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One of my users is reporting that hes working (heavy graphics, Ibelieve), and X freezes. So, to save him from rebooting, I did init 3. And waited. Almost a minute and a half later, it had not completed. I quit, killed X, and then could init 3, then i..

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Ive got an old RAID that I attached to a box. LSI card, and the RAID has12 drives, for a total RAID size of 9.1TB, I think. I started shred/dev/sda the Friday before last… and its still running. Is this reasonable for it to be taking this long…

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I have a Garmin 78s marine GPS receiver and it stores tracks in GPXformat.This is an XML encoded set of points giving longitude, latitude, time and sea depth.Garmin support viewing this via their Garmin Express product, but there only seem to be Wind..

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I am use to low random entropy on my arm boards, not an intel.On my Lenovo x120e,cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_availreports 3190 bits of entropy.On my armv7 with CentOS7 I would get 130 unless I installed rng-tools and then I get ~1300.SSH i..

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