Posts by Bodge99

Re: Style is optional

Hi, I use Cinnamon on MXLinux.. It's just about perfect for me.

All very easy to install and configure.

B.

I used to have a few Acer netbooks.. D255 and upwards. These were mainly Intel boxes that "could only support 2GB Ram".

Every single one that I've ever owned or worked on would support a 4GB stick with about 3.6GB or so available.

As usual, YMMV.

B

Re: 64-on-32 support

>> The scenario being discussed is about loading a 64-bit *kernel* from 32-bit *UEFI*.

>> This is complex and tricky; as an example, see Ubuntu's docs:

Err... sorry, booting a 64-bit Linux kernel from a 32-bit **bootloader** on 32-bit UEFI has always been easy. Systemd seems to make everything difficult because (IMHO) it is shite. A reasonable idea (questionable??) that is poorly implemented. The bug list for this guff is "not pretty".

What does systemd deliver for most folk that's good?? I've yet to see anything but significant problems.. I refuse to run this garbage on anything headless or remote as traveling several hours to fix stupid errors **isn't happening**.

Just my 5p worth.

B.

Have you tried usb-modeswitch ?

From the package description:

"Several new USB devices have their proprietary Windows drivers onboard,

especially WAN dongles. When plugged in for the first time, they act like

a flash storage and start installing the driver from there. If the driver

is already installed, the storage device vanishes and a new device, such

as an USB modem, shows up. This is called the "ZeroCD" feature.

On Debian, this is not needed, since the driver is included as a Linux

kernel module, such as "usbserial". However, the device still shows up as

"usb-storage" by default. usb-modeswitch solves that issue by sending the

command which actually performs the switching of the device from "usb-

storage" to "usbserial"."

Also, see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nuk1T5KQD4U for "Ed's Super Fix-it".

Very NSFW, but I've "been there" several times!!

B.

Re: You have to wonder

I worked for PO/BT in my youth...

The belt from the back EMF (think largish capacitor) when disconnecting a very long line when wet can **REALLY** hurt!!

The most interesting thing that I saw when working on overhead cables "over the hills & far away" (apart from the occasional nude sunbather) was witnessing a lightning strike on the overhead cables. This was about two mles away from me.. You could see a plasma ball travelling along the cables towards me. I've never got off a pole more quickly. Sod the ladder.. I used the pole stay wire for an emergency dismount.

Scary!!

Re: Old fart rant inside...

Sorry, but a kilobyte **IS** 1,000 bytes.. You are thinking of kibibyte (1,024 bytes).

This spec. has existed since 1998.

B.

Re: Poor specifications, wasn't it?

Yay, I've just sung that one "in my head"...

Re: BIOS update

Not the first time this has happened... A while ago, a few Bay Trail tablets were borked by a firmware update performed by a windows update. In this particular case, the hardware ID pulled from the firmware was incorrect. i.e. a poorly modified firmware derived from a "parent" firmware..

Every time I see David Beckham's name I think of this one:

https://twitter.com/HealeyCartoons/status/649863985530032128

NSFW

Re: @ ZSn

I'm totally sick and tired of all of the anti EU rubbish that is spoken..

Try http://blogs.ec.europa.eu/ECintheUK/euromyths-a-z-index/ for info on "bendy bananas".

Brexit - We are truly fu&ked !

I've done something similar ""twice"".

First time: Drilled through a wall straight into a gas pipe..

Second time: Drilled through a wall straight through a 200 pair cable which was being fixed up the external wall **at the same time**..

My nickname at the time was "lucky Bob"

Re: geez, the ignorance about systemd here is astounding

Yep, some "lies and misunderstandings".. but many, many truths.

Systemd. A solution to a non-existent problem.

Please let it die before a major F.U. occurs.

Re: use sysvinit instead

** Slackware (for example) comes with blackbox, fluxbox, fvwm2, kde, twm, wmaker and xfce. Gnome can be added fairly easily with Dropline. Mate can be had with mateslackbuilds at github. All without systemd.**

The same applies with Cinnamon..

Re: Thermals

Have you seen the Orange Pi Plus 2?? It has wifi, gigabit ethernet and sata.

CPU is a H3 Quad-core Cortex-A7 H.265/HEVC 4K. 2GB DDR3 ram. USB is only 2.0, unfortunately (four USB 2.0, one USB 2.0 OTG).

I've bought a couple to play with..

See https://www.aliexpress.com/store/product/Orange-Pi-Plus-2-H3-Quad-Core-1-6GHZ-2GB-RAM-4K-Open-source-development-board/1553371_32516755321.html

MS have previous form with this sort of shite..

Not quite on the same scale.. but some baytrail tablets have been bricked by MS updating the firmware on the device.. Reboot.. dead tablet.

The only way to recover the tablet is to reflash the firmware with an external hardware programmer.

One guy has had MS pay for the repair.

See http://linxtablet.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=36&t=2253

Just ***YES** to this.. I couldn't put it better myself!!

Re: Weird

I've got:-

We_Can_Hear_You_Having_Sex

and

Police_Surveillance_Van_No-1

I've just moved my main kit to Slackware this week.. I've been looking at systemd free distros and have settled on Devuan, Arch (systemd removed) and Slackware.

I've found Slackware to be the best so far (for me) but I still would recommend Mint to ex-windows users etc.

All good stuff!!

Please don't mess with these little bits of paper.. I know of someone who was pranked in this way... with a shower of hole punch "residue".

He had to go to hospital to get one of the little paper circles removed from his eye.. It was stuck fast!!

Not fun!

Re: Windows 10 in general

Thing is.. most modern machines don't actually have a "bios", even if the manufacturer describes it so. More recent machines have firmware. These are often as buggy as heck (e.g. poor ACPI esp. buggy DSDT's).

The OS do use these. This is one of the reasons why manufacturer supplied drivers for certain hardware often work better than either the MS "certified" ones or other more generic ones.

Re: Lifeboat

Rescue disks:

What I don't understand is why more people don't just boot the live iso from a flashdrive.. You then have the best of both worlds.. a rescue system that you can also install from.

I've started a guide covering 64-bit installation on 32-bit UEFI systems.

See: http://linxtablet.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=2024 if interested..

Not quite these distances, but still a PITA

Not on the scale of flying a measurable percentage around the world..

I once had to drive from 20 miles north of Newcastle (the Geordie version) down to Cardiff on a Sunday morning to plug in a brand new desktop PC. Specifically to fully push the kettle plug into the psu, an extra 10mm or so.

The "custard" was the head of IT for a "quite large" company.

Re: TP Link

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Re: I've got a bit of a soft spot..

Hi,

I think that the AOA 532h takes DDR2 and your CF-53 is DDR3?

I just use the best value for money that Ebuyer sell, faster speed ram is fine and is often cheaper as it's more "current".

I've got 4GB sticks in all of my netbooks and am working on bios mods to allow a 64bit OS on the HP minis.

All good fun!