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Re: Chromebooks as Linux laptops?
by Chris Samuel 19 Apr '15

19 Apr '15

On Sat, 18 Apr 2015 11:45:47 AM ed chan wrote: > Hi Chris, Hi Ed, > On Sat, Apr 18, 2015 at 11:12 AM, Chris Samuel <chris(a)csamuel.org> wrote: > > On Sat, 18 Apr 2015 11:06:39 AM ed chan wrote: > > [...] > > [Toshiba Chromebook] > > > boots in under 10 secs, has battery life of 8 hrs +, charges in less > > > than 2 hrs , weighs 3 lbs and only cost $349 ( at the time from JB > > > - Hi fi ). > > > > [...] > > > > Wow, thanks! :-) Would that be this? > > > > > > https://www.jbhifi.com.au/computers-tablets/chromebooks/toshiba/toshiba-cb3… > > Yes ( sort of ). The model @ JB is a later model ( Bay Trail vs Haswell > cpu). From what I read the Bay Trail models are a touch slower. Mine is > an Intel 2995U processor. > > Probably doesn't make too much difference for a $350 device. Thanks so much - given that they're on special at JB-Hifi now at just under $300 I decided I'd take the plunge and pick one up, I suspect you'll be right about the speed with Haswell Celeron vs the N2830 Silvermont but I won't know for sure until it's finished charging and I fire it up. That said it is just $300.. ;-) > > How much internal storage does it have? > > 16 Gb ; I have an external SD card 32 Gb. I reckon I can live with that, thanks! > > I reckon that information is really useful, would you like to send that to > > the mailing list as well? > > I will try. > > But I I fail you can re-post with my permission of course. Thanks - it looks like your post didn't make it through to the list so they should see this copy instead. > For those interested, you can run GNU root ( an enitre debian ( cmd line > )system rootfs ) on any Andriod 4.1+ device. That means you don't have to > worry about apps like Connectbot. You can run this on an un-rooted device ( > I have on Smartphones, tablets, TV sticks ), except server port have to be > on above 1024 ports. ( you are not root ). That may also be useful to Brian, thanks! All the best, Chris -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Melbourne, VIC

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Debian 7.8 sand KDE4: Problem with konsole (and gnome-terminal)
by Peter Ross 16 Apr '15

16 Apr '15

Hi all, for the last few weeks I have problems with unresponsive konsoles (and gnome-terminals as well, I tried) under KDE with Debian 7.8. They seem to be extremely slow (I have to wait for 10 seconds after entering a simple command) and I believe it happens only when I am running commands with large output in other windows (e.g. a ssh session to a FreeBSD server and "make buildworld") I have not seen it before and it is quite annoying (my work desktop is a glorified terminal switch). I am back to xterms at the moment. As a side: I missed yesterday's talk about micro services but would like to watch it.. Will it be uploaded? Regards Peter

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Re: Lightweight Linux laptops/tablets
by Peter Ross 15 Apr '15

15 Apr '15

From: "Brian May" > Unfortunately, The choices I am currently looking at don't have built in > 3G/4G. Personally I think I am better off using an external modem with WiFi or Ethernet. It is one device more, agreed, but it increases the range of products, while making it easier to adapt to new technologies, helps when going oversees etc. It is also increasing the list of available operating systems because 4G and open source are not exactly good friends. As a fallback I always can use my phone. Regards Peter

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Tabbed xterm, or whatever you want!
by Michele Bert 15 Apr '15

15 Apr '15

2015-04-14 4:40 GMT+02:00 Trent W. Buck <trentbuck(a)gmail.com>: > Craig Sanders <cas(a)taz.net.au> writes: > > i've ignored xterm for years because it doesn't do tabs > > http://tools.suckless.org/tabbed/ > Or: "why reinvent tabs separately in each app?" :-) > I'm trying "tabbing" features of fluxbox window manager, and it's amazing! You just have to drag a window titlebar while hitting Control (with my personal setting) on the titlebar any another window, and they will be grouped in a tabbed view, whichever process any of them is owned by! -- Mick -- Mick

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multicolumn xterm output
by Tim Connors 15 Apr '15

15 Apr '15

Anyone heard of a way of splitting your terminal into 2 columns (newspaper style columns) where your eg. 180x49 sized xterm then becomes an emulated eg. 90x98 sized xterm? Preferably supporting the full ansi escape sequences. -- Tim Connors

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Re: Debian 7.8 sand KDE4: Problem with konsole (and gnome-terminal)
by Peter Ross 14 Apr '15

14 Apr '15

Hi Trent, thanks for the answer. >> for the last few weeks I have problems with unresponsive konsoles (and >> gnome-terminals as well, I tried) under KDE with Debian 7.8. Please not: I meant konsole, the KDE terminal, not the text console of a Debian system. I may have confused you here, sorry. >> They seem to be extremely slow (I have to wait for 10 seconds after >> entering a simple command) and I believe it happens only when I am >> running >> commands with large output in other windows (e.g. a ssh session to a >> FreeBSD server and "make buildworld") > > When this happens, check loadavg (it should be below N, where N is the > number of CPU cores); check for procs in D state; check iostat; > check free. My problem is not the "make" on the FreeBSD server, it is the graphical terminal(KDE's konsole or gnome-terminal) > In my experience with fbcon, large output (e.g. dmesg or cat > /var/log/syslog) will slow the entire system noticably, but switching to > another vt (Ctrl+Alt+F2) "fixes" it. > > I also noticed it running scren inside xterm, but it was MUCH MUCH MUCH > faster to recover -- it's the main reason I start X by default these > days. Until now I have not seen it inside xterm. It seems to be the terminal application itself, konsole or gnome-terminal, which holds all terminals in one application. It means, KDE's konsole becomes unresponsive. I can switch to IceWeazel (e.g.) but the drawing of another konsole window takes a long long time. > Are you running screen / tmux? > > When this happens, is the "lots of output" window onscreen? > Try minimizing it (konsole) and switching window or detaching (screen), > so that fewer layers are trying to render the "lots of output". I am running things sometimes in screen but I am not sure whether it was always the case when I experienced the problem. Sometimes the "large output" window is a hidden tab or in a different workspace. So the actual rendering does not seem to be the problem. The problem appeared only recently.. so I wonder what kind of change could have triggered it. I also run KDE's konsole on a much less powerful laptop running PC-BSD + Fluxbox. I have not seen the problem there at all. I actually like the KDE but I always seem to get to a point where some things are becoming unstable. So at the end I usually return to other X11 environments which are lite. I am just installing Fluxbox.. I do not want to worry about my own desktop. I want to concentrate on the servers I look after.. Regards Peter

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torrent software
by Russell Coker 10 Apr '15

10 Apr '15

At the meeting there was a mention of the fact that we now have a legal precedent for film companies to force ISPs to divulge the names of customers who might have torrented movies. Is there any good anonymous peer to peer software? Something that uses tor hidden services for all communications? -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/

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Iceweasel won't come out of its burrow, except on ABC.
by Erik Christiansen 08 Apr '15

08 Apr '15

On my newly installed Debian 7.8.0, Iceweasel plays video clips on the ABC news site without any problems. But if the clip is from youtube or the BBC, then no dice. On youtube, after clicking the "play" triangle, the playing time indicator moves, but the screen remains black, and there is no sound. The little grey two-bump-lego-block in Iceweasel's TLH corner says: "Adobe Flash" is enabled on www.youtube.com and clicking on "Continue Allowing" does nothing to start allowing, either. On the BBC, the "play" triangle doesn't show, and clicking on the initial image does nothing - mostly. Once in a dozen tries, a "you need to download FlashPlayer" message appears. Following the links to: https://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/otherversions/ doesn't show anything for Debian, and Ubuntu isn't binary compatible, AIUI. In case a bit of non-free might provide the missing functionality, I added to sources.lst: # non-free multimedia stuff. Mirror for http://deb-multimedia.org/ deb http://mirror.optus.net/deb-multimedia/ stable main deb-src http://mirror.optus.net/deb-multimedia/ stable main And then as root: # apt-get install deb-multimedia-keyring # apt-get update # apt-get dist-upgrade The latter includes a new iceweasel, but no change in behaviour. If there's a debian-compatible package for firefox anywhere, then that'd perhaps be the best way around this mess. If not, does anyone know how iceweasel might be coaxed to perform this basic function? Erik -- Personally I love having sole control of the TV. I can stay up until 2am binge watching my favourite shows and not be worried about disturbing anyone. I can sleep in to 10am the next morning and no one wakes me. I can eat porridge for dinner and not have to cook for anyone else. No one steals my chocolate supply. I don't have to put up with someone else's dodgy friends or relatives. I can decorate the way I like without having to compromise. Oh the bliss of living alone. I love, love love it. - LK

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Re: DistroWatch.com: Put the fun back into computing. Use Linux, BSD.
by Peter Ross 07 Apr '15

07 Apr '15

From: "Andrew McGlashan" <andrew.mcglashan(a)affinityvision.com.au> > > On 31/03/2015 3:15 AM, Andrew McGlashan wrote: >> And so it continues to consume Linux as we knew it, it most definitely >> is becoming "Lennart Linux" .. through and through, just read the story. >> >> http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20150330#community >> >> NB: The story doesn't really give much of an opinion, it just shows what >> is going on. >> >> A. > > > https://github.com/systemdaemon/systemd/issues > > Clearly an early April Fools.... but it is very plausible, this is where > Linux IS going.... :( PC-BSD (a FreeBSD based desktop distribution) is joining in: http://blog.pcbsd.org/2015/04/huge-announcement-for-pc-bsd/ "SystemBS-D not only makes your system boot faster, but it can basically manage everything on your system as well. Sure it still crashes a lot and it has trouble displaying log files, but we’re working on that. In a discussion with Kris Moore he stated “SystemBS-D may be unstable, but it DID make the system boot super fast. I feel like that’s a pretty good trade.” Regards Peter

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eSATA enclosures
by Russell Coker 05 Apr '15

05 Apr '15

I'm after an affordable enclosure for SATA disks. Something that takes ~5 disks will do. 6Gb/s is really preferred for array scrubbing, but in normal operation the array only needs to outrun gigabit Ethernet so we don't need a lot of performance. Any suggestions? -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/

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