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lotuspsychjegood morning to all04:39
lotuspsychjehows your rocket going Bashing-om ? :p04:40
Bashing-omlotuspsychje: Well .. still having freezing episodes :( Not isolated yet to any common factor, no log entries ( as expected )) .04:43
lotuspsychjehmmz04:44
lotuspsychjeBashing-om: wich brand is your pc?04:45
lotuspsychje!17.0404:47
ubot5`Ubuntu 17.04 (Zesty Zapus) will be the 26th release of Ubuntu.  It is due to be released in April 2017. Discussion in #ubuntu+104:47
Bashing-omlotuspsychje: Home build .. running a Abit main board .. and dual Athlon CPU .. Odd thing here is all installs on this SSD have freezing issues .. BUT (u)buntu 16.04 on a spinner has no issues ... hummm ???04:49
lotuspsychjeBashing-om: im thinking...04:50
lotuspsychjeBashing-om: can you describe at wich point freezes?04:50
Bashing-omBox is running very cool !04:51
Bashing-omlotuspsychje: Nope .. not to this time .. at first I thought is was a gksu issue ,, in that when I attempted to mount internal drives from the GUI .. shortly there after a freeze would occur ( re-installed a full desktop at that point ).. but .. not messing about with the GUI and still happens . To this time I have not found a common factor .04:55
lotuspsychjeBashing-om: im guessing it could be bios/new hardware issue04:57
lotuspsychjeBashing-om: tried setting your abit to low defaults? update bios flash?04:58
Bashing-omKinda think I am going to keep where I am .. and await sytem updates and next kernel . If I keep installing ( and fsck'n ) this SSD, will not do well for wear leveling !04:58
lotuspsychjei dont think its ubuntu freezing it04:59
Bashing-omGot the thought too that a updated bios chip might be a good idea ( my bios is on chip ! ).04:59
lotuspsychjelow defaults on abit can be also good idea to test05:00
lotuspsychjeabit is real stubborn, but stable board05:00
Bashing-omWell. been through bios setting several times . I do not see anything I thought to change to make a difference .05:01
lotuspsychjeBashing-om: you should be able to change 'defaults' or improved settings05:02
Bashing-omI have not "reset to optimized defaults " reckon a good idea to try ?05:03
lotuspsychjei remember having afreezing acer laptop, with network boot enabled, i had to disable it for ssd/system freeze05:03
lotuspsychjeBashing-om: i would first try reset to low defaults05:04
Bashing-omWell .. will not hurt to try .. all that is lost in trying ia a bit of time .05:05
lotuspsychjeBashing-om: no ssd errors showing in syslog neither?05:05
lotuspsychjeBashing-om: hmmm, i remember samsung ssd's could have a bug with some chips..VIA i presume05:06
Bashing-omBeen running ( light ) now for about 4 hours .. no problems - no freezes .05:06
Bashing-omNvidia chip sets .05:06
lotuspsychjeBashing-om: also check samsungs website for the latest firmware of your ssd type, you never know05:08
lotuspsychjeif it shows a new firmware, its highly recommended to flash it aswell05:08
lotuspsychjeBashing-om: did you have 850 evo or 840 evo?05:09
Bashing-omK .. that too is a thought .05:09
lotuspsychjecould also be a sata bottleneck05:11
Bashing-omlotuspsychje: Thought about the ports too .. and have changed the sata cables to different ports . with new locking cables .05:16
lotuspsychjeok bad sata cables checked :p05:23
lotuspsychjeBashing-om: another thought might be testing a lubuntu live, to make sure its not an xfce flaw?05:26
Bashing-omlotuspsychje: Yeah .. done that too .. ( not for long term however ) . And As said .. my installs on the spinners have no issues .05:28
lotuspsychjemust be ssd/hardware level then05:28
lotuspsychjesomething bottlenecking05:29
Bashing-omBios is old .. maybe time for that bios upgrade .... 2007 long before SSD speed was thoughgt of .05:31
lotuspsychjemine is abit aswell kv8-max3 playing perfect with the ssd05:32
lotuspsychjethere must be something we overlook05:32
Bashing-omI did see where Rod Smith cautioned that this Phoenox bios might not support GPT partitioning ( I did partition MBR ), and I can see where if GPT is a problem .. dealing with a SSD might also be a problem for this bios !05:34
lotuspsychjehmm gpt partitioning?05:42
lotuspsychjecould try auto partition from ubuntu?05:43
Bashing-omCould be - as you have said - a number of possibilities -- Graphics driver on this new card I have been running nouveau .. might see what resukts with the 367 version driver .05:50
lotuspsychjeah yeah05:50
lotuspsychjeBashing-om: time for deep investigation :p05:51
lotuspsychjebbl05:51
Bashing-omwont take bit a tik to install from the PPA . - as much as I do not want to go proprietary . Still a good thought to try .05:52
Bashing-ombit/but*05:52
Bashing-omI run me some glx-info test and compare !05:54
lotuspsychjegl mate06:03
lotuspsychjettyl06:03
ducassemorning all06:12
Bashing-omducasse: o/ .. A good day to ya ! As I get to me signing off place .06:21
ducasseyou do that. got any further diagnosing your system?06:23
Bashing-omducasse: Naw .. think I gonna next install the proprietary graphic's driver ..06:25
ducasseBashing-om: i would consider updating bios and ssd firmware, at least check if a newer bios is available.06:25
Bashing-omducasse: Yepper .. have also that thought .. my bios is on chip .. so not a great big deal to get an updatd chip . Lotus also suggested the firmware upgrade from Samsung - if there is one .06:27
ducasseBashing-om: which ssd model?06:28
Bashing-om850 pro .06:28
ducasseBashing-om: the pro models actually have a linux update tool, i think...06:30
ducasseBashing-om: anyway, best of luck! let us know if you want any help tracking this down! and sleep well :)06:32
Bashing-omducasse: Not done a lot of looking yet .. but I do understand is an .iso that you can burn as bootable !06:32
OerHekssurprising top 3 .. http://i.imgur.com/OaEuuSy.png16:06
daftykinshmm!16:08
OerHeksnot sure these numbers have a global meaning16:09
daftykinscould either be a sign that people with low spec systems are holding onto lubuntu to try and make them relevant still, or perhaps many see the light that 3D accelerated desktops are wasteful16:10
daftykinshowever if the first, you don't need a new kernel on old kit :)16:10
nicomachusany of you guys use screen or tmux often?16:15
nacci use screen pretty often16:16
nicomachusany good tutorials out there? I've been told a few times it makes irssi over SSH a whole lot better, but reading the man page just doesn't really give me a good rundown of how to do that effectively.16:16
naccnicomachus: ssh into a server, `screen irssi`. When you want to disconnect, run ctrl+A then d, which will disconnect you from the session. When you want to reconnect, ssh back in and `screen -r`16:18
daftykinsyep screen here16:18
daftykinsscreen -U irssi; for me :>16:18
naccdaftykins: fair point :)16:18
daftykinsmind you i think i use a font without UTF characters here in KiTTY so it's all moot!16:18
daftykinsi still get those square boxes :>16:19
naccheh16:19
nicomachusI think the detaching and reattaching is the part I'm not getting.16:19
naccnicomachus: so ctrl+a is the (iirc, default) screen metakey, 'd' tells it to detach16:20
naccnow your irssi session is running in a detached screen16:20
naccit's still running, still connected to a terminal, etc.16:20
nicomachusbrb16:20
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naccscreen -r resumes that session (if there are mulitiple screens, screen will tell you their names and not resume any of them, iirc)16:20
daftykinsit's a pretty weird key press the first few times you use it16:20
nicomachusok, I think I get it. messing with attaching and reattaching while on some man pages16:21
daftykinsfor some reason i always saw guides referring to using "screen -raAd" for resizing on reattach (a and A) as well as detaching an existing session (d) but i don't think they're necessary16:22
daftykinsyou can do some pretty neat shared shell sessions with screen so someone remotely can SSH in and watch what you're doing :>16:23
nacci guess if you're connecting from multiple locations, but even then, you don't need to disconnect the other16:23
daftykinsyeah16:23
nicomachusI've been using newsbeuter as an RSS reader lately. Have it configured on my home PC, and I've been accessing it both from my phone and laptop16:24
nicomachusthis could help, I suppose.16:24
nicomachusnewsbeuter is nice for a CLI RSS reader, btw16:24
daftykinsi use feedly on my phone16:24
nicomachusI still need to do some more work on it to get it how I want.16:25
nicomachusi thought feedly was abandonware at this point?16:25
daftykinsnews to me if so16:25
nicomachusmaybe I'm thinking of something else.16:25
daftykinscould be, wasn't long ago i got my last update16:26
nicomachussince newsbeuter is setup on my home pc though, it saves my read status no matter where I access it from. without being hosted on some cloud somewhere where you never know when it's gonna rain.16:26
daftykinswhen at the PC/laptop i can use the chrome app too, as it's all synced online16:26
daftykinsyeah feedly is the same, i read something on the phone and it's instantly updated16:27
daftykinsfree account too16:27
nicomachusChrome though.16:30
nicomachusI'm done with them.16:30
daftykinsit's not my primary browser, and we're talking about a browser addon so i don't know if it's elsewhere16:31
daftykinswhat's up your posterior about Google today? :)16:31
nicomachustired of relying on one company for everything.16:32
daftykinshrmm16:32
daftykinsa client of mine wants an all in one PC, but my word they're all so rubbish16:33
daftykinsplus it's essentially buying a laptop and shoving it in a large screen on a desk16:33
nicomachusaren't the all-in-one Mac's the same hardware as the macbooks?16:34
daftykinsall out of date, it's an iMac he has right now but he's finally seen the light that it's too much of a hassle to have Windows in the office, then when he wants to do something at home quickly he doesn't know how :D16:35
nicomachusgonna try to put some stress on screen. brb16:41
daftykinso016:42
nicomachushey, it worked16:43
* nacc tries to imagine what stress is16:43
nicomachusprobably a bad word for it16:43
daftykinsnacc: being in #ubuntu16:44
daftykins;D16:44
nacclol16:44
nicomachusI forced an SSH disconnect, which made my ssh sessions freeze up16:44
naccnicomachus: no it's the right word, i'm just trying to consider what that would be to screen16:44
naccah16:44
naccthat doesn't stress screen at all, fwiw :)16:44
naccscreen is running purely on the remote server16:44
nicomachusright. poor word choice. but it was just testing how to get back into the session after a disconnect, which is the issue I was having with irssi over SSH before using screen16:45
naccnicomachus: ah got it16:45
nicomachusif I'm not paying attention and disconnect/connect a VPN or something, i would kill my SSH connections.16:46
daftykinsi've heard mosh is worth a play too, but it seems a bit of work16:47
naccyep, that's where screen et al can really help you out :)16:47
daftykinsmmm my irssi runs in a VM on my file server, i connect in from wherever i am to chat - even whilst i was in the US16:48
daftykinswhich reminds me, got a port to close...16:48
nicomachuswhat's the connect like across the pond to hit your file server?16:54
nicomachuss/connect/connection/16:54
daftykinsyou definitely get a bit of delay, but if the connection is good in 'murica then it's very reasonable, my islands peering is very good16:57
daftykinsso for example the shoddy internet connection in Estes Park was a bit bleh, but once we got down to Boulder there was a comcast business connection in the hotel there i think, it was ace16:58
EriC^^hey guys17:29
EriC^^daftykins o/17:29
daftykinso hai17:29
OerHeks:-)17:29
EriC^^how's it going?17:30
daftykinsall good here thanks, and you?17:30
daftykinsany new toys recently? :D ooh how did the night time photo taking go?17:31
EriC^^!ping17:35
ubot5`pong!17:35
EriC^^nice17:35
EriC^^this samsung can really take a beating17:35
EriC^^i'm good, no new toys17:36
EriC^^haven't taken many pics really17:36
EriC^^i think i discovered photography isn't really one of my passions, like just a once in a while hobbie thing17:37
EriC^^:D17:37
nicomachussamsung?17:38
EriC^^ah the phone i got after my iphone started inflating17:38
daftykinsyeah i liked borrowing an SLR whilst hiking in Colorado, but i couldn't care to own one17:38
EriC^^it's a $100 phone but i dropped it and it keeps working17:38
EriC^^i literally just threw it across the room onto the bed and it bounced off the bed and landed facedown on the floor17:39
EriC^^(had to take an important international call on the landline and didn't want the wifi to cut off in the room)17:39
daftykins:>17:44
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naccwe should just pay someone to translate from what a user is asking in #ubuntu to what they should be asking21:54
OerHeksnacc, i am cheap21:55
OerHeks:-D21:55
naccheh21:56
OerHekshe wants to boot a live iso, so switching bootdevice should be his answer.21:56
OerHeksplop-i-plop21:57
daftykinsi always hated the ones that came in with a translator21:57
nicomachusgood lord this kid is insane.21:57
nicomachustrying to help out this Bray guy with a missing driver, can't cut through the crap.21:57
nacccouple of real hair-pullers in a ruow :)21:57
nacc*row21:57
OerHeksTheFatherMind is his little brother perhaps?21:57
Ben64i picked the wrong time to come into #ubuntu :)21:58
OerHeksBen64, no! this session will make your chesthair grow21:58
OerHeks♪ winter in america is cold ..21:59
Ben64productive21:59
OerHekssame troll ..21:59
Ben64aw, checked the logs22:00
Ben64he's one of the trolls about jewish stuff22:00
nicomachusoh great.22:00
Ben64wait maybe he was just responding to one22:00
naccso that video he posted was just a short one that showed someone booting the plop ISO and then, I think, passing through a usb thumb drive to the vbox guest22:02
* nacc lets it go22:03
nicomachusyou actually watched it? lol22:05
nacci believe they thought they did something with 16.04 and weren't able to do it with 16.10. I'm not sure if they actually did it or not22:08
OerHeksI 'd like to see the face of thefathermind when he starts his upgrade to 16.04 ..22:09
Ben64it's probably possible to boot from usb in vbox22:12
Ben64but... why22:12
Ben64if you got the iso on a usb, you have the iso already22:12
OerHeksmuch much faster too22:13
naccBen64: yeah, i think that was the discussion that wasn't happening, but not sure22:13
OerHekserr .. just reading "Canonical Now Offering Live Kernel Patching Services, Free for Up to Three PCs22:28
OerHeksRead more: http://news.softpedia.com/news/canonical-now-offering-live-kernel-patching-services-free-for-up-to-three-pcs-509417.shtml22:28
naccnot that it's super important, but only applies to 16.04 kernel stream22:30
naccprobably will end up being a faq though as people on 16.10 wonder if they can use it or not22:31
OerHeksgoto https://ubuntu.com/livepatch, login, get token, sudo snap install canonical-livepatch and sudo canonical-livepatch enable <token>22:31
OerHeksoh indeed, only supports 64-bit versions of the Ubuntu 16.04 LTS22:32
OerHeksyay \0/22:32
Bashing-omHehe he ... Success on a SSD re-partition and not loose what I had !22:58
OerHeksgood job, Bashing-om22:59
Bashing-omI was real unhappy having this one install take up the whole disk .. and recommendations were to leave a bumper zone at the end of the drive .23:00
OerHeksNot sure about that beiing correct..23:02
OerHeks"do not fill your ssd over 90%" also questionable23:03
daftykinswell if you have a drive that doesn't have any built-in spare area, you'll see speeds dramatically drop when they're full23:06
Bashing-omWell .. was looking on Samsungs web site in repextto updates for the firmware .. and I see they ( at that time ) still advised a 25% bumper .. now how "needed" that is .. well beats me . I am all new to all this SSD stuff .23:10
Ben64why does live patching require a subscription thing23:38
daftykinsBashing-om: Often an SSD would present to an OS as say 240GB but the actual chips would be 256GB or more - the difference is called the 'spare area' and is used by the controller chips to speed up writes, rather than it having to flush old 'dirty' blocks each time. The thing with this is that it's different for every model of drive23:41
daftykinsi wouldn't bother going that far though (leaving unpartitioned space)23:41
daxBen64: Because the free tier only allows three systems23:41
daxI assume that's how they count23:41
Ben64right but i don't get it, why not just build it into the system, the kernel has allowed it for a while23:44

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