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HP / MSI mobo issue
by Phil Thane 07 Oct '22

07 Oct '22

Hi Folks, I used to be subscribed as phil(a)pthane.co.uk but couldn't figure out how to change the email address so here I am re-subscribed. Same old codger with weird issues though... I have a 'new' desktop PC made from random parts. The MoBo is made by MSI but was an OEM product for HP. Searching for advice on MSI site says refer to HP. The HP support site appears to be crashed, permanently. I think I need a BIOS update and hundreds of sites offer them but how do I find a reliable one? There are two issues: 1. The BIOS fails to find a bootable disk unless I hit f9 and select one. I can enter the BIOS setup via f10 and set boot order there but it doesn't remain in CMOS memory, on next boot I have to do it again. 2. The PC is set to suspend after 30 mins inactivity. On re-awakening the clock is precisely 86 hours fast! Same happens if I put it to sleep manually. It can't be reset via the OS (Mint, Cinnamon), or via hwclock. It resets correctly when rebooted, without needing to fiddle the Date and Time settings in BIOS. I thought maybe the CMOS battery was failing so scrambling the memory. Volt meter showed 3.1V but having tried everything else I replaced the battery anyway, but to no avail. Neither problem is a show stopper, I can set the sleep timer to 'never' and remember to hit f9 during boot, but it's annoying. Any ideas? Or a reliable source of BIOS upgrades? -- Phil Thane Email: philthane(a)gmx.co.uk Tweet: @pthane Web: https://pthane.weebly.com

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Peterborough LUG meeting
by B D 04 Oct '22

04 Oct '22

Hello ALUG users, I'm not sure if you heard that Peterborough LUG got revived recently? At the beginning of September we had a meeting which attracted in excess of 10 users. It's been agreed that regular meetings will take place on first Wednesday of each month. We though that you might want to join us and if so here are the meeting details. This time we will gather at Brewery Tap (PE1 2AA) on 5th October at about 7:30pm. Anyone attending will be charged £3 to cover the venue costs. Long gone are days when people were shamed for using anything other than a Linux computer at Linux meetings so feel free to bring you Mac or Windows laptop. Nevertheless you should expect some cheerful banter ;) Meeting agenda include installing proxmox on a blade server and tackling boot issues on an older laptop. Some other subjects will be covered too. It would be great to see ALUG reps joining us. Cheers, Bart

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Web hosting recommendations wanted
by Chris Green 04 Oct '22

04 Oct '22

I currently use TsoHost but I'm not very happy with them. I'm migrating from their cloud to their cPanel and I'm hitting all sorts of snags while their support is very slow. So does anyone have any recommendations for alternatives please. I'm hosting about ten web sites so something around the same capabilities as their Ultimate package. I need that sort of amount of 'help' too. I do have a VPS on Gandi but I don't want to have to manage other people's web sites on that, I want someone else to shout at when it all goes pear shaped! :-) -- Chris Green

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Any TsoHost users here?
by Chris Green 03 Oct '22

03 Oct '22

Does anyone here use TsoHost? Have they gone seriously downhill recently? I have raised some tickets with them over the past day or two and haven't even got an acknowledgement, let alone any help. -- Chris Green

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change of email address
by Phil Thane 03 Oct '22

03 Oct '22

Hi (admin) folks, After years of maintaining my own website and email for work I'm finally admitting I'm retired and retiring my site. phil(a)pthane.co.uk will stop working next month so please update my membership details (or tell me how). The reply to address: philthane(a)gmax.co.uk will be my address from now on. Thanks. -- Phil Thane

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BIOS / EUFI
by Phil Thane 21 Sep '22

21 Sep '22

Hi folks, Still having fun with my 'new' PC. I mentioned before I thought the BIOS CMOS chip wasn't remembering stuff. Replaced the battery and it appears it does. But not everything. Two problems; a As previously remarked it won't retain choice of boot disk (SATA 0) and throws an error, 'no bootable media' unless I hit f9 to choose a disk, then it boots Grub properly. Even more weird the BIOS date changes, and Mint uses that that to set system time. It jumps forward sometimes by about three days. Most things work OK but emails are rejected as the date is implausible. can't reset it from Mint, have to reboot to BIOS and set there. Not every time though, seems random. -- Phil Thane Email: philthane(a)gmx.co.uk Tweet: @pthane Web: https://pthane.weebly.com

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erratic mouse
by Bev Nicolson 21 Sep '22

21 Sep '22

Erratic mouse behaviour is, I understand, usually a graphics card issue. How do I determine that? Symptoms: neither mouse (wired) or the mouse pad (Dell latitude e5530 - so not in the first flush) behave entirely as they should. I can try clicking on a link or icon and it won't recognise that I have done so till say the third click. It will highlight whole paragraphs of text if I click on a space to add a letter and delete them without my pressing the backspace key. But not always. Mint 19.1 all updates. Bev. P.S. The usb slot for the wired mouse is not as snug as it could be. Is that a factor?

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FLAC CD Ripper?
by Steve Mynott 21 Sep '22

21 Sep '22

Can anyone recommend a native Linux FLAC ripper which auto tags music with basic info like band and song name? Maybe something which resembles EAC since I've used EAC under Wine in the past which used a Free CD metadata library, but I'm not sure if the library is available any more? (note for admin there is a queued duplicate of this email which is HTML. Please ignore) -- Steve Mynott <steve.mynott(a)gmail.com> rsa3072/629FBB91565E591955B5876A79CEFAA4450EBD50

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Server email with minimal overhead
by Mark Rogers 20 Sep '22

20 Sep '22

I always seem to struggle with this most simple of configuration tasks! Starting from a clean install of (say) Ubuntu/Debian, and with a set of SMTP server credentials in your hand, what's the best/simplest way to get email set up so that emails from cron jobs get sent, and so that there's a minimal "mail" client at the commandline? I don't want the overheads of postfix + MySQL that things like mailutils bring in. (Or maybe I should accept those overheads?) The broader objective is that I can set the recipient address for email to root or other users, and the sender address from which emails get sent by default. -- Mark Rogers // More Solutions Ltd (Peterborough Office) // 0344 251 1450 Registered in England (0456 0902) 21 Drakes Mews, Milton Keynes, MK8 0ER

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Re: Server email with minimal overhead
by Phil Ashby 20 Sep '22

20 Sep '22

On 15/09/2022 12:00, Mark Rogers <mark(a)more-solutions.co.uk> wrote: > > I always seem to struggle with this most simple of configuration tasks! > > Starting from a clean install of (say) Ubuntu/Debian, and with a set > of SMTP server credentials in your hand, what's the best/simplest way > to get email set up so that emails from cron jobs get sent, and so > that there's a minimal "mail" client at the commandline? > > I don't want the overheads of postfix + MySQL that things like > mailutils bring in. (Or maybe I should accept those overheads?) > > The broader objective is that I can set the recipient address for > email to root or other users, and the sender address from which emails > get sent by default. I would opt for msmtp-mta (standard package) which fakes sendmail: https://packages.debian.org/bullseye/msmtp-mta No daemons, queues, special accounts or other malarky, just an API that other programs know how to operate and a protocol engine that can talk SMTP to your real mail system. P.

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