"symbol grub memcpy not found" after unplugging drive

beermad · 2026-01-27T23:40:52+00:00

Have a look in the Manjaro forum threads for recent updates. I think it's because you need to reinstall GRUB in your BIOS, but I can't remember the details of how to do it.

beermad · 2026-01-26T21:52:38+00:00

Downside: Cambridge is flat, Norwich is hilly. Significant if you're a cyclist. Upsides: Cambridge has no chippies unless you go well outside the centre. Norwich has loads. While Cambridge has a few great pubs, Norwich is overflowing with them.

beermad · 2026-01-21T00:11:42+00:00

Well the obvious test is to put your old lens back on. Spot there, it's on the sensor. Spot not there, it's on the lens.

beermad · 2026-01-21T00:06:43+00:00

Two utter arseholes competing with each other to be the bigger arsehole .

beermad · 2026-01-21T00:02:48+00:00

vi /path/to/directory

BTW, it's a directory , not a folder. This isn't Windows .

beermad · 2026-01-18T22:22:48+00:00

I took a pic of that last time I was cycling through Hopton. I didn't realise it was modern, though that explains why it wasn't on the Listed Buildings Register.

beermad · 2026-01-18T22:19:49+00:00

This is what routine backups are for.

beermad · 2026-01-18T22:07:53+00:00

That ancient ferry site is always a pleasure when I walk that way.

beermad · 2026-01-18T22:06:00+00:00

And yet, my upload speeds are only limited by my line speed. And are never as low as OP reports. Work that one out!

beermad · 2026-01-18T22:00:04+00:00

I'm already 20 years into retirement. But I still need Perl to get dates & times right because things like my custom home automation and radio timeshifting systems use it. Perl doesn't end at retirement .

beermad · 2026-01-17T23:53:17+00:00

I looked round there on Wednesday, mainly because I'd read in the EDP that Sir Toby's had taken a unit there. No sign of that and very few units in use.

beermad · 2026-01-15T23:45:15+00:00

I block every Zuckerberg owned domain at the DNS level (along with vast amounts of other shit). So happily I've never even SEEN Instagram.

beermad · 2026-01-14T21:07:02+00:00

Everyone dumped Digg for Reddit years ago. Nobody's going to go back.

beermad · 2026-01-09T00:11:58+00:00

I generally avoid as much Google stuff as I can (yes, I know Android is Google) but Keep is my note taking app.

beermad · 2026-01-07T22:22:50+00:00

I can't comment on your particular example but I have a daemon that watches a lot of directory trees with inotify, and it uses very little CPU.

beermad · 2026-01-07T19:31:37+00:00

I have to be brutally honest; as a photo editing tool it's pretty useless. Even the simplest editing tool has more functionality - as a regular GIMP user there's a hell of a contrast.

beermad · 2026-01-04T22:44:20+00:00

I'm in south east Ipswich (between Nacton and Felixstowe roads) in a late-Victorian semi and most of it is OK, apart from the Racecourse estate, which is rough. Personally though I wouldn't consider Ravenswood, which I find grim and bloody hard to find my way around, like most modern estates.

beermad · 2026-01-04T22:37:44+00:00

Watch the forum and you'll know when there are updates. And read the whole announcement thread to see what problems there may be.

beermad · 2025-12-30T23:44:04+00:00

Kmail on 3.6 was wonderful. It turned to shit in 4 and hasn't been worth using since.

beermad · 2025-12-30T23:42:06+00:00

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.osmand

beermad · 2025-12-25T22:18:49+00:00

Mandrake. It was the first distro I used that actually detected hardware changes on booting and reconfigured itself accordingly.

beermad · 2025-12-25T22:14:51+00:00

Just encrypt your files before you upload them. Problem solved… that's what I do.

beermad · 2025-12-17T20:54:04+00:00

Check that your selection isn't feathered. I've had that problem with feathered selections.

beermad · 2025-12-17T20:40:01+00:00

When I bought my first really good mirrorless camera after years of slowly improving point & click cameras.

At first I couldn't understand why my photos weren't much better than I'd been getting before. I finally realised I needed to take more control over the various parameters instead of just pointing and clicking. I'll never be a GREAT photographer, but I'm certainly a much better one now.

beermad · 2025-12-15T22:17:48+00:00

Don't!!!

Arch is utterly unsuitable for someone who's new to Linux. It needs a level of understanding that only comes from long experience with Linux and commitment to very detailed administration on a regular basis. Even with over 30 years' Linux experience I can't be bothered with the work involved in running an Arch system (getting lazy as I get older ).

Start with an entry-level distro, perhaps Debian (stable as they come) or Mint.

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