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| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/2998752 | Sep 11 09:26 |
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| TechBytesBot | @schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: There have been many reports since last year about funnelling of weapons by the CIA to 'rebels'. MSM covered it also. But people forget. | Sep 11 09:26 |
| schestowitz | "Weapons have been coming into Syria via Turkey, financed by US, Qatar, Saudis since the beginning of the conflict. Personally I think this is what the big Benghazi secret is, that weapons were being moved by questionably-motivated entities from Libya to Syrian rebels via Turkey." | Sep 11 09:26 |
| schestowitz | >> Zonker did major changes in the site, a lot of old content is | Sep 11 11:36 |
| schestowitz | >> gone. He now works for Red Hat. | Sep 11 11:36 |
| schestowitz | > | Sep 11 11:36 |
| schestowitz | > There seems to be a minor wave of sites expiring lately. It really | Sep 11 11:36 |
| schestowitz | > sucks. In the print world you can count on an archive or library | Sep 11 11:36 |
| schestowitz | > hanging on to the material somewhere. And while it may not be fast or | Sep 11 11:36 |
| schestowitz | > convenient to retrieve, it is still available. With the centralized, | Sep 11 11:36 |
| schestowitz | > digital information, everything is dependent on the whims of the | Sep 11 11:36 |
| schestowitz | > custodian or a chain of custodians. One failure and the only copy is | Sep 11 11:36 |
| schestowitz | > gone. | Sep 11 11:36 |
| schestowitz | Yesterday a client's site was shown as due to expire next week. Costs involved in keeping up, business is defunct now. Sent mail to ask if he wants to renew. :-( | Sep 11 11:36 |
| schestowitz | The Web is digital - quick dissemination the upside, easy publication, but no libraries, no multiple physical copies. There are not many parallels. We welcome new rules, new realities, the worlds of the abundant are also the realms of the obsolete or transient. | Sep 11 11:36 |
| schestowitz | > PS. The message came signed but not encrypted. I assume the lack of | Sep 11 11:36 |
| schestowitz | > a subject indicate an intention to have the body encrypted. | Sep 11 11:36 |
| schestowitz | Thunderbird problem. | Sep 11 11:36 |
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| schestowitz | > There are some disk utilities in this package: | Sep 11 22:14 |
| schestowitz | > | Sep 11 22:14 |
| schestowitz | > apt-get install smartmontools | Sep 11 22:14 |
| schestowitz | > | Sep 11 22:14 |
| schestowitz | > Then you can do a survey against a specific drive: | Sep 11 22:14 |
| schestowitz | > | Sep 11 22:14 |
| schestowitz | > smartctl --all /dev/sda | Sep 11 22:14 |
| schestowitz | > | Sep 11 22:14 |
| schestowitz | > But if it has been running regularly for 5+ years, it is probably | Sep 11 22:14 |
| schestowitz | > overdue for a replacement. Also the other components might be getting | Sep 11 22:14 |
| schestowitz | > old enough to warrant getting a new system. The old one can get a new | Sep 11 22:14 |
| schestowitz | > drive and then be moved to a less key position in your infrastructure. | Sep 11 22:14 |
| schestowitz | > | Sep 11 22:14 |
| schestowitz | > One of my systems is showing a lot of 'pre-fail' and 'old_age' | Sep 11 22:14 |
| schestowitz | > warnings but I plan to run that one into the ground. Though I suppose | Sep 11 22:15 |
| schestowitz | > it would be better to consider HD replacement first. I've done it | Sep 11 22:15 |
| schestowitz | > before but that case is a royal pain to open and close as it's an | Sep 11 22:15 |
| schestowitz | > older Mac Mini. | Sep 11 22:15 |
| schestowitz | I think that I can now understand why I get so many errors from appr. This system is getting messed up: | Sep 11 22:15 |
| schestowitz | sudo apt-get install smartmontools | Sep 11 22:15 |
| schestowitz | [sudo] password for roy: | Sep 11 22:15 |
| schestowitz | Reading package lists... Error! | Sep 11 22:15 |
| schestowitz | E: Encountered a section with no Package: header | Sep 11 22:15 |
| schestowitz | E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/gb.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_precise-updates_multiverse_binary-i386_Packages | Sep 11 22:15 |
| schestowitz | E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened. | Sep 11 22:15 |
| schestowitz | roy@roy:~$ sudo apt-get install smartmontools | Sep 11 22:15 |
| schestowitz | Reading package lists... Error! | Sep 11 22:15 |
| schestowitz | E: Encountered a section with no Package: header | Sep 11 22:15 |
| schestowitz | E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/gb.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_precise-updates_multiverse_binary-i386_Packages | Sep 11 22:15 |
| schestowitz | E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened. | Sep 11 22:15 |
| schestowitz | roy@roy:~$ sudo apt-get install vim | Sep 11 22:15 |
| schestowitz | Reading package lists... Error! | Sep 11 22:15 |
| schestowitz | E: Encountered a section with no Package: header | Sep 11 22:15 |
| schestowitz | E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/gb.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_precise-updates_multiverse_binary-i386_Packages | Sep 11 22:15 |
| schestowitz | E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened. | Sep 11 22:15 |
| schestowitz | roy@roy:~$ sudo apt-get install joe | Sep 11 22:15 |
| schestowitz | Reading package lists... Error! | Sep 11 22:15 |
| schestowitz | E: Encountered a section with no Package: header | Sep 11 22:15 |
| schestowitz | E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/gb.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_precise-updates_multiverse_binary-i386_Packages | Sep 11 22:15 |
| schestowitz | E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened. | Sep 11 22:15 |
| schestowitz | roy@roy:~$ | Sep 11 22:15 |
| schestowitz | > You wrote: You don't want to read books using devices | Sep 11 23:27 |
| schestowitz | > that burn books; physical copies would be superior... | Sep 11 23:27 |
| schestowitz | > | Sep 11 23:27 |
| schestowitz | > Me: I have not found that to be the case at all. I have at least 100 books on my Kindle and they all stay put and never disappear. Furthermore my Kindle Syncs with my 10 inch iPad screen which I love reading. Anita, who is an avid reader much prefers a book. At first I was set to dislike anything but a book. Now, to me, books are just old (Gutenberg) technology. I could list a dozen wonderful features...like a finger tap | Sep 11 23:27 |
| schestowitz | > dictionary, save a phrase, paragraph or page easily, and much more. | Sep 11 23:27 |
| schestowitz | > | Sep 11 23:27 |
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