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Nanook

@John Doe I've got a 2000 Crown Vic with 240,000 miles on it and a '96 Taurus SHO with 145,000 miles. I need a new roof before another vehicle and a new electrical entrance if I want to go electric as I have an older 100 AMP service entrance that is no longer code and has no position for high current left.

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Kernel Upgrade Friday 11PM PDT


Posted on May 12, 2021

We will be doing kernel upgrades on all of our servers. Expected time frame 11PM-11:30PM with perhaps a straggler machine or two. We’ve had a lot of systemd issues recently that has made startup less than 100% reliable.

This will affect all of our shell customers and web hosting customers as well as friendica.eskimo.com/, hubzilla.eskimo.com/, and nextcloud.eskimo.com/

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Farcebook


Farcebook thinks this is spam:

Robert Dinse
I wonder if Farcebook realizes how much they are discrediting themselves with this bullshit statement? All you got to do is go to vaers.hhs.gov/ and you can see for yourself that there have been over 2200 vaccine related deaths and 175,000 vaccine related severe injuries in the US alone. This is publicly available information directly from a government source.

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Mail from Outlook
Posted on May 11, 2021

Expect mail issues from outlook.jp and perhaps outlook in general, I do not know to what degree they share services, but outlook.jp appears hacked to death recently and we’ve been receiving a lot of phishing scams from it. I’m blocking scam addresses as I become aware but this sort of thing will eventually cause a lot of crap to back up on their servers, mail errors to result, and ultimately fail2ban will ban affected servers. I’ve also sent them to their abuse address but I’ve never received other than a bot response and these continue so obviously they are not addressing the problem.

in reply to Nanook

As a German, that was a question I could never answer. I knew my grandparents and other old men and women who were good people. How could they have allowed it? And moreover: I always thought, it could never happen again. For every question there would be people who dislike or doubt something, would be demonstrations, would be discussions -- they would never start running like Lemmings again. That's what I thought.

Now I see. How even intelligent people suddenly start to believe what is so obviously doubtful, how they don't dare to say, what they still doubt, how they get angry about people who still say what is no more allowed to say. It's real fear, implanted in their hearts, it's fear of loosing some status, it's a shrug and the sentence "what could I do". It's like Mass psychosis.

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Kernel Upgrades Completed


Posted on May 8, 2021

The kernel upgrades went mostly smooth except for the client mail server. Had issues with systemd timing out before it mounted all the disk partitions. This is a virtual machine configured to use a physical partition on a RAID10 device on this host computer and using virtio disk. This has not been a problem in the past but did not want to work today. Changing the disk emulation to SATA made it work so apparently there is some ugliness with the virtio devices in the newest kernel although it was not a problem with any of the virtual machines that used a file rather than a partition for their virtual disk.

At this point the virtual private servers and host computer is now running 5.12.2, this because 5.10.x has not been stable on that machine. The rest are running 5.10.35.

friendica.eskimo.com/, hubzilla.eskimo.com/, nextcloud.eskimo.com/ and all other Eskimo North services are back online and operational. With the exception of client mail access pretty much everything else was online by 11:30PM, but it took slightly longer than that to bring the mail server back online.

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Linux Tickless Kernels


Latest tickless Linux kernel compiles are available for all debian based machines (Debian, Ubuntu, Mint, MxLinux, Zorin, Julinux, etc), for 5.10, 5.11, and 5.12 releases.

These kernels are available in two flavors for all of the above, 1) "Client" is 1000HZ clock and fully pre-emptive, and 2) "Server" is 100HZ clock and non-preemptive. The first is optimized to minimize latency, the second to maximize thruput.

Download all three ".deb" files and install with dpkg -i *.deb

The advantage to tickless kernels is that you don't waste CPU cycles, heat, or battery life servicing clock interrupts if there is no work queued.

You can get them from: eskimo.com/kernel/ or via anonymous ftp at ftp.eskimo.com/pub/kernel/(version)/client-…