Re: Question regarding hardware choices

2021-02-19 Thread David Christensen
On 2021-02-19 13:55, Michael Stone wrote: On Fri, Feb 19, 2021 at 01:45:23PM -0800, David Christensen wrote: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_men_and_an_elephant You thought this was helpful how? I frequently see a pattern on this list: 1. Someone posts an interesting question, but prov

Re: php-pear etc. on an Apache2 server [resolved]

2021-02-19 Thread Gary Dale
On 2021-02-19 09:17, Gary Dale wrote: On 2021-02-18 09:06, Gary Dale wrote: On 2021-02-16 17:56, Gary Dale wrote: I'm running Buster on my local server which, among other things, I use for developing web sites before copying them onto a public host. I've recently been getting into a little php

Re: Conflicting alternatives

2021-02-19 Thread David Wright
On Fri 19 Feb 2021 at 17:22:25 (+1300), Richard Hector wrote: > On 19/02/21 2:34 am, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > On Jo, 18 feb 21, 08:15:39, Dan Ritter wrote: > > > Richard Hector wrote: > > > > On 18/02/21 5:22 am, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > > > On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 12:06:37AM +0800, Kevin Shell

Re: Question regarding hardware choices

2021-02-19 Thread Michael Stone
On Fri, Feb 19, 2021 at 01:45:23PM -0800, David Christensen wrote: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_men_and_an_elephant You thought this was helpful how?

Re: Question regarding hardware choices

2021-02-19 Thread David Christensen
On 2021-02-19 12:43, Darac Marjal wrote: On 19/02/2021 20:37, David Christensen wrote: On 2021-02-19 07:44, Semih Ozlem wrote: Hello everyone, In comparing performance what are the pros and cons to using (i) live usb flash disk (ii) live usb with persistence on a flash disk (iii) full instal

Re: Question regarding hardware choices

2021-02-19 Thread Darac Marjal
On 19/02/2021 20:37, David Christensen wrote: > On 2021-02-19 07:44, Semih Ozlem wrote: >> Hello everyone, >> >> In comparing performance what are the pros and cons to using >> >> (i) live usb flash disk >> (ii) live usb with persistence on a flash disk >> (iii) full installation on a flash disk >

Re: Question regarding hardware choices

2021-02-19 Thread David Christensen
On 2021-02-19 07:44, Semih Ozlem wrote: Hello everyone, In comparing performance what are the pros and cons to using (i) live usb flash disk (ii) live usb with persistence on a flash disk (iii) full installation on a flash disk (iv) full installation on an external hard disk (ssd or other) (v)

Re: Question regarding hardware choices

2021-02-19 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> It works but it is only suitable for occasional or lightweight use. I >> wrote a how-to guide for building such a system; it is here: >> https://liam-on-linux.livejournal.com/50416.html >> It is a little dated now but still valid. It details some >> optimisations you can do to boost life -- su

Re: Question regarding hardware choices

2021-02-19 Thread Brian
On Fri 19 Feb 2021 at 18:11:02 +0100, Liam Proven wrote: [...] > If you want to use it on multiple different computers you may have > issues -- e.g. the same bootable key may not boot both a BIOS PC and a > UEFI PC. If there are OSes installed on the HDD as well, and you do an > update, then thos

Re: php-pear etc. on an Apache2 server [resolved]

2021-02-19 Thread Gary Dale
On 2021-02-18 09:06, Gary Dale wrote: On 2021-02-16 17:56, Gary Dale wrote: I'm running Buster on my local server which, among other things, I use for developing web sites before copying them onto a public host. I've recently been getting into a little php coding because there seem to a lot of

Re: Question regarding hardware choices

2021-02-19 Thread Linux-Fan
TL;DR: Full installation on internal SSD is fastest, live (with or without persistence) is slower. Semih Ozlem writes: Hello everyone, In comparing performance what are the pros and cons to using What kind of performance do you look for? * CPU performance will mostly be equal for any

Re: Question regarding hardware choices

2021-02-19 Thread Liam Proven
On Fri, 19 Feb 2021 at 16:46, Semih Ozlem wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > In comparing performance what are the pros and cons to using > > (i) live usb flash disk Works, boots on anything (BIOS and UEFI), but you can't update and you can't readily save your data. Boot speed slow, because the OS is

Re: Question regarding hardware choices

2021-02-19 Thread Nicolas George
Darac Marjal (12021-02-19): > Most USB flash disks > (even USB3 drives) are relatively slow at transferring data (they > optimize for cost). Some devices DO have good controllers though, so YMMV. There is a more subtle problem here. Most USB flas

Re: Question regarding hardware choices

2021-02-19 Thread Darac Marjal
On 19/02/2021 15:44, Semih Ozlem wrote: > Hello everyone, > > In comparing performance what are the pros and cons to using > > (i) live usb flash disk Usually, this is implemented with a compressed, read-only file system which is read into RAM. "Live" Operating Systems developed from the era of CD

Question regarding hardware choices

2021-02-19 Thread Semih Ozlem
Hello everyone, In comparing performance what are the pros and cons to using (i) live usb flash disk (ii) live usb with persistence on a flash disk (iii) full installation on a flash disk (iv) full installation on an external hard disk (ssd or other) (v) full installation on an internal hard disk

Re: spectre-meltdown-checker: Hash Sum mismatch

2021-02-19 Thread Kamil Jońca
Harald Dunkel writes: > Hi folks, > > aptitude shows > > E: Failed to fetch > > http://deb.debian.org/debian/pool/main/s/spectre-meltdown-checker/spectre-meltdown-checker_0.42-1_all.deb: > Hash Sum mismatch >Hashes of expected file: >- SHA256:a5b777497c860a51ce1f1fd888f727531ea60be62

Re: rsync to NAS for backup

2021-02-19 Thread Mirko Parthey
On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 12:39:29PM +, mick crane wrote: > Appears that to retain permissions need root at both ends of rsync. Not necessarily. If the server filesystem supports xattrs, you can use the --fake-super option with the rsync server, running as a non-root user that can write to the s

Re: spectre-meltdown-checker: Hash Sum mismatch

2021-02-19 Thread Charles Curley
On Fri, 19 Feb 2021 14:47:34 +0100 Harald Dunkel wrote: > E: Unable to fetch some packages; try '-o APT::Get::Fix-Missing=true' > to continue with missing packages > > I already cleared the cache of apt-cacher-ng, but the problem comes > back. What would you suggest how to proceed? You didn't s

Re: Conflicting alternatives

2021-02-19 Thread Dan Ritter
Richard Hector wrote: > There are multiple standard ports, though. E.g. one could easily run one MTA > on port 25 for incoming mail, and another on 587 for outgoing. > > My point, though, was that there's a precedent for daemons that default to > listening on the same port, yet are co-installable

spectre-meltdown-checker: Hash Sum mismatch

2021-02-19 Thread Harald Dunkel
Hi folks, aptitude shows E: Failed to fetch http://deb.debian.org/debian/pool/main/s/spectre-meltdown-checker/spectre-meltdown-checker_0.42-1_all.deb: Hash Sum mismatch Hashes of expected file: - SHA256:a5b777497c860a51ce1f1fd888f727531ea60be625ffe6787aebf12823177e2f - MD5Sum:3e6e8

Re: Wifi problem on Ile-de-France / unowhy laptops

2021-02-19 Thread Nicolas George
David (12021-02-19): > This link reports setting "D3 cold" or similar in BIOS worked for that > Intel 3165, does that help you? > https://askubuntu.com/questions/1204683/intel-3165-not-working-on-ubuntu-19-10 Thank you both. I had not found that link. I tried looking in the setup as suggested, an

Re: Wifi problem on Ile-de-France / unowhy laptops

2021-02-19 Thread tomas
On Fri, Feb 19, 2021 at 11:31:28AM +0100, Nicolas George wrote: [...] > I have searched on the web for this "D3hot to D0" error but found only > stuff related to NVidia hardware. > > Does anybody have an idea about what to try? Not very much directly, but at least a proposed enhancement to your

Re: Wifi problem on Ile-de-France / unowhy laptops

2021-02-19 Thread David
On Fri, 19 Feb 2021 at 21:31, Nicolas George wrote: > [ 19.292289] iwlwifi :01:00.0: can't change power state from D3hot to > D0 (config space inaccessible) This link reports setting "D3 cold" or similar in BIOS worked for that Intel 3165, does that help you? https://askubuntu.com/questio

Wifi problem on Ile-de-France / unowhy laptops

2021-02-19 Thread Nicolas George
[ Re-sending this mail, because it didn't arrive the first time. ] Hi. I have one of the laptops given to the students and teachers of Île-de-France, i.e. cheap hardware (overcharged to taxpayers), booted with Debian Live (KDE+firmware edition), and the wifi does not work. The wifi controller is

Re: rsync to NAS for backup

2021-02-19 Thread tomas
On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 05:06:33PM -0700, Charles Curley wrote: > On Thu, 18 Feb 2021 18:24:43 +0100 > wrote: > > > Care to name some of those limitations? > > > > (of course, rsync /is not/ a backup program in itself, but lets you > > build one with 10-30 lines around it). > > Why build one (w