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Ubuntu Thunderbird Problem After Replacing Drive With /home
by Stephen 10 Jan '15

10 Jan '15

I am running Ubuntu 12.04. I had /home on its own drive and that drive was getting SMART warnings. I backed my data up, replaced the drive, restored, booted and everything seems OK except my Thunderbird filters. When a message comes in that has a rule to filter to a different folder Thunderbird is now raising an error: "message could not be filtered to folder because writing to folder failed". There was a bug but it is being reported as repaired on 2014-10-14. And the only platform mentioned is Windows. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=931303 Now, the messages are going to my Inbox just fine, and I can manually drag them and drop them into the folder that I want them filtered to. So I conclude that this is not a permission problem. Best I could find with Google is that Mozilla suggests that the way to go is to create a profile and move all my existing data to the new profile. http://kb.mozillazine.org/Transferring_data_to_a_new_profile_-_Thunderbird This seems like a Royal pain the kester. Before I undertake this this, I thought I solicit ideas as to possible solutions that are less onerous. Thanks -- Stephen

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Power Supplies & Video Cards
by DAVID CHIPMAN 09 Jan '15

09 Jan '15

I know this really isn't about Linux per se, but I thought I would ask this question here any how. I have a computer wit a 300W PSU. It currently has an onboard video chip, which I would like to replace with a video card. Now, the video card specs mention needing a 300W PSU. My question is: Would that 300W requirement be a minimum, or what the card would need to work full-on? Thanks, -David

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Canadian ISPs Responding to Copyright Notices By Adding Information on Notice System, Privacy Concerns - Michael Geist
by Thomas Milne 09 Jan '15

09 Jan '15

Teksavvy as usual is the awesomest http://www.michaelgeist.ca/2015/01/canadian-isps-responding-copyright-notic…

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New M.2 PCIe 2.0 drives show off future of solid-state storage
by Thomas Milne 09 Jan '15

09 Jan '15

Quote "For newer computers that possess PCIe 3.0 interfaces, the Samsung and Mushkin drives can reach 2,150MB/s read speeds and 1,550MB/s write speeds. (In comparison, a drive using a SATA 6Gb/s interface can only transfer files at a maximum speed of 600MB/s.)" http://www.zdnet.com/article/ces-2015-new-m-2-pcie-2-0-drives-show-off-futu…

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Second router as wireless ethernet bridge
by Thomas Milne 08 Jan '15

08 Jan '15

Here's another project I'm working on that is driving me around the bend. Sorry this is such a long story... A computer in our basement has no wireless, so instead of running a long cable to it, I wanted to put a router beside it and have it connect to that router by ethernet, and then have that router connect to the main one over wireless. No, I did not plug the computer into the WAN port... ;-) I have an old Linksys router WRT54GL v. 1.1 running Tomato 1.28, and my main router, the Buffalo N600 which has DD-WRT. According to about a hundred different howto's it should be very simple. I set the second router to an IP outside the DHCP range of the first, and set also set it to use the first router as gateway and DNS. I also set the SSID and password the same, and also the type of security used. Oh, and obviously I set the second router as 'Wireless Ethernet Bridge'. router 1 is 192.168.11.1, router 2 is 192.168.11.2 both have 255.255.255.0 as subnet mask Router 1 gives out addresses starting at 192.168.11.5 Am I correct in assuming that DHCP broadcasts should be relayed by the second router? In wireless bridge mode it doesn't appear to even have the option of offering DHCP... I noticed that the Buffalo will let you set up a virtual interface, so I tried using that with no security at all. I also found something here: http://www.cnet.com/how-to/reuse-an-old-router-to-bridge-devices-to-your-wi… that said I should set the second router to operate as a router and not as a gateway so I changed that. Still no ping response from google.com :-\ The only thing I can think of is that maybe the firewall settings are wrong on the second router, running Tomato. Respond to ICMP is unchecked, Allow Multicast is unchecked, NAT Loopback is set to Forwarded Only, and Enable SYN cookies is unchecked. Help! -- Thomas Milne

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Linksys 1200AC, an inexpensive, open-source 802.11ac Wi-Fi router
by Thomas Milne 08 Jan '15

08 Jan '15

"The dual 2.4 and 5GHz band AC1200 router is powered by an ARM 1.3GHz Dual-Core Processor. This is backed by 128MB of Flash memory, 512MB DDR3 RAM. A Belkin product manager said that the memory can be upgraded. It also comes with eSATA/USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 ports, four Gigabit Ethernet ports and a Gigabit WAN port." Daaayum http://www.zdnet.com/article/ces-2015-linksys-1200ac-an-inexpensive-open-so… -- Thomas Milne

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Experience with TekSavvy Business DSL
by Sadiq Saif 08 Jan '15

08 Jan '15

Hi all, I am curious if anybody on the list has experience with TekSavvy's business DSL service. I am looking at their 25/10 business service with a dry loop. Any good/bad/ugly thoughts experiences? -- Sadiq Saif https://staticsafe.ca

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Coworking space
by Greg Martyn 08 Jan '15

08 Jan '15

Hi all, Has anyone worked in a coworking space? Have a favourite? I'm just starting my search online, and from what I see, there are plenty to choose from. Any anecdotal tales would be really helpful. I'm completely new to this. Thanks! I live by the Main St subway stop, but have a slight preference for more centrally located locations, because the company I work for might start hiring in the Toronto area in the near future. Thanks, Greg

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Anyone on the list know what I need to read ancient Apple disks?
by David Collier-Brown 06 Jan '15

06 Jan '15

An elderly relative has a PPC iMac, the so-called "sunflower mac" http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/02/Imac_sunflower2.jpg It eventually died, but the symptoms hinted it wasn't a disk crash. This apparently came with MacO OS 9.2 and a 60.0 GB Ultra ATA/66 hard drive (5400 RPM), so what modern machines can read Mac file formats? I have an Ubunutu-based PVR with an ATA interface that's doing the DVD right now, could I read it from Linux? My old SPARC read Mac SCSI formats... --dave -- David Collier-Brown, | Always do right. This will gratify System Programmer and Author | some people and astonish the rest davecb(a)spamcop.net | -- Mark Twain

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Rogers and MTU size
by James Knott 05 Jan '15

05 Jan '15

One thing I noticed recently was that my firewall, running Linux, was getting a MTU of 576 bytes, instead of the normal 1500 bytes. This was being set by the Rogers DHCP server (option 26). 576 was common back in the days of non-error correcting modems, but hasn't been needed since then. If you're running dhcpcd, you can edit /etc/sysconfig/network/dhcp and change the line 'DHCPCD_USER_OPTIONS=""' to 'DHCPCD_USER_OPTIONS="-M"'. This will disable the DHCP MTU setting and use the configured MTU. Using a 1500 MTU will improve network efficiency, as 576 bytes will cause 3 packets to be sent, instead of 1, each with an IP header and also causes a lot more work for all the routers along the path. You can verify the MTU with a ping -s 1500 <destination>. If that works, then you have a 1500 byte MTU along the entire path to the destination. I found this because I was curious as to why the Ethernet port connected to the cable modem was not getting an IPv6 link local address. IPv6 requires a minimum MTU of 1280 bytes so, with 576, IPv6 wasn't allowed. I have advised Rogers of this and the person I was speaking to agreed it should be 1500. Let's see if they fix it.

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