Hi all
I've just moved media players (to mediamonkey from itunes). I can import
playlists but the old ones
are pointing at my previous library which I've now moved. I want to change
all references to
c:\users\fred\itunes\itunes media\music\
to
x:\anotherfolder\
for every .m
Hi all
I had to upgrade my hardware about a month ago. Aside from the hardware,
the only real difference is I'm running W10 2004 on the new machine whereas
the old one had yet to get its April Windows update. Since moving to new
machine (kvm'd into the same err well kvm!), I've had an interm
Hi Roger
I had one which broke and I have a particular use for it. If it's free to
good home - I'll happily take it - but I'm probably too late.
Cheers
Rob
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From: Hampshire On Behalf Of Roger
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Sent: 16 July 2020 09:59
To: Hampshire@mailman.lug.
Hi all
Keeping this as short as possible: Do rackmount server rails come with the
server or with the cabinet? I need to upgrade my cluster and one of the
key issues Ive faced (forced as I am to buy 2nd hand hardware) is that they
seldom come with rails. My main supplier (www.bargainhardw
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From: Hampshire On Behalf Of Owain via
Hampshire
Sent: 26 January 2021 14:53
To: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk
Cc: Owain
Subject: [Hampshire] Laptop
>So where is a good place to go to have knowledgeable but non-patronising
>service? He wants a ?>Windows machine, but
>Out of interest, how large are the datasets you work on?
>I'd say 16GBytes of memory was on the small size.
>Our desktops have 32GBytes, and I've run out of memory running customer test
>cases in the past.
>Our test servers typically have ~128GBytes.
Approx 9bn rows * 200 cols. That wouldn't
Hi Tim
[snip]
Do any of these come with rails? If so, I'm potentially interested:
identically specced machines make ideal nodes for my cluster. Why rails?
Because none of my current setup has them which causes problems of its own. I
might even take the rack off your hands (what size is
Hi all
I've been experiencing some network issues I've never seen before (in 20
years of (admittedly home LAN) experience). One of my machines was showing
8% packet loss when pinging the same site as another machine on the same hub
at the same time which was reporting 0%. This proves it had
Hi all
I'll spare you all the detail but I need to backup 16Tb to some sort of
archive - i.e. unlikely to ever need it in a hurry. I know 16Tb is a lot
for a "home" situation but I can't find anything reasonable. Can anyone
tell me if there's an option I'm missing:
I've looked at:
* HDD
Hi all
Does anyone know where I could buy some very old full AT server towers from?
I'm talking about the sort that have at least 5 drive bays if not more i.e.
close to being table height if placed on the floor. I'm guessing circa
late 1990s as opposed to anything later - and they definitely
Hi Nick
That's definitely the sort of thing, yes. I can't collect I'm afraid as
I'm north of Manchester. If the group paid, would you be prepared to pack
them up and I'll have them collected?
Cheers
Rob
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From: Hampshire On Behalf Of Nick
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Sent: 1
Hi all
Has anyone had an issue with a KVM where theres a distinct lag and then key
repeat problem on some of the boxes and not others?
I have a 4 port (Belkin USB / DVI) KVM switch. Two machines are Windows 10
(on which this problem is intermittent) and the other 2 machines are a Mac
and
I tend to experience is USB bus malfunctions.
Generally, it recovers after I turn off the USB hub and on again after
switching...
Thanks.
On Thu, May 5, 2022, at 11:40 AM, rmluglist2--- via Hampshire wrote:
> Hi all
>
> Has anyone had an issue with a KVM where there’s a distinct lag a
Hi all
I guess I'm a bit of a dinosaur but I notice that this list (as have many
other LUG mailing lists I've subscribed to) has been quiet for quite a
while. I strongly suspect folks have moved onto social media (which I've
yet to really embrace properly) but if so, where can I find you all?
Hi all
I have an Ubuntu box which is on 24/7/365. It has ufw running allowing
nothing from outside my lan.
A couple of times recently, I've come in to find the machine locked up with
a lot of disk access (it can be ping'd but I can't ssh into it and it
doesn't respond to mouse or keyboard
[snip]
> /var/log/syslog
>
>Is there anything indicative of the issue there?
Nothing that I can see. All I can tell is something called freshclam which
I’d never even heard of. Ufw is blocking a lot of requests – but only from
two media clients (box in question is my media server) so
>I've seen this behaviour with ClamAV; in the end I had to remove it. The
>database gets to a certain point where it won't fit in >memory along with the
>rest of the system; swap doesn't help, you'd need to add RAM to accommodate it.
>https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/114709/how-to-redu
Hi all
A real curious one this. I have an old NAS box which only accepts SMBv1.0
connections. I can connect to it:
Sudo mount - t cifs sharename mountpoint -o
username=foo,uid=bar,gid=foobar,vers=1.0
from one of my Ubuntu jammy boxes with no problem. A newer machine (fresh
install -
Hi all
Does anyone know anything about BT's switch from landline to voip? I have
a specific question which I can't google an answer to and BT customer
"services" don't fill me with confidence.
The question is very simple: If you're swapped from landline to VOIP, does
this mean you have a
Thanks both James and Tim
Further testing suggests it's the alignment of the record head on the SAS
drive that's the issue as the SCSI drive can read and write its own stuff as
well as reading stuff written on a 3rd drive - but not tapes written on the
SAS drive. The SAS drive can read anything
Hi all
At my wits end with this so hopefully someone with more experience can
help
Does anyone know why a tape written on a given drive will not be
readable on another drive when theyre the same format and being written /
read with the same method?
Ive written a series of backup tapes
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Cc: rmlugli...@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Tape drives - one can't read from t'other!
On Fri, 4 Oct 2024 at 12:07, rmluglist2--- via Hampshire
wrote:
>
> So why would a LTO4 SCSI drive not be able to read from a LTO4 SAS drive when
> it can
Hi all
OK - I'm not having much luck with these tape backups - a 20Tb HDD is
looking very favourable right now but I'll press on for the moment.
Does anyone know why a (LTO4) drive would report a tape being full when "it
isn't"? It wrote about 470Gb perfectly well on a completely blank ta
>I am sure this problem has been solved before. Are you reinventing the wheel
>in some way?
That's what I'm bothered by - yes.
>I found that open source backup software like "bacula" has solved all these
>sorts of problems.
>Is there a specific reason why you don't wish to use tried and tested b
Hi all
Coming back to a topic I raised a few months ago.
I've been trying to get a write-once-read-many backup using tape. Trouble
is - it keeps failing. It's a fair old amount of data to backup (20+Tb)
but I think one of the issues is I'm trying:
tar czvf /dev/nst0 /path/to/data
Hi all
Having upgrade to fibre recently, I've started to experience a weird problem
with the speeds I'm getting. More details below but does anyone recognise
the following issue? For some reason, speeds of 800+Mbps suddenly drop to
around 90Mbps on certain machines only. I have no managed
>Could the switch be overheating and dropping down to lower speeds to stop
itself from melting?
I've not tested that - will have a look but I doubt it.
>Are all the cables in the study at least Cat5e, no Cat5 cables lurking in
there?
Almost certainly there will be some very old cabling in there
Thanks folks - a few things for me to check there.
-Original Message-
From: Hampshire On Behalf Of Nick
Chalk via Hampshire
Sent: 20 July 2025 11:20
To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List
Cc: Nick Chalk
Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Networking hardware advice
On Sunday, 20 July, 2025, I wrote:
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