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#2 Re: Installation » Has anyone got Devuan to run on HP + Intel RST? » Today 06:42:34

mostly for the convenience of future thread visitors:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Rapid_Storage_Technology

the very first question is...wait for it...you knew it was coming...

you have a tried and true, bullet-proof method to completely recover this machine to its original state? yes?(asking for a friend)

#3 Re: DIY » how to implement Linux commands for building core boot image » Today 06:15:53

from the link provided in the OP:

Build tools preparation

1) on Devuan (Debian without SystemD):

sudo apt-get install bison coreutils curl flex gcc g++ libncurses-dev libnss3-dev libssl-dev m4 make p7zip-full patch pkg-config unzip wget xxd zlib1g-dev git

you can always email Mike Banon to confirm that a clean fresh install of Devuan was used for this project(and that no "snaps" were present and/or used/utilized in this endeavour).

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edited to add a link to a possibly related reddit(6 years old though):

https://www.reddit.com/r/coreboot/comments/bhf96e/lenovo_g505s_good_stepbystep_guide_on_how_to/?rdt=41619

#4 Re: Installation » Devuan 5 not Booting on 2005 Toshiba Tecra A7 Intel Centrino Duo » Today 05:21:30

the BT on the description/title may denote this company:

https://www.businessdirect.bt.com/about-us/

use caution and patience with your experimentation regarding upgrades/updates to your equipment. you may end up purchasing several sticks of ram before you figure out exactly what works for your machine. only put one stick in at a time and if it works then run memtest on that one stick for at least one complete test cycle.

unless you are getting parts either free or very inexpensively(perferrably locally sourced naturally) then i would recommend purchasing the ram first and getting it working before additional purchases of anything else.

with respect to spinning platters, what was the speed of the original internal hdd? many laptops came with slower rpm for two reasons, one being there was no need to go faster than the board could transfer data and two, the theory was a 4200rpm drive would make the battery last longer. typically any solid-state storage solution will give much better performance and battery longevity than spinning platters(at any speed 4200/5400/7200/10000).

good luck and keep us posted please.

#5 Re: ARM Builds » Booting on USB on Raspberry pi 4 » 2024-12-06 09:08:54

searching DDG shows multiple results using "raspberry pi 4 usb booting"(quotation marks only added for forum clarity, not used for the search)

#7 Re: Installation » Devuan 5 not Booting on 2005 Toshiba Tecra A7 Intel Centrino Duo » 2024-12-06 06:58:59

while you are experimenting with ram you can also consider the possibility of some sort of solid-state internal storage to replace the spinning rust. if you don't care about portability then even more options are viable. wireless strength was hit and miss in those days so, again, if it doesn't need to be portable a hard line is much preferred. great to hear you are having some success in your endeavours.

#8 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » Swapon bash:command not found ? » 2024-12-04 10:10:21

it has been said many times before but bears repeating, debian is a lost cause and it is only a matter of time before it becomes more effort than it is worth to continue to use it as a base. for those who refuse to use alphabet/apple/microsoft/redhat(directly at least...yes everyone has their fingers in everyone else's pies), where to go/look/turn? [tongue_in_cheek_but_not_totally_in_jest] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KolibriOS [/tongue_in_cheek_but_not_totally_in_jest]

#9 Re: Installation » Devuan 5 not Booting on 2005 Toshiba Tecra A7 Intel Centrino Duo » 2024-12-04 09:48:44

@mtbvfr

I was using Devuan 5 on a Dell Latitude 6530 to attempt to write to the DVD.

grabbed a lenovo y580 laptop which has the same era internals as your dell latitude e6530 and booted daedalus liveusb. in the accessories section of the menu you should find Xfburn. it has a "Burn Image" function that writes .ISO to CDs and DVDs properly.

that being said, your 2005 Toshiba Tecra A7 Intel Centrino Duo machine with 512MB of ram will not perform enjoyably and/or satisfactorily with the vast majority of current *nix/bsd/etc. distributions. if the machine won't boot from usb media and you don't want to burn through a bunch of cd/dvd disks(harder to find and more expensive these days), probably the best course of action is to learn how to physically remove the hard drive and use a usb adapter to properly format, partition, and install some lightweight stuff so you can both achieve some success and gain some valuable experience, insight, and troubleshooting acumen.

current lightweight offerings include distros like FreeDOS, Puppy Linux, Slitaz, Tiny Core Linux, and the like.

hopefully this helps. keep us posted on your progress.

#11 Re: Installation » Devuan 5 not Booting on 2005 Toshiba Tecra A7 Intel Centrino Duo » 2024-12-01 08:49:04

machines in that era were hit and miss regarding usb booting. sometimes only one of the ports was bootable. if you are able to access the bios setup area where the boot devices/order settings are then you can insert the usb stick in each port and cold-boot the machine to the bios settings area and see if the usb stick shows up in the boot order list. as was suggested earlier in the thread, if you have experience burning and booting cds and/or other lightweight *nix distros you will probably figure things out. good luck and keep us posted!

#12 Re: Off-topic » US Proposes Forcing Google to Sell Chrome . . . » 2024-11-29 08:37:59

skynet/starlink to vastly increase and normalize handset-to-satellite/satellite-to-handset communications.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/11/fcc-approves-starlink-plan-for-cellular-phone-service-with-some-limits/

perhaps a review of the immediately preceding post and associated reference links is in order.

especially/specifically/this_one

more regarding the 1984-style/big-brother/mass-surveillance/fbi/cia/dhs/ice/nsa/skynet/starshield third-party datafest:

https://www.techdirt.com/2024/11/27/you-cant-do-mass-deportations-without-mass-domestic-surveillance-and-ice-is-already-exploring-its-options/

modified to add content

#13 Re: DIY » how to implement Linux commands for building core boot image » 2024-11-29 04:44:41

so the systemd guy worked for military-industrial-complex-contractor-redhat...
and now works for military-industrial-complex-contractor-microsoft...
and what he works on is part of this thing where millions of lives are in the balance:

Ada code facilitates such massive software
projects as the Space Station and the Paris Metro. It has proven to
be extraordinarily robust in decades' worth of daily field tests
under the most rigorous conditions in which millions of lives have
been at stake."

is it just me or does anyone else think this will end badly?   :rolleyes:   :wavingarmswildly:

#14 Re: DIY » how to implement Linux commands for building core boot image » 2024-11-29 04:35:13

really, is really real, or just part of the matrix?   :rolleyes:   :wavingarmswildly:

#15 Re: DIY » how to implement Linux commands for building core boot image » 2024-11-29 03:53:41

quote

Ada code facilitates such massive software
projects as the Space Station and the Paris Metro. It has proven to
be extraordinarily robust in decades' worth of daily field tests
under the most rigorous conditions in which millions of lives have
been at stake."

from

~$ apt info gnat
Package: gnat
Version: 12.2
Priority: optional
Section: devel
Maintainer: Ludovic Brenta <lbrenta@debian.org>
Installed-Size: 14.3 kB
Depends: gnat-12
Suggests: ada-reference-manual-2012
Tag: devel::compiler, devel::lang:ada, implemented-in::ada,
 implemented-in::c, interface::commandline, role::dummy, role::program,
 scope::utility, suite::gnu, works-with::software:source
Download-Size: 4,716 B
APT-Sources: http://deb.devuan.org/merged daedalus/main amd64 Packages
Description: GNU Ada compiler
 GNAT is a full-featured Ada 2012 compiler.  A quote from
 http://www.adaic.org says: "Easily reused and maintained, readable
 and user friendly, Ada code facilitates such massive software
 projects as the Space Station and the Paris Metro. It has proven to
 be extraordinarily robust in decades' worth of daily field tests
 under the most rigorous conditions in which millions of lives have
 been at stake."  Ada is the language for real-world, mission-critical
 programming.
 .
 At the same time, Ada's radical type safety helps novice programmers
 avoid many common mistakes and deliver their software on time (see
 http://www.adaic.org/atwork/trains.html).
 .
 This empty package depends on the default version of the Ada compiler
 for Debian, which is part of the GNU Compiler Collection. Its
 enforces the same version for all Ada compilations, as described in
 the Debian Ada Policy.

seems dangerous to let the ai-bots hack away at such critical code. shazbot.

#17 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » Disable a NIC at boot. » 2024-11-28 16:08:25

you might take a closer look at /etc/default/networking(on our daedalus the CONFIGURE_INTERFACES=yes is commented out)

# Configuration for networking init script being run during
# the boot sequence

# Set to 'no' to skip interfaces configuration on boot
#CONFIGURE_INTERFACES=yes

# Don't configure these interfaces. Shell wildcards supported/
#EXCLUDE_INTERFACES=

# Set to 'yes' to enable additional verbosity
#VERBOSE=no

# Method to wait for the network to become online,
# for services that depend on a working network:
# - ifup: wait for ifup to have configured an interface.
# - route: wait for a route to a given address to appear.
# - ping/ping6: wait for a host to respond to ping packets.
# - none: don't wait.
#WAIT_ONLINE_METHOD=ifup

# Which interface to wait for.
# If none given, wait for all auto interfaces, or if there are none,
# wait for at least one hotplug interface.
#WAIT_ONLINE_IFACE=

# Which address to wait for for route, ping and ping6 methods.
# If none is given for route, it waits for a default gateway.
#WAIT_ONLINE_ADDRESS=

# Timeout in seconds for waiting for the network to come online.
#WAIT_ONLINE_TIMEOUT=300

#18 Re: Installation » live iso not booting into graphical environment » 2024-11-27 07:47:09

what specifically "takes a long time"?

we will need more information to determine if your equipment is behaving normally.

also for future thread visitors convenience:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ThinkPad_W_series#W500

#19 Re: Off-topic » [SOLVED] forum image embedding question. » 2024-11-27 07:32:17

indeed @ralph.ronnquist offers the correct correction and a light poke as well...sigh...

throughout decades of electronics usage we have always sought to turn off anything/everything we can/could to reduce attack-surface / bandwidth-consumption / doxxing / identity-theft / etc.

once again...and on a daily basis...humbled & _hat_in_hand_head_bowed_

nevertheless,

Be Excellent to each other and Party On!

#20 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] MAC address changes every reboot » 2024-11-27 07:14:11

my daedalus amd64 has the following

~$ cat /usr/lib/NetworkManager/conf.d/no-mac-addr-change.conf 
# Certain drivers are known not to support changing the MAC address.
# Disable touching the MAC address on such devices.
#
# See man NetworkManager.conf
#
# https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=777523
[device-31-mac-addr-change]
match-device=driver:eagle_sdio,driver:wl
wifi.scan-rand-mac-address=no

which results in part of NetworkManager configuration

~$ sudo NetworkManager --print-config

some of the different places NetworkManager components can be found/hidden(depending on your point-of-view)
/etc/NetworkManager/
/usr/lib/NetworkManager/
/var/lib/NetworkManager/

if you have time this bug report may also provide some context and/or insight:

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=879484

keep us posted on your progress!

#21 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » How to disable IPv6? » 2024-11-27 06:49:08

try adding

ipv6.disable=1

to the commandline bootcode.

also i seem to recall needing to comment out all the ipv6 stuff in the /etc/hosts file

# commented out all the ipv6 stuff to quiet the /var/log/exim4 report logs
#::1		 localhost
#::1             ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
#fe00::0         ip6-localnet
#fe00::0         ip6-mcastprefix
#ff00::0	 ip6-mcastprefix
#fe02::1         ip6-allnodes
#fe02::1         ip6-allrouters
#ff02::1	 ip6-allnodes
#ff02::2	 ip6-allrouters
#ff02::3	 ip6-allhosts
#fe80::1%lo0	 localhost

you might even check what NetworkManager reports

sudo NetworkManager --print-config

keep us posted on your progress.

#22 Off-topic » [SOLVED] forum image embedding question. » 2024-11-26 09:45:41

referencing the directions for displaying an image found here:

https://dev1galaxy.org/help.php#img

     snippet quoted:

Links and images

...

If you want to display an image you can use the img tag. The text appearing after the "=" sign in the opening tag is used for the alt attribute and should be included whenever possible.

FluxBB bbcode test produces FluxBB bbcode test

     same but code tags:

If you want to display an image you can use the img tag. The text appearing after the "=" sign in the opening tag is used for the alt attribute and should be included whenever possible.

[img=FluxBB bbcode test]https://dev1galaxy.org/img/test.png[/img] produces FluxBB bbcode test

     page source code quoted:

<p><a name="img"></a>If you want to display an image you can use the img tag. The text appearing after the "=" sign in the opening tag is used for the alt attribute and should be included whenever possible.</p>
        <p><code>FluxBB bbcode test</code> produces <samp><img style="height: 21px" src="https://dev1galaxy.org/img/test.png" alt="FluxBB bbcode test" /></samp></p>

tried to do this a variety of ways and never succeeded. this was the image i was trying to embed:

xkcd password strength comic

are the instructions correctly incorrect?

#23 Re: Off-topic » What are you reading/want to read ? » 2024-11-26 09:13:15

some background music perhaps:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSG3PNztWg8

the infamous music video that broke the tubes:

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/12/gangnam-style-overflows-int_max-forces-youtube-to-go-64-bit/

wonder how many people are using iSG3PNztWg8 as a passphrase/password?

i Star Gate 3 Person Narrative zippy tunes Waste gate 8

obligatory xkcd:

https://xkcd.com/936/

semi-obligatory explainxkcd:

https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/936:_Password_Strength

#24 Re: Documentation » HOWTO : Downgrade Thunderbird 115 to 102 » 2024-11-26 06:26:55

this webpage(note, debian sid amd64) has an advisement regarding the preference of using a package manager:

https://packages.debian.org/sid/amd64/thunderbird/download

If you are running Debian, it is strongly suggested to use a package manager like aptitude or synaptic to download and install packages, instead of doing so manually via this website.

You should be able to use any of the listed mirrors by adding a line to your /etc/apt/sources.list like this:

deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian sid main

Replacing ftp.de.debian.org/debian with the mirror in question.

to proceed manually just copy the appropriate facility/mirror link and then shorten it by removing the filename itself(something like these):

http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/t/thunderbird/

http://http.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/t/thunderbird/

@dave, it doesn't appear that debian is even offering version 102?

haven't used the bird in years so idk, ymmv.

#25 Re: Off-topic » US Proposes Forcing Google to Sell Chrome . . . » 2024-11-24 10:57:12

another question that will never be answered honestly is what google is doing with all that capacity now that they "claim" they aren't still "caching" the WorldWideWeb anymore?

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/02/google-search-kills-off-cached-webpages/

in all probability they are still caching on the backend to satisfy their internal requirements(not to mention servicing the global intelligence establishments), just lowering their operational bandwidth consumption on the front end(at the expense of the end-user naturally).

also this is thought-provoking as well:

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/11/elizabeth-warren-calls-for-crackdown-on-internet-monopoly-youve-never-heard-of/

further reading:

https://www.internetgovernance.org/2020/08/18/icann-whois-and-global-data-governance/

especially the comments:

https://www.internetgovernance.org/2020/08/18/icann-whois-and-global-data-governance/#comment-42616

John Poole
August 27, 2020 at 14:31   

ICANN has already FAILED the global internet community, including domain name registrants, in so many ways, why continue to persist in ignoring the obvious? ICANN policy making is “dysfunctional by design” and its “consensus decision making” often exhibits groupthink at its worst. As you have noted, ICANN structures are rigged in favor of lobbyists and lawyers representing a few special interests and ICANN’s own “contracted parties,” NOT the “global public interest” nor even the “public interest” as defined by the European Union or any other duly elected governmental authority, including the State of California! Most domain name registrants have NO representation within the “ICANN community” and that is “intentional.” ICANN exists primarily (1) to perpetuate itself — the obscenely overpaid, and oftentimes incompetent, ICANN management, and staff, the inept ICANN Board of Directors, and the “few” who dominate and control the “ICANN community” — and (2) to perpetuate U.S. hegemony over global internet governance including the global DNS. ICANN is a “failed organization.” It needs to be replaced. If people such as yourself persist in pretending otherwise, by default others will decide.

and while we are at it, who ultimately should control Skynet?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Starshield

see also Robert A. Heinlein's Starship Troopers:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starship_Troopers

obligatory skynet links:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skynet_(Terminator)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SKYNET_(surveillance_program)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skynet_(satellite)

and here is another bigger question/thought:
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/02/the-nsas-skynet-program-may-be-killing-thousands-of-innocent-people/

Algorithms increasingly rule our lives. It's a small step from applying SKYNET logic to look for "terrorists" in Pakistan to applying the same logic domestically to look for "drug dealers" or "protesters" or just people who disagree with the state. Killing people "based on metadata," as Hayden said, is easy to ignore when it happens far away in a foreign land. But what happens when SKYNET gets turned on us—assuming it hasn't been already?

not to mention the great pumpkin heading the patch full of gourds again...

greenday anyone?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Idiot#Themes

black sabbath?

https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?pid=51845#p51845

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edited december 7th, 2024 to include another good link referencing the "hiding of the cache"

https://techrights.org/n/2024/12/07/Legacy_of_a_Dying_World_Wide_Web.shtml

edited december 8th, 2024 to include more google

https://techrights.org/n/2024/12/07/Google_Does_Not_Have_a_Search_Engine_Anymore.shtml

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