attached material is intended for addressees only and may not be copied or forwarded to or used by other parties without permission.

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swap vs cache
by Russell Coker 10 Jul '18

10 Jul '18

# 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. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/

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Activities/CompulsoryRouters - FSFE Wiki
by Andrew McGlashan 03 Jul '18

03 Jul '18

Wow! I worried that something like this may have been put in place with our NBN..... it still might be some day, but the mess that Turncoat has made of it means that it might be a bit harder. https://wiki.fsfe.org/Activities/CompulsoryRouters Cheers

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Kindness and open-source projects
by Andrew Pam 30 Jun '18

30 Jun '18

"An open-source community comes about once there is an outside contribution to a project; one-person projects aren't really a 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 fun, not much will actually get done and the project will suffer." https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/758363/9a1f5248b1be96cd/ Note that this also applies to some degree to user groups such as LUV! Share and enjoy, Andrew

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Re: Melbourne IT - anyone have any contacts?
by piers＠rowan.id.au 25 Jun '18

25 Jun '18

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

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Melbourne IT - anyone have any contacts?
by piers＠rowan.id.au 23 Jun '18

23 Jun '18

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

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