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.
33 publicly visible posts • joined 8 Feb 2016
>> 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.
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!!
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..
systemd
-free Devuan Linux hits version 1.0.0
systemd
v228
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
Back in the early days of decent sized LCD monitors I bought a few 27" ones for the family (and me).. 9 in total. A short while after this I was offered a "job load" of "industrial" UPS's. These contained hugh batteries and weighed a ton. Just perfect for a household full of desktops..
Anyway, about 6 months later we had a power outage in middle of the day. Each UPS kicked in as required. Unfortunately the "pure sine wave" UPS output wasn't at all pure (more like a lumpy triangle wave when I 'scoped it). This resulted in smoke pouring out of each monitor after 30 seconds or so.
Yep, 8 monitors that were powered at the time were destroyed.. bummer!
Moral: If buying a "pure sine wave" UPS or generator, ask for proof that the output really is "pure".
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.
systemd
-free Debian fork
Replace your /etc/apt/sources.list with this:
# This includes the non-free repositories
deb http://packages.devuan.org/merged/ ascii main contrib non-free
deb-src http://packages.devuan.org/merged/ ascii main contrib non-free
deb http://packages.devuan.org/merged/ ascii-security main contrib non-free
deb-src http://packages.devuan.org/merged/ ascii-security main contrib non-free
deb http://packages.devuan.org/merged/ ascii-updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://packages.devuan.org/merged/ ascii-updates main contrib non-free
deb http://packages.devuan.org/merged/ ascii-backports main contrib non-free
deb http://packages.devuan.org/merged/ ceres main contrib non-free
# End
If you wish, add yourself to the sudoers group with
su
adduser <username> sudo
Logout & login again.
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get autoremove
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
sudo apt-get autoremove
Now reboot to a systemd free system...
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 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.
Many moons ago I spent a short while working for a micky mouse company that had the contract for warranty repairs for some of the (slightly) bigger PC names at the time.
One home visit was to look at a large tower system that cost nearly £3,000 . It was packed full of very expensive kit.. state of the art goodies that just made me drool when reading the spec.
The tower was totally dead and I couldn't fail to miss the three "horse sized" Great Danes as I arrived.
Can you see where this is going yet??
I removed the tower side panels and was physically overwhelmed by the stench that emanated.
Yep.. The dogs had been relieving themselves over the back of the tower.
The urine had rotted out most of the copper tracks on everything inside.. and no, the warranty didn't cover it!
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!
...for netbooks, esp. Acer D255, D270 and the HP mini 210 4000 series. I'm looking for a good used Asus 1025 C with an N2800 CPU for coreboot experiments..
One thing I have discovered is that the given spec. for these is "a little inaccurate".
For example, the HP mini 210-4xxx is quoted by HP as supporting only 1GB of ram (WRONG!). Intel quote a max of 2GB for this chipset. The motherboard will actually take a 4GB stick with just over 3GB usable. The same applies for the Acer D270.
Linux runs very well on these, especially with a SSD fitted.