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Correct place to list free hardware
by Jesse Stevens 25 Oct '16

25 Oct '16

Hey folks, Gosh it's been a long time since I've interacted on the mailing lists! I'm unsure where or how I should list free hardware for people - I work in the arts (am an artist) and I have access to heaps of free computers that were quite high powered just a couple of years ago, as well as quite a few Apples of various ages. I know that there is a hardware library of some sort (is that still current?) but I was wondering if there was a place where people list hardware for others to take/use? It seems I'm increasingly inundated with free hardware lately, but honestly I'm fine with the machines I have and don't want to take on any more computers (I only have 2 hands!). Jesse

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RE: Free PC Hardware & 3D printers
by Chung Kin Mong 23 Oct '16

23 Oct '16

Hi There, I am very much interested in receiving the PC hardware and particularly the 3D printers. I can arrange pick up within greater Melbourne area and is free 24/7 (I am semi-retired). Thanks in advance ! Best regards, Victor Mong

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CentOS 7 Install + new SSD
by Piers Rowan 21 Oct '16

21 Oct '16

Hi there, I am doing a clean install of my personal desktop onto of a new SSD. Initially the system would not boot because of a "HSM Violation" so I disabled GSATA (motherboard fake RAID?) and that got me passed the initial error but now it hangs at : [OK] Mounted Configuration File System I have tried plugging in the SATA drives + yanking their cables but nothing seems to work. Where to next? Thanks P

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making vim work properly - or other editor
by Russell Coker 20 Oct '16

20 Oct '16

I run Debian/Unstable on my laptop because I'm a DD and it helps to test all the new software. The new version of VIM has just been added, and I don't like it. By default it uses it's own copy/paste mechanism and doesn't seem to support the system clipboard. What I want is to have VIM not really know about the system clipboard and just use a middle-button click to paste with my Xterm (Konsole in this case) and have VIM just take the text. Is it possible to do this with the new version of VIM? What are other good programmers editors? I want something that will preserve white-space so it doesn't generate ridiculous diffs (no converting tabs to spaces or spaces to tabs). -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/

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Internode + Nodephone + Asterisk (+FreePBX?)
by Michael Schams 18 Oct '16

18 Oct '16

Hi there, We are planning to switch from a standard phone line to Nodephone VoIP from Internode. I am very keen to test if Asterisk (maybe in combination with FreePBX) is an option for a small team (one trunk, 6 to 8 endpoints, all with various SIP clients). I successfully set up Asterisk 13 and pjsip and FreePBX 13 on a pretty standard Debian 8 box. I suspect the challenges start when it comes to the VoIP SIP details for the trunk. I came across a few forum posts and discussions about the Internode settings, but I wonder if anyone from the LUV community runs such a setup or has some experience with Asterisk and Internode (especially their Nodephone product)? As I pointed out above, we don't have the line yet, so it's more curiosity than a specific problem I want to solve (yet) :-) Any feedback is welcome. Cheers Michael

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Re: How to make systemd more reliable
by Russell Coker 12 Oct '16

12 Oct '16

On Tuesday, 11 October 2016 10:30:01 PM AEDT Craig Sanders via luv-main wrote: > I was rebooting anyway in order to replace a failed SSD on one machine and > convert both of them to root on ZFS. It booted up OK on both, so I made it > the default. If it refrains from sucking badly enough to really piss me off > for a decent length of time, i'll leave it as the default. That's a bold move. While ZFS has been totally reliable in preserving data I have had ongoing problems with filesystems not mounting when they should. I don't trust ZFS to be reliable as a root filesystem, I want my ZFS systems to allow me to login and run "zfs mount -a" if necessary. > (this is, of courtse, one of the reasons I dislike journald. logs should be > plain text, so you can access them without specialised tools. and rsyslogd > wasn't running in the semi-broken recovery mode that systemd dumped me in > after making me wait 1m30s until it finished doing mysterious things > (AFAICT, it was doing nothing except twiddling some stars on screen). I agree that those things need to be improved. There should be a way to get to a root login while the 90 second wait is happening. There should be an easy and obvious way to display those binary logs from the system when it's not running systemd or from another system (IE logs copied from another system). -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/

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How to make systemd more reliable
by Tim Connors 11 Oct '16

11 Oct '16

Stop using it! And that part is easy, just run NOTIFY_SOCKET=/run/systemd/notify systemd-notify "" in a while 1 loop as an ordinary user. https://www.agwa.name/blog/post/how_to_crash_systemd_in_one_tweet (sorry for the flamebait first line - I know this list is full of systemd fanbois) -- Tim Connors

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Re; System losing network connection(s) after a few hours
by Duncan Roe 07 Oct '16

07 Oct '16

Hi, Did someone mention this syndrome at the last LUV meeting or maybe the one before? Or perhaps it was in a post to the list? Anyway, I had a problem like that on Experts Exchange and eventually the guy solved it himself - there was another system on the network with the same IP address. Hope this helps someone, Cheers ... Duncan. -- Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html

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Drupal and daylight savings
by Russell Coker 03 Oct '16

03 Oct '16

We have Drupal running the LUV web site which exports events as iCAL which can be imported into Google Calendar for Android phones. But somewhere along the way it gets messed up with daylight savings, so currently my phone is telling me that the next LUV meeting starts at 7:30 when it's really 6:30. Is there anyone who would like to investigate this? -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/

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spam and web security
by Russell Coker 02 Oct '16

02 Oct '16

https://etbe.coker.com.au/2016/10/02/hostile-web-sites/ In a discussion on luv-talk Mark asked about the risks involved with accessing hostile web sites with wget. I wrote the above blog post which hopefully answers most questions in this regard. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/

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