Roundtable December 2012

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18 participants
25 discussions

linux not caching files very long
by Trevor Cordes 05 Dec '12

05 Dec '12

My main box has 8GB RAM. There's usually 3GB of programs running. The rest usually is shown as free or going to buffers/cache. I have a set of files I often linearly scan through and they are around 1GB. They used to read in and stay cached for hours (I can tell because my scan takes 3s when cached and 90s when not!). Now they seem to get dropped and require re-reading all the time, like if I don't use them for a few minutes. AFAICT my ps load has not changed and I'm not doing anything … [View More]

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RaspBerry Pi for sale locally!
by Dan Keizer 05 Dec '12

05 Dec '12

Well, I didn't believe my eyes when I saw it ! I was in Active Electronics on Century in St. James picking up some RF adapters when I spotted a name brand that I recognized on the for sale table up front ... "Newark Element 14" ... Looking more closely at them they are the latest Raspberry PI's! I believe they were selling for $49 ... at that price, they will be gone soon, so pick them up while you can... :-) Dan.

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MUUG Meeting, Dec 11, 7:30pm -- Round-table, Mingling and Munchies
by gedetil＠cs.umanitoba.ca 04 Dec '12

04 Dec '12

The Manitoba UNIX User Group (MUUG) will be holding its next monthly meeting on Tuesday, December 11. The meeting topic for this month is as follows: Round-table, Mingling and Munchies Instead of a formal presentation this month, we will be starting the holiday season with an informal round-table meeting at a restaurant. We are leaving our normal meeting place at the IBM offices, and will be meeting at the Seine River Café. The Seine River Café is located at 390 Provencher … [View More]

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Re: [RndTbl] Screwdriver
by Adam Thompson 03 Dec '12

03 Dec '12

Princess Auto sells several security-bit sets, I believe at least two of them include the triangle bits. -Adam Kevin McGregor <kevin.a.mcgregor(a)gmail.com> wrote: >_______________________________________________ >Roundtable mailing list >Roundtable(a)muug.mb.ca >http://www.muug.mb.ca/mailman/listinfo/roundtable

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Screwdriver
by Kevin McGregor 02 Dec '12

02 Dec '12

Does anyone have, or know where I can get, a small triangle-head screwdriver? I have a long (150-bulb) Christmas tree light set that doesn't work at all. It has a controller to make the lights do different flashy things, and the controller seems to be held together with two screws with triangle-shaped sockets. Not Robertson, not Tor-x. The whole thing worked fine last year, and I'd like to have it working again. I thought I would take it apart to see if there was anything obviously wrong with … [View More]

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Roundtable December 2012